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Planning Your Next Table Top Exercise Dr. Roger Mason – LECMgt Table top exercises can be a cost effective tool to improve disaster, security, and emergency management skills. Table top exercises can provide a realistic training format where participants can make real world decisions in a consequence free environment. There are four things which should…
Dr Roger Mason has been invited to address the 2016 International Competitive Intelligence Conference in Bad Nauheim, Germany April 19-22. The conference is being sponsored by the Institute for Competitive Intelligence. Dr. Mason will be speaking on the use of war gaming for competitive intelligence. http://conference.competitive-intelligence.com/agenda.shtml
Dr. Roger Mason was a presenter at the Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals (SCIP) European Summit November 2-4 in Madrid, Spain. The conference attendees included intelligence professionals from corporations across Europe. The theme of the conference was Game Changers. Dr. Mason’s topic was the use of war games to determine possible courses of action (COA)…
Dr. Roger Mason was a guest of the Center for Intelligence Services and Democratic Systems (SISD) at Juan Carlos University in Madrid, Spain. Dr. Mason was invited to present a seminar on war gaming and intelligence analysis by Dr. Ruben Arcos who is the Deputy Director of the Center. SISD offers a master’s degree program…
Dr. Roger Mason’s war game Night