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Back Regional Defense Warfare Game 2020-2021

Fiscal Year 2020
Division Graduate School of Operational & Information Sciences
Department Defense Analysis
Investigator(s) Freeman, Michael E.
Sponsor Combating Terrorism Fellowship Program (DoD)
Summary This game, focused on the concept of resistance, will be a multiplayer, narrative driven exercise where players will get to play as one of several key actors. The story will unfold based on the choices each character makes over time. The game will allow players to think through how every citizen has some capacity to resist occupation. It will also encourage the players to think about the tradeoffs between resistance and surviving. Overall, it will be designed so that users leave the experience with an enhanced understanding of the concept of unconventional warfare within the larger framework of of irregular warfare, the tradeoffs associated with various actions, and an appreciation for the strategic complexity of this form of warfare.
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