Military maneuvers of any type are a rehearsal for actual combat. That is their purpose — to test troop readiness and their level of training. Military exercises also provide a way to test new concepts for conducting a war that are being introduced into the armed forces. But military maneuvers differ from actual war in one fundamental way: The “good guys” always win. How could it be otherwise when the military’s top brass is watching the exercises the whole time?
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