Paper: CTCs Must Adapt to ‘Realities of Modern Warfare’

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"As the Army’s premier training venues for maneuver formations, combat training centers must evolve to match the realities of modern warfare, according to the author of a new paper published by the Association of the U.S. Army.

This includes wargaming pre-deployment activities with an emphasis on critical infrastructure, writes Capt. Daniel Eerhart, a psychological operations officer serving as a cyber policy, law and strategy research scientist at the Army Cyber Institute, in “Training Outside ‘The Box.’ ”

“The realities of modern warfare are that America’s principal adversaries can disrupt any step in the deployment process,” Eerhart writes. “This paper contends that the addition of an information warfare company to the opposing force (OPFOR) battalions can better prepare rotational training units at combat training centers (CTCs) for the difficulties of modern warfare.”

Wargames “are analytic games that simulate aspects of warfare at the tactical, operational, or strategic level,” according to the Rand Corp.

Eerhart cites an exercise called Jack Voltaic, conducted in 2020 by the 3rd Infantry Division and Fort Stewart, Georgia, with the Army Cyber Institute, as an example of wargaming that could benefit the entire Army."...