(Take into account also that this is from the RAND corporation. Dirty mind tricks all around)

These war game exercises gives the enemy an unwavering, decisive plan of action and at the same time, IMO, withhold US reaction until after offensive attacks are made. Which allows an enemy to knock out many of our assets before they can ever be used. These war games also don't factor in any diplomatic resistance to attack the US from political and economic reasons to stay engaged with the US in peace. Another unknown factor are the US secret weapons systems that aren't used in the simulations. However, these simulation are important because they show real vulnerabilities our nation faces in a changing world. The truth is, the enemies of the US are being allowed to grow in military strength while our nation is being destroyed culturally, economically and at the same time militarily weakened. Do they make simulations for those issues?!?

GeorgeEaton

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-09/us-gets-its-ass-handed-it-world-war-iii-simulation-rand

China, two top war planners warned last week. “In our games, when we fight Russia and China, blue gets its ass handed to it" RAND analyst David Ochmanek said Thursday.

RAND's wargames show how US Armed Forces - colored blue on wargame maps - experience the most substantial losses in one scenario after another and still can't thwart Russia or China - which predictably is red - from accomplishing their objectives: annihilating Western forces.

"We lose a lot of people. We lose a lot of equipment. We usually fail to achieve our objective of preventing aggression by the adversary," he warned.

In the next military conflict, which some believe may come as soon as the mid-2020s, all five battlefield domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace, will be heavily contested, suggesting the U.S. could have a difficult time in achieving superiority as it has in prior conflicts.

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