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The course included 26 participants from ten different NATO and EU nations and is the first step in building a lasting relationship with NPS. The participants then developed an education wargame focused on better educating HCOE member nations on hybrid operations. The workshops focused on providing a better understanding of hybrid operations to participants. The Director and her team reached out to the Wargaming Center to support their efforts to develop a broader understanding of hybrid warfare among all the participants through wargaming.
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The HCOE is the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats and currently supports 29 member nations.
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The NWSI Wargaming Center Mobile Education Team (Jeff Appleget and Rob Burks) just completed two weeks (10 – 27 SEP) of wargaming workshops for the NATO/EU Hybrid Centre of Excellence (HCOE). The workshop is focused on a wargame that the sponsoring organization needs to conduct, and by the end of the 40 hours the students conduct that wargame as a graduation exercise. Leading students through a wargaming workshop as they are learning basic wargaming fundamentals.Training a cadre of the organization’s personnel as analytic wargamers who can design, develop, conduct and analyze wargames for their command.The BAWC provides two benefits to the sponsoring organization: The BAWC is a 5-day course (40 contact hours) built around hands-on practical exercises coordinated with the sponsoring organization. The NPS Wargaming Mobile Education Team (MET) stood up in 2011 to provide organizations the opportunity to educate a wargaming cadre to design, develop, conduct and analyze wargames through the Basic Analytic Wargaming Course (BAWC). Support, advice, and assistance from NPS wargaming experts as organizations stand up inherent wargaming capabilities and capacities.The opportunity to sponsor an NPS student wargaming team to design, develop, conduct and analyze a wargame for their organization in the 11-week resident course.Access to wargaming education through the NPS Wargaming Mobile Education Team (MET).Provide the Department of Defense, allies and defense partners access to the unique wargaming capabilities of the Naval Postgraduate School students and faculty.