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.

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