OPERATION SWIFT WITHDRAWAL: A NONCOMBATANT EVACUATION OPERATIONS (NEO) WARGAME
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Authors
Britt, Kyle
Subjects
experiential learning theory
recognition-primed decision
naturalistic decision-making
fast and slow thinking
NEO
Noncombatant Evacuation Operations
educational wargame
recognition-primed decision
naturalistic decision-making
fast and slow thinking
NEO
Noncombatant Evacuation Operations
educational wargame
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Hodges, Glenn A.
Balogh, Imre L.
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2021-06
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Monterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate School
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As the contemporary operational environment shifts, the United States Marine Corps (USMC) will be increasingly relied upon to conduct missions as the nation’s force-in-readiness. One category of these missions is Noncombatant Evacuation Operations (NEOs). NEOs are Department of Defense (DOD) and Department of State (DOS) operations that evacuate noncombatant and other designated evacuees from hostile countries to safe locations. The USMC has encountered NEOs for the past 50 years and must be prepared to execute NEOs because of future uncertainty. However, because of the infrequency of mission rehearsals, NEO skill atrophy is a concern. Thus, an interactive classroom training tool that augments the passive learning associated with PowerPoint presentations could be beneficial. Therefore, this thesis describes a novel experiential exercise in the form of an educational wargame that reinforces the three NEO guiding principles. The data collected from several iterations of this wargame suggests that this educational training tool can be utilized to reinforce NEO guiding principles and augment current NEO training methods.
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Computer Science (CS)
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