Originally Posted by Steve Rupe

You are of course going to have it your way but I know what I am talking about not only from personal experience/knowledge. I was in the military and I also worked at the Pentagon where I finished my military career. I had personal knowledge of things that the public was/is totally unaware of.

Of course any training is beneficial but public war games are primarily for a show of power and are not primarily for the preparation of war. A military air show is of course beneficial training but is not performed as a preparation for war.

I am not aware of any public war game ever in the history of war that has been a preparation of war. So I will use what I "know" to be fact and you can use what you "think" to be fact. Once again I agree to disagree.