Army division creates course for planning urban operations

By Ethan Sterenfeld / January 21, 2022 at 1:50 PM
Leaders of the 40th Infantry Division found a problem with their January 2020 Warfighter exercise: it took place in a city, but the computer software that it relied on could not accurately simulate urban warfare. During the exercise, which tests brigade and division staffs while simulating lower echelons on a computer, the division breezed through a city of 300,000 people on its way to an objective, without having to devote significant resources to the difficulties of urban warfare, according to...

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