Jack of Harts

The Decisive Action Training Environment is an impressive fictional training system with a thousand pages of information just in the publicly available document that I have. That one deals with the Caucasus Region, but from what I understand there are now African, European, and Pacific settings, and an Arctic setting is in the works. If they put the same detail into those other settings as the one I’ve been describing lately, I will be impressed. The thing to remember about America’s fictional enemies is that they have to be as real as possible for our soldiers to train against them. And yet they also have to be fake for various reasons. We don’t want to kill people in training if we can avoid it. And sometimes the more thinly-veiled enemies can annoy people we are trying to be friends with. And sometimes, real-life developments simply make the enemy irrelevant.