The fictional war college uses some scenarios as deliberate suicide missions rather than puzzles with a hidden perfect answer. Their purpose is to teach officers to recognize when an official objective cannot be achieved at an acceptable cost. A capable commander should preserve ships and lives while securing a lesser success instead of sacrificing the force to satisfy the exercise's headline mission. A few scenarios reward an ingenious solution, but the broader lesson is that identifying a doomed operation is itself a command skill.
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Training scenarios teach when to accept a lesser victory
Some war-college exercises are deliberately unwinnable so officers learn to preserve ships and lives by accepting a lesser success.