Name: 你知道美國曾對「假國家」發動「假戰爭」嗎？快來一起探索歷史吧！(The Fake Countries the US Fights Fake Wars Against)
Uploaded: 2025-08-14T21:01:30.000Z
Duration: 8 min 38 s

This is South Ostromech, a de facto independent region of the mountain nation of Gorgis.

這裡是南奧斯特羅姆奇，是戈爾吉斯山地國家事實上的獨立地區。

I say de facto independent because, while the region has been basically autonomous since the Danovians came to their aid in the Danovia-Gorgis War of 2008, only Danovia and Nicaragua recognize their independence.

我之所以說 "事實上的獨立"，是因為自 2008 年達諾維亞-戈爾吉斯戰爭中達諾維亞人向其提供援助以來，該地區基本實現了自治，但只有達諾維亞和尼加拉瓜承認其獨立。

The most interesting thing about this entire conflict, though, is that the US Army made it up.

不過，整個衝突中最有趣的事情是，美軍編造了這場衝突。

Yes, Gorgis and Danovia—not to mention their sub-regions like the Ostromechs and Zabzamech, as well as their neighbors Lemaria, Etropia, and Ariana—are completely made up.

是的，戈爾吉斯和達諾維亞--更不用說它們的子區域，如奧斯特羅梅奇和扎布扎梅奇，以及它們的鄰居萊馬里亞、埃特羅比亞和阿里亞納--完全是虛構的。

And not in the way that all countries are made up—in the way that the United States

而不是以所有國家的構成方式--美國的構成方式

Army has written over 800 pages of lore about them.

陸軍撰寫了 800 多頁關於它們的傳說。

The US Army has, in fact, invented a whole alternate world of countries and conflicts and crises they can train themselves in—all of which begs the question, why would you do that?

事實上，美國陸軍發明了一個由國家、衝突和危機組成的另類世界，他們可以在其中進行自我訓練。

And also, why are my Etropian allies always so late to our meetings?

還有，為什麼我的埃特羅比亞盟友開會總是遲到？

Etropians, as a people, do not value punctuality—I know this because it's laid out in this much detail in the 2015 description of the fake Caucasus operational environment the

埃特羅比亞人作為一個民族，並不重視守時，我之所以知道這一點，是因為在 2015 年關於假高加索行動環境的描述中，就有如此詳細的闡述。

Etropia is part of Date World, the US Army's official training environment which meticulously describes histories, cultures, militaries, tensions, geography, flags, and more across dozens of fake countries across our real world.

Etropia 是 Date World 的一部分，Date World 是美國陸軍的官方訓練環境，它細緻地描述了現實世界中數十個虛擬國家的歷史、文化、軍隊、緊張局勢、地理、國旗等。

是阿恩蘭、塔裡克和弗拉姆蘭。

Aw, do you think this is the Philippines?

That's North and South Torbia, stupid baby!

那是北托爾比亞和南托爾比亞，笨寶貝！

US Army and other military units fight, defeat, and are defeated by these fake countries all the time in field exercises, often, though not exclusively, held at the Fort Irwin National Training Center in California, or the Joint Readiness Training Center in Louisiana.

美國陸軍和其他軍事單位在野外演習中經常與這些虛假國家作戰、擊敗並被其擊敗，這些演習通常（但不限於）在加州的歐文堡國家訓練中心或路易斯安那州的聯合戰備訓練中心舉行。

Soldiers might have to liberate Etropia, or get weapons out of the hands of pro-Denovian insurgents, or clear IEDs in Ariana, or liberate Etropia, or convince a local leader in Lamaria to give you information about a terrorist organization, or even liberate Etropia.

士兵可能必須解放埃特羅皮亞，或者從親德諾維亞叛亂分子手中奪取武器，或者清除阿麗亞娜的簡易爆炸裝置，或者解放埃特羅皮亞，或者說服拉馬裡亞的當地領導人向你提供有關恐怖組織的信息，甚至解放埃特羅皮亞。

American troops spend a lot of time liberating Etropia.

