Posted on Aug 31, 2018
Is 'Training' A 'War Game?' The Answer Could Determine U.S.-South Korea Exercises
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Here's something to ponder: how do you define a war game? And when is it a military exercise, or just simply..."training." That's at the heart of some confusion between the White House and the Pentagon, an institution that doesn't - unlike President Trump - use the term "war game." The president suspended one large military exercise and a couple of smaller ones in a good faith gesture with North Korea in June, an effort to spur talks about the country's nuclear program.
Is 'Training' A 'War Game?' The Answer Could Determine U.S.-South Korea Exercises
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It should be a war game as long as it is dynamic, complex, and realistically challenging.
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The Kim Regime is the intended audience for all of the exercises conducted between the Republic of Korea (ROK) and the United States (US). The absence of the exercises sends the message: US-ROK commitment to defending against North Korea aggression is weak...vulnerable.
Conducting the exercises demonstrates the continuum of readiness to honor North Korea’s threat to the ROK. Until North Korea is disarmed, defeated by other means (Diplomacy, Information (messaging), Military or Economic Sanctions), the threat remains a creditable threat.
Foregoing exercises all together has the tangible effect of degrading readiness within multiple military, economic & diplomatic skill sets. Anti-Air Warfare, Amphibious Warfare, Naval Surface & Subsurface Warfare, Logistics and Maneuver Warfare are complex undertakings that rely on practice to remain creditable deterrents in the mind of our adversary...North Korea.
No one uses the term “War Game” in serious Service Level Discussions. If President Trump is new to the Art of Armed Conflict and uses unsuitable terminology, then there is a character trait that will be observed next.
President Trump has always been 100% trainable.
Conducting the exercises demonstrates the continuum of readiness to honor North Korea’s threat to the ROK. Until North Korea is disarmed, defeated by other means (Diplomacy, Information (messaging), Military or Economic Sanctions), the threat remains a creditable threat.
Foregoing exercises all together has the tangible effect of degrading readiness within multiple military, economic & diplomatic skill sets. Anti-Air Warfare, Amphibious Warfare, Naval Surface & Subsurface Warfare, Logistics and Maneuver Warfare are complex undertakings that rely on practice to remain creditable deterrents in the mind of our adversary...North Korea.
No one uses the term “War Game” in serious Service Level Discussions. If President Trump is new to the Art of Armed Conflict and uses unsuitable terminology, then there is a character trait that will be observed next.
President Trump has always been 100% trainable.
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