Group: National Security Decision Making, Inc.

1. 1944 Campaigns: Taking the Offensive (NSDM Panel)

ID:: 2019-SEM19165231
Year:: 2019
Title:: 1944 Campaigns: Taking the Offensive (NSDM Panel)
Summary:: Review of 1944 campaigns in recognition of the 75th anniversary of the Allies taking the offensive in all theaters Panel by the National Security Decision Making, Inc staff.
Description:: Review of 1944 campaigns in recognition of the 75th anniversary of the Allies taking the offensive in all theaters Panel by the National Security Decision Making, Inc staff.

2. 2019 Global Hotspots (NSDM lecture)

ID:: 2019-SEM19165234
Year:: 2019
Title:: 2019 Global Hotspots (NSDM lecture)
Summary:: Join the National Security Decision Making Game staff to review recent changes & things to watch next year, including hotspots: China, Europe, Syria, Iran, Israel, Russia, & North Korea.
Description:: Overview, analysis & insights on current/future world affairs. This panel discussion and seminar, the signature event of the National Security Decision Making (NSDM) Game staff, explores current, and potential future, problem areas around the world. Want to know what to expect in the next year? What might happen and what are the implications of it? What are drivers, what indicators to watch for, and how might events be affected by the U.S. and the West? What potential catastrophes is CNN missing?

3. 2019 Global Hotspots Q&A (NSDM seminar)

ID:: 2019-SEM19165235
Year:: 2019
Title:: 2019 Global Hotspots Q&A (NSDM seminar)
Summary:: National Security Decision Making Game staff led discussion of global hotspots, things to watch out for next year, including hotspots: China, Europe, Syria, Iran, Israel, Russia, & North Korea.
Description:: Continued discussion of current military/political/economic topics of interest/concern, analysis & insights on current/future world affairs. This seminar led by the National Security Decision Making (NSDM) Game staff, explores current, and potential future, problem areas around the world. Want to know what to expect in the next year? What might happen and what are the implications of it? What are drivers, what indicators to watch for, and how might events be affected by the U.S. and the West? What potential catastrophes is CNN missing?

4. Bleeding Kansas: Examining the Pre-cursor to War

ID:: 2019-SEM19165243
Year:: 2019
Title:: Bleeding Kansas: Examining the Pre-cursor to War
Summary:: Seminar/Demo: Examination of the politics and violence in Kansas in the pre-civil war period as reflected in "Bleeding Kansas" by Decision Games, with "Doc" Cummins of Decision Games.
Description:: Overview of the politics and violence in pre-statehood, pre-Civil War Kansas as reflected in "Bleeding Kansas" by Decision Games, followed by a guided play demo. Presented by "Doc" Cummins of Decision Games.

5. Chernobyl, What Really Happened, Separating Fact from Fiction, Drama and Demagoguery (NSDM lecture)

ID:: 2019-SEM19165909
Year:: 2019
Title:: Chernobyl, What Really Happened, Separating Fact from Fiction, Drama and Demagoguery (NSDM lecture)
Summary:: The story is generally told to stress drama or harangue over reactors, loose with facts. This gives the physics & engineering. CAPT Mark McDonagh, physicist, retired nuclear sub officer, NSDM staff.
Description:: What really happened at Chernobyl? What we see in miniseries and documentaries clearly steers clear of technical details, or worse, was written by someone overly fond of exploring the drama but clueless on the physics, nuclear engineering and radiological problems. Then there are activists, often totally clueless, who would exaggerate the description of the damage and the potential to their own ends. This lecture attempts to separate science and engineering and actual facts from drama and activist demagoguery. It describes the Chernobyl reactor design, including its advantages and its vulnerabilities in light of other nuclear reactor mishaps. It then goes on to describe what went wrong and why. Presented by Capt. Mark McDonagh, USN/ret., a career nuclear submarine officer with BS and MS degrees in physics with 12 years' experience at the Naval War College, now on the NSDMG staff

