Don't Fight the Whites - Exploiting Change

I put together exercise for a certain military. We would have a general theme, but all the different sections/branches or whatever you want to call them had to get value out of the exercise. So their directors submitted scenarios to the Ex director to roll into the main exercise to practice a certain capability. So these would be “inputs” during the exercise. The blue force commander receiving an input didn’t know what capability the original director wanted to exercise. So he’s go with his gut/assessment. Sometimes activating the wrong response (that’s why we exercise). After a few aborted tries, he would get a hint (from the “trusted agent” a guy on the blue team that knew what the input was all about) of what to do, what capabilities to exercise was, getting the exercise out of the rabbit hole and back on the tracks. The friendly team is the blue team. The enemy is the red team. The exercise controllers are the white team. Hence: Don’t fight the whites. Yeah, we know how the commander wants to react to this, but here’s what we want him to do because that is the scenario his own staff submitted to the white team. Don’t fight the whites.

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Pappy Gunn says:

August 16, 2019 at 12:39 am

I put together exercise for a certain military. We would have a general theme, but all the different sections/branches or whatever you want to call them had to get value out of the exercise. So their directors submitted scenarios to the Ex director to roll into the main exercise to practice a certain capability. So these would be “inputs” during the exercise. The blue force commander receiving an input didn’t know what capability the original director wanted to exercise. So he’s go with his gut/assessment. Sometimes activating the wrong response (that’s why we exercise). After a few aborted tries, he would get a hint (from the “trusted agent” a guy on the blue team that knew what the input was all about) of what to do, what capabilities to exercise was, getting the exercise out of the rabbit hole and back on the tracks. The friendly team is the blue team. The enemy is the red team. The exercise controllers are the white team. Hence: Don’t fight the whites. Yeah, we know how the commander wants to react to this, but here’s what we want him to do because that is the scenario his own staff submitted to the white team. Don’t fight the whites.

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