Is wargaming worth the effort? After 4 years at the U.S. Army War College, Keith Burkepile moves from "maybe" to enthusiastic "yes." Wargames bridge the gap between classroom talk...
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Wes Daugherty argues that while writing clarifies how a leader thinks, it can’t test how they handle a thinking adversary. Wargaming bridges the gap between theory & execution, transforming...
The U.S. Army War College is breaking barriers between resident & distance learning. Christian Cook explains how the NSEC3 simulation now provides National Guard & Reserve students the same...
The USAWC is using AI to modernize wargaming. Inspired by 19th-century "Free Kriegsspiel" LLMs create detailed, realistic scenarios.
The USAWC's Joint Warfighting Program trains future leaders for complex conflicts. It aims to develop intellectual agility, operational acumen, and strategic foresight.
Every August, a fresh new cohort of students arrives on Carlisle Barracks to attend the resident course at the U.S. Army War College. The goal is to educate and...
The trend of awarding a civilian degree in PME courses, which are then subjected to a higher education regulatory body’s guideline, is perhaps the reason for “civilianizing” courses for...
The U.S. Army War College is undergoing its most significant curriculum overhaul in 70 years, known as Assessment Based Tailorable Education (ABTE). This transformation, driven by directives from Chief...
The U.S. Army War College offers a 10-month resident program known as the Carlisle Experience. But most graduates are actually products of the two-year distance learning program. Although once...
The DIME acronym, representing the instruments of national power—diplomatic, informational, military, and economic—is a widely used mental model in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Matthew O’Connor is concerned...
It’s time to head to the Dusty Shelves once again. Rick Chersicla revisits Robert Leonhard's seminal work on the role of time in warfare, Fighting by Minutes: Time and...
Over the last several weeks War Room has run a 7-part series of articles that have examined how professional military education should be designed. In this final article of...
In a world of evolving warfare, professional military education (PME) needs to adapt as well. While the current focus is on great power conflict, the importance of irregular warfare...
In today's complex security environment, militaries rarely operate independently. The joint-service approach to military education and training has been the norm since the 1980s, recognizing the importance of preparing...
The Army War College is currently developing tools that will provide direct access to immediate, accurate, and timely data to support operations. In the months before Russia’s expanded invasion...
The Army is actively seeking innovative programs and ideas to address the recruitment and retention challenges it faces. One such idea is the newly designed Blended Education Program (BEP)...
Last week, we noted the next few conversations veer into some of the "inside baseball" of how the Army War College educates strategic leaders. Episodes like this are mainly...
We know that the next few episodes are a little bit of inside baseball. But one of the things we like to do at War Room is highlight the...
It's tough to imagine a topic less sexy than the process that "aligns directed readiness, force assignment, allocation, apportionment, and assessment to support the National Defense Strategy." But that's...
In the Spring of 2020 the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) released their vision and guidance for officer professional military education (PME). The document called for a significant change...