The Information Warfighter Exercise Wargame: Player's Guide
Abstract
The Marine Corps Information Operations Center (MCIOC) conducts an Information Warfighter Exercise (IWX) - an event designed to provide training on operations in the information environment (IOE) - one to two times per year. MCIOC asked RAND to help develop a structured wargame for IWX with a formal adjudication process. This document contains the ruleset developed, play tested, and implemented during the 2020 IWX cycle. The IWX wargame is an opposed event in which two teams of players compete in and through the information environment to better support their respective sides in a notional scenario. Teams represent an Information Operations Working Group (IOWG) or information related Operational Planning Team (OPT), or its adversary force equivalent, as dictated by the scenario. During the game, each team generates a plan for OIE, and players are then called on to add details to their plan, amend that plan dynamically in response to in-game events, prepare discrete game actions as part of plan execution, and make cogent arguments in favor of their teams actions and against the actions of the opposed team. A panel of expert judges uses a structured process and a random element (dice) to adjudicate the success or failure of actions drawn from the players' plans.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2021
- Accession Number
- AD1145930
Entities
People
- Ben Connable
- Christopher Edward Paul
- Jim Mcneive
- Jonathan Welch
Organizations
- RAND Corporation