Comment by ungreased0675
2 days ago
It is remarkable how slow the DoW has been to adapt to new threats and opportunities. If generals were evaluated and accountable for war fighting performance, I suspect things would be exponentially faster.
2 days ago
It is remarkable how slow the DoW has been to adapt to new threats and opportunities. If generals were evaluated and accountable for war fighting performance, I suspect things would be exponentially faster.
The military tests itself against "peer adversaries" but defined to be opponents that play by the same rules as the US, with a sprinkling of lessons learned from the last war. Any actual adversary won't "follow the script".
> The Red [enemy] force, led by retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Paul K. Van Riper, used numerous asymmetrical tactics unanticipated by the Blue force, resulting in initial major successes. Over the course of the simulation, heavy constraints were placed on the Red force's ability to free-play "to the point where the end state was scripted",[4] resulting in a Blue victory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002