Exercises and Adversaries: The Risks of Military Exercises
Journal: OakTrust (Texas A&M University Libraries)
Year: 2017

We argue that military exercises can create four types of risk—accidents, hostility,&#13;\nreciprocity, and crises. The level of risk an exercise creates is determined by two factors. The first&#13;\nfactor is the political environment between the country running the exercise and the potential&#13;\nadversary. The second factor is the perceived level of threat an exercise creates for an adversary.&#13;\nExercises that have close proximity to the adversary, have high magnitude, and have low&#13;\