The "Russian" Combat Brigade the U.S. Army Keeps for Training
By Kyle Mizokami
Jun 29, 2017
Deep in the California desert, the U.S. Army has been practicing for World War III for decades. At the Fort Irwin National Training Center, outside Barstow California, the Army has created an expansive training ground—complete with a faux enemy army— to run American forces through an exhaustive routine of non-stop wargames.
Fort Irwin is one of the largest army bases in the United States. Over 1,000 square miles of desert, it became the home of the National Training Center (NTC) in 1979. For nearly forty years, active duty Army and National Guard forces from
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