Air Farce Follies - Friendly Fire Isn't

[Suhiir]

Originally Posted by Imp

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.

[Imp]

Can't remember read long time back possibly late 70s took a while after WW2 for them to play wargames. Think the US did learn from this they had basicly forgot what they had learnt previously. Took a lot out of Nam to from books read & adopted training based on some European (Israeli?) nations.