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FORT IRWIN, Calif. (AP) \u2014 In the dusty California desert, U.S. Army trainers are already using lessons learned from Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine as they prepare soldiers for future fights against a major adversary such as Russia or China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The role-players in this month\u2019s exercise at the National Training Center<\/a> speak Russian. The enemy force that controls the fictional town of Ujen is using a steady stream of social media posts to make false accusations against the American brigade preparing to attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the coming weeks, the planned training scenario for the next brigade coming in will focus on how to battle an enemy willing to destroy a city with rocket and missile fire in order to conquer it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the images seem familiar, they are, playing out on televisions and websites worldwide right now as Russian forces pound Ukrainian cities with airstrikes, killing scores of civilians.<\/a> The information war on social media has showcased impassioned nightly speeches by Ukraine\u2019s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy,<\/a> as well as Russian efforts to accuse Ukraine\u2019s forces of faking mass killings in towns<\/a> such as Bucha \u2014 massacres that the West blames on Moscow\u2019s troops.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think right now the whole Army is really looking at what\u2019s happening in Ukraine and trying to learn lessons,\u201d said Army Secretary Christine Wormuth<\/a>. Those lessons, she said, range from Russia\u2019s equipment and logistics troubles to communications and use of the internet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brig. Gen. Curt Taylor, commander of the National Training Center walks with Army Secretary Christine Wormuth as they observe soldiers training that has taken lessons learned from the Russian war on Ukraine at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., April 12, 2022. (AP Photo\/Lolita C. Baldor)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Russia-Ukraine experience is a very powerful illustration for our Army of how important the information domain is going to be,\u201d said Wormuth, who spent two days at the training center in the Mojave Desert watching an Army brigade wage war against the fictional \u201cDenovian\u201d forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve been talking about that for about five years. But really seeing it and seeing the way Zelenskyy has been incredibly powerful. … This is a world war that the actual world can see and watch in real time. “<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the center, the commander, Brig. Gen. Curt Taylor<\/a>, and his staff have ripped pages out of the Russian playbook to ensure that U.S. soldiers are ready to fight and win against a sophisticated near-peer enemy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a common tool. For example, his base and the Joint Readiness Training Center in Louisiana both shifted to counterinsurgency training during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. And the military services have focused other training on how to fight in cold weather<\/a> \u2014 mimicking conditions in Russia or North Korea. But these latest changes have happened quickly in the early months after Russia invaded Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About 4,500 soldiers from 2nd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, based at Fort Hood, Texas, are out in the vast desert training area at Fort Irwin, where they will spend two weeks fighting the NTC\u2019s resident 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment, which acts as the enemy military. Soldiers from the regiment \u2014 known as Blackhorse \u2014 are arrayed in and around Ujen, which also includes role-players acting as the locals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the sun was rising earlier this past week, Army Col. Ian Palmer, the brigade commander, stood on Crash Hill, on the outskirts of the town, preparing his soldiers to launch an attack. Lines of tanks spread out in the distance. Heavy winds the night before hampered his progress, so the attack was a bit behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said the exercise is using more drones by the friendly and enemy forces, both for surveillance and attacks. So his forces are trying to use camouflage and tuck into the terrain to stay out of sight. \u201cYou know if you can be seen, you can be shot, where ever you are,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Army Secretary Christine Wormuth is surrounded by soldiers as she walks toward the fictional town of Ujen at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., April 12, 2022. (AP Photo\/Lolita C. Baldor)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Down in the makeshift town, the opposition forces are confident they can hold off Palmer\u2019s brigade despite the size difference. The Denovians only have about 1,350 forces, but they are throwing everything they have at the brigade, from jamming and other electronic warfare to insurgency attacks and propaganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The role-players have their phones ready to film and post quickly to social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Denovian forces want to portray the unit in the worst possible light, said Taylor, and constantly twist the narrative on social media so Palmer\u2019s troops realize they are in a battle for the truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s a challenge, he said, because \u201cwhen I\u2019ve got a bunch of casualties and I\u2019m getting overrun on my left flank and my supply trains aren\u2019t where they need to be and I can\u2019t find the bulldozers, it\u2019s hard to think about something that someone said about me on Twitter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The training goal, said Taylor, is teaching the brigades that come in how to fuse all elements of their combat power into a coordinated assault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEveryone can play an instrument, but it\u2019s about making music \u2014 bringing it all together in a synchronized fashion. And what you saw today was the artillery was doing the artillery thing, the aviation was doing the aviation thing and the maneuver guys were doing the maneuver thing. But part of the delay in their assault on the town was they couldn\u2019t synchronize those three,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again, they can look to Ukraine to see how Russia failed to do that in the early weeks of the war. U.S. leaders repeatedly noted that in Russia\u2019s initial multipronged assault in Ukraine, commanders consistently failed to provide the airstrikes and support their ground troops needed to move into key cities such as Kyiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That failure led to Russian troops bombing the cities from the outskirts, hitting hospitals, apartment buildings and other structures, and killing civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So when the next brigade arrives as the training center, Taylor said it will face an enemy on board with doing just that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe will be very focused on how to fight against an adversary that is willing to destroy infrastructure because that\u2019s how we think our adversaries will fight,\u201d Taylor said. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to be prepared for urban combat where we have an adversary that is indiscriminately firing artillery.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wormuth, the Army secretary, said seeing the training also underscored other lessons the U.S. is taking from the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs we\u2019re watching what\u2019s happening to the Russians now, it\u2019s informative for us to think about what is right, from a modernization standpoint,\u201d she said, noting that some U.S. tanks are very heavy and the terrain in Europe is muddier, not like the hard-packed sand of the desert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army, she said, has to determine \u201cwhat\u2019s the right balance between the mobility of a tank, the survivability of a tank and the lethality of a tank? If you want to make it more mobile, you make it lighter, but that makes it less survivable. And so you have to decide where you\u2019re going to take risks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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