Network Digital Twins for 21st Century Wargaming

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Effective integration of professional wargaming in military force design, education, and training will be essential to charting our course in an era of strategic fluidity and rapid change. Wargaming is a set of tools for structured thinking about military problems within a competitive framework in the presence of that “thinking enemy” who lies at the heart of our doctrinal understanding of war. Successful military innovations of the past, from our own naval services’ development of amphibious warfare doctrine to Tukhachevsky’s formulation of “Deep Battle,” rested on a foundation of properly integrated wargaming. Effective wargaming must be harnessed within an integrated process of generating tangible, defensible results. Generating these high-fidelity results for 21st century wargames require accurate modeling of networks and their behavior to correctly predict scenario outcomes.