6. Cold War FastPlay National Security Decision Making Game

ID:: 2019-ZED19162143
Year:: 2019
Title:: Cold War FastPlay National Security Decision Making Game
Summary:: Cold War variant of the National Security Decision Making geopolitical-military RPG set in 1961. You’re a superpower leader. Just history, but then some potentially catastrophic events happen. Fix it.
Description:: Geopolitical, military and economic role-playing game set in the 1960s. Players take senior leadership positions in the US, UK, USSR, Israel, or Red China dealing with domestic and international events. This isn't history, but rather is an examination of options and choices that might have been. Gain insight into the period while representing a key group in world affairs. Scenarios are modeled on historical situations. It's the 1960's. The future isn't set. Can you achieve your goals? Can you achieve your nation's goals? Can you duck-and-cover? The scenario is: it’s the world as it was in 1961. Here are the 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.

7. Cold War FastPlay National Security Decision Making Game

ID:: 2019-ZED19162144
Year:: 2019
Title:: Cold War FastPlay National Security Decision Making Game
Summary:: Cold War variant of the National Security Decision Making geopolitical-military RPG set in 1961. You’re a superpower leader. Just history, but then some potentially catastrophic events happen. Fix it.
Description:: Geopolitical, military and economic role-playing game set in the 1960s. Players take senior leadership positions in the US, UK, USSR, Israel, or Red China dealing with domestic and international events. This isn't history, but rather is an examination of options and choices that might have been. Gain insight into the period while representing a key group in world affairs. Scenarios are modeled on historical situations. It's the 1960's. The future isn't set. Can you achieve your goals? Can you achieve your nation's goals? Can you duck-and-cover? The scenario is: it’s the world as it was in 1961. Here are the 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.

8. Contemporary FastPlay National Security Decision Making Game

ID:: 2019-ZED19162140
Year:: 2019
Title:: Contemporary FastPlay National Security Decision Making Game
Summary:: Geopolitical-military role-playing game, players taking senior positions in a real nation. It’s the world of today. Here are the real issues, and some big problems looming. Can you fix it? Start now.
Description:: 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.

9. Contemporary FastPlay National Security Decision Making Game

ID:: 2019-ZED19162141
Year:: 2019
Title:: Contemporary FastPlay National Security Decision Making Game
Summary:: Geopolitical-military role-playing game, players taking senior positions in a real nation. It’s the world of today. Here are the real issues, and some big problems looming. Can you fix it? Start now.
Description:: 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.

10. Contemporary FastPlay National Security Decision Making Game

ID:: 2019-ZED19162139
Year:: 2019
Title:: Contemporary FastPlay National Security Decision Making Game
Summary:: Geopolitical-military role-playing game, players taking senior positions in a real nation. It’s the world of today. Here are the real issues, and some big problems looming. Can you fix it? Start now.
Description:: 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.

11. Contemporary Russia: Not our Friend (NSDM Panel)

ID:: 2019-SEM19165230
Year:: 2019
Title:: Contemporary Russia: Not our Friend (NSDM Panel)
Summary:: Russia, evolving position, antics on the world stage. Russian policy changes over the last 10 years. Common ground and friction points with the West. Panel by National Security Decision Making staff
Description:: Russia and her evolving position, and her antics, on the world stage. Russian policy and operational changes over the last 10 years. Where is the common ground and where are the friction points with the US and the West? Panel by the National Security Decision Making, Inc staff.

12. Endless War Afghanistan (NSDM Lecture)

ID:: 2019-SEM19165226
Year:: 2019
Title:: Endless War Afghanistan (NSDM Lecture)
Summary:: Modern Warfare contributor David March talks about the endless war in Afghanistan, the reasons behind the conflict and the way forward. Has Afghanistan become the new Philippines of America?
Description:: David March is a writer who has contributed articles to Strategy and Tactics, World at War, and Modern Warfare. He has also designed 4 wargames, including Visegrad 4 about a possible future conflict between Russian and Poland. He will be lecturing on what has happened in Afghanistan, the true reasons for the conflict, the problems encountered by the U.S./NATO force and the reasons that it may well be a perpetual war. How can we possibly win this war? Is there no way out? David March is on the National Security Decision Making, Inc staff.

