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Pentagon rolls out wargame tests for general officer promotions

Defense Secretary Hegseth introduces Joint Warfighting Evaluation to assess combat readiness over career management skills.

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What to know

  • The Pentagon is introducing the Joint Warfighting Evaluation (JWE), requiring senior officers to demonstrate battlefield problem-solving through simulated combat scenarios before promotion to general.
  • The initiative, led by Defense Secretary Hegseth and senior adviser Stu Scheller, aims to shift promotion focus from career management skills to actual combat capability.
  • The JWE will supplement existing performance evaluations and apply across all five military services starting in the fiscal year 2027 promotion cycle.

“These performance reports will remain the 'bedrock' of promotion decisions, while the JWE will give boards a separate measure of how well an officer can solve the kinds of military problems they could face in command.”

Stu Scheller, Senior Pentagon adviser · Fox News Digital ↗

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    Scheller frames JWE as standalone measure of battlefield command capability

    Stu Scheller, the senior Pentagon adviser leading the effort, explained that while performance reports remain the 'bedrock' of promotion decisions, the JWE provides a separate assessment of how well officers can solve military problems they might face in command.

    “Right now in our current system, we have people that are very good at navigating their careers. There isn't a stand-alone function that can truly assess the best military commanders on the battlefield.”
    — Stu Scheller
  2. background

    Fox News obtains internal Pentagon documents detailing JWE structure — Internal documents show every military service developed its own JWE version, ranging from online simulations to hours-long in-person wargames. Six versions were created—one for each of the five military services plus one through the Joint Staff.

  3. background

    Pentagon introduces Joint Warfighting Evaluation for general officer promotions — The Pentagon unveiled a new standardized assessment requiring senior officers to solve complex military problems through battlefield-style simulations. The effort, driven by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's push to overhaul military evaluations, marks the most significant change in decades for selecting generals across all military branches.

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