‘It Failed Miserably’: After Wargaming Loss, Joint Chiefs Are Overhauling How the US Military Will

[rangerrebew]

 ‘It Failed Miserably’: After Wargaming Loss, Joint Chiefs Are Overhauling How the US Military Will Fight

In a fake battle for Taiwan, U.S. forces lost network access almost immediately. Hyten has issued four directives to help change that.
 
By Tara Copp
Senior Pentagon Reporter, Defense One
July 26, 2021 04:48 PM ET
 
A brutal loss in a wargaming exercise last October convinced the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. John Hyten to scrap the joint warfighting concept 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.

https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2021/07/it-failed-miserably-after-wargaming-loss-joint-chiefs-are-overhauling-how-us-military-will-fight/184050/

[rangerrebew]

They need to stop teaching the troops preparation for battles and wars and get on with the modern warfare of greeting your enemy with a smile and a handshake, offer them material about Critical Race Theory, provide the enemy with de stimulation rooms if angry, and sit down with tea and crumpets and just talk things over.  PC will win them over.

[sneakypete]

We are not going to go to war against China to protect Taiwan,or for any other reason.

If we did,they would shut down exports to the US,and where would we get our new toaster ovens,car parts,tools,etc,etc,etc from then?

They even go so far as to hire key employees and management people to move to China to live rent-free for 2 or 3 years under contract to teach the Chinese how to run put up a new plant in China,run the equipment,and manage the input and output. In other words,do everything THEY were doing back in the US before the Chinese bought up the plants.

Hell,they even house them in special apartment blocks with more room and nicer accommodations not available to the typical Chinese workers in their positions.

[dfwgator]

We are not going to go to war against China to protect Taiwan,or for any other reason.

If we did,they would shut down exports to the US,and where would we get our new toaster ovens,car parts,tools,etc,etc,etc from then?

They even go so far as to hire key employees and management people to move to China to live rent-free for 2 or 3 years under contract to teach the Chinese how to run put up a new plant in China,run the equipment,and manage the input and output. In other words,do everything THEY were doing back in the US before the Chinese bought up the plants.

Hell,they even house them in special apartment blocks with more room and nicer accommodations not available to the typical Chinese workers in their positions.

Know why the stock market is so high right now?  Chinese money,   and they can pull it all out at any time.

[sneakypete]

Know why the stock market is so high right now?  Chinese money,   and they can pull it all out at any time.

@dfwgator

Nuclear engineering may be one of the things I know less about than the stock market,but I don't doubt what you wrote for an instant. After all,is there ANY organization more influenced by money than the stock market?