Contemporary FastPlay National Security Decision Making Game
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Geopolitical-military role-playing game, players taking senior positions in a real nation. It’s the world of today. Here are the real issues, & some big problems looming. Can you fix it? Start now.
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Geopolitical, military and economic role-playing game. Players take senior leadership positions in a real-world nation. Here’s the game: “You players are the politicians. You over there, you’re the Cabinet. You folks over by the big maps are the military leadership. Here’s your country; you’ve heard of it, it’s not fictional, it’s real, and so are its problems. The scenario is: it’s the world as you know it today. Here are the real issues. Here are some big, looming problems. Fix them. Start now.” Do you feel up to the job? New countries, issues and problems in every game. Presented by the National Security Decision Making Game staff.
Cuban Missile Crisis National Security Decision Making Game: Washington Wobblies
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Role play the Cuban Missile Crisis from the perspective of JFK & his staff. Despite Soviet assurances, they put offensive nuclear missiles in Cuba. Do you attack? Negotiate? Threaten? Mobilize?
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October 1962: reconnaissance flights photographed Soviet ballistic missiles being made ready in Cuba and indications of a huge build-up of Soviet forces on that imprisoned island, despite Soviet assurances that the relationship was economic only. These missiles carry nuclear warheads, are in range of all major US population centers and are unstoppable after launch. How do you respond to the most massive Russian overseas military deployment in history, targeted directly at you? Take a role in the senior US staff, such as JFK, Curtis Lemay and Robert McNamara. Find a path that advances our national objectives AND leaves us alive. A new, exciting, fast-paced interactive game presented by the National Security Decision Making (NSDM) Game staff, intended to entertain while maybe even teaching something. Two-hour fast action variant of NSDM’s political-military simulation. Limited attendance.
National Security Decision Making Cold War Crisis Game
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Fast-paced 2-hour version of NSDMG’s geopolitical-military RPG. You are a key decision maker in a major nation. It's the 1960s & world is a tinderbox. You’re called in after hours. What’s wrong now?
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Take a role in a senior leadership position in the US, USSR, PRC, UK, Israel or Cuba, presented with a crisis that might have been very real in the 1960s. Everything’s normal, meaning normal tensions and madness, then you’re called in after-hours and learn that everything’s no longer normal, not by a long shot. Find a path that advances national objectives AND leaves us alive. A new, two-hour, fast-action variant of National Security Decision Making (NSDM) Game’s geopolitical-military simulation intended to entertain while maybe even teaching something. Different scenarios every game: pandemics, wars, natural disasters, unnatural disasters. Can you do better than their generation? Presented by the National Security Decision Making Game staff.
National Security Decision Making Contemporary Crisis Game
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Fast-paced 2-hour version of NSDMG’s geopolitical-military RPG. You are a key decision maker for a major nation. It's the world as you know it. You’re called in after hours. What’s wrong now?
Description:
Take a role in a senior leadership position in the US, China, Russia, or other major power, presented with a crisis that might be tomorrow’s real-world headline. It’s the world as you know it, everything’s normal, then you’re called in after-hours and learn that everything’s no longer normal, not by a long shot. Find a path that advances national objectives AND leaves us alive. A new, two-hour, fast-action variant of National Security Decision Making (NSDM) Game’s geopolitical-military simulation intended to entertain while maybe even teaching something. Different scenarios every game: pandemics, wars, natural disasters, unnatural disasters. Can you do better than the self-described geniuses in Washington, Moscow, Beijing, etc.? Presented by the National Security Decision Making Game staff.
National Security Decision Making Contemporary Crisis Game
Summary:
Fast-paced 2-hour version of NSDMG’s geopolitical-military RPG. You are a key decision maker for a major nation. It's the world as you know it. You’re called in after hours. What’s wrong now?
Description:
Take a role in a senior leadership position in the US, China, Russia, or other major power, presented with a crisis that might be tomorrow’s real-world headline. It’s the world as you know it, everything’s normal, then you’re called in after-hours and learn that everything’s no longer normal, not by a long shot. Find a path that advances national objectives AND leaves us alive. A new, two-hour, fast-action variant of National Security Decision Making (NSDM) Game’s geopolitical-military simulation intended to entertain while maybe even teaching something. Different scenarios every game: pandemics, wars, natural disasters, unnatural disasters. Can you do better than the self-described geniuses in Washington, Moscow, Beijing, etc.? Presented by the National Security Decision Making Game staff.