13. Game Changers: Technology, Techniques & New Environments of Future Conflict (NSDM Lecture)

ID:: 2019-SEM19165227
Year:: 2019
Title:: Game Changers: Technology, Techniques & New Environments of Future Conflict (NSDM Lecture)
Summary:: An overview of emerging tools, approaches, & fields that are entering into current and future military conflicts. Presenter: Merle Robinson, NSDM staff.
Description:: An overview of emerging tools, approaches, and fields that are entering into current and future military conflicts. Presenter: Merle Robinson of the National Security Decision Making, Inc staff.

14. Getting Your Wargame Design Published in Strategy & Tactics

ID:: 2019-SEM19165244
Year:: 2019
Title:: Getting Your Wargame Design Published in Strategy & Tactics
Summary:: Learn how to get your historical or contemporary period wargame published by Decision Games: design guidelines, playtesting, artwork, legal aspects. Presented by "Doc" Cummins of Decision Games.
Description:: Lecture. Learn how to get a historical or contemporary period wargame published by Decision Games. What are the design guidelines, playtesting, artwork, and legal aspects of submitting a prototype? Presented by "Doc" Cummins of Decision Games.

15. Logistics: the Red Headed Stepchild of Wargaming

ID:: 2019-SEM19165249
Year:: 2019
Title:: Logistics: the Red Headed Stepchild of Wargaming
Summary:: Lecture: An overview of the impact of logistics from ancient times to today with a view to how wargames have handled the subject poorly or well. Presented by Dr. George F. Nafziger (Captain/USN, ret)
Description:: Lecture: An overview of the impact of Logistics from ancient times to today with a view to how wargames have handled the subject poorly or well. Presented by Dr. George F. Nafziger (Captain/USN, ret.), author of many Napoleonic and Military History books.

16. Media and Meme Warfare Today (NSDM lecture)

ID:: 2019-SEM19165228
Year:: 2019
Title:: Media and Meme Warfare Today (NSDM lecture)
Summary:: Today's hidden wars between governments to influence public perception, from targeted disinformation campaigns to corporate databases that know and sell everything about you. Greg Maus, NSDM staff
Description:: Lecture. From targeted disinformation campaigns to corporate databases that know everything about you and sell to the highest bidder, explore today’s hidden wars between governments to influence public perception. Presented by Greg Maus of the National Security Decision Making, Inc staff.

17. Military Geography of the Solar System (NSDM Panel)

ID:: 2019-SEM19165233
Year:: 2019
Title:: Military Geography of the Solar System (NSDM Panel)
Summary:: Geography of war in space is dominated not by distance but by delta-v & sensors. How experience fighting on land, sea & air won't help. Panel by the National Security Decision Making staff.
Description:: In space, no one can hear you scream, but everyone can see you fly. The geography of warfare in space is dominated not by distances as most would think, but by delta-v and sensors. How everything we know about fighting on the land, sea, and air won't help us in space. What is up there is worth fighting over? Panel by the National Security Decision Making, Inc staff.

18. National Security Decision Making Cold War Crisis Game

ID:: 2019-ZED19162138
Year:: 2019
Title:: National Security Decision Making Cold War Crisis Game
Summary:: 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 and world is a tinderbox. You’re called in after hours. What’s wrong now?
Description:: 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.

19. National Security Decision Making Contemporary Crisis Game

ID:: 2019-ZED19162146
Year:: 2019
Title:: 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.

20. National Security Decision Making Doomsday Scenario Game

ID:: 2019-ZED19162145
Year:: 2019
Title:: 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.

