Strategy Testing Interactive Games

Basics

• Abbreviated “STIG” or “STIGs”
• The application of the principles of Modern, Multi-Domain, Wargaming to Issues Other Than War
• Mainly
  • Emergency Response / Resiliency
  • Stress Testing Strategy/Policy/Doctrine (in a manner far cheaper than doing so “in the real world” )
  • Providing a manner for challenging of idea regardless of rank/prestige, that requires less risk/has less of a chance pf provoking outright ego driven arguments
  • Determining potentially unknown Synergies / Unknown Unknowns or Black Swan Events before “finding out the hard way”
  • Allowing an innovative way of interaction of SMEs , Stakeholders , and AHJs
    • IE rather than exchange emails, or simply “wine and dine”, have a structured means of exchanging and testing ideas (albeit still with plenty of the other aspects there too!)

Internal Links

• Planspiel (The german word for this, related to/derived from Kreigspiel the compound word for Wargaming )
• Model UN
  • An existing practice that relates to some of this

External Links

• A Video by the YouTube Channel “People Make Games” Titled “The Games Behind Your Government’s Next War” ( ‘’’~1 Hour 12 Minutes Long’’’ )
  • At 55:33 it is mentioned “Wargaming is one method of doing that; you may want to call it Decision Gaming, or Crisis and Risk Gaming”
    • This inspired me for the title of this page, but the name matter FAR LESS than actually benefiting from the practice, but you know me ( User: Eric ) and a good Backronym lol