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Managing ICS as the Incident Commander by Roger Mason PhD Introduction Your organization has trained for years preparing for a major disaster. You have been trained as an Incident Commander overseeing the emergency operations center. While you understand the broad concepts, you are uncertain about the nuts and bolts of managing a critical incident. This…
LECMgt 2021: A Year in Review So, what does an organization with a long history of traveling the world do when they are locked down. How can they solve their client’s problems during the second year of a worldwide pandemic? You can sit on the couch in your reception area waiting for things to improve.…
Operational Wargaming: A Cautionary Tale by Roger Mason PhD Introduction There has always been an attraction to operational wargaming. Throughout history, wargames have been used to prepare, refine planning, and solve problems during operations. Wargaming is a valuable practice in business, political, and military affairs. Practitioners have attempted to use them to prove results,…
Designing Public Safety Games and Tabletop Exercises by Roger Mason PhD Introduction Public Safety organizations employ tabletop style exercises to train their personnel. These exercises provide a flexible and cost-effective system to simulate a variety of critical incidents. This article will discuss how to design tabletop exercises and the next level of simulation complexity, wargames.…
Commercial Wargames and Experiential Learning by Roger Mason PhD Introduction Albert Einstein is credited with the quote “Imagination is better than knowledge.” Knowledge can provide immediate answers, but imagination provides a horizon where the knowledge can be employed. This is certainly true with wargames. I do not believe that wargames are necessarily predictive, but they…
LECMgt 2020: A year in review Introduction 2020 has been a unique experience for all of us. The year began in a familiar fashion with a list of projects waiting to begin. By March, it was clear that nothing we had planned was going to occur as we expected. Contracts were canceled or indefinitely delayed.…
Wargaming Hybrid Warfare Part III: Complexity, Networks, and Emergence by Roger Mason PhD Introduction For the past few years, there has been a debate among wargame designers. Is the design process art or a science? There are very capable designers on both sides of the argument. Science provides organization and facilitates analysis. However, I believe…
Wargaming Hybrid Warfare Part II: Modeling Time Action by Roger Mason PhD Introduction Author’s Note; This article is part two in my examination of wargaming hybrid warfare. The New OODA Loop I recently spoke at a webinar. Afterward, I was asked if hybrid warfare was the new OODA Loop? Col. John Boyd developed the OODA…