U.S. Navy Title X War Game: Implementing the Maritime Strategy

During the period 4-8 August 2008, the Navy’s Title X War Game, Global ’08, was held
at the Naval War College (NWC) in Newport, Rhode Island. The game focused on
developing insights regarding the capabilities, capacities, and risks associated with
implementation of A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower (CS 21). The game
organizers assigned over 190 participants, including representatives from 19 foreign
navies, to one of seven cells (six regional and one global), asking them to “parachute”
into one of four alternative futures and consider a series of questions dealing with
security threats, maritime roles and tasks, concepts, and capabilities for responding to the
challenges arising in these futures. Initially developed for the Navy Strategic Planning
Process (NSPP), the four futures were functions of two primary drivers: extremism and
resource rivalry. The futures were not intended to be either comprehensive or predictive.