Blue Move 3: Year 2025

Move Brief - Objective

• Enhance regional cooperation with Blue.

Move Brief – Actions (1)

Claim credit for a less threatening Red. It was our Policy achievement.

Offer to share relevant information from Sensor Web with all countries in the region.

Participation in sensor web contingent upon military cooperation.

Access to sensor web info be linked to counter-proliferation regime.

Seek multi-national cooperation/exercise – RIMPAC-esque on a continuing basis.

Shift resources to HUMINT in the region.

Seek military basing/overflight rights/bombing ranges in countries neighboring Red.

Upgrade existing facilities in those countries.

Offer Red anti-piracy alliance. Without conditions.

Move Brief – Actions (2)

Offer Red information assurance/security pact. Confidence building measures

Establish regional human rights watch.

Foreign military sales to Orange, etc. Legacy FF, DD with some upgrades. JSF/LCS co-production. Coupled with Littoral BG demo.

Start up “Dark Star” like program. (Sensor Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.) Not a covert program.

Offer to build high-tech infrastructure in Orange, etc.

Move Brief – Expected Response

• Continued deception efforts to create a PR embarrassment for Blue.
• PR campaign – Red was always peace-loving.
• Red attempts internal subversion in the region. Red responds to regional request for help.
• Red strengthens regional alliance – Warsaw Pact-like.
• Red Navy

Minority Opinions

• Concerns about information sharing assisting Red CCD capabilities.
• Basing rights may be provocative.

Blue Team Wrap-Up

Strategic Success Achieved

• Maintained access in region
• Continued economic globalization trend
• Maintained Blue economic and national security primacy
• No strategic (incl. regional) surprises
• But…did not guarantee future of same
• Maintaining primacy + globalization is hard work and significant investment and requires significant investment in all facets of national power
• Are there ways to better guarantee/insure more long-lasting strategic success?

Info Age Strategy

• Move 1 Budget drill was new tech-based but seemed to subconsciously accept
• Information Age “new rules,” although those “new rules” left unstated and undefined
• Overall, Blue succeeded in shifting most competition from industrial/physical domain to information/cognitive domains
• Used high tech to create the shift plus significant investment in human capital and innovation to support it
• Recognized early in game that social, cultural, human issues had become primary—thirsted for more of that type of understanding
• A lot to discover & learn about the “new rules.”

Global Co-opetition

• Modulated cooperation & competition in region
• Searched for and employed a few options/mixes that did both
• Strong desire to appreciate global context in order to play multiple levels of strategy simultaneously—key to our globalization and regional objectives

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