Wargaming Emerging Technologies Workshop 2026

This workshop will encompass all aspects of wargame and wargame design, but with a focus on how wargaming can support analysis of disruptive technologies and industrial base issues. Papers are welcome on all aspects of wargaming, but we challenge you to think about how wargaming supports and can focus on analysis of disruptive strategies and alternative procurement processes. The DoD’s “commercial first” policies have been followed up by a movement of technology disruptors into the defense space. They seek to disrupt not only how the military innovates, but also how it fights, and how it builds an industrial base that meets the requirements of the long war. Gaming can provide the base from which to make decisions about disruption. Manual gaming is fast, able to keep up with the pace of change. It also represents an inexpensive way to test new ideas and warfighting concepts. What manual gaming has not done is focus on the long war and the logistical, industrial, and social aspects of a multi-year, peer competitor, war where the national production and global economics will drive the warfight.