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cna talks: Playing a Wargame

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In part two of our occasional series on wargaming, CNA’s chief wargame designer Jeremy Sepinsky returns, accompanied by Chris Steinitz, director of CNA’s North Korea program, to discuss what it’s like to play a CNA Wargame. Jeremy describes the different players in a wargame, emphasizing the value of people with operational experience who can accurately represent how military leaders would make decisions. Jeremy and Chris lay out the differences between playing Blue team and Red team. They also take us down the “road to war,” describing how the wargaming team lays out the scenario that starts the game.  Finally, Chris and Jeremy take us through the player’s decisions and how the results of a turn are adjudicated.

North Korea program. He has managed and contributed to studies of North Korea’s strategic calculus, the role of nuclear weapons in North Korea’s evolving national strategy, Kim Jong-un’s use

story-of-cna

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of the 1950s, the Soviet Union’s stockpile of nuclear weapons would multiply from 5 to more than 1,600 warheads. Busy with the task of assisting the Navy in deterring this threat, OEG would grow steadily ... wing and weapons group to prepare an “exercise” with nuclear weapons loaded. “Think of what we might be missing,” the admiral charged DePoy. While pilots were briefed on their targets and the crew ... to carrier advising weapons planners — steeped in nuclear weaponry — on conventional strike planning. Before long, dozens of CNA analysts were working on problems emanating from Vietnam, many of them