Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Playing Games
A $195,000 video game has been developed by the U.S. Joint Forces Command, a division of the Department of Defense. The game, Urban Resolve is a simulator that allows the U.S. military to learn more about how to handle urban conflicts like those going on in the middle east right now.
The developers of Urban Resolve's intent is a three-phase effort:
Phase I: Each of the three planned phases of Urban Resolve will build on previous efforts. Phase I will focus on using human intelligence, along with advanced intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) technologies, to gain comprehensive situational awareness and situational understanding of the urban environment and the adversary forces.
Friendly forces will employ a variety of future ISR sensor capabilities to detect, locate, and track adversary systems and personnel inside a densely populated urban area.
The adversarial forces will employ increasingly more effective means of signature reduction, including camouflage, concealment, and deception to hide from friendly ISR, while moving among the neutral inhabitants of the city.
Phase II: In Urban Resolve Phase II, the friendly force will continue to employ leading-edge ISR capabilities to find and track the adversary.
Phase II will expand the scope of the experiment to include shaping the future battlespace through the use of special operations forces and precision effects, both lethal and non-lethal, primarily launched at a distance. This phase of the experiment will start to directly inform the continued development of both the major combat operations and the joint urban operations concepts being developed by U.S. Joint Forces Command.
Phase III: During Urban Resolve Phase III, the U.S.-led coalition will employ a fully equipped, combined or joint task force with modern air, land, sea, and space capabilities to maneuver effectively in the urban battlespace.
The question I have is this: How is a game whos players consist of "mainly retired military leaders and contractors who consult for the Department of Defense" going to help the soldiers who are actually under fire in the situations that Urban Resolve simulates? If so much is being invested into this game, shouldn't soldiers be playing them instead of retired military personnel that no longer see action on the battlefield?
The developers of Urban Resolve's intent is a three-phase effort:
Phase I: Each of the three planned phases of Urban Resolve will build on previous efforts. Phase I will focus on using human intelligence, along with advanced intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) technologies, to gain comprehensive situational awareness and situational understanding of the urban environment and the adversary forces.
Friendly forces will employ a variety of future ISR sensor capabilities to detect, locate, and track adversary systems and personnel inside a densely populated urban area.
The adversarial forces will employ increasingly more effective means of signature reduction, including camouflage, concealment, and deception to hide from friendly ISR, while moving among the neutral inhabitants of the city.
Phase II: In Urban Resolve Phase II, the friendly force will continue to employ leading-edge ISR capabilities to find and track the adversary.
Phase II will expand the scope of the experiment to include shaping the future battlespace through the use of special operations forces and precision effects, both lethal and non-lethal, primarily launched at a distance. This phase of the experiment will start to directly inform the continued development of both the major combat operations and the joint urban operations concepts being developed by U.S. Joint Forces Command.
Phase III: During Urban Resolve Phase III, the U.S.-led coalition will employ a fully equipped, combined or joint task force with modern air, land, sea, and space capabilities to maneuver effectively in the urban battlespace.
The question I have is this: How is a game whos players consist of "mainly retired military leaders and contractors who consult for the Department of Defense" going to help the soldiers who are actually under fire in the situations that Urban Resolve simulates? If so much is being invested into this game, shouldn't soldiers be playing them instead of retired military personnel that no longer see action on the battlefield?
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This is not a game, played for entertainment. It is a military simulation played to improve military strategy, tactics and training for urban warfare.
I don't understand your question. Where did you get the impression that this would be played by retirees and contractors?
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I don't understand your question. Where did you get the impression that this would be played by retirees and contractors?
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