美軍花了大量時間解放埃特羅比亞。

The idea is that the folks at the training center will drop a scenario that directly mirrors whatever real-life mission a unit is going to, and have them practice it as realistically as possible to prove they're ready before they deploy—and they make it hard.

其目的是讓培訓中心的人員提供一個場景，直接反映部隊將要執行的任何實際任務，並讓他們儘可能真實地進行演練，以證明他們在部署前已做好準備--他們讓演練變得很難。

There's an entire unit, specifically the 1st Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment, whose primary job is to play the role of whatever opposing force a unit faces in training.

有一整支部隊，特別是第 509 步兵團第一營，其主要任務是扮演部隊在訓練中面臨的任何敵對勢力。

If you're liberating Etropia, they're the Denovians.

如果你要解放埃特羅比亞，他們就是德諾維人。

If you're overthrowing Etropia, they're the Etropians.

如果你要推翻埃特羅比亞，他們就是埃特羅比亞人。

The first time you run the exercise, they'll have the weapons, training, and behavior your real opposition will probably have IRL.

第一次演習時，他們將擁有真正的對手可能擁有的武器、訓練和行為。

But if you complete your simulated mission, they don't just wave a white flag.

但是，如果你完成了模擬任務，他們就不會揮舞白旗了。

他們又跑了回來，但跑得更猛了。

Maybe they give them the tank and tell them to fight like they have a death wish.

也許他們給了他們坦克，讓他們像找死一樣去戰鬥。

Okay, well, now communications are down and we gave them another tank and six Tigers.

好吧，現在通訊中斷了，我們又給了他們一輛坦克和六輛虎式坦克。

And no, in case you're wondering, the 1st Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment is not very popular amongst their peers.

不，如果你想知道的話，509 步兵團第一營在同行中並不受歡迎。

In fairness, they're the US military's version of theater kids, and they spend their days fighting against the US military—it's like they don't even want to be liked.

平心而論，他們是美軍版的戲子，整天和美軍對著幹，好像根本不想被人喜歡。

Doing all these field exercises helps ensure units are ready for their missions, in the best, worst, and deadliest scenarios, before they deploy.

進行所有這些實地演習有助於確保部隊在部署前做好準備，在最好、最壞和最致命的情況下執行任務。

But why do it all against fake countries?

但是，為什麼要對假冒的國家下手呢？

The first and most important reason is avoiding confusion.

第一個也是最重要的一個原因是避免混淆。

As a matter of policy, no real countries, groups, or individuals are allowed to be enemies in unclassified scenarios, including all training materials.

作為一項政策，不允許在非保密場景（包括所有培訓材料）中與真實國家、團體或個人為敵。

Geopolitics are a delicate thing, and nobody wants to accidentally start World War 3 because of foreign government spots with appear-to-be-US-plans-to-invade-Azerbaijan-but-are-in-fact-training-exercises-just-in-case.

地緣政治是一件很微妙的事情，誰也不想因為外國政府貌似入侵阿塞拜疆的計劃，但實際上是以防萬一的訓練演習，而意外引發第三次世界大戰。

There are real countries on the map of Day World—they're Singapore.

Day World 地圖上有真實的國家--它們就是新加坡。

But you'll never fight against them, lest something leak and cause a freakout and or war.

但你永遠不會與他們作對，以免走漏風聲，引起騷亂或戰爭。

So, they have to use fake countries, but for conflict with a fake country to be realistic enough to be a good training scenario, that fake country needs to be part of a fake world that's as complicated and interconnected as ours.

他們必須使用假冒國家，但要使與假冒國家的衝突足夠逼真，成為良好的訓練場景，這個假冒國家必須是一個假冒世界的一部分，而這個假冒世界與我們的世界一樣複雜，相互關聯。

If you came to HAI army training and I was like, okay, for today's scenario, we're going to liberate Blurnsley from the Blue K to prepare us to actually liberate Guernsey from the UK,

如果你來參加 HAI 陸軍訓練，我會想，好吧，今天的場景是，我們要從藍 K 解放布倫斯利，為真正從英國解放根西島做好準備，

and your unit easily overwhelmed the Blue K army, you might be awfully surprised when you get to real Guernsey and the entirety of NATO comes to the UK's aid, gives machine guns to the civilians, and flattens you like a bug.

