The US Military had a YUGE military exercise all over the world last year…
It was a wakeup call for the Generals and Admirals…
The Pentagon was NOT happy with the results of its wargaming we have found out…
Taiwan was the loser…..
The Pentagon is going back to the drawing board on war fighting doctrine ….
A brutal loss in a wargaming exercise last October convinced the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. John Hyten to scrap joint warfighting concepts that had guided U.S. military operations for decades.
“Without overstating the issue, it failed miserably. An aggressive red team that had been studying the United States for the last 20 years just ran rings around us. They knew exactly what we’re going to do before we did it,” Hyten told an audience Monday at the launch of the Emerging Technologies Institute, an effort by the National Defense Industrial Association industry group to speed military modernization.
The Pentagon would not provide the name of the wargame, which was classified, but a defense official said one of the scenarios revolved around a battle for Taiwan. One key lesson: gathering ships, aircraft, and other forces to concentrate and reinforce each other’s combat power also made them sitting ducks.
“We always aggregate to fight, and aggregate to survive. But in today’s world, with hypersonic missiles, with significant long-range fires coming at us from all domains, if you’re aggregated and everybody knows where you are, you’re vulnerable,” Hyten said.
Even more critically, the blue team lost access to its networks almost immediately.
“We basically attempted an information-dominance structure, where information was ubiquitous to our forces. 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,” Hyten said. “Well, what happens if right from the beginning that information is not available? And that’s the big problem that we faced.”
The October exercise was a test for a new Joint Warfighting Concept. But the new joint concept had been largely based on the same joint operations concepts that had guided forces for decades, Hyten said, and the red team easily defeated them….
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This implies a dual danger or dilemma for the current president and any of his successors:
• Doing nothing (especially if this issue arises with Taiwan, the Ukraine or South Korea) would be putting out a welcome mat for the forcible resolution of sovereignty disputes, not least those between Israel and the Muslim world and between Palestinians and Israel. Other nations and local allies (e.g. the Kurds) would be even less likely to trust or collaborate with the U.S.
” But an equal danger might be that for any of a number of reasons — most importantly escaping the dilemma’s horn above — some current or future president would be tempted to demonstrate American power and resolve in some self-defeating way, sinking even further into the quagmire that the U.S. is trying to escape, and perhaps diverting men, money and resources from facing even more serious threats.