The Art of Wargaming; a Guide for Professionals and Hobbyists
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Traces the history of war games, looks at how they have been used by the Navy War College, and defines the fundamental principles of designing, playing and evaluating war games.
The Blue Sword: The Naval War College and the American Mission, 1919-1941
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A detailed history of NWC’s use of wargames as a major portion of officers’ courses of study from before WWI all the way through WWII.
The Complete Wargames Handbook: : How to Play, Design, and Find Them
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With the wide availability of the home computer, wargame enthusiasts (now numbering nearly half a million) regularly confront each other in action-packed simulated battles. This is the definitive all-in-one sourcebook on the new potentials and classic excitement of wargaming--one of America's fastest growing hobbies. 40 maps and charts.
The Craft of Wargaming: a detailed planning guide for defense planners and analysts
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"The Craft of Wargaming is designed to support supervisors, planners, and analysts who use wargames to support their organizations' missions. The authors focus on providing analysts and planners with a clear methodology that allows them to initiate, design, develop, conduct and analyze wargames. Although the methodology is built around the analytic wargaming construct, organizations or individuals can easily adapt this methodology to construct educational and experiential wargames."-- Provided by publisher
Cyber Wargaming: research and education for security in a dangerous digital world
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This unique volume is the first book to provide both the theory and practical examples that practitioners, researchers, educators, and students need to successfully build, play, and learn from cyber wargames. Cyber wargaming is a powerful approach for solving interactive, complex problems that involve cyberspace in a variety of settings. Wargames teach us about human decisionmaking and the consequences of those decisions, particularly in the face of uncertainty. The contributors to this book are a diverse group of experts who explain what cyber wargames are, how they work, and why they offer insight into real world problems that other methods cannot match. As this book shows, the lessons learned through cyber wargaming are not merely artifacts of these games-they shed light on how people interpret, act upon, and experience cyberspace in real life. The examples in this book cover topics such as cyber action during kinetic war, information effects on potential conflict between the United States and China, individual versus group decision making, the intersection of cyber conflict and nuclear crisis, professional military education, business resilience, emerging technologies, and more.
Fighting the Fleet
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Fighting the Fleet recognizes that fleets conduct four distinct but interlocking tasks at the operational level of war-striking, screening, scouting, and basing-and that successful operational art is achieved when they are brought to bear in a cohesive, competitive scheme. In explaining these elements and how they are conjoined for advantage, a central theme emerges: despite the utility and importance of jointness among the armed forces, the effective employment of naval power requires a specialized language and understanding of naval concepts that is often diluted or completely lost when too much jointness is introduced.
Fundamentals of War Gaming
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The Fundamentals of War Gaming, by Francis J. McHugh, provides an in-depth introduction to the basics of military gaming, and offers historical insights into the development of war gaming methodologies. It covers the evolution of gaming tools such as ancient adaptations of chess and the development of Kriegspiel to teach military tactics to Prussian officers. The employment of gaming by various military powers, before and during the World Wars, is explored and culminates with the introduction of computer support and simulations in the U.S. Navy.
Game Theory: a very short introduction
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Games are everywhere: Drivers maneuvering in heavy traffic are playing a driving game. Bargain hunters bidding on eBay are playing an auctioning game. The supermarket's price for corn flakes is decided by playing an economic game. This Very Short Introduction offers a succinct tour of the fascinating world of game theory, a ground-breaking field that analyzes how to play games in a rational way. Ken Binmore, a renowned game theorist, explains the theory in a way that is both entertaining and non-mathematical yet also deeply insightful, revealing how game theory can shed light on everything from social gatherings, to ethical decision-making, to successful card-playing strategies, to calculating the sex ratio among bees. With mini-biographies of many fascinating, and occasionally eccentric, founders of the subject-including John Nash, subject of the movie A Beautiful Mind-this book offers a concise overview of a cutting-edge field that has seen spectacular successes in evolutionary biology and economics, and is beginning to revolutionize other disciplines from psychology to political science.
How to Master Wargaming: Commander and Staff Guide to Improving Course of Action Analysis
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This handbook focuses on three items: First, how to improve and develop the cognitive skill of visualizing, a key component to COA analysis (wargaming); second, improving the methods and conduct of action, reaction, and counteraction adjudication of COA analysis with off-the-shelf wargames; and third, thoughts on training the staff. COA analysis is similar to any collective skill, and is perishable if not continually trained and rehearsed. Therefore, it is the purpose of this handbook to provide thoughts on how to develop individuals and staffs so they can better conduct COA analysis during the military decisionmaking process.
Learning War: : The Evolution of Fighting Doctrine in the U.S. Navy, 1898-1945
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Learning War examines the U.S. Navy's doctrinal development from 1898–1945 and explains why the Navy in that era was so successful as an organization at fostering innovation. A revolutionary study of one of history's greatest success stories, this book draws profoundly important conclusions that give new insight, not only into how the Navy succeeded in becoming the best naval force in the world, but also into how modern organizations can exploit today's rapid technological and social changes in their pursuit of success.
Naval Operations Analysis
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This textbook for Naval Academy midshipmen focuses on search and detection theory as it was developed in World War II and evolved after the war. Accessible to anyone with a mathematical background, it covers analytical decision-making, simulation techniques, and models used in determining the probability of detection. This third edition is a comprehensive update that collects in one place the basic analytical developments in naval search theory over the last fifty years, while retaining the material on the models of search theory developed in the campaigns against the submarine threat in World War II.
