Co-Revolutionary Competition:
An Alternative War Game Inspired by the New Sciences
June 3-5, 2003

INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS

SPEAKERS

GAME TIMELINE

Red Move 2

Previous Move - ReCap

Summary of Strategy

  • Denial & Deception, Capability demonstration, regional cooperative engagement, clandestine IO

Expectations v. Outcomes

  • They will focus on specific military items, they did
  • Window of mitigated risk for out of area, it worked
  • Blue internal political friction over results, it worked

Assessment of success

  • Yes, Red is asymmetrically forcing blue to spend $$

Move Brief - Objective

  • Ensure passive C2 robustness to endure Precision strike
  • Feed info to Blue ISR to establish confidence, then feed false
  • Engineered “Intel failures” will hopefully lead to “I told you so!”
  • Continue propaganda efforts to force Blue to question strategy, induce disillusionment in blue, make them spend too much money while perceiving too little gain for large investment
  • Continue to build regional partnerships, managing perceptions to not appear hegemonic, nor too paranoid/antagonistic
  • Play on Blue’s concern over ambiguity of our intentions/expenditures

Move Brief - Actions

Continue strategy with what we perceive as our previous successes

  • Expand D&D effort to ensure C2 between nodes
  • As maritime culture grows, start developing new TTP
  • Coalition exercises around anti-logistics

Focus on clandestine engineering of “Intel failure” with linked media exploitation plan and “defensive counter-counter-PSYOP”

Claim illegal/invasive planting of collection sensors

In tit-for-tat competition for ties to orange, purple, expose humanitarian issues that would make Blue unwilling to stay

  • Possibly also a Blue internal issues caused by e.g. brown somehow?

Show adverse effects to neighbors of cooperating with Blue

  • “They are spying on you while they are here claiming to help you”

Fabricate the illusion of instability amongst purple/orange/brown,

  • Step in to provide stability, offer to be Blues proxy while painting it as their fault to the other countries

Try to establish a base in region with one of the “friendlies”

Move Brief – Expected Response

  • Blue will continue to obsess over why they can’t find our big black project
  • Blue will attempt to counter engagement, but we have planne dfor that and their efforts will backfire

Minority Opinions

  • Ethical, legal, discussions, international law, internet, private-publicly owned media
  • Don’t paint neighbors as adverse human rights
  • Don’t wait, move to foment civil war locally
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