Toying With War: Poles Fear NATO Exercises, Simulations Could Spark Real War

SputnikNews.com
28.01.2017

Last week, analysts and military officials flocked to Warsaw National Stadium, where they conducted a detailed computer simulation of full-scale war between NATO and Russia in Europe. Speaking to Sputnik about the event, political scientist Adam Wielomski warned that endless simulations and recriminations could result in a real war breaking out.

The war games, dubbed ‘War Game: Hegemon Baltic Campaign’, took place between Monday and Thursday at the Warsaw National Stadium – which hosted the NATO summit last July. Sponsored by US, Swedish and Polish defense companies, and using the Hegemon computer-based simulation platform, the mental exercise was organized by the Washington-based Potomac Foundation and Poland’s Casimir Pulaski Foundation.

The games simulated a hypothetical Russian attack on the Baltic states, and featured a who’s-who of anti-Russian officials, including former NATO Forces in Europe commander Philip Breedlove, known for his remark that Russia posed an ‘existential threat’ to the US.
Speaking to Sputnik Poland about the war games, Adam Wielomski, political science professor and deputy editor in chief of the Konservwatyzm.pl political portal, explained that for Poland, the greatest danger of staging such games is that they may become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

>”Sometimes in politics it happens that there is no real issue behind a conflict or dispute,” Wielomski noted. “Nevertheless, both sides feel threatened, and thus become keen to put forward mutual recriminations against one another, to improve security and their [military] strength against the other side. This, in turn, results in a reaction from the other side, and this is the essence of the self-perpetuating conflict.”

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