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Contemporary FastPlay National Security Decision Making Game
Geopolitical-military role-playing game, players taking senior positions in a real nation. It’s the world of today. Here are the real issues, and some big problems looming. Can you fix it? Start now.
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Cold War FastPlay National Security Decision Making Game
Cold War variant of the National Security Decision Making geopolitical-military RPG set in 1961. You’re a superpower leader. Just history, but then some potentially catastrophic events happen. Fix it.
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“Near Future” Science-Fiction FastPlay National Security Decision Making Game
Near-future variant of the geopolitical, military and economic role-playing game. Crazed dictators, pandemics, environmental crises, malignant AI, genetic breakthroughs, and other surprises.
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National Security Decision Making Doomsday Scenario Game
Fast-paced 2-hour version of NSDMG’s geopolitical-military RPG in a simple, intense, "friendly" game of international thuggery, intrigue, tricks and mayhem.
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“Near Future” Science-Fiction National Security Decision Making Contemporary Crisis Game
Fast-paced version of NSDMG’s geopolitical-military RPG. It’s the world just a few years from now. You’re a key leader in a major nation. You’re called in after hours. What’s wrong now?
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National Security Decision Making Cold War Crisis Game
Fast-paced 2-hour version of NSDMG’s geopolitical-military RPG. You are a key decision maker in a major nation. It's the 1960s and world is a tinderbox. You’re called in after hours. What’s wrong now?
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Getting Your Wargame Design Published in Strategy & Tactics
Learn how to get your historical or contemporary period wargame published by Decision Games: design guidelines, playtesting, artwork, legal aspects. Presented by "Doc" Cummins of Decision Games.
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On Wargaming, Part III: How Wargames Have Shaped History and How They May Shape the Future
Lecture: Toward More-Effective Wargaming. Presented by Colonel Matt Caffrey (USAF, ret.), the "Dean" of Air Force Wargaming.
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On Wargaming, Part II: How Wargames Have Shaped History and How They May Shape the Future
Lecture: The History of Wargaming since World War II. Presented by Colonel Matt Caffrey (USAF, ret.), the "Dean" of Air Force Wargaming.
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1944 Campaigns: Taking the Offensive (NSDM Panel)
Review of 1944 campaigns in recognition of the 75th anniversary of the Allies taking the offensive in all theaters Panel by the National Security Decision Making, Inc staff.
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Bleeding Kansas: Examining the Pre-cursor to War
Seminar/Demo: Examination of the politics and violence in Kansas in the pre-civil war period as reflected in "Bleeding Kansas" by Decision Games, with "Doc" Cummins of Decision Games.
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On Wargaming, Part I: How Wargames Have Shaped History and How They May Shape the Future
Lecture: The History of Wargaming from ancient times through World War II. Presented by Colonel Matt Caffrey (USAF, ret.), the "Dean" of Air Force Wargaming.
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Game Changers: Technology, Techniques & New Environments of Future Conflict (NSDM Lecture)
An overview of emerging tools, approaches, & fields that are entering into current and future military conflicts. Presenter: Merle Robinson, NSDM staff.
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Endless War Afghanistan (NSDM Lecture)
Modern Warfare contributor David March talks about the endless war in Afghanistan, the reasons behind the conflict and the way forward. Has Afghanistan become the new Philippines of America?
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2019 Global Hotspots Q&A (NSDM seminar)
National Security Decision Making Game staff led discussion of global hotspots, things to watch out for next year, including hotspots: China, Europe, Syria, Iran, Israel, Russia, & North Korea.
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War in the Mega Cities of the Future (NSDM Panel)
Overview of modern military thought on fighting in megacities. New technologies, UAVs, robots, AI, conventional, unconventional, future approaches. Panel by National Security Decision Making staff
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Contemporary Russia: Not our Friend (NSDM Panel)
Russia, evolving position, antics on the world stage. Russian policy changes over the last 10 years. Common ground and friction points with the West. Panel by National Security Decision Making staff
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Victory Through Wargame-Enhanced Innovation
How wargames assist with the advance of innovation. Evolution as tools for understanding the past and shaping the future. Presenter: Colonel Matt Caffrey (USAF, ret.), "Dean" of Air Force Wargaming.
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U-505, a Uniquely Unlucky Submarine; 75th Anniversary Of its Intact Capture (NSDM Lecture)
U-505 distinctions: 11 war patrols; sabotaged by French Resistance dockworkers; most damaged U-boat to return from patrol; one CO committed suicide; captured intact. Capt. Mark McDonagh, NSDM staff
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2019 Global Hotspots (NSDM lecture)
Join the National Security Decision Making Game staff to review recent changes & things to watch next year, including hotspots: China, Europe, Syria, Iran, Israel, Russia, & North Korea.
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Operation Market Garden - Was it really "A Bridge Too Far" (NSDM Lecture)
Operation Market Garden 75th anniversary. A look at the Allies most ambitious Airborne operation & evaluation of why it failed. By Mike Tucker, NSDM staff.
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Logistics: the Red Headed Stepchild of Wargaming
Lecture: An overview of the impact of logistics from ancient times to today with a view to how wargames have handled the subject poorly or well. Presented by Dr. George F. Nafziger (Captain/USN, ret)
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Military Geography of the Solar System (NSDM Panel)
Geography of war in space is dominated not by distance but by delta-v & sensors. How experience fighting on land, sea & air won't help. Panel by the National Security Decision Making staff.
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Strategic Thinkers (NSDM Lecture)
Clausewitz, Mahan, Mitchell & others, strategic thinkers we've heard of but few know what they really said. Talk on what historical strategists actually wrote. By Dr. Craig Greathouse, NSDM staff.
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Media and Meme Warfare Today (NSDM lecture)
Today's hidden wars between governments to influence public perception, from targeted disinformation campaigns to corporate databases that know and sell everything about you. Greg Maus, NSDM staff
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Chernobyl, What Really Happened, Separating Fact from Fiction, Drama and Demagoguery (NSDM lecture)
The story is generally told to stress drama or harangue over reactors, loose with facts. This gives the physics & engineering. CAPT Mark McDonagh, physicist, retired nuclear sub officer, NSDM staff.
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