Saudi War Course
End of Course Capstone Exercise
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THIS DOCUMENT IS FOR WARGAME AND EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY AND
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Overview
 Exercise Purpose
 Exercise Objectives
 Saudi War Course Institutional Learning
Objectives
 End of Course Exercise Learning Objectives
 Exercise Design
 Synopsis of Exercise
 Conclusion
Exercise Purpose
The Exercise Purpose is Two Fold:
One:
To provide the students the opportunity to
demonstrate their ability to respond to national a regional
crisis.
Two: To provide a venue in order to evaluate and assess
the students across all of the Saudi War Course
Institutional Learning Objectives.
Saudi War Course Institutional Learning Objectives
 SWC ILO 1: Comprehend strategic-thinking processes necessary to sustain
innovative, agile, and ethical organizations in a joint, interagency, intergovernmental,
and multinational environment.
 SWC ILO 2: Distinguish the uniqueness of strategic-level leadership and analyze
the skills needed to lead in a joint, intergovernmental, interagency, and
multi-national strategic environment.
 SWC ILO 3: Comprehend key strategic concepts, critical thinking and analytical
frameworks to the formulation of analysis of strategy.
 SWC ILO 4: Comprehend the integration of all instruments of national power in
achieving strategic objectives.
Saudi War Course Institutional Learning Objectives
 SWC ILO 5: Comprehend the theories of war and strategy.
 SWC ILO 6: Apply the principles of joint warfare, joint military operations, and
joint operations planning in pre-conflict, conflict, and post-conflict, to include
traditional and irregular warfare.
 SWC ILO 7: Comprehend how campaigns and operations support an all-inclusive
approach to achieving national objectives and relate to the national strategic,
national military strategic and operational levels of war.
 SWC ILO 8: Comprehend the planning systems and processes for developing,
training, deploying, and sustaining the military resources of the nation, in
conjunction with other elements of national power, to attain national objectives.
Capstone Exercise Learning Objectives
EOC LO 1: Evaluate the uniqueness of operational and strategic level leadership as
well as the competencies required to lead at the operational and strategic level
EOC LO 2: Evaluate the national security challenges and opportunities in a future
operating environment
EOC LO 3: Evaluate the integrated employment of the elements of national
power in a crisis scenario through strategy formulation and policy development
EOC LO 4: Evaluate processes to develop theater strategies, estimates, and
campaign plans to employ military and non-military elements of power in
a joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational environment to achieve the
desired national end state
Educational Wargame
 Types of War games:
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Analytical
Educational
Training
 This War game is an Educational War game.
 An Educational War game forces the participants to begin translating what they
have studied and learned about strategy, operational art, command and
control, leadership, and theories of warfare forging the lessons learned into
something they can use to carry out their mission or improve their understanding of
reality.
 This War game is designed to achieve and meet Educational Objectives.
Educational War games / Experiential Learning
Exercise Synopsis
This is the Saudi War Course War game. It is the experiential platform which will
allow the students the opportunity to demonstrate their synthesis of the
principles, concepts, and processes taught at Saudi War Course.
The game, focused at the strategic and operational leadership level, allows
students to role play joint, interagency, and multinational staffs.
Students evaluate national security challenges, apply elements of national power
utilizing national security and military strategies to achieve desired end states.
This is a Nine day graded exercise (6 days of Crisis Action followed by 3 MSEL
driven moves utilizing JTLS)
Synopsis of Capstone EOC War game
 Capstone end of course Exercise
 Crisis Action
 Computer assisted but manually adjudicated
 Focuses on the strategic and operational levels of war
 Involves the students and faculty role playing senior level leadership.
 Future, Fictitious but realistic Scenario that builds upon the scenario the
students used throughout the entire 10 month War Course
 Is driven by the Institutional Learning Objectives: Strategy, operational art,
command and control, leadership, critical thinking and theories of warfare.
 Master Scenario Events List (MSEL) Driven
Realistic Learning Forums
 Key Interagency and Military Meetings
 Multinational Coordination
 Videotaped
 Press Conferences
 Congressional and Ministerial Testimony
Faculty Roles
 Faculty Green Cell (Diplomatic Role, Red, Media, Congress, Senior
Ministries, National Command Authorities)
 White Cell (Exercise Control)
 Faculty Controllers:
 Facilitator…Mentor…Evaluator in Player Cells
 President, Ministers, Secretary Generals and other National Leaders
as required
Conclusion
 This is our first year utilizing a computer assisted simulation such as JTLS in
the Exercise
 We are interested in hearing and learning about any institutional experience
using JTLS in Senior Level Professional Military Education
 I am COL Mohammed Al Wahabi---please find me on the breaks to discuss
further.
 Thank you for your attention.