Gaming the war, Proteus USA, privatised CIA wargamers

[TonyGosling]

http://www.carlisle.army.mil/proteus/
Future Warfare and Strategic Analysis

Proteus USA will promote further discourse, study and research, focusing on the refinement, development and application of new and emerging "futures" concepts, methods, processes and scenarios

Everything you may want to know is on their website above.

Proteus: An International Forum exploring Future Geo-Strategic Security
Challenges

https://www.carlisle.army.mil/proteus/workshop/

September 16-18, 2008 U.S. Army War College Carlisle, PA Analyzing Future 21st Century National Security Challenges:
Strategic Reconnaissance and Creative Thinking to Prevent Strategic Surprise

Intelligence Online publication
10/04/2008 United States
Proteus, the DNI's Discreet Forecasting Think Tank

Among the numerous programs run by the governmental relations branch of the Booz Allen Hamilton concern - presently up for sale - figures Proteus USA, a think tank founded and financed by the director of national intelligence (DNI).

Since it was set up by the *Office of the Director of National Intelligence* in October, 2005, the forecasting and research think tank *Proteus USA* now counts over 500 experts who hail from the main agencies (*CIA*, *
NSA*, *NGA*, *NRO*) as well as from the Pentagon and the private sector (see graph below).

Apart from financing research and organizing an annual seminar on
geostrategic forecasting - the next will be held in Carlisle, Pennsylvania
between Sept. 16-18 - Proteus designs tools and methods to forecast the
future and its complex characteristics on behalf of national security
leaders. An example is an in-house role- playing program called the "*Protean Media Critical Thinking Game*".

For the first time this year Proteus' annual seminar will be organized
jointly with the *Global Futures Forum* (GFF), an offshoot of the *Global
Futures Partnership*, a CIA forecasting unit. While Proteus is fairly closed
off from the outside world and targets American decision-making circles, GFF has developed a permanent network of international experts from over 30 countries at present. Set up in the CIA with help from Harvard University and the *Rand Corporation*, GFF operates on the concept of collaborative intelligence and regularly organizes seminars outside of the U.S. (including Canada and at the *Center for Security Studies* at Zurich) on operational issues: terrorism, illicit traffic, proliferation and the like.

[TonyGosling]

Oil War is a brigade/squadron-level simulation of a hypothetical attempt by the United States and various other nations to take over the oil-producing areas of the Middle East. The simulation is primarily of land and air conflict. The game covers an arbitrary period of conflict (sixteen days), in which the issue would be decided. A total of three scenarios are available from which the players may choose.

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