What are the implications of stress-testing U.S. war plans for national security and international relations?
The U.S. military spends billions trying to predict what its adversaries will do — and almost nothing testing whether its own plans make sense. In part, this asymmetry reflects the decline of red teaming, the practice of systematically challenging plans to expose biases, blind spots, and weak assumptions before they become operational liabilities. As U.S. adversaries become more sophisticated and the Department of Defense integrates AI into planning, restoring systematic self-critique isn’t optional — it’s urgent.Restoring red teaming will require updating how it was practiced in the past. There are four possible ways to make this happen: train all planners The post Who Stress-Tests U.S. War Plans? appeared first on War on the Rocks