Training improves survival, teamwork, and the habit of solving unfamiliar problems. Personnel cuts made to fund new technology can disrupt career progression and force maintenance, while reduced exercise budgets weaken preparation for current and future operations. An improvised bridge-building exercise with logs, rope, and miscellaneous materials teaches a unit to step back, assess an unfamiliar problem, and cooperate on a solution. Long-range plans must also preserve places to train for the climates, terrain, and missions a force may encounter. Hot-weather operations and armoured warfare each require appropriate training facilities. People, ranges, and repeated practice turn broad requirements into forces able to operate under pressure.
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Training areas and problem-solving are strategic infrastructure
Exercises, suitable training areas, and repeated problem-solving prepare forces for missions whose exact technology cannot yet be known.