Saudi War Course End of Course Capstone Exercise

1. Saudi War CourseEnd of Course Capstone Exercise UNCLASSIFIED THIS DOCUMENT IS FOR WARGAME AND EDUCATIONAL USE ONLY AND DOES NOT REFLECT REAL WORLD OPERATIONS OR CAPABILITIES

2. Overview Exercise Purpose Exercise Objectives Saudi War Course Institutional Learning Objectives End of Course Exercise Learning Objectives Exercise Design Synopsis of Exercise Conclusion

3. 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.

4. Saudi War Course Institutional Learning Objectives SWC ILO 1: Comprehend strategic-thinkingprocesses 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 leadershipand 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 powerin achieving strategic objectives.

5. 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 objectivesand 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.

6. Capstone Exercise Learning Objectives EOC LO 1: Evaluate the uniqueness of operational and strategic level leadershipas well as the competencies required to lead at the operational and strategic level EOC LO 2: Evaluate the national security challengesand opportunities in a future operating environment EOC LO 3: Evaluate the integrated employment of the elements of national powerin a crisis scenario through strategy formulation and policy development EOC LO 4: Evaluate processes to develop theater strategies, estimates, and campaign plansto employ military and non-military elements of powerin a joint, interagency, intergovernmental, and multinational environment to achieve the desired national end state

7. Educational Wargame Types of War games: 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

8. 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 processestaught at Saudi War Course. The game, focused at the strategic and operational leadership level, allows students to role play joint, interagency, and multinationalstaffs. 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) Exercise Synopsis

9. Synopsis of Capstone EOC War game • Capstone end of course Exercise • Crisis Action • Computer assistedbut manually adjudicated • Focuses on the strategic and operational levelsof war • Involves the students and faculty role playing senior level leadership. • Future, Fictitious but realistic Scenariothat 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

10. Realistic Learning Forums Key Interagency and Military Meetings Multinational Coordination Videotaped Press Conferences Congressional and Ministerial Testimony

11. 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

12. 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.