Blue Move 2: Year 2015

Briefing on Red Team Reactions

No (Perceived) Change:

• Missle development, WMD or nuclear weapons
• No recorded major spending or construction

Increased Red Team Activity:

• Naval activity (global port calls, fisheries, demonstration of capacity)
• Academic applications to study in Blue Country, and others, mostly in hard sciences and IT
• Diplomatic activity
• Public speculation on Blue's intentions
• Limited commercial space and rocket launches

  
  

Move Brief Objectives

Grand Strategy:

1. Maintain trends in globalization, and sustenance of Blue values
2. Bring Red inevitably into a non-hostile global system
3. Prevent strategic surprises

Operations:

1. Stay the course on military investments, with tailored adjustments.
2. More aggressive regional investment strategy in Purple, Orange, Brown, Green, etc.

   

   Actions

   • Focus on intelligence on finding out where Red spent their $30B budget
   • Increase student visas for Purple, Orange, Brown, Green; increase visas for Blue students going to Red
   • Expand economic investment to Purple, Orange, Brown, Green, etc.

   Minority Opinion

   • Will we be satisfied with Red as a trading partner, or transformed, western Red, much more like Blue?
   • Global economy imply a western style political system?
   • What are the implications of globalization?