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A Boring Dystopia
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I guarantee you recruits are trained in the nearest forest. There's edge cases where using a video game can be useful for testing new tactics with veterans. But recruits are looking for the basics. Like what does a platoon wedge look like in a forest versus the grass.
War games are really useful for officers trying to plan things. That way they don't need to pay for thousands of people to deploy to special training areas to figure stuff out. But even then it's open to misuse, like when Rumsfield decided light infantry was a dead concept.
That tracks. I knew the Arma engine was used for training in the US Army and USMC but I didn't know where it fit in.
So you just made something up?
An equivocative question. Are you law enforcement?
No?