{"id":22953,"date":"2022-05-12T18:33:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-12T18:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2022\/05\/12\/new-war-gaming-center-will-plug-into-marine-units-with-a-more-realistic-experience\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:48:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:48:01","slug":"new-war-gaming-center-will-plug-into-marine-units-with-a-more-realistic-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/digital-show-dailies\/modern-day-marine\/2022\/05\/12\/new-war-gaming-center-will-plug-into-marine-units-with-a-more-realistic-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"New war-gaming center will plug into Marine units with a realistic experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2015 While top Marine leaders watch as workers construct a state-of-the-art war-gaming center at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/01\/11\/the-marine-corps-expects-to-break-ground-on-a-groundbreaking-wargaming-center-in-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\">war-gaming <\/a>in multiple forms proliferates across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2017\/09\/19\/marine-wargaming-center-will-help-plan-for-future-combat\/\" target=\"_blank\">force<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s coming to Marines of all ranks and billets through exercises large and small, board games and advance artificial intelligence options that are being adapted for future use at the unit level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those were some of the items presented Wednesday by Col. George Schreffler, director of the war-gaming division at Marine Corps Warfighting Lab, here at the 2022 Modern Day Marine expo in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/05\/16\/marines-break-ground-on-new-war-game-center\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/6645141.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Marines break ground on new war game center<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The opening is planned for summer 2023.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If a Marine\u2019s job is touched by Force Design 2030, and all Marines\u2019 jobs are being affected by that guiding document, then war-gaming had something to do with how the service made that decision and likely future decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, in the recently released 2022 update to force design, the document notes that \u201cextensive wargaming\u201d in the form of Expeditionary Warrior 21 informed the service\u2019s distributed maritime logistics operations concept now being developed with the Navy. That game and another called \u201cEnigma\u201d tested concepts for operations in the information and competition below the level of armed conflict, also called \u201cgray zone\u201d operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The data fed into a soon-to-publish Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication 8, \u201cInformation,\u201d according to the force design update.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The center will bring together the staff and visiting leaders in one location with advanced technology to double the number of war-games the force can conduct in a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schreffler said the center will \u201cincrease the realism of the player experience,\u201d and \u201csignificantly increase the amount of data\u201d able to be put into the scenarios. Those two factors alone will \u201cenable a more rigorous analysis\u201d of war-game results and deliver \u201cbetter and potentially more concrete insights from war games.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lastly, and perhaps most important, Schreffler and others see the center as providing a backing to \u201cproduce more defendable positions to support service level decisions\u201d on force design and development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s key as Marine Corps leadership has see public criticism of some of the Force Design 2030 changes, such as eliminating tanks, reducing conventional artillery and experiments that could fundamentally alter the size and composition of the infantry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"851\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/170823-M-SW461-815.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/170823-M-SW461-815.jpg.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/170823-M-SW461-815.jpg.jpg?resize=300,199 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/170823-M-SW461-815.jpg.jpg?resize=768,511 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/170823-M-SW461-815.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,681 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">This is an example of a life-like miniature model of a war zone to help wargamers have the best training available today. (Chavonne Ford\/Marine Corps)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The center was first announced at the 2017 Modern Day Marine exposition by then-Commandant Gen. Robert Neller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Neller had said he wanted a kind of \u201cholodeck\u201d for Marine war-gaming, a nod to the Star Trek technology that allowed character Capt. James T. Kirk to step into a virtual reality scenario and work through tactical or strategic problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The aim at that time was to have a center that could support 20 war-games each year, including two large-scale, 250-participant exercises. Currently, the service runs about a dozen war-games annually, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former head of training systems command, then-Col. Walt Yates, told Marine Corps Times that advanced artificial intelligence could allow the center to run a single scenario as many as 1,000 times to better evaluate outcomes and better inform decisions on what to deploy and how to deploy Marine assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marines broke ground on the new war-gaming and analysis center in May 2021. The $79 million center is aimed at figuring out tough problems on what technology, types of formations and even tactics might work in future fights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Schreffler said the center planned opening is in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the time, Assistant Commandant of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hqmc.marines.mil\/acmc\/Biography\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marine Corps Gen. Eric Smith<\/a>, then a three-star heading Combat Development and Integration, provided tangible reasoning for how the center will affect even the lowest ranks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s a big deal to those 19-year-olds here, to the ones down at Parris Island or at San Diego, because they do the fighting and the dying,\u201d Smith told Marine Corps Times. \u201cWe\u2019re going to make sure they do less of the dying part by what we do here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The center\u2019s site is next door to the Marine Corps University and not far from a number of mid- and senior-level Marine office schools and training programs. Its proximity should allow for cross-pollination of ideas from the schools for concept testing at the center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former heads of the war-fighting lab and Marine Corps Systems Command also previously told Marine Corps Times that the center will help them back decisions with deeper, evidence-based data, whether that is for unit employment, unit composition or weapons and equipment development and fielding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But some of the thinking of the center is set to spread across the Corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe vision for the Marine Corps Wargaming and Analysis Center allows us the ability to plug into remote locations and play games using the system or systems that we have in the analysis center,\u201d Schreffler said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That software is still in the development stage, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat should be 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