Empowering Through Automation
I would first like to express my appreciation for the opportunity to talk to you about some of the work I have been doing over the last ten years integrating technology (primarily software) into US defense wargaming- primarily for OSD Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (OSD CAPE) and also more recently United States Marine Corps. Today I will be talking about a software engine I designed almost 10 years ago now.
Revitalizing Wargaming is Necessary to Be Prepared for Future Wars
REVITALIZING WARGAMING IS NECESSARY TO BE PREPARED FOR FUTURE WARS
Few historical periods match the dynamic technological disruption of the inter-war years of the 1920s and 1930s. During these decades, militaries the world over struggled to adapt to new inventions such as radar and sonar, as well as rapid improvements in wireless communications, mechanization, aviation, aircraft carriers, submarines, and a host of other militarily relevant technologies. Military planners and theorists intuitively understood that all these new technologies, systems, and advances would drive new ways of fighting, but they were forced to envision what future battlefields would look like with few clues to go by.