-
Rehearsing the War Away: Perpetual Warrior Training in Contemporary US Army Policy
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 53, Number 3, Fall 2009 (T 203)
- pp. 139-155
- Article
- Additional Information
The goal of military training is to match practice to combat. US Army documents on "Warrior Training" point out the increasingly simulacra-like quality of their staged drills. The intention is to make the training so real, so much a total "theatre immersion," that when soldiers are in real battle they act as if they are still rehearsing, still playing.