ARGUS / Wargaming
Play it forward. Learn from the decisions.
A useful wargame makes the reasoning visible. Connect scenario design, orders, adjudication, and review so participants can examine how choices and assumptions shaped the outcome.
The question
What changes when the plan, the opponent, or the assumptions change?
Exercise designers, instructors, analysts, and teams exploring concepts and courses of action.
From question
to review.
Build the scenario
Establish the operational question, forces, geography, and conditions. Define what participants should learn.
Commit the decisions
Develop orders and explore alternatives through turn-based play, including instructor-controlled Red variations.
Inspect adjudication
Review what happened and the assumptions behind it. Preserve the distinction between adjudicated results and historical observations.
Review and brief
Trace the decisions into an after-action review. Use the record to explain the differences between approaches.
What to examine
- A structured scenario and decision sequence
- Alternatives with their assumptions attached
- An after-action discussion grounded in the game record
The value of an analytical game comes from the question it explores and the reasoning it exposes. The team can walk through scenario authoring, orders, adjudication, and review against your intended learning objectives.
A closer look
Is a wargame outcome the same as a forecast?
No. A game explores decisions under a particular set of rules and assumptions. Its lessons need to be interpreted in that context.
Who controls the analysis?
People do. Participants make decisions; instructors and analysts review the scenario, assumptions, adjudication, and conclusions.
Bring the question.
Examine it with us.
Tell us what decision you need to support. We will focus the conversation on the relevant workflow, evidence, and outputs.