On Wargaming: How Wargames Have Shaped History and How They May Shape the Future
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This book answers questions you’ve probably never thought to ask—such as:
• What do Ronald Reagan and Bobby Kennedy have in common? (They both participated in top-secret wargames.)
• How many times was Pearl Harbor attacked by air on a Sunday morning? (At least
three times; first in 1932 by the U.S. Navy during a live wargame, then in October
1941 by the Imperial Japanese Navy during an operations planning wargame, and
finally on 7 December 1941 by “naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”)1
• Which came first, civilization or wargaming? (A trick question: it appears that civilization and wargaming began at the same time and place.)
This preface answers three more-serious questions about this book: why you should
read it, why I wrote it, and how it was created.
Politics of Play: Wargaming With The U.S Military
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Politics of Play: Wargaming with the U.S. Military is the first book in International Relations to examine the use of wargames in the world's most powerful fighting forces. Since 2014, a wargaming renaissance has been underway in which a small but committed wargames community of practice has been empowered to proliferate their craft across the military's strategic planning, professional education, and training regimes. Drawing in detail upon one hundred hours of interviews conducted at U.S. military wargames and schoolhouses, it examines the military's use of games for recruitment, training, education, and research. It argues that by promoting a non-reflexive immersive state and cultivating a drive towards victory conditions, wargaming has both reality-producing and subject-producing properties.
Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
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The Psychology of Intelligence Analysis has been required reading for intelligence officers studying the art and science of intelligence analysis for decades. Richards Heuer, Jr. discusses in the book how fundamental limitations in human mental processes can prompt people to jump to conclusions and employ other simplifying strategies that lead to predictably faulty judgments known as cognitive biases.
Red Team: How to Succeed by Thinking Like the Enemy
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An international security expert shows how competitive organizations can get-and stay-ahead by thinking like their adversaries.
Simulating War: studying conflict through simulation games
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'Simulating War' explores the theory and practice of conflict simulation, as applied in many thousands of wargames published over the past 50 years. It discusses the utility of this form of conflict simulation by setting it in its proper context alongside military and professional wargaming.
Simulation and Wargaming
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"Wargaming is a technique employed in the military, in business, and in other enterprises where planning and risk are part of the decision-making process. In wargaming, as an analytical and decision support approach, a scenario is presented in the form of a formal game. The players of the game will then make decisions based on that scenario, and these will be adjudicated by a referee. The results of that adjudication are then used to illustrate to the players of the game (and to derive insights and lessons learned), based on how effective those decisions are deemed to be."-- Provided by publisher
Understanding the Limits of Artificial Intelligence for Warfighters
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n the 2010s, rapid progress in artificial intelligence (AI) for game-playing inspired intense interest in the possible benefits of the technology for playing wargames. Advocates suggested that AI might make wargames more effective or make it possible to apply wargames to novel problems. This report presents an assessment of the limits to applying AI technologies to wargaming and opportunities for future investments to productively employ AI in wargames.
This report is the fourth in a five-volume series addressing how AI could be employed to assist warfighters in four distinct areas: cybersecurity, predictive maintenance, wargames, and mission planning. It is aimed at those with an interest in wargaming, the history of AI use in wargames, and the application of AI more generally.
A Wargame Method for Assessing Risk and Resilience of Military Command-And-Control Organizations
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any recent wargames conducted by the joint community have examined alternative organizational structures for operational-level command and control (C2) in a scenario. However, wargames typically role-play and exercise the roles, responsibilities, and authorities of a prescribed C2 organizational structure in the scenario rather than compare and contrast alternative structures in a rigorous manner. This report provides a "how-to" guide for conducting a C2 risk and resilience (C2R2) tabletop exercise (TTX). The C2R2 TTX is a wargaming method that RAND researchers developed and can be used to compare and contrast alternative organizational structures for operational-level C2 in terms of associated risks to operational outcomes and the organizational structures' resilience to those risks.
Wargaming for Leaders: Strategic Decision Making from the Battlefield to the Boardroom
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Wargaming for Leaders provides a methodology to get at the issues that one leader, no matter how visionary, cannot grasp on his or her own. How? By bringing together the real experts on the topic at hand to wage “cognitive warfare.” Through tapping the collective wisdom surrounding an issue, experts can experience the future in a risk-free environment and find answers to questions that had not been on their radar--often with unexpected and startling results.
Wargaming Handbook
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The Wargaming Handbook describes how wargaming can be used to explore issues at the national strategic, strategic, operational and tactical levels and across all operational domains. It discusses how wargaming can be applied to education and training, planning and executive decision-making. It is designed principally to introduce the topic.
War Plan Orange: the U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945
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Based on twenty years of research in formerly secret archives, this book reveals for the first time the full significance of War Plan Orange-the U.S. Navy's strategy to defeat Japan, formulated over the forty years prior to World War II.
Zones of Control: perspectives on wargaming
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Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game history. This volume fills that gap, providing a diverse set of perspectives on wargaming's past, present, and future. In Zones of Control, contributors consider wargames played for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts. They consider both digital and especially tabletop games, most of which cover specific historical conflicts or are grounded in recognizable real-world geopolitics. Game designers and players will find the historical and critical contexts often missing from design and hobby literature; military analysts will find connections to game design and the humanities; and academics will find documentation and critique of a sophicated body of cultural work in which the the complexity of military conflict is represented in lucid systems and procedures. Topics include the history of playing at war; operations research and systems design; wargaming and military history; wargaming's ethics and politics; gaming irregular and nonkinetic warfare; and wargames as artistic practice.