[cryptome] The US military is changing the way it fights after it 'failed miserably' in a war game against an aggressive adversary who knew its playbook

  • From: "Doug" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "douglasrankine" for DMARC)
  • To: Cryptome FL <cryptome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 09:40:57 +0100

see url: https://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-failed-miserably-in-war-game-changing-warfighting-strategy-2021-7?r=US&IR=T

see full story...Another interesting outcome...


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The US military put its warfighting strategy to the test in a wargaming exercise last fall and it did not go well, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. John Hyten said Monday, multiple defense outlets reported.

"Without overstating the issue, it failed miserably," Hyten said at the National Defense Industrial Association's Emerging Technologies Institute, according to Defense One.

"An aggressive red team that had been studying the United States for the last 20 years just ran rings around us," he explained, according to Defense News. The general said "they knew exactly what we're going to do before we did it, and they took advantage of it."

"Imagine what our actual competitors have been doing for the last 20 years, with probably even more focus, with larger numbers," Hyten said. "So we had to take a step back and look broadly and say: 'OK, what did we miss?'"

During the simulated armed conflict last October, which Defense News described as "a fictional confrontation with China" and a defense official told Defense One involved a fight over Taiwan, the imaginary enemy upended the blue team's "information dominance" strategy.

Hyten said that the US forces attempted to establish information dominance, "just like it was in the first Gulf War, just like it has been for the last 20 years, just like everybody in the world, including China and Russia, have watched us do for the last 30 years."

But right from the start, that information was not available. The US military relies heavily on data from sensors and systems to see what's happening on the battlefield and fire upon targets, as well as radio and digital communications to instantly relay command decisions. These networks are susceptible to jamming on the battlefield or wider disruption if US satellites are targeted.

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