21. On Wargaming, Part I: How Wargames Have Shaped History and How They May Shape the Future

ID:: 2019-SEM19165246
Year:: 2019
Title:: On Wargaming, Part I: How Wargames Have Shaped History and How They May Shape the Future
Summary:: Lecture: The History of Wargaming from ancient times through World War II. Presented by Colonel Matt Caffrey (USAF, ret.), the "Dean" of Air Force Wargaming.
Description:: Wargames are as old as civilization, and perhaps older. This is an overview of the development of wargaming from ancient times to the End of World War II. Part 1 of How Wargames Have Shaped History and How They May Shape the Future. Presenter: Colonel Matt Caffrey (USAF, ret.), the "Dean" of Air Force Wargaming and author of "On Wargaming," a US Naval War College free publication available at https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/newport-papers/43/

22. On Wargaming, Part II: How Wargames Have Shaped History and How They May Shape the Future

ID:: 2019-SEM19165247
Year:: 2019
Title:: On Wargaming, Part II: How Wargames Have Shaped History and How They May Shape the Future
Summary:: Lecture: The History of Wargaming since World War II. Presented by Colonel Matt Caffrey (USAF, ret.), the "Dean" of Air Force Wargaming.
Description:: Wargames are as old as civilization, and perhaps older. This is an overview of the development of wargaming from the End of World War II to today. Part 2 of How Wargames Have Shaped History and How They May Shape the Future. Presenter: Colonel Matt Caffrey (USAF, ret.), the "Dean" of Air Force Wargaming and author of "On Wargaming," a US Naval War College free publication available at https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/newport-papers/43/

23. On Wargaming, Part III: How Wargames Have Shaped History and How They May Shape the Future

ID:: 2019-SEM19165248
Year:: 2019
Title:: On Wargaming, Part III: How Wargames Have Shaped History and How They May Shape the Future
Summary:: Lecture: Toward More-Effective Wargaming. Presented by Colonel Matt Caffrey (USAF, ret.), the "Dean" of Air Force Wargaming.
Description:: It has been said the foundations of science are observation and classification. Together they enable the forming of hypotheses that enable later applications. This focuses on the utility of wargames, and varied approaches, to wargaming. Part 3 of How Wargames Have Shaped History and How They May Shape the Future. Presenter: Colonel Matt Caffrey (USAF, ret.), the "Dean" of Air Force Wargaming and author of "On Wargaming," a US Naval War College free publication available at https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/newport-papers/43/

24. Operation Market Garden - Was it really "A Bridge Too Far" (NSDM Lecture)

ID:: 2019-SEM19165224
Year:: 2019
Title:: Operation Market Garden - Was it really "A Bridge Too Far" (NSDM Lecture)
Summary:: Operation Market Garden 75th anniversary. A look at the Allies most ambitious Airborne operation & evaluation of why it failed. By Mike Tucker, NSDM staff.
Description:: 75 years after the failure of Market Garden, there is still debate as to why this operation failed. The Allies seemed to have the Germans on the run and Market Garden could have given the Allies a bridge over the Rhine and ended the war by Christmas 1944. A look at the factors that lead to the dashing of Allied hopes of finishing the Germans off. Presenter: Mike Tucker of the National Security Decision Making, Inc staff.

25. Strategic Thinkers (NSDM Lecture)

ID:: 2019-SEM19165225
Year:: 2019
Title:: Strategic Thinkers (NSDM Lecture)
Summary:: Clausewitz, Mahan, Mitchell & others, strategic thinkers we've heard of but few know what they really said. Talk on what historical strategists actually wrote. By Dr. Craig Greathouse, NSDM staff.
Description:: Clausewitz, Mahan and Mitchell, among others, are strategic thinkers whom many talk about, but few have read them and examined what they actually have said. This lecture will look at some of the actual writings of significant strategic thinkers throughout history and put their ideas in the context in which they were written. It will look at a broad range of strategic thinkers and examine what they actually argued as compared to what people actually think they said. Presenter: Dr. Craig Greathouse of the National Security Decision Making, Inc staff.

