Wargaming is supported by Sonalysts in both the military and corporate communities, and we have extensive expertise in both areas. For additional information, visit the Corporate Wargaming and Military Wargaming websites.
What is Wargaming?
To quote the U.S. Marine Corps:
"Wargaming is a highly flexible exploratory and assessment methodology that can apply to a broad range of situations outside of "war" proper. An operational definition of the function is "the artificial replication of a situation of competition or conflict not involving actual military forces, and is characterized by human decision-making, which impacts the course of events throughout. It revolves around the interaction of two or more opposing forces guided by predetermined objectives, rules, data, and procedures designed to depict an actual or assumed real world situation. Wargaming is particularly suitable for generating, refining, and assessing concepts, plans, issues, and technologies; assessing alternatives; identifying capabilities and deficiencies; replicating conditions difficult to reproduce in peacetime; and reducing surprises." (Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, Wargaming Division)
The wargaming process is also used by commercial and corporate entities to evaluate their competitiveness, perform alternative assessments and refine business organizations, plans and other business activities.
Sonalysts has supported major computer-aided command and control wargaming exercises for senior Joint and Navy commanders and their staffs for over 24 years.
Notable Naval warfare games and exercises supported by our San Diego and Norfolk offices include:
Our Newport, Rhode Island office has conducted wargames examining plans, strategies and concepts for:
Other Government Agencies
