U.S. Army Trains for Battle but Skips Risky Deployment to Theater

Tactics | The Army rehearses large-scale battle more than the contested movement needed to assemble forces under enemy threat

DefenseHub · Saturday · Tactics · 2026-06-06

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The Army trains divisions and corps to fight large-scale battles but barely rehearses assembling and moving those formations to the battlefield under enemy threat. That gap is not just a readiness problem. It is a deterrence problem that affects every ally counting on American conventional power.

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