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I'd say experience, country really doesn't matter.
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In the 1st or 2nd winter exercise vs warsaw pact something like 30% of US casulties were Blue on Blue the Russians could have just gone home & left them to it. Caused to a large degree by poor map reading getting lost & coming back on own lines. Hence the term Blue on Blue or Blue Fire as NATO is blue Warsaw Orange
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Sounds reasonable.
When was this excercise tho?
The US military, particularly the Army was really gutted immediately after WWII. Training sucked, gear sucked, the mid-level officer corps sucked...that's why they had so much trouble when Korea broke out.
Again, I submit it's a matter of training not a "national" thing.