A military exercise, training exercise, maneuver, manoeuvre, drill or war game is the employment of military resources in training for military operations. Military exercises are conducted to explore
Marines moving between cover during a bilateral military exercise between the United States Marine Corps and Italian Armed Forces, 2019
British Army soldiers with a Covenanter tank during a World War II military exercise, 1942
A joint naval exercise between the Indian Navy, United States Navy, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, and Royal Australian Navy in 2020
Royal Artillery soldiers training in a virtually simulated area, 2015
Military simulations, also known informally as war games, are simulations in which theories of warfare can be tested and refined without the need for actual hostilities. Military simulations are seen
Military exercise
…allow commanders to manipulate 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…
Graf Helmuth von Moltke is nowadays regarded as the grandfather of modern military simulation. Although not the inventor of Kriegsspiel, he was greatly impressed by it as a young officer, and as Chief of Staff of the Prussian Army promoted its use as a training aid.
HMS Exeter at the Battle of the River Plate in 1939. As predicted by Pratt's naval warfare model, despite taking heavy damage the lighter British cruisers were able to defeat their much larger opponent, the German battleship Admiral Graf Spee.
A mock-up of Battleship Row at Pearl Harbor. This image was recreated for a later Japanese propaganda film.