In 2019, Gen. David Berger, the 38th commandant of the Marine Corps, issued his Commandant’s Planning Guidance, which announced the service’s force planning initiative to prepare for conflict in the modern era. Berger identified wargaming as critical to the Marine Corps’ efforts and direction was issued to improve games in both quality and quantity. Twenty major wargames and several smaller games were executed in the first two years to support what became Force Design 2030. This drew deep lessons from the wargames of the inter-war years of the 20th century, used to develop opposed amphibious assault capability. Yet a formalThe post Five Wargames Every Force Design Process Needs appeared first on War on the Rocks.