It would probably just evolve into an arms race to make the best SpecOps team to break into the Capitol Buildings (also in a desert) of other countries, but then all countries would keep investing in more elaborate security systems. So soon countries would just end up pitting their SpecOps teams against each other in arenas. Basically we’d end up bringing back Samurai.
During a supposed attack by Vendikar, Anan 7 explains that the war is conducted as a computer simulation, and that the Enterprise has been “destroyed” in the attack. The two planets have a treaty, according to which they must kill the “victims” of every simulated attack. The crew are therefore expected to report to Eminiar’s disintegration chambers for execution, and Kirk’s party is taken captive.
It would probably just evolve into an arms race to make the best SpecOps team to break into the Capitol Buildings (also in a desert) of other countries, but then all countries would keep investing in more elaborate security systems. So soon countries would just end up pitting their SpecOps teams against each other in arenas. Basically we’d end up bringing back Samurai.
Team Fortress 2
To nip that in the bud - the original Star Trek had an episode where war on Eminiar VII and Vendikar was simulated but deaths were real.