而你的部隊輕鬆擊敗了藍 K 軍隊，當你到達真正的根西島時，你可能會感到非常驚訝，整個北約都向英國提供援助，向平民提供機槍，並像蟲子一樣壓扁你。

Maybe you would've been prepared for that if your training scenario included Blato, but they didn't, so you have died.

如果你的訓練場景中包括布拉託，也許你會有所準備，但他們沒有，所以你死了。

Day World is all about making training scenarios that are a few shades off from reality, but still relevant to the kinds of tensions, tactics, and technologies soldiers might find when they actually deploy.

Day World的宗旨是製作與現實有一定差距，但仍與士兵實際部署時可能遇到的緊張局勢、戰術和技術相關的訓練場景。

As such, while the countries in Day World are fake, they're based on real data and intelligence assessments from real countries, with just enough fake stuff mixed in to avoid confusion.

雖然 Day World 中的國家是假的，但它們都是基於真實國家的真實數據和情報評估，只是摻雜了足夠多的假東西，以避免混淆。

It doesn't use a Russian flag, it doesn't have Russia's exact borders or history, but it was a global superpower that had a tough go of it in the early '90s, is doing better lately thanks to rising oil prices,

它沒有懸掛俄羅斯國旗，也沒有俄羅斯的確切邊界或歷史，但它是一個全球超級大國，在 90 年代初經歷了一段艱難時期，最近由於油價上漲而有所好轉，

and has a pretty entangled set of interests with the state immediately to its south, all of which make it a much more relevant foe for the US army to train themselves against than, say, Narnia, Gondor, or Genovia.

並且與其南邊的國家有著相當複雜的利益關係，所有這些都使得它成為美國軍隊訓練中比納尼亞、剛鐸或吉諾維亞更值得對抗的敵人。

But while Day World is basically just a bunch of pages of fake-life lore, some fake countries used for US military training get very real.

不過，雖然 Day World 基本上只是一頁頁虛假的生活傳說，但一些用於美國軍事訓練的虛假國家卻非常真實。

This is a bunch of counties in North Carolina, but if you're taking the final test to become a Green Beret, it's the People's Republic of Pineland—a US ally that helped us out in both World Wars, Korea, and Iraq.

這裡是北卡羅來納州的幾個縣，但如果你要參加成為綠色貝雷帽的最終測試，這裡就是平原人民共和國--在兩次世界大戰、朝鮮戰爭和伊拉克戰爭中都幫助過我們的美國盟友。

To earn your Green Beret, you and about 200 other candidates must organize a guerrilla army within Pineland, and, among other things, kill a strongman who's been torturing guerrilla fighters.

要想獲得綠色貝雷帽，你和其他大約 200 名候選人必須在平原地區組織一支游擊隊，除其他事項外，還必須殺死一名虐待游擊隊戰士的強人。

And that strongman's name is Jose Cuervo.

At this time I must remind all HAI viewers that I did not write the Pineland lore or the Special Forces Final Exam.

在此，我必須提醒所有 HAI 觀眾，平原傳說和特種部隊期末考試都不是我寫的。

If I had, the enemy would not be named after an innocent tequila—he would be named Brian McManus.

如果我有，敵人就不會以無辜的龍舌蘭酒命名，而會被命名為布萊恩麥克馬納斯。

During Robin's Sage, the Final Exam in question, about 1,500 North Carolinian locals volunteer to pay various Pinelanders—guerrilla fighters, medics, civilians, enemies, allies, etc.

在羅賓聖賢節（即期末考）期間，約有 1,500 名北卡羅來納州當地人自願向各種松林居民支付報酬——遊擊戰士、醫務人員、平民、敵人、盟友等。

They carry Pineland IDs and Pinelandian currency, Dawn, which is signed by the Pineland Defense Minister, who I'm sure has a perfectly normal name.

他們攜帶著松林身份證和松林貨幣「黎明」，上面有鬆林國防部長的簽名，我確信他的名字非常正常。

Just checking… oh, oh, ok, well his name is Seymour Bombs.

