“Seeing no opportunity for victory, American combatants asked for the exercise to be ‘reset’ halfway through.”
Yikes? The reset enabled more effective training. E.g., plan a 5 day training exercise, discover deficiencies by day 2 (or whatever), reset and address deficiencies, continue to train.
Training is expensive, units do not have money to waste, resetting makes a lot of sense to get the best use out of the limited training dollars.
Good observation. We do learn more from making mistakes than from not making mistakes. Better in training than on the battlefield.