U.S. Army Moves To Close Red Teaming University

From the article:
"... This cost-cutting move, necessitated in part by the Trump Administration’s absurd decision to steal money from the Pentagon to pay for a worthless wall on a tiny stretch of the nation’s southern border with Mexico..."

No bias here, right? If you don't have a border, you don't have a country. The Trump Administration did NOT order this school closed, the Department of the Army did. The Big Army took a look at the books, and decided to cut the funding for it. I would bet a lot of money that the POTUS did not specifically order this program defunded.

"Trump, on the other hand, has shown little interest in red teaming, and has rejected most analysis that challenges his own thinking in any way."

The resistance to OPFOR units and Red Team tactics during exercises predates the Trump Administration. The LTG Van Riper incident in 2002 illustrates this:

"In 2002, the U.S. military tapped Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper to lead the red opposing forces of the most expensive, expansive military exercise in history. He was put in command of an inferior Middle Eastern-inspired military force. His mission was to go against the full might of the American armed forces. In the first two days, he sank an entire carrier battle group. ... In the end, the Blue Forces were all respawned and Van Riper was prevented from making moves to counter the Blue Forces' landing. He had no radar and wasn't allowed to shoot down incoming aircraft he would have otherwise accurately targeted. The rest of the exercise was scripted to let the Blue Force land and win. Van Riper walked out when he realized his commands were being ignored by the exercise planners. The fix was in.

The three-star wrote a 21-page critique of the exercise that was immediately classified. Van Riper spoke out against the rigged game anyway.

"Nothing was learned from this," he told the Guardian in 2002. "A culture not willing to think hard and test itself does not augur well for the future.""

Source: https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/that-time-a-marine-general-led-a-fictional-iran-against-the-us-military-and-won

So let's not conveniently forget the DoD's animus against anyone who dares to deviate from the planned exercises.

"The U.S. Marine Corps closed down its red teaming school at Quantico – which I also had the pleasure of attending – a couple of years ago, and now the Army is following suit."

Oh so the USMC did the same thing earlier. Was this Trump's direct order too? Or maybe it's a pattern that the DoD doesn't like to be criticized by it's own leaders.

This author is hopelessly biased against the President/Commander-in-Chief, and thus cannot objectively look at a simple action that is not happening in a vacuum.