Category Archives: Game Implementation
How humanitarians do it
The Emergency Capacity Building Project—a coalition of some of the world’s largest NGOs involved in disaster response—has a major ongoing project on the use of simulations for enhancing training and preparedness. You’ll find an overview of their work at PAXsims, … Continue reading
It is the scenario that doesn’t end….
This is just a reminder that I am continuing to update the Israel vs Iran wargame compendium. The most recent additions: details of a crisis simulation at the Brookings Institution, as well as a couple of scenario exercises/op eds from the … Continue reading
Connections Game Lab: The Real-Life Spin-Off
Several people have asked about possible follow-on activities from the GameLab sessions on HADR operations and Haiti earthquake relief that were featured at the Connections 2012 interdisciplinary wargaming conference. Indeed we do plan to put together a group to refine … Continue reading
Gaming Haiti and the challenges of HADR operations
We recently posted some background material on the 2010 Haiti earthquake, in preparation for the Game Lab at this year’s Connections interdisciplinary wargaming conference. For those of you who will be attending, I urge you to skim through it before … Continue reading
Connections 2012 GameLab: Haiti earthquake scenario
Overview At the Connections 2012 interdisciplinary wargaming conference, participants will be assigned to one of three different game design teams. During part of the conference, each group will be asked to develop a preliminary concept (or concepts) for a game … Continue reading
CGSC stability operations simulation—looking for comments
In an interesting effort at informal crowd-sourcing of ideas in simulation design, James Sterrett (Digital Leader Development Center, US Army Command and General Staff College) is looking for feedback on their draft requirements for a stability operations simulation. Feel free to … Continue reading
Peter Perla discussion at NWC on “next generation wargaming”
This recollection is just that, one of those “stream of consciousnesses” things. I tried to listen and think hard about what was being said, not take copious notes, so if you were there, it is not meant to be a … Continue reading
Economist article on new low-end warfare models
This article in the Economist discusses 6 models. I cut and paste from the article the following summaries: SCARE, the Spatio-Cultural Abductive Reasoning Engine, developed at the United States Military Academy at West Point by a team led by Major … Continue reading
Ben Kohlmann on Wargaming
Many of you may have seen Lt Ben Kohlmann’s post on Small Wars Journal, and the wide variety of discussions it sparked. Ben’s Blog: Disruptive Thinkers has some excellent posts, most recently some thoughts on wargaming. The following I found … Continue reading
War gaming numbered plans
There is a proposal on the table to include Wargaming numbered plans as a topic at this year’s Connections conference. Given that the numbered plans are (highly) classified, how might one usefully discuss war gaming numbered plans at the unclassified … Continue reading
