Web-based Army Repeatable Lesson in Operational Combat (WARLOC)
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Authors
Pavek, Michael K.
Starken, Austin T.
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Major Combat Operations
Joint Doctrine
Game Design
Game-based Learning
HTML5
JavaScript
CSS
Software Engineering
Joint Doctrine
Game Design
Game-based Learning
HTML5
JavaScript
CSS
Software Engineering
Advisors
Darken, Christian
Appleget, Jeffrey
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2014-06
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June 2014
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Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School
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The current generation of junior officers have spent the last ten years continuously deployed with tactical units focused on stability operations for both training and execution. This has led to a significant degradation in Major Combat Operations (MCO) planning and execution abilities at both the tactical and especially the operational-level. Faced with an unclear operating environment and a population of experienced combat vets, the senior military leaders must determine the training direction of the armed services. In a fiscally-constrained environment, web-based learning games can assist in rapidly bridging the gap between the familiar and unfamiliar at a lower cost and at increased adoption rates versus large simulations. This thesis describes the designing and development process of an original web-based wargame that familiarizes junior field-grade and senior company-grade officers on MCO operations at the joint level. The end state was the production of a completed paper wargame and a VASSAL module which adapted the paper version into an electronic form. Lastly, using HTML5, Javascript and mainly free-to-use tools, we created a prototype wargame that only requires a web browser for service members to play.
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Computer Science and Modeling Virtual Environments and Simulation (MOVES)
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.