Global Title X Series '13: Game Report

Abstract

The Chief of Naval Operations' (CNO's) annual Title 10 War Game (also known as Global) conducted at the Naval War College (NWC) has become a primary venue for exploring emerging concepts. This year's effort is a continuation of the NWC War Gaming Department's examination of the Air-Sea Battle (ASB) concept. The 2012 Global War Game concluded that current command and control (C2) structures at the operational level of war may be inadequate to effectively execute cross-domain operations as envisioned by the concept. While the ASB concept outlines the need to command and control 'cross-domain operations' which are joint, networked and integrated, no organizational structure is proposed. The concept only suggests that any suitable structure must be capable of tight, real-time coordination. At the direction of the CNO and the ASB Office, the 2013 Global War Game explored the C2 of combined forces while executing cross-domain operations in a high-intensity AntiAccess/Area Denial (A2/AD) environment. This event followed two workshops conducted earlier in the year: a C2 Requirements Workshop held in the spring and a C2 Options Workshop held in the early summer. The results of both events informed the design and development of the capstone event. The 2013 Global War Game was conducted in September and brought together 72 players, 39 observers, and 19 flag officers and general officers from the joint and international community to examine and refine candidate C2 systems (consisting of both organizational structure and functional processes). Three candidate C2 systems were examined, consisting of a traditional model using functional component commanders, and two novel approaches developed during the C2 Options Workshop: one based on a "Domain Commander" and another based on a "Cross-Domain Commander."

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 11, 2014
Accession Number
AD1148971

Entities

People

  • Don Marrin
  • Walter Berbrick

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Combat Operations
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Computer Networks
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Control Systems
  • Cross Domain
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Deployment
  • Employment
  • Geographic Regions
  • Information Warfare
  • Intelligence Cycle
  • Joint Military Activities
  • Military Science
  • Organizational Structure
  • Situational Awareness
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control