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FORT IRWIN - Gearing up for a global war against terrorism, the Army has shifted its combat plan for troops in training from massive tank battles to urban warfare against insurgents armed with car bombs and suicide vests.
"The war in Iraq has changed our outlook," said Brig. Gen. Robert Cone, commander of the Army's National Training Center at Fort Irwin. "We have all learned lessons from it."See the full content of this document
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Sculpting New War Discipline
Restructuring its forces and strategy to cope with a drastically changing world, the Army is preparing its troops for combat in a hotbed of religious and ethnic chaos.
The changes, the most for the Army since World War II, provide greater mobility and flexibility for its forces.Cone calls Fort Irwin the training ground for the complexities of counterinsurgency combat."It's a high-stress environment that provides graduate-leve...See the full content of this document
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