War games in military research and development.

Above: South African G-6 Howizer

Why the multinational environment is the best thing for military exercises? Military exercises or war games are military simulations that purpose is to serve armies' R&D process. The R&D in a military environment means simulation. Whose purpose is to find own weaknesses and strengths. 

Why are nations arranging things like military exercises? The reason for those exercises is to research and develop tactics and strategies. So when military forces are given something, they also get something new. And that thing is the purpose of those war simulations. 

The worst error of commanders is overestimating their forces. And the second error is overestimating men and weapons. That thing causes horrible losses. 

Many people trust old-fashion military equipment. And the results of that kind of thing are seen in Ukraine. Maybe traditional weapons seem effective, but we see what happens to users of old-time weapons and tactics. 

The war games are simulations. Their mission is to give information about the new equipment and create a new types of tactics. That is suitable in modern battlefields. 

When we are thinking situation where Russia faces about 90000 men losses in some areas, we might ask, can Finland or Sweden carry that kind of loss? Big armies can somehow stand these kinds of losses. But small armies are in trouble with those kinds of things. 

The purpose of military exercises is to minimize losses. Their mission is to make the defense more effective and find errors in their strategies, equipment, and military environment. Those exercises also give information that is each participant's strengths. 

Knowing strengths is important. But knowing own weaknesses is the same way important. And what they should develop. And that information is used for the analysis of what went well and what should do better. The thing is knowing yourself and knowing your enemies. 

When we are thinking about NATO it offers the place and forum to develop and research the tactics and strategies. Sometimes the price of that organization is asked. And the argument against it is the high price. 

But in the same way, independent defense causes costs. If we want to buy effective weapons they require satellite targeting. And that requires support from the owners of those satellites. Or otherwise, we can make a similar defense with Russians. Maybe we can make and store five million grenades. But we have seen the fate of those systems in Ukraine. 

The costs of the military are an interesting thing. There are many ways to make budgets. One is to make a small base budget. And then there is the possibility to make extra budgets. That thing seems nice. But in real life. That is self-deception. We must realize that in peacetime military forces are always causing costs. But effective weapons are expensive. 

When there is a need to use those weapons they must exist. Success in combat areas requires the full function of all systems. And also military crew must know how to use them. If users of those systems don't know how to use them. Those systems are ineffective. 

And if the commanders don't know the capacity of their troops that thing can cause terrible losses. That thing is visible in Ukraine. But if either commanders or their henchmen don't know their mission or equipment. Or they overestimate their troops and equipment, which causes a catastrophe on the battlefield.