Successful Professional Wargames A Practitioners Handbook

Author : John Curry
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9780244803643
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Successful Professional Wargames: A Practitioner's Handbook written by John Curry and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You will benefit from this book if you are a practitioner of the art of serious wargaming. Done well, the simple act of putting players in an immersive environment, asking them to make decisions and then face the consequences of those in a dynamically evolving narrative generates astounding insights and internalises learning objectives. Yet, as Clausewitz said of war, everything in wargaming is simple, but doing the simplest thing is difficult. This book explains the seemingly simple. It is a detailed guide to designing and delivering successful wargames, whether you apply the technique to Defence, other government departments, business, the emergency services, academia or humanitarian operations. This is important because good wargames save money but, first and foremost, they save lives.

Author : Jeffrey Appleget
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1682473775
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Craft of Wargaming written by Jeffrey Appleget and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Built around the analytic wargaming construct, organizations or individuals can easily adapt this methodology to construct educational and experiential wargames. The book breaks the wargame creation process into five distinct phases: Initiate, Design, Develop, Conduct, and Analyze. For each phase, the authors identify key tasks a wargaming team must address to have a reasonable chance at designing, developing, conducting, and analyzing a successful wargame. While these five stages are critical to the process of constructing any wargame, it should be understood that the craft of wargaming is learned through active participation, not by reading or watching. This craft must be practiced as part of the learning process, and the included practical exercises provide an opportunity to experience the construction of an analytical wargame. The authors also discuss critical supervisory tasks that are essential to manage the wargaming team's efforts. While the creators are focused on the design and development of the game itself, supervisors must set conditions for the wargame to be a success (best practices) and beware of the pitfalls that may set the wargame up to fail (worst practices). The book demonstrates using the analytical wargaming framework to create relevant and useful planning wargames. It also reinforces using the analytical wargaming framework for seminar wargames that, without rigor, are useless. The book demonstrates the benefits of using the analytical wargaming process to design educational and experiential games.

Author : Mark L. Herman
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071596895
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wargaming for Leaders: Strategic Decision Making from the Battlefield to the Boardroom written by Mark L. Herman and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you had the opportunity to probe the future, make strategic choices, and view their consequences before making expensive and irretrievable decisions, wouldn't you take advantage of it? Of course you would. And in a world of asymmetrical conflict, security threats, intense global competition, and economic uncertainty, there is an even higher premium on road-testing plans and strategies--whether they're spearheaded by government organizations, transnational corporations, or emerging megacommunities. 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. With examples from the fields of military, corporate, and public policy, three wargaming developers from Booz Allen Hamilton deliver compelling insights on this problem-solving method, including fascinating details on how A large equipment manufacturer determined whether making a merger was strategically right for its business growth, as well as which technology investments it needed to drop A four-star U.S. general tested his war plan for Iraq and uncovered specific fixes that might have prevented a prolonged conflict An increasingly clogged air-traffic system faced a security-versus-convenience issue determined whether military airspace could be used during peak demand periods Wargaming allows organizations of every type and every size to organize information, plot out scenarios, and tap into the collective expertise of participants. The results allow everyone to identify and tackle obstacles, solve problems, and find new ways to innovate and further performance goals. Get ready for the battle of your organizational life--and prepare to reap the spoils of victory.

Author : Aggie Hirst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197629202
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics of Play written by Aggie Hirst and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-22 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the current century, games play a key role in many areas of our lives. Once thought frivolous and nerdy, videogames are now the leading global entertainment medium, and games are widely used in education, medicine, government...and war. Since 2014, the US government has directed the military to expand the use of wargames across their training, planning, and rehabilitation spheres. Combining original empirical data gathered at US military computer-assisted command post exercises (CPXs) and school-houses with a distinctive theory of immersive play, The Politics of Play offers a new critical analysis of the use of wargaming to produce soldiers in the digital age.

Author : Peter P. Perla
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870210501
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Wargaming written by Peter P. Perla and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author discusses fundamental principles and techniques governing the design and use of war games.

Author : James F. Dunnigan
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595155464
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wargames Handbook written by James F. Dunnigan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes origins of commercial wargames as well as how to play and design them.

Author : James F. Dunnigan
Publisher : William Morrow
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Wargames Handbook written by James F. Dunnigan and published by William Morrow. This book was released on 1992 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Matthew B. Caffrey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935352655
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Wargaming written by Matthew B. Caffrey and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The History and Theory of War Games throughout the United States and Internationally"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Christopher Paul
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781977407238
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Information Warfighter Exercise Wargame written by Christopher Paul and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document presents the full ruleset for the Information Warfighter Exercise Wargame, which is used by the Marine Corps to provide training for aspects of operations in the information environment.

Author : James F. Dunnigan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wargames Handbook, Third Edition written by James F. Dunnigan and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: