Editing Military exercise (section)

==Types==
===Command post===

A Command Post Exercise (CPX) typically focuses on the battle readiness of staffs such as a particular [[Unified Combatant Command]] or one of its components at any level. It may run in parallel with an FTX or its equivalent, or as a stand-alone event for headquarters staff only with heavy emphasis on simulated events.

===Field===
[[File:An Army Training Exercise in Britain, 1942 TR103.jpg|thumb|[[British Army]] soldiers with a [[Covenanter tank]] during a [[World War II]] military exercise, 1942]]
Historical names for the field exercise, or the full-scale rehearsal of military maneuvers as practice for warfare in the military services of the British Commonwealth include "schemes", while those of the military services United States are known as [[Field training exercise|Field Training Exercises]] (FTX), or, in the case of naval forces, Fleet Exercises (FLEETEX). In a field exercise or fleet exercise, the two sides in the simulated battle are typically called "red" (simulating the [[Opposing force|enemy forces]]) and "blue", to avoid naming a particular adversary.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fas.org/man/dod-101/ex/|title=United States Military Exercises|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151117030720/https://fas.org/man/dod-101/ex/|archive-date=2015-11-17|url-status=dead|access-date=2015-11-15}}</ref>  This naming convention originates with the inventors of the table-top war-game (the "[[Kriegsspiel (wargame)|Kriegsspiel]]"), the Prussian [[Georg von Reisswitz]]; their army wore [[Prussian blue]], so friendly forces were depicted by the color blue.

===Multiple forces===
[[File:Exercise MALABAR 2020 14.jpg|thumb|A joint naval exercise between the [[Indian Navy]], [[United States Navy]], [[Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force]], and [[Royal Australian Navy]] in 2020]]
Several different armed forces of the same nation training together are described as having a joint exercise. Those involving forces of multiple nations are described as having a combined exercise or coalition exercise. These are called a bilateral exercise if based on security agreements between two nations, or a multilateral exercise if the agreement is between multiple nations.

===Simulation===
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[[File:Soldiers from the Royal Artillery inside the FST Simulation tent, which uses 360 degree technology to assist in training during Exercise Steel Sabre. MOD 45158564.jpg|thumb|[[Royal Artillery]] soldiers training in a virtually simulated area, 2015]]
Other types of exercise include the Tactical Exercise Without Troops (TEWT), also known as a [[sand table]], map, cloth model, or [[computer simulation]] exercise. These allow commanders to manipulate [[model (abstract)|models]] through possible scenarios in military planning. This is also called warfare simulation, or in some instances a [[virtual battlefield]], and in the past has been described as "wargames". Such examples of modern military wargames include [[DARWARS]], a [[serious game]] developed since 2003 by [[DARPA]] with [[BBN Technologies]], a [[defense contractor]] which was involved in the development of [[packet switching]], used for [[ARPANET]], and which developed the first [[computer modem]] in 1963.

Military operations and training have included different scenarios a soldier might encounter with morals and different ethics. In one military operation soldiers are frequently asked to engage in combat, humanitarian, and stabilization roles. These increase the ambiguity of a role one may encounter and challenge of ethics. This will also lead the military personnel to have to make a difficult call in challenging circumstances.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Thompson|first1=Megan M.|last2=Jetly|first2=Rakesh|date=2014-08-01|title=Battlefield ethics training: integrating ethical scenarios in high-intensity military field exercises|journal=European Journal of Psychotraumatology|volume=5|issue=s2|pages=23668|doi=10.3402/ejpt.v5.23668|pmid=25206947|pmc=4138704|issn=2000-8198|doi-access=free}}</ref> Even in difficult situations and conditions, military personnel still has to follow rules and regulations such as: 1) when the right thing to do is not immediately clear; 2) when two or more important principles or values support different actions, and 3) when some harm will result, regardless of the actions taken (Defense Ethics Program, Department of National Defense, 2012). These simulations involve crude living conditions, sleep deprivations, time limit, and either lack or ambiguous amount of information.

A subset of simulated exercises is the Table Top Exercise (TTX), typically limited to senior personnel stepping through the decision-making processes they would employ in a crisis, a contingency, or general warfare.