Out in the burning California desert, the Army is trying to figure out how it will win America’s next war. As the post-9/11 counterinsurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan cool from a boil to a simmer, the Army’s National Training Center at Ft. Irwin remains America’s premier high-tech war game battleground. The Army spares no expense training each brigade undergoing a three-week NTC rotation, spending millions on the evaluators, fuel and ammo required.
The big question is what they’re training for — and part of the answer lies in whom they are training.
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