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Allied Command Transformation Engages in Audacious Wargaming Activities to Refine the Alliance’s Military Instrument of Power [1]

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Date: 2023-07 

Allied Command Transformation is actively developing its Audacious Wargaming Capability, deepening the Alliance’s shared understanding of wargaming and leveraging wargames to ensure its Military Instrument of Power is fit for the future.

Allied Command Transformation is working to develop its Audacious Wargaming Capability as part of its effort to better understand the challenges facing the Alliance’s Military Instrument of Power. It also seeks to enhance engagement and cooperation with stakeholders to refine NATO’s understanding and use of wargaming to enable it to remain at the forefront of warfare development. In doing so, these efforts support NATO’s goal of becoming a Multi-Domain Operations-enabled Alliance by identifying opportunities and vulnerabilities that can then be leveraged and mitigated, respectively, in and across all domains.

As part of these efforts, the Experimentation and Wargaming Branch is undertaking a comprehensive program of work aimed at developing the capabilities and enablers required to deliver a cutting-edge wargaming experience. Within the NATO enterprise, this has resulted in a focus on the development of digital wargaming tools in partnership with the Modelling, Simulation, and Learning Technologies Branch, as well as virtual and in-person education programs. These wargaming education programs have led to the creation of a dedicated online wargaming training course, and the delivery of a wargaming practitioner’s course at the NATO School in Oberammergau, Germany.

Recent wargaming efforts have focused on the completion and publication of the NATO Wargaming Handbook as well as the development of a wargaming network with Nations and academia. The Handbook, scheduled to be completed in late 2023, is currently under development by the two NATO Strategic Commands to standardize game types and nomenclature. This effort aims to provide a common understanding of wargaming between Allies and inform partner nations by supporting multi-national wargaming through the Multinational Capability Development Campaign. Similarly, the development of a wargaming network seeks to deepen the Alliance’s shared knowledge through collaboration with leaders in the field. To this end, Allied Command Transformation will be collaborating with King’s College London to co-host NATO’s first practitioner-level wargaming conference in May. It is also co-leading the 2023 Wargaming Initiative for NATO with Italy, France, and Germany in June to expose senior NATO military and civilian officials to future wargaming practices and technologies.

The Audacious Wargaming Capability will become more comprehensive in the coming years, with the goal of developing a formalized program of work and fully exploiting the capabilities of its wargaming network. Early signs of progress in this area can be seen in the future-focused wargames currently under development. In cooperation with the Cyber Branch, the Experimentation and Wargaming Branch is working on a concept for a strategic-level Cyber wargame to be played by NATO Permanent Representatives in 2024 with the goal of identifying the opportunities and challenges facing NATO in this domain. The Branch is also working with the NATO Science and Technology Organization and academia to build on the 2023 Alliance Space Deterrence Framework Wargame through a series of wargames tentatively planned to take place over the next two years. These games seek to increase the ‘Space Intelligence Quotient’ of NATO Permanent Representatives by providing them an opportunity to explore space-related threats in a ‘safe-to-fail’ environment.

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