Erik G. Helzer

2 months ago | usni.org | Jared Samuelson |Erik G. Helzer

Over the past 50-plus years, Navy officers and sailors have trained at sea with gaming, mostly tabletop board games. These tools have been valuable, and many commanding officers have seen them that way, but institutional support has been sporadic. For these games to earn a formal place in the training regimen for surface and submarine qualifications, an important question must be answered: What should the Navy attempt to accomplish through wargaming?