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Blue Move 5
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Illustrations by Matt Sullivan, Alphachimp Studio, Inc. |
Previous Move - ReCap
Summary of Strategy
- Build intnatl pressure to stop the IO attacks, and Information campaign against Blue
- Define the economic attack as a hostile act
- Develop negotiating leverage against Red
- Develop political leverage within Red
- Detailed assessment and response to IO attacks Information campaign to improve relationships with Rafta and European nations
- Underwrite the security for the sea lanes
- Counter drug and humanitarian operations with Red
- Approach Orange about coalition operations
- Protect Blue access to markets
- Advocate balance news coverage in Red
- Assess progress of investments
Expectations v. Outcomes
- Lie like snakes
- Retreat from Cyber Attacks for a brief period
- Exploit their bio break through
- They will not share the benefits of the BioTech advance
- Red will Sell Defense Tech to a country friendly to Blue.
- Some internal political pressure on Red will increase in response to Blue efforts
Assessment of success
- Gradual but steady reduction in cyber attacks against Blue with Red claiming major role
- Red moves from restricted access to eliminating access to Orange for tourism
- Red continues to support opposition groups in Orange to undermine the regime
- Increased terrorist attacks in Orange
- Red offers to buy Purple’s entire yearly oil output
- Blue pill QC requires recall, with Red pill entering pharmaceutical market as substitute
Move Brief - Objective
- Continue to build international pressure against cyber attacks
- Stop the Cyber Attacks
- Confirm the source and correlation of all attacks
- Cyber
- Economic (e.g., tourism, Purple Oil, QC)
- Continue to insure Blue’s access to the Red region
Move Brief - Actions
- Covertly Deploy Blues Cyber attack against Red to deplete but not eliminate Reds financial Resources and distribute them amongst multiple disadvantaged countries
- Address UN re. Cyber Attacks
- Investigate Reds Bio Tech developments
- Maintain ongoing military, political and economic initiatives in the region
- Bank roll Orange’s purchase of Miltary hardware (covertly)
- Approach Red on sharing their Tech Developments
Move Brief – Expected Response
- Covertly Deploy Blues Cyber attack against Red to deplete but not eliminate Reds financial Resources and distribute them amongst multiple disadvantaged countries - Cry
- Address UN re. Cyber Attacks - Deny
- Investigate Reds Bio Tech developments
- Maintain ongoing military, political and economic initiatives in the region
- Build Base on Orange – Isolate Orange and Cancel UCAV deal
- Bank roll Orange’s purchase of Miltary hardware (covertly)
- Approach Red on sharing their C.N.A. Tech Developments -
Minority Opinions
- Covertly Deploy Blues Cyber attack against Red to deplete Reds financial Resources and distribute them amongst multiple disadvantaged countries
Summary and Observations
- In general, blue was able to achieve their initial strategic objectives
- Blue gained strategic bases in the region
- Red succeeded at some low level with economic attacks
- Warfare had been taking place from day 1 on an economic level and succeeded in making a dent in our economy although the extent is not quantifiable
- Red was able to highly leverage small funds
- Is their strategy self destructive in the long run due to complexity, are the outcomes predictable?
- Should have taken the gloves off sooner
- EBO did not identify attack by correlating multi-dimensional events as intended by the original investment
- Reluctant to take aggressive action due to lack of confirming data
- Difficult but not impossible to lock out opponent’s options
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