National Security Decision Making Contemporary Crisis Game
Summary:
Fast-paced 2-hour version of NSDMG’s geopolitical-military RPG. You are a key decision maker for a major nation. It's the world as you know it. You’re called in after hours. What’s wrong now?
Description:
Take a role in a senior leadership position in the US, China, Russia, or other major power, presented with a crisis that might be tomorrow’s real-world headline. It’s the world as you know it, everything’s normal, then you’re called in after-hours and learn that everything’s no longer normal, not by a long shot. Find a path that advances national objectives AND leaves us alive. A new, two-hour, fast-action variant of National Security Decision Making (NSDM) Game’s geopolitical-military simulation intended to entertain while maybe even teaching something. Different scenarios every game: pandemics, wars, natural disasters, unnatural disasters. Can you do better than the self-described geniuses in Washington, Moscow, Beijing, etc.? Presented by the National Security Decision Making Game staff.
National Security Decision Making Doomsday Scenario Game
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Fast-paced 2-hour version of NSDMG’s geopolitical-military RPG in a simple, intense, "friendly" game of international thuggery, intrigue, tricks and mayhem.
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Find out how a near future World War Three situation can become fast and deadly. Bring your imagination for a freewheeling game of international war/peace where you vie for power as decision-maker within your nation and the world in a near-future scenario. Political, Military, Nuclear, Biological and Cyber capabilities all are part of the fun. We promise opportunities for unlimited mischief, unparalleled carnage, and a final result where the living might envy the dead. Presented by the National Security Decision Making Game staff.
National Security Decision Making Doomsday Scenario Game
Summary:
Fast-paced 2-hour version of NSDMG’s geopolitical-military RPG in a simple, intense, "friendly" game of international thuggery, intrigue, tricks and mayhem.
Description:
Find out how a near future World War Three situation can become fast and deadly. Bring your imagination for a freewheeling game of international war/peace where you vie for power as decision-maker within your nation and the world in a near-future scenario. Political, Military, Nuclear, Biological and Cyber capabilities all are part of the fun. We promise opportunities for unlimited mischief, unparalleled carnage, and a final result where the living might envy the dead. Presented by the National Security Decision Making Game staff.
Pandemic: Might the World End with a Whimper? Fact v Fiction, History, Near-Term Potential
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A global pandemic can bring down civilization, but how much is fiction? Crowded third-world cities; global transportation; new, resistant strains of old scourges; engineered bioterrorist weapons.
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A pandemic could collapse civilization, perhaps even destroy mankind. With third-world cities with enormous populations, primitive sanitation and health service infrastructures as an incubator, and modern transportation systems to spread new strains, a catastrophic event could be a matter of when, not if. Ebola; uncontrolled Small Pox; new, resistant strains of old scourges; engineered, weaponized agents; bioterrorism potential. These provide fertile ground for science fiction authors and screenplay writers, but what is the realistic potential of an apocalyptic pandemic? Lecture discusses pandemic history, current threats and readiness to respond, attempting to separate fact and potential from fiction and fancy. Presenter: Capt. Mark McDonagh, USN/ret., a submarine officer with 12 years’ experience at the Naval War College and with BS and MS degrees in physics, now on the NSDMG staff.
This lecture provides a quick overview of the Cold War period in terms of themes, influences, & significant events. It provides a background into the competition between the U.S. and USSR.
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The Cold War was a period of change in the international system. Highlighted by competition between the US and USSR along ideological, economic and military lines, other events and influences affecting the current international system emerged from the Cold War. International and Supranational Organizations emerged: UN, IMF, World Bank, WTO (formerly GATT), EU. Decolonization and externalities emerging from breakdown of European empires set the stage for current ethnic and religious violence. Lastly, the period provided foundations for modern globalization: technological linkages between people and development of transportation systems reduced spatial distances, setting up potential for conflicts within the system. Presenter: Dr. Craig Greathouse, Professor of Political Science specializing in the EU, International Relations Theory and Security and Defense Policy, now on the NSDMG staff.