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This Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation Has Been Downloaded from the King's Research Portal At This electronic thesis or dissertation has been downloaded from the King’s Research Portal at https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/ Wargaming in Military Education for Army Officers and Officer Cadets Elg, Johan Erik Awarding institution: King's College London The copyright of this thesis rests with the author and no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without proper acknowledgement. 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Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact [email protected] providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Download date: 06. Oct. 2021 Wargaming in Military Education for Army Officers and Officer Cadets Johan Elg Thesis Submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in War Studies September 2017 King’s College London Table of Contents Abstract ................................................................................................................................................... 6 Acknowledgments ................................................................................................................................... 7 Acronyms ................................................................................................................................................. 8 1. Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 10 1.1 A practice without theory............................................................................................................ 10 1.2 The research question ................................................................................................................. 11 1.3 The wargaming literature ............................................................................................................ 13 1.4 Methodology ............................................................................................................................... 17 1.5 The five case studies .................................................................................................................... 22 1.6 The sources .................................................................................................................................. 27 1.7 The structure ............................................................................................................................... 30 2. Wargaming theory ............................................................................................................................. 31 2.1 The essence of wargaming .......................................................................................................... 31 2.2 Educational games and military wargaming ............................................................................... 46 Summary ........................................................................................................................................... 56 3. Sweden .............................................................................................................................................. 57 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 57 3.1 Lower level: the Officer Programme ........................................................................................... 58 3.2 Intermediate level: the Land Warfare Centre ............................................................................. 71 3.3 Higher level: the Swedish Defence University (SEDU) ................................................................ 82 Conclusion: military educational wargaming in Sweden .................................................................. 95 4. Concerns and strategies: an analytical model grounded in data ...................................................... 97 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................... 97 4.1 The core category and its supporting core categories ................................................................ 98 4.2 Three theoretical concepts (conceptual categories) ................................................................. 103 4.3 An analytical model: properties and indicators ........................................................................ 108 Summary ......................................................................................................................................... 111 5. Germany .......................................................................................................................................... 112 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 112 5.1 Die Offiziersschule des Heeres .................................................................................................. 113 5.2 Das Gefechtssimulationzentrum des Heeres ............................................................................ 125 5.3 Die Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr .................................................................................. 132 Conclusion ....................................................................................................................................... 143 2 6. United Kingdom ............................................................................................................................... 145 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 145 Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS) .................................................................................... 147 Land Warfare Centre ....................................................................................................................... 158 Joint Services Command and Staff College ..................................................................................... 169 Conclusion ....................................................................................................................................... 182 7. United States ................................................................................................................................... 186 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 186 United States Military Academy (West Point)................................................................................. 188 Maneuver Center of Excellence (Fort Benning) .............................................................................. 198 Command and General Staff College (Leavenworth) ...................................................................... 208 Conclusion ....................................................................................................................................... 219 8. Japan ................................................................................................................................................ 221 Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 221 National Defense Academy (Boueidaigakkou, 防衛大学校) .......................................................... 222 Fuji school (Fujigakkou, 富士学校) ................................................................................................. 226 Staff College (Kanbugakkou, 幹部学校) ......................................................................................... 239 Conclusion ....................................................................................................................................... 245 9. Conclusion ....................................................................................................................................... 248 Reflection: the four initial conjectures ............................................................................................ 248 The core category and the three methods ...................................................................................... 254 The substantive field of army educational wargaming ................................................................... 262 Concluding remarks ......................................................................................................................... 270 Bibliography ........................................................................................................................................
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