Collins Center Update. Volume 13, Issue 2, January-March 2011
Abstract
From 2-9 March 2011, the U.S. Army War College (USAWC) resident class participated in the Strategic Decision Making Exercise 2011 (SDME 11), a faculty-led political-military decisionmaking exercise designed to provide students the opportunity, while roleplaying strategic leaders and staffs, to integrate and apply knowledge acquired in the USAWC core curriculum. SDME 11 was a joint and multinational exercise that included political and military play at the high operational and strategic levels, all set in the year 2025. It was intended to place students in a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous virtual environment, aided by appropriate information technology tools and models, in which they applied service and joint doctrine within the framework of the interagency, military contingency planning and execution, military resourcing, and multinational coordination processes. Students developed strategic policy recommendations for employing the diplomatic, informational, military, and economic elements of power, while considering multiple scenarios. The scenarios, which spanned each Geographic Combatant Command's area of responsibility, included major combat operations, lesser contingencies, stability operations, global terrorism, disaster relief, and humanitarian assistance.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2011
- Accession Number
- ADA541028
Entities
Organizations
- United States Army War College