> Especially when the training has nothing to do with military matters (...)
This assertion is patently false. The goal of the military is to force your will onto others while stopping others from imposing their own will onto you. You don't achieve that exclusively by killing. In fact, arguably propaganda and intelligence is far more effective than military action.
Please bear in mind, for example, that the Normandy invasion, and consequently WW2 and the preservation of liberal democracies in Europe and the world, was won due to the role of a single man in posting this sort of propaganda: Juan Pujol García.
>> Especially when the training has nothing to do with military matters (...)
> This assertion is patently false.
I am referring to the use of "Lets convince our OWN civilian population that wolves are a threat by impersonating our own government" - This is so far out of military matters that it is absurd that it is used as a training aid. Why is the military using training aids (that are theoretical and never supposed to be implemented remember) based on targetting their own civilian general population.
This should not be the role of the military, it should not even be in the list of aids. If you have to have stuff like that then at least make the training aids focus on psyops against populations of probable adversaries.
This assertion is patently false. The goal of the military is to force your will onto others while stopping others from imposing their own will onto you. You don't achieve that exclusively by killing. In fact, arguably propaganda and intelligence is far more effective than military action.
Please bear in mind, for example, that the Normandy invasion, and consequently WW2 and the preservation of liberal democracies in Europe and the world, was won due to the role of a single man in posting this sort of propaganda: Juan Pujol García.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Pujol_Garc%C3%ADa