26. U-505, a Uniquely Unlucky Submarine; 75th Anniversary Of its Intact Capture (NSDM Lecture)

ID:: 2019-SEM19166080
Year:: 2019
Title:: U-505, a Uniquely Unlucky Submarine; 75th Anniversary Of its Intact Capture (NSDM Lecture)
Summary:: U-505 distinctions: 11 war patrols; sabotaged by French Resistance dockworkers; most damaged U-boat to return from patrol; one CO committed suicide; captured intact. Capt. Mark McDonagh, NSDM staff
Description:: When the German U-boat U-505 is mentioned, most think about its capture in 75 years ago, two days before D-day in June 1944, or of its status as a museum piece at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. But the Type IX submarine's wartime history is rich: 11 combat patrols; sabotaged by French dockworkers; distinction as the most damaged U-boat ever to return from patrol, and as instance during the war in which a submarine commander committed suicide in response to the stress of a prolonged depth charging. Lecture will cover details of the long and mixed-success of this most-famous of submarines. Presented by Capt. Mark McDonagh, USN/ret., a submarine officer with 12 years’ experience at the Naval War College, now on the National Security Decision Making, Inc staff.

27. Victory Through Wargame-Enhanced Innovation

ID:: 2019-SEM19165245
Year:: 2019
Title:: Victory Through Wargame-Enhanced Innovation
Summary:: How wargames assist with the advance of innovation. Evolution as tools for understanding the past and shaping the future. Presenter: Colonel Matt Caffrey (USAF, ret.), "Dean" of Air Force Wargaming.
Description:: How wargames assist with the advance of innovation. Evolution of wargames as tools for understanding the past and shaping the future. Presenter: Colonel Matt Caffrey (USAF, ret.), the "Dean" of Air Force Wargaming and author of "On wargaming," a US Naval War College free publication available at https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/newport-papers/43/

28. War in the Mega Cities of the Future (NSDM Panel)

ID:: 2019-SEM19165232
Year:: 2019
Title:: War in the Mega Cities of the Future (NSDM Panel)
Summary:: Overview of modern military thought on fighting in megacities. New technologies, UAVs, robots, AI, conventional, unconventional, future approaches. Panel by National Security Decision Making staff
Description:: An overview of modern military thought on fighting in the world's megacities. As the global population grows and cities become ever denser, military planners are preparing for near future conflict scenarios in and around urban megacities. Particularly in the developing world, how will new technologies-UAVs, robots, AI, space-based platforms-be employed in these challenging environments? Panel will review conventional, unconventional and future approaches. Panel by the National Security Decision Making, Inc staff.

29. “Near Future” Science-Fiction FastPlay National Security Decision Making Game

ID:: 2019-ZED19162142
Year:: 2019
Title:: “Near Future” Science-Fiction FastPlay National Security Decision Making Game
Summary:: Near-future variant of the geopolitical, military and economic role-playing game. Crazed dictators, pandemics, environmental crises, malignant AI, genetic breakthroughs, and other surprises.
Description:: Near-future, 2035 variant of the geopolitical, military and economic role-playing National Security Decision Making Game. Players take senior leadership positions in a real-world nation. Explore the boundaries between science fact and science fiction. Experience world crises and experience mysterious events in this 2035 scenario. Deal with world challenges. Expect anything from crazed dictators, revolutions, pandemics, global warming, uncontrolled and malignant artificial intelligence, universal state surveillance, new technologies, genetic breakthroughs, and other surprises in a world that is not quite “as-you-know-it.” Presented by the National Security Decision Making Game staff.

30. “Near Future” Science-Fiction National Security Decision Making Contemporary Crisis Game

ID:: 2019-ZED19162543
Year:: 2019
Title:: “Near Future” Science-Fiction National Security Decision Making Contemporary Crisis Game
Summary:: Fast-paced version of NSDMG’s geopolitical-military RPG. It’s the world just a few years from now. You’re a key leader in a major nation. You’re called in after hours. What’s wrong now?
Description:: Near-future, 2-hour crisis-oriented variant of the geopolitical, military and economic role-playing National Security Decision Making Game with futuristic and science fiction elements. Take a senior leadership in the US, China, Russia, or other major power, facing a world crisis that might be tomorrow’s real-world headline. It’s the world almost 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. Expect anything from crazed dictators, revolutions, pandemics, climate change, uncontrolled and malignant artificial intelligence, universal state surveillance, new technologies, genetic breakthroughs, and other surprises in a world that is not quite “as-you-know-it.” Presented by the National Security Decision Making Game staff.

