Military people get promoted and move up to higher positions - and some of them get out or retire.
You continually run exercises to train the people who are now in new positions.
One of the problems of this last 10 plus year war is a lot of the UW command and control has gotten real rusty.
While there will be a large number of ground troops there will be far more in Command & Staff positions working their butts off.
So, thanks for setting up and knocking down the straw man that I’m saying the military doesn’t need to train. I’m saying that military needs to admit to us that when they are training how to interface with local American authorities, they are training to interface with local American authorities. This training doesn’t cross over to training to deal with Afghan village elders the Iraqi army or even the Ukrainian army. If you look at the objectives of this exercise they are clearly training to project force in the US.
Correct. Large scale exercises are more focused on logistics, communications, and adaptive management than they are on any tactical aspect.