Understanding Military Collaboration in Wargames

The military has developed wargames to explore their doctrines and train operational concepts. Wargames are often designed to teach educational objectives and share and produce knowledge. The success of a wargame design depends on how it achieves these objectives. Players are the main actors in wargames and often group into teams. The final result of the wargame depends on the collaboration and interaction between the members of each team. Therefore, this work aims to understand how collaboration occurs in wargames. Moreover, we observed the activities and processes during a large-scale wargame to gather how the players collaborate. A better understanding of collaboration in wargames may provide insights for game designers to improve the wargames design process to consider how the players collaborate.