只是確認一下......哦，哦，好吧，他叫 Seymour Bombs。

Anyway, you parachute in, organize transportation with the local, clear security checkpoints, make evacuation routes for the wounded, pay for things with Dawn, bribe the cops with Dawn, kill Cuervo, and completely live in Pineland until the test is done.

總之，你要空降到當地，與當地人一起組織交通，清理安全檢查站，為傷員制定撤離路線，用黎明錢買東西，用黎明錢賄賂警察，用黎明錢......黎明，殺了奎爾沃，在測試完成之前完全住在平原。

Pineland, Etropia, Denovia—all these exist because, for various good reasons, the United States Army does not use real-world conflicts as training exercise,

Pineland、Etropia、Denovia——所有這些之所以存在，是因為出於各種原因，美國陸軍不會將現實世界的衝突作為訓練演習，

and what they've built instead is an alternate-universe Earth so detailed it would make even the most committed D&D Dungeon Master blush.

他們所建造的是一個平行宇宙的地球，其細節之豐富甚至會讓最忠實的 D&D 地下城主臉紅。

And I totally get why they have this, but it doesn't make it any less funny to me.

我完全明白他們為什麼要這樣做，但這並沒有減少我的樂趣。

Here's a chart of how all the fake Indo-Pacific countries feel about each other, which smacks of the one I used to track tensions in the Love Island Villa.

這裡有一張所有假冒的印度洋-太平洋國家對彼此看法的圖表，有點像我用來追蹤愛島別墅緊張局勢的圖表。

Here's a description of a guerrilla fighter group called the Falcon Brothers.

以下是對一個名為「獵鷹兄弟」的遊擊戰士組織的描述。

Here's a description of Kujenga's school structure.

下面是 Kujenga 的學校結構介紹。

There's so much in here, and it's wild to me that some kid enlisted in the military to drive a tank or whatever, only to end up penning Denovian lore full-time.

這本書裡有太多東西了，讓我感到不可思議的是，有些孩子參軍是為了開坦克什麼的，最後卻專職撰寫德諾維亞傳說。

So not as wild as all the ones who enlisted and ended up in an improv troupe.

所以不像那些入伍後在即興劇團的人那麼狂野。

So Denovia et al are fake, but you know what's real?

所以德諾維亞等人是假的，但你知道什麼是真的嗎？

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你可以透過在瀏覽器中加入該影片的贊助商「終止動物苦難標籤」來免費產生正面影響。

By doing so, you'll be supporting the Humane League, an organization that's driving real, institutional change that helps alleviate suffering for animals confined in factory farms—and their advocacy has actually worked.

透過這樣做，你將支持人道聯盟，這是一個推動真正的製度變革的組織，旨在幫助減輕工廠化農場中動物的痛苦——而且他們的倡導確實有效。

For example, they got the percentage of hens living cage-free in the US from 3% to 45%,

例如，他們使美國無籠養母雞的比例從 3% 提高到 45%，

and while you can support their work by cutting them a check for $1.9 million if you've got it, you can also just join the many Tab for a Cause users who have collectively raised over $1.9 million for charity just by opening Tabs.

如果你有足夠的錢，可以給他們開一張 190 萬美元的支票來支持他們的工作，你也可以加入眾多 Tab for a Cause 用戶的行列，他們通過打開 Tab 為慈善事業總共籌集了 190 多萬美元。

You know Tabs—you have at least 49 of them open right now!

你知道 Tabs 吧，你現在至少打開了 49 個標籤頁！

If you add Tab for Ending Animal Suffering to your browser, whenever you open a new tab, you'll get a couple little ads in the corner, and the revenue from those ads will head straight to the Humane League.

如果你在瀏覽器中添加「結束動物苦難」標籤，每當你打開新標籤時，你都會在角落看到幾個小廣告，這些廣告的收入將直接捐給人類聯盟。

It's completely free, and you can get started in less than 30 seconds by clicking the link in the description.

它完全免費，點擊資訊欄中的連結，不到 30 秒就能開始使用。

So go forth, open more tabs, save the world.

去吧，打開更多標籤，拯救世界。