I remember back in my early engineering days studying the Tornado's CSAS, It's an analog fly by wire system with mechanical reversion in the pitch plane. It was a marvel of analog engineering with a lot of fail tolerant/graceful degradation and analog voting to eliminate transients and nuisance warnings. Douglas had a similar but not nearly as elegant system they called Stability and Control Augmentation System which was used on the YC-15 prototype and was the baseline for the C-17 design before they switched to a digital quadruplex fly-by-wire system during the middle of the C-17's development.
And you might try lifting the throttle handles to move them to the "combat" position.