As many as 55 teams from around the planet competed in the prestigious Commandant’s Cup War Games tournament. 12 double teams qualified for the Washington final, including a representation from the Academy of Land Forces. The Polish squad was the only squad in the finals to be made up of subjects, the remaining 11 teams were officer teams. Poles took 3rd place.
In professional war games, like amusement games, you play on your computer, with the difference that erstwhile the second only supply fun, the erstwhile are treated as training tool to simulate events on the actual battlefield.
– Definitive war games are simulation games reflecting armed conflict, in which decisions made by opponents find future developments. The games utilized in the training process in AWL are professional war games. Unlike hobby games, they are utilized for military purposes related to the process of command on the battlefield. Games of this kind are utilized as an analytical tool, providing the information essential to make and make decisions, or as a training (training) tool, to let the commanding staff of various levels to gain real experience in decision-making – explains Dr. Paweł Makowiec, AWL lecturer and guardian of the university's discipline ellipse of War Analysis, who exhibited representation at Commandant’s Cup. The scientist adds that Wroc3aw podchoradów as the only 1 in Poland thanks to access to the lipaming cloud of American marines can usage the same war games that Americans train on.
Long way to the podium
Commandant’s Cup competition with the Washington final held for the second time (This year's edition was organized during the Modern Day Marine Fair). The AWL soldiers debuted in this competition and immediately won the podium. They were only ahead of 2 American teams – the squad from the 464 Marine dense chopper Squadron took second place, and the first squad from the Marine Information Group. Importantly, in the final competition the Polish squad was the only 1 composed of podchorze, the remaining 11 teams were officer teams.
– The accomplishment of Polish subjects is simply a spectacular success for respective reasons. Representatives of the War Analysis technological Circle, who were students of the 3rd year of officer's studies, faced a tournament requiring skill in conducting a tactical and operational level war game. During their rivalry, they demonstrated cognition of the tasks, structures and capabilities of units from battalion level to division, taking into account components of the air and naval forces. Multiple they had to make operational decisions on the basis of only intuition and limited data, they stood up to the ground with experienced, repeatedly decorated officers of the U.S. elite Marine Corps, well-versed with the reality of war games," said Captain Łukasz Wójciak, head of the Department of Territorial Defence. She points out that it was a large honour for Poles to get to the final in Washington. They proved superior to the teams from Germany, Australia, Belgium, Spain and Italy.
– Eliminations took place, among others, during the polygon group, and the subcholers played parties after classes, under field conditions, frequently at night. After arriving in the United States, they faced another challenge – the request to adapt to another time zone, which differs by six hours. The challenges in the tournament lasted more than 8 hours each day and required constant focus, analyzing opponents' movements and making complex decisions. Nevertheless, the sufferers showed exceptional intellectual resilience and professionalism. Their attitude was not only observed by our team, but besides by participants and observers from the full marine community. Due to the prestige of the event – the tournament was held in an open exhibition space, in parallel with the military equipment fair Modern Day Marine – the actions of Poles were of large interest – says Captain Wójciak.
The podium throw on the tape
Most final teams – as many as 10 teams – were representatives of the United States Marine Corps, including representations of specified units as: 13th Expeditionary Unit, 464 Marine dense chopper Squadron, 23rd Marine Regiment, 1st Recon, Marine Information Group, Marine Air-Ground Task Force, Expeditionary Warfare School, Marine Corps University, Marine Corps Tactics and Operations Group, and Marine Corps Warfighting Lab. Outside the Poles from AWL, the squad representing Canada was complemented by teachers from Canadian Forces College.
Each of the final games consisted of performing circumstantial combat tasks – demolition of enemy units or occupying a peculiar site, specified as a city, an crucial object.
During the Struggles AWL patients They didn't have much luck competing and closed the stakes. Only on the last day of the competition the card turned and Poles confirmed their skills. First, 1 of the podchorzech scored a large function in Flashpoint Campaigns, in which he scored a evidence 170 points, and later another of our representatives, despite playing a weaker faction, won the Company Commander Modern. This gave the AWL squad a jump from 12th to 4th place and a pass to the final gameplay, where virtually by a close, and more specifically by 1 point, they managed to outrun the 4th squad (with Marine Corps Warfighting Lab) and win the podium.
– The spirit of combat and the unbreakable attitude they showed in the 3rd circular gained the appreciation of the full community. Their example shows that training in Land Army Academy develops the right competences and shapes future officers, who are prepared to meet the most demanding challenges regardless of age or experience – says Captain Łukasz Wójciak and already announces that military students from Wrocław will effort their strength in subsequent editions of the event.
