The UCAS Army had excellent virtual training facilities, and Fort Schwartzkopf here in the Midwest had the Army’s best, which meant the best in the world. There were a lot of reasons why the Army made extensive use of those facilities, among them lower cost than real-world training, better security, and less wear and tear on equipment and terrain. It had been decades since any battalion-sized field exercises had been conducted, but now the joint chiefs had authorized these expensive war games. Why?