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Near Future Science-Fiction Crisis NSDM: National Security Decision Making Game
Fast-paced version of NSDMG's geopolitical-military RPG. It's the world of today or 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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- Thurs 46 tickets
- Fri 31 tickets
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Doomsday Scenario NSDM: National Security Decision Making 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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- Sat 53 tickets
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Contemporary NSDM The Cutting Edge of Europe Scenario MegaGame
Geopolitical-military-economic RPG, players taking senior positions in a real nation. Scenario: War in the East. Fate of Russia, Ukraine, evolution & role of NATO in 21st Century. Good luck with that.
- Wed 0 tickets
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- Sat 52 tickets
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ColdWar-1960s Sci-Fi Variant NSDM MegaGame
Sci-Fi variant of the geopolitical-military-economic RPG set in the 1960s. You're a superpower leader. Just history as we know it, but then some peculiar things happen. Fix it. Or exploit it.
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- Fri 36 tickets
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Contemporary NSDM: National Security Decision Making MegaGame
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.
- Wed 3 tickets
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Near Future Science-Fiction NSDM: National Security Decision Making MegaGame
Near-future variant of the geopolitical, military and economic role-playing game. Crazed dictators, space pirates, environmental crises, malignant AI, genetic breakthroughs, and other surprises.
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- Thurs 2 tickets
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American Revolution Crisis, a National Security Decision Making (NSDM) MegaGame
What brought American colonists from being loyal British subjects to revolution in 10 years? Role play events leading to Revolution from their perspective. Geopolitical-military RPG by NSDMG staff.
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RPG Design: Modeling the American Revolution
NSDM team's new American Revolution Game. Insights creating RPG model. Essential & flexible factual/counterfactual injects, roles, outcomes, keeping it credible. Moderator Jason Corner, lead designer.
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- Sat 109 tickets
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Reactors & War Zones: Fact v Fiction, Demagoguery
Russians overrun Europe’s largest nuclear reactor site. Shells fall in sites' perimeters. Media sensationalize doom. The real risk, what's been done. Capt. Mark McDonagh, USN/ret., on NSDM staff.
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- Thurs 97 tickets
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Type XXI U-boat, Guppy, Whisky & Early Cold War Underwater
With WW II over, US wanted hunter-killer subs, Soviets wanted subs that could cut Atlantic supply lines. Both adapted German Type XXI U-boat technology. Capt. Mark McDonagh, USN/ret., on NSDM staff.
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- Thurs 96 tickets
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1948, a Year of Big Changes: 75th Anniversary, National Security Decision Making (NSDM) Panel
Panel discusses year of "big deal" stuff that shapes us: Tojo et. Al. executed adds closure to WW2, but Cold War firming, Berlin, Koreas; Gandhi assassination/India; Israel formed, war. NSDM staff.
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- Fri 94 tickets
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Cuban Missile Crisis-How it MIGHT Have Gone Down
Cuban Missile Crisis: tense, some of what we are taught is mythology. Discusses real, potential war triggers and what a war in 1962 would have looked like. Capt. Mark McDonagh, USN/ret., NSDM staff.
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- Fri 90 tickets
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American Revolution, Worldwide War 1781-1783
American Revolution, Worldwide War 1781-1783, Sinews of War#2. Examines levers of power used by France, Spain, Indigenous & International actors in 2nd stage of conflict. By Merle Robinson, NSDM staff
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- Fri 89 tickets
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Global Hotspots 2023
The National Security Decision Making Game staff reviews recent changes and things to watch next year, including hotspots: China, Europe, Iran, Israel, Russia, North Korea. What's CNN missing?
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- Sat 89 tickets
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American Revolution, Land & Naval Strategy 1775-1783
American Revolution, Land & Naval Strategy 1775-1783, Sinews of War#3. Examines land & naval strategies on five fronts: Europe, India, East Indies, West Indies, Americas. By Merle Robinson, NSDM staff
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- Fri 87 tickets
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Boston Tea Party 250 Years Ago: Roots, Outcomes
Boston Tea Party as a root of the Revolution. The basis for event. What were the causes, what happened that night, and what were the consequences. Capt. Mark McDonagh, USN/ret., on NSDM staff.
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- Fri 81 tickets
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American Revolution, Rebels & Redcoats 1774-1781
American Revolution, Rebels & Redcoats 1774-1781, Sinews of War#1. Examines levers of power used by Colonials, England, Allies, mercenaries in 1st stage of conflict. Merle Robinson of the NSDM staff.
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- Thurs 80 tickets
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Electromagnetic Pulse, Potential, Fact v Fiction
EMP history, mechanism, worst-case potential. Capt. Mark McDonagh, USN/ret., a physicist with 12 years' Naval War College experience and currently on NSDM staff, separates fact from science fiction.
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- Thurs 71 tickets
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Drones and Robotics in Modern Warfare
Recent drone use in Ukraine & elsewhere. Synergy of drones, robotics and AI. What drones can do, combat, surveillance, auxiliary missions, the way forward. By Merle Robinson, NSDM staff.
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- Thurs 67 tickets
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Radiological Weapons, Exposure, Physiological Effects
Accidents, weapons: radiation is real, but effects dramatized or fictionalized? Fact v fiction, potential. Capt. Mark McDonagh, USN/ret., physicist, 12 years' Naval War College experience, NSDM staff
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- Thurs 48 tickets
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Chernobyl, Fact vs Fiction, Drama, Demagoguery
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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- Fri 43 tickets
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Future of Ukraine & Eastern Europe
Future of Ukraine & Eastern Europe. A discussion of current events & next five years in Eastern Europe from the Arctic to the Mediterranean. By Merle Robinson of the NSDM staff.
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- Sat 38 tickets
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