what about Leadership Training Game ?

Q. what about Leadership Training Game ?

A. There are many books and articles around with this 'they-were-idiots-but-we-are-such-bright-guys-are-not-we' approach. These are often written by people with little if any understanding of military affairs and/or factual knowledge of the real situations as they were and how they were seen by belligerents.Hindsight is always less risky that foresight so no surprise here. Many things in prewar planning and training proved to be stupid, wrong and disastrous but that is true about all belligerents including Germany. But there is more than stupidity. War is a team work, a big team work. Imagine you are a trainer of a football team. You pick best young boys and train them according to the best methods available. But your team has only training games with the teams of the same kind and level and training methods and game tactics ('football exercises', so to speak, like military exercises) and one moment it has to play a real game against another team that recognises no rules AND has already played succesfully REAL games with national teams of Poland (an easy prey, a limbering-up), France (first class team) and England (not very high class, but propaganda and promotion are plain excellent). What will your team's result be? Hard to predict, but I'm not very optimistic. This 'orher team'may use different approaches and tactics, all proven during many real games. Probably your 'best training methods' will be called stupid and your training procedures improper after your team loses. Experience showed that it took 1.5-2 years for armed forces (not just some units but all branches - land forces, air forces, logistics) to adapt to realities of a highly manoueverable motorised war and operate relatively smoothly. Germans had had these 2 years in 1941. First practice was on Poland, an easy case in a hopeless geostrategic position. Like a wounded but still live prey wolves bring to their cubs to get some practice. Western front was different and a more complicated thing, but Germans managed under Sitzkrieg conditions rebuild their Panzer and Luftwaffe motor resources, relocate and beef up their army, ASSIMILATE the Polish war experience through analysis AND training, find a hole in the enemy's defence, develop their plans in all comfort and make preparations for a successful game and then to win it. Other campaigns also added to this and presumably perfect British training was little or no obstacle for that. That was real war but in a way it was an educating process as it is practiced everywhere- from simple things to more complex ones, from 'rithmetic to algebra, from Poland to France, from Norway (landing)to Balcans (mountain war). Shortly speaking German army had among other things something Soviets practically totally lacked. This thing has no substitutes. Nothing can be used instead of it. This is combat experience at all levels from the High command to the last infantryman.

Submit a Learning Question

Submit an Question

Learning FAQ Subjects

Other Learning Sites

Site Information

About Us
Contact Me
Privacy Policy

Sitemap

what about Leadership Training Game ?

Record Management Training

Direct Sales Training