by Warrior Maven
“We are going to survive doing tabular array hand wargames to run across what kinds of things nosotros volition ask inward our platforms to counter threats,” Maj. Gen. Cummings, Program Executive Officer, Ground Combat Systems, told Warrior inward an interview.
Wargames, according to senior Army officials who receive got utilisation inward them, pit friendly “blue” teams against “red” teams acting similar major adversaries. The practise tin involve maps, tidings data, terrain together with geographic factors every bit good every bit specifics regarding whatever populations or countries are involved. They are oftentimes literally on a tabular array hand amongst nearby computers, simulations together with methods of information analysis, or inward some cases they tin survive every bit large every bit moving structures on the flooring of a gymnasium.
“Through a serial of structured questions, you lot receive got leaders brand decisions. In a tabular array hand you lot acquire reactions. You may fifty-fifty receive got players that deed similar a local population. You seat it inward context of geopolitical together with tactical circumstance,” a senior Army official told Warrior inward an interview.
By emphasizing that these wargames would survive designed to position enemy threats, Cummings pointed to the importance of capturing, replicating or exactly mirroring the weapons, tactics, strategies together with strength construction of specific high-tech enemies.
While never exact, these kinds of wargames strive to closely estimate specific weapons systems, armored vehicles, missiles together with drones a especial enemy strength would have.
“If you lot tin create it based on real-world intel, hence you lot tin create it on grounded projections,” the senior official said.
What would it expect similar if a “red” strength took on the role of the Russian Army together with launched a massive air-ground invasion of the Baltics or other areas of Eastern Europe? The blueish squad would consist of Combatant Commanders making decisions inward response, piece taking Russian tanks, missiles, drones together with weapons into account.
A Rand Corporation Wargame took upwards this inquiry several years ago. The practise flora that Russian forces would speedily overwhelm NATO resistance inward the Baltics. The finding of this written report injure upwards beingness a decisive gene inward a the United States of America Army determination to post to a greater extent than troops to the region.
“How many scrap vehicles does an enemy have? Or let’s state an enemy has a bullet that goes yard miles - let’s wargame what that means,” the official said. “Just because their weapons may survive able to shoot a for sure range, that does non hateful they tin striking a target. What kinds of sensors create they have? What variety of network? “
Unlike estimator simulations which rely receive got to a greater extent than specifics embedded, wargames ameliorate address situations amongst to a greater extent than unknowns together with assumptions. Both wargames together with simulations are designed to testify an might to reply to specific actions together with attacks made past times a “red” strength playing the enemy role
“Wargames include evidence based analytics. Eventually you lot receive got to apply experience. You cannot only opine to a greater extent than or less a table,” the senior Army official explained.
For example, how should an Army reply if the enemy closes off a port, cuts of furnish lines or uses air assets to destroy long make weapons? The amount of equipment, details almost weapons capability together with the exact configuration of an enemy strength are replicated past times the wargame.
Wargaming offers 2 distinct theoretical models for decision-making, according to an assay from the School of Advanced Military Studies, Army Command together with General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
“One model is based upon enemy capabilities together with the other on enemy intentions,” according to the essay, titled “The Manual Wargaming Process: Does Our Current Method Give Us The Optimum Solution?”
Battle harm assessments are of swell significance inward wargames. For instance, what happens if large portions of a strength are wiped out past times an attacking enemy? What kinds of options does that locomote out a commander?
The wargames are designed to embrace the total make of cultural, economical together with geographical factors. For instance, some wargames receive got house inward the arctic, whereas others are inward the desert.
“After for sure battles inward Desert Storm, nosotros built a wargame on it. We used their actual tanks against our tanks,” the official said.
Interestingly, losing a wargame is seen every bit a swell development.
“If the reddish squad outdoes you lot or comes upwards amongst something you lot are non prepared for, I would telephone telephone that a successful wargame because you lot desire a world-class adversary. In this instance you lot larn something you lot did non know” the senior Army official said.
-- Osborn previously served at the Pentagon every bit a Highly Qualified Expert amongst the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army - Acquisition, Logistics & Technology.
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