Mentality In The Military

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Thank you for the response and question. As you explained, in the military we do Red Team operations, especially at the combined arms training centers; however, focus event there has changed from Counterinsurgency to Unified Land Operations, which in training is called Decisive Action Training Environment (DATE). DATE focuses both on conventional and unconventional warfare, which is in line with your example. Currently, the mentality is that in the future we are going to experience both and we should be prepared for both. There are other Red Team operations that are more focused by various mission, but this is not the proper form for those discussion.
You are right, within the military services we do a pretty good job of training by incorporating

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