31. Cold War Game: Korea Revisited

ID:: 2017-ZED17112330
Year:: 2017
Title:: Cold War Game: Korea Revisited
Summary:: Cold War variant of the NSDM geopolitical-military interactive RPG set in 1961. You’re a superpower leader. Just history, but then some potentially catastrophic events happen. Fix it.
Description:: Geopolitical, military and economic interactive role-playing game. Take senior leadership positions in the US, USSR, Israel, Red China or Cuba. Scenario: it's 1961. But the future isn't set. It’s all history up to this point. But as soon as the game starts, it's all up to you. Do you feel up to the job? Can you achieve your goals? Can you achieve your nation's goals without destroying mankind? Can you duck-and-cover? New issues and problems in every game.

32. Cold War Game: the World at the Brink

ID:: 2017-ZED17112329
Year:: 2017
Title:: Cold War Game: the World at the Brink
Summary:: Cold War variant of the NSDM geopolitical-military interactive RPG set in 1961. You’re a superpower leader. Just history, but then some potentially catastrophic events happen. Fix it.
Description:: Geopolitical, military and economic interactive role-playing game. Take senior leadership positions in the US, USSR, Israel, Red China or Cuba. Scenario: it's 1961. But the future isn't set. It’s all history up to this point. But as soon as the game starts, it's all up to you. Do you feel up to the job? Can you achieve your goals? Can you achieve your nation's goals without destroying mankind? Can you duck-and-cover? New issues and problems in every game.

33. Contemporary Crisis Game

ID:: 2017-ZED17112383
Year:: 2017
Title:: Contemporary Crisis Game
Summary:: NSDM interactive geopolitical-military RPG. It's the world as you know it. You are on the National Security Council; everything’s normal, then you’re called in. What’s wrong now?
Description:: Take a role on the US National Security Council, presented with a crisis that might be tomorrow’s real-world headlines. Find a path that advances our national objectives AND leaves us alive. A new, exciting, interactive fast-paced game format 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.

34. Contemporary Game: Iranian Resurgence

ID:: 2017-ZED17112342
Year:: 2017
Title:: Contemporary Game: Iranian Resurgence
Summary:: NSDM interactive geopolitical-military RPG. It's the world as you know it. Fix it. Scenario: Iran's weakness in the last century was an anomaly of history. Where will this go?
Description:: Geopolitical, military and economic interactive role-playing game. Take senior leadership positions in major nations. Deal with crises, and work to achieve your own goals. Do you feel up to the job? Can you achieve your nation's goals without destroying mankind? Can you fix the world? New issues and problems in every game. Walk-ins welcome, always room.

35. Contemporary Game: Middle Eastern Mayhem

ID:: 2017-ZED17112335
Year:: 2017
Title:: Contemporary Game: Middle Eastern Mayhem
Summary:: NSDM geopolitical-military RPG. Scenario: it's the world as you know it. Fix it. Instability, radicalism, limited resources, & old scores to settle. What could go wrong?
Description:: Geopolitical, military and economic role-playing game. Take senior leadership positions in major nations. Deal with crises, and work to achieve your own goals. Do you feel up to the job? Can you achieve your nation's goals without destroying mankind? Can you fix the world? New issues and problems in every game. Walk-ins welcome, always room.

36. Contemporary Game: Superpower Struggle

ID:: 2017-ZED17112352
Year:: 2017
Title:: Contemporary Game: Superpower Struggle
Summary:: NSDM interactive geopolitical-military RPG. It's the world as you know it. Fix it. Scenario: US, Russian, Chinese, European entities vie for control of the 21st century.
Description:: Geopolitical, military and economic interactive role-playing game. Take senior leadership positions in major nations. Deal with crises, and work to achieve your own goals. Do you feel up to the job? Can you achieve your nation's goals without destroying mankind? Can you fix the world? New issues and problems in every game. Walk-ins welcome, always room.

37. Contemporary MegaGame: Oceanic Inferno-Coming War in the Pacific?

ID:: 2017-ZED17112348
Year:: 2017
Title:: Contemporary MegaGame: Oceanic Inferno-Coming War in the Pacific?
Summary:: NSDM interactive geopolitical-military RPG. It's the world as you know it. Fix it. Scenario: what is China’s future as a budding superpower? Must China's ambitions lead to conflict?
Description:: Extended version of the classic geopolitical, military and economic interactive role-playing game. Take senior leadership positions in major nations. Deal with crises, and work to achieve your own goals. Do you feel up to the job? Can you achieve your nation's goals without destroying mankind? Can you fix the world? New issues and problems in every game. Walk-ins welcome, always room.

38. Cuban Missile Crisis Game: Washington Wobblies

ID:: 2017-ZED17112382
Year:: 2017
Title:: Cuban Missile Crisis Game: Washington Wobblies
Summary:: Roleplay the Cuban Missile Crisis from the view of JFK & staff. Despite Soviet assurances, offensive nuclear missiles arrive in Cuba. Do you attack, negotiate, threaten, or mobilize? Great intro game.
Description:: 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.

39. Doomsday

ID:: 2017-ZED17112367
Year:: 2017
Title:: Doomsday
Summary:: NSDM geopolitical-military interactive RPG. Scenario: it's the near future. Multiple nations with nuke, cyber, bio & other weapons use it or lose it. The NSDM barroom brawl.
Description:: Geopolitical, military and economic role-playing game. Take senior leadership positions in major nations. Multiple nations with modern, terrifying weapons; the first missiles fly in the first minutes. Walk-ins welcome, always room.

40. NSDM: 100th Anniversary, Battle of Vimy Ridge, 1917

ID:: 2017-SEM17112400
Year:: 2017
Title:: NSDM: 100th Anniversary, Battle of Vimy Ridge, 1917
Summary:: Examination of this Canadian victory in World War I. Presenter Michael Tucker of the National Security Decision Making, Inc. staff.

41. NSDM: 100th Anniversary, WW I U-Boat Operations: The Killing Time, 1917

ID:: 2017-SEM17112858
Year:: 2017
Title:: NSDM: 100th Anniversary, WW I U-Boat Operations: The Killing Time, 1917
Summary:: Germany’s 1917 unrestricted submarine warfare campaign. Strategic, geopolitical & technological conditions. Presenter Capt. Mark McDonagh of the National Security Decision Making, Inc. staff.
Description:: The German submarine force’s resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917 resulted in what they came to refer to as “The Killing Time.” With no effective anti-submarine weapons or measures, the Royal Navy was ill-equipped to respond, and the carnage was massive. But it also brought the US into the war. Lecture covers the strategic, geopolitical and technological conditions that led to this campaign, and how it affected the trajectory of human history.

42. NSDM: 100th Anniversary, the U.S. Path to Great War, 1917

ID:: 2017-SEM17112849
Year:: 2017
Title:: NSDM: 100th Anniversary, the U.S. Path to Great War, 1917
Summary:: Lecture. Examining U.S. entry into World War I: why, how & when; & the impact of U.S. entry on the war and the world. Presenter Merle Robinson of the National Security Decision Making, Inc staff.

43. NSDM: 200th Anniversary, 19th Century Kreigspiel

ID:: 2017-SEM17112844
Year:: 2017
Title:: NSDM: 200th Anniversary, 19th Century Kreigspiel
Summary:: Learn how the military used wargames roughly 200 years ago. Presenter Robert Mosher of the National Security Decision Making, Inc. staff.

44. NSDM: 2017 Global Hotspots

ID:: 2017-SEM17112854
Year:: 2017
Title:: NSDM: 2017 Global Hotspots
Summary:: Join the National Security Decision Making Game staff to review recent changes & things to watch next year, including hotspots: China, Europe, Syria, Iran, Israel, Russia, North Korea...
Description:: Overview, analysis & insights on current/future world affairs. This panel discussion and seminar, the signature event of the National Security Decision Making (NSDM) Game staff, explores current, and potential future, problem areas around the world. Want to know what to expect in the next year? What might happen and what are the implications of it? What are drivers, what indicators to watch for, and how might events be affected by the U.S. and the West? What potential catastrophes is CNN missing?

45. NSDM: 2017 Global Hotspots Q&A

ID:: 2017-SEM17112855
Year:: 2017
Title:: NSDM: 2017 Global Hotspots Q&A
Summary:: National Security Decision Making Game staff led discussion of global hotspots, & things to watch out for next year, including hotspots: China, Europe, Syria, Iran, Israel, Russia, North Korea.
Description:: For the Diehards, continued discussion of current military/political/economic topics of interest/concern, analysis & insights on current/future world affairs. This seminar led by the National Security Decision Making (NSDM) Game staff, explores current, and potential future, problem areas around the world. Want to know what to expect in the next year? What might happen and what are the implications of it? What are drivers, what indicators to watch for, and how might events be affected by the U.S. and the West? What potential catastrophes is CNN missing?

46. NSDM: 50th Anniversary, the Six Day War 1967: Israel vs. the Arab World

ID:: 2017-SEM17112388
Year:: 2017
Title:: NSDM: 50th Anniversary, the Six Day War 1967: Israel vs. the Arab World
Summary:: Lecture explores how events of the 1967 Six-Day Arab-Israeli war changed the world. Presenter Merle Robinson of the National Security Decision Making, Inc. staff.

47. NSDM: 75th Anniversary, Dieppe Raid, 1942

ID:: 2017-SEM17112851
Year:: 2017
Title:: NSDM: 75th Anniversary, Dieppe Raid, 1942
Summary:: Dieppe Raid: too big for a raid, too small for an invasion. What went right, what went wrong, & its significance. Presenter Michael Tucker of the National Security Decision Making, Inc. staff.

48. NSDM: 75th Anniversary, Early Pacific Submarine Campaigns 1942-43

ID:: 2017-SEM17112852
Year:: 2017
Title:: NSDM: 75th Anniversary, Early Pacific Submarine Campaigns 1942-43
Summary:: US & Japanese subs go to war. US carriers sunk; problems with weapons, doctrine; cutting Japan’s maritime arteries. By Mark McDonagh CAPT USN (ret) of the NSDM, Inc. staff.
Description:: Both US and Japanese submarine forces had prepared dutifully for the Pacific War, but had their problems. The Japanese had perhaps the most impressive submarine forces in the world, but it was designed for and attempted to implement an unworkable doctrine, unchallenged as dogma. The US instantly embraced a workable strategy and had the platforms for it, but in small numbers and with a principal torpedo that didn’t work. Lecture will discuss initial successes and failures. Included: the Japanese submarine that fired the first shots of the war BEFORE the Japanese aircraft arrived over Pearl Harbor; USS Saratoga, torpedo magnet; sinking of USS Wasp; the only aerial bombing of the US ever; correction of the US torpedo problems and the beginning of the annihilation of the Japanese maritime lifeline. Presenter Mark McDonagh CAPT USN (ret) of the National Security Decision Making, Inc staff.

49. NSDM: 75th Anniversary, Great Turning Points of World War II, 1942

ID:: 2017-SEM17112846
Year:: 2017
Title:: NSDM: 75th Anniversary, Great Turning Points of World War II, 1942
Summary:: Lecture & seminar discussing 1942 turning points of WW II, with emphasis on Stalingrad, Midway, El Alamein & Operation Torch. Presented by the staff of the National Security Decision Making, Inc.
Description:: Lecture and follow-on seminar. Battles and campaigns in 1942 resulted in the shift in momentum, in essentially all theaters, from the Axis to the Allies. Members of the National Security Decision Making, Inc staff will present highlights of Stalingrad, Midway, El Alamein and Operation Torch as a handful of examples, and will lead a broad-based discussion of the events of this pivotal year that turned the course of the war.

50. NSDM: The Spanish Civil War

ID:: 2017-SEM17112395
Year:: 2017
Title:: NSDM: The Spanish Civil War
Summary:: Lecture. Learn about the prelude to World War II. Proxy war & testing ground for new weapons and tactics. Presenter Robert Mosher of the National Security Decision Making, Inc. staff.

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