COVID-19: Army Postpones Wargames, Cancels Drills
A Washington state National Guard brigade will stay home to help the governor with coronavirus response, while the Army Reserve has halted monthly “battle assemblies.”
A Washington state National Guard brigade will stay home to help the governor with coronavirus response, while the Army Reserve has halted monthly “battle assemblies.”
The Air Force's global air mobility operations -- in support of the other services to deliver spare parts, as well as helping the Department of Health and Human Services cope with the Coronavirus pandemic by delivering test kits -- continue. says Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein.
To deter Russia and China, the Army is building new prepositioned equipment sets for Europe and studying new stockpiles for the Pacific.
A simulated infantry platoon, reinforced with drones and ground robots, repeatedly routed defending forces three times its size — without losing a single human soldier. Would this work in real life?
The Army is contributing Long-Range Army Fires, troops on the ground, and Sentinel radar. The Navy is bringing F-35Cs and a destroyer; and the Air Force will bring F-22 and F-35 fighter jets.
The Israeli Air Force just wrapped up a “Blue Flag” wargame with the US & European allies and a real war with Islamic Jihad in Gaza.
In an exclusive statement, the ambitious USMC Commandant says the exercises are shock testing "what we will expect to see in a realistic fight where large forces are spread out over great distances.”
Training for electronic warfare threats is too easy, leaving troops dangerously unready for great power conflict. Scenarios are so unrealistic that one officer called them "garbage."
The Army has lots of ideas for AI. But it has to implement them without overwhelming troops or the network with too many apps and too much data.
These are huge strategic challenges — and Ryan McCarthy is emphasizing them more than any of his predecessors in at least a decade.
More collective defense cooperation will be on display at the massive AUSA 2019 conference, attended by 92 different nations, including the chief generals of 13 armies.
The threat of long-range missile launchers in the Russian enclave is driving the Air Force to develop new tactics for multi-domain attack and dispersed defense.
In a massive simulated conflict, the human players adapted rapidly to futuristic technologies and tactics. But their command-and-control software couldn't keep up.
If a hacker shuts off a base's electricity or stops spare parts from arriving on time, they can sabotage a military mission without ever attacking a military network.