ICYMI - My latest video on What does That Piece Do? covers @sebastianbae 's first installment of Littoral Commander: Indo-Pacific. Available now from The Dietz Foundation.
https://dietzfoundation.org/shop/
Learn this game and be ready for the next release - Littoral Commander: The Baltic coming in 2024!
"Bae’s biggest achievement is finding ways to integrate the six joint functions across air, maritime, land, space, and cyber units without bogging down play."
For USNI Proceedings, Master Sergeant Joseph “Jay” Arnold reviewed my Littoral Commander: Indo-Pacific wargame.
https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2023/july/littoral-commander-indo-pacific
Listen to this episode from The Operational Arch on Spotify. Season 1, Episode 14 of the Operational Arch. This is part two of our conversation with guest Mr. Sebastian Bae where he talks about Wargaming and its utility to military planning and training. In this episode, Sebastian explains how to integrate board games into your units training. He also talks about the processes of incorporating moral, ethical, and diverse decision making into board game design. Mr. Bae is an adjunct assistant professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Strategic Studies. He serves as the co-chair of the Military Operation Research Society (MORS) Wargaming Community of Practice. Formerly Sebastian served six years in the U.S. Marine Corps infantry and deployed to Iraq in 2009. He is the developer of the game Littoral Commander, and has been published in War on the Rocks, Strategy Bridge, Task and Purpose, The Diplomat, and Georgetown Security Studies Review. His professional focus is wargaming, emerging technologies, future warfighting concepts, and strategy and doctrine for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps. Links to Mr. Bae’s Publications: - Put Educational Wargaming in the Hands of the Warfighter. https://shorturl.at/dqsGH - Promise Unfulfilled: A Brief History of Educational Wargaming in the Marine Corps. https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/JAMS_Fall2021_12_2_web.pdf - Forging Wargamers. https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/Forging%20Wargamers_web.pdf MAJs Josh Bedingfield, Kesley Kurtz, and Dan Warner are the hosts for this episode. You can contact them at [email protected] with any questions you may have. School of Advanced Military Studies: https://armyuniversity.edu/CGSC/SAMS/SAMS Twitter: https://twitter.com/us_sams Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/us.sams/ Intro and Outro Music: "On and On" by Christian Bedingfield
"...the exercise will produce reams of data to be picked over and analyzed by the non-profit research group Center for Naval Analyses."
This is one of the many reasons I love my job at CNA -- analysis that bridges policy to tactical action.
ABOARD AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER – Fresh from a training exercise off the coast of Virginia, the Navy’s second oldest carrier is getting minor repairs while moored at Naval Station Norfolk, Va. But just below the flight deck of USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69), the staff of Carrier Strike Group 2 was fighting …
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