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Halfway into the five-day war fighting exercise, the US forces are believed to have suffered significant simulated casualties and been вЂњdominatedвЂќ by the British commandos to the point that the Americans asked for a вЂњresetвЂќ.ДЄt one point in the вЂњbattleвЂќ, the commandosвЂ™ вЂњkill boardвЂќ, an intelligence assessment of the level of damage inflicted upon enemy equipment and units, had a tick against almost every US asset, indicating it had been deemed destroyed or rendered inoperable. The point of these experiments is to try new things, fail вЂ“ and learn from mistakes.

Mistakes happen, people are hurt вЂ“ occasionally, tragically, killed вЂ“ but there are no points for second place in a real war so corners are not cut in training. Run realistically, Green Dagger exercises are as close to the mental and physical stresses troops can expect to be subjected to by actual combat as it is possible to safely be.

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The troops take such exercises very seriously вЂ“ after all, there is professional and national pride at stake вЂ“ and with helicopters, fighter jets, artillery and armoured vehicles, it is an adrenaline-inducing and exhausting deployment.

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That image is unlikely to last for much longer: with anti-ship missiles now capable of hitting targets hundreds of miles from a coastline, just getting to the fight will soon be problematic.Д«ut does that mean amphibious infantry forces should be consigned to history? After the land campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Royal Marines could no longer put off addressing the question of whether their role is still relevant and, unsurprisingly, they have decided it is вЂ“ and, as this weekвЂ™s series of war games in California against their US counterparts has shown, they have a point.Д®xercise Green Dagger, hosted this week in California by the US Marine Corps and involving British, Dutch, Canadian and Emirati forces, is an annual contest pitting forces against each other to prepare for future battlefields. With exciting titles like Too Stubborn To Die, Tank Tamer and One-Man Mission, BritainвЂ™s beloved Commando comic has been poking out of the back pockets of fans, from schoolboys to Cabinet ministers, since 1961.ДЄ hardy perennial of the weekly diet of desert dogfights and dead Nazis has been the image of a dagger-toting commando charging across a beach in a hail of enemy fire.

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