{"id":96308,"date":"2018-10-05T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=a907b5cb982912a57b700cebb783e5b2"},"modified":"2018-10-05T08:00:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T08:00:01","slug":"news-story-dstls-brightest-minds-glimpse-the-future-of-warfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=96308","title":{"rendered":"News story: Dstl\u2019s Brightest Minds Glimpse the Future of Warfare"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While soldiers took to the streets in Canada for a unique exercise last month, top analysts worked in the background to model how wars might be fought \u2013 and won \u2013 decades from now.<\/p>\n

The Contested Urban Environment (CUE) exercise in Montreal<\/a> involved scientists and technical experts, soldiers and industry teams. As well as looking at current \u2018bleeding-edge\u2019 technology, there was another group working behind the scenes to take a glimpse into the future of warfare.<\/p>\n

Wargaming has been in constant use since World War Two, and is \u2013 as it sounds \u2013 a game in which doctrine and technology experts play to see how future conflicts might play out. It\u2019s a recognised technique and in this context aims to \u2018future-proof\u2019 the technology \u2013 looking at how a piece of kit might be used before it\u2019s even real.<\/p>\n

Some of the brightest minds of the five-eyes nations (UK, USA, NZ, Australia and Canada) gathered round to look at scenarios of the future; what technologies might be available to us or to an enemy, how the enemy might use them and how we might respond.<\/p>\n

The British team participated in wargaming activity, modelling the wider concepts of operating in an urban environment and working on \u2018missions\u2019 \u2013 looking into the future as far as 2035.<\/p>\n

The team explored the possible outcomes of using future technologies like through-wall RADAR or co-ordinated swarms of UAVs using \u2018technology cards\u2019 \u2013 a look into a future reality of things which are coming but are not yet available.<\/p>\n

David Kilcullen, the table-top exercise lead for CUE and one of the world\u2019s leading experts on wargaming, said:<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve been really fortunate to have a true expert in wargaming technique from Dstl, who is an expert in this kind of technology wargaming.<\/p>\n

Teams represent the enemy, friendly forces, and city itself (the people that live in it). Like a board game, people have time to plan their action, and then we have a resolution discussion to think through the implications. Who wins and loses is not actually that important. CUE had 41 different technologies, and we wanted to add each of those in gradually to see what difference it makes with multiple runs of the same battle scenario.<\/p>\n

The Dstl team that\u2019s here has a lot of technology that is really relevant to the scenario that we\u2019re gaming. Literally everything that happens in a war game, you\u2019re recording it, so you not only know what you think you\u2019ve found out, but you can go back and maybe there\u2019s a different way to interpret that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Andrew Elliott Dstl\u2019s technical war gaming expert said:<\/p>\n

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Wargaming looks at plausible answers to questions about warfare. It\u2019s an analytical tool, a decision-making technique \u2013 the importance is placed on the decisions of the players.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The wargaming team test the scenarios until they\u2019ve reached the edge of what\u2019s possible. This identifies the gaps which need to be addressed when considering new capabilities, making it a cost-effective tool for exploring future investment options in defence science and technology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wargaming looks at specialist technology and how Dstl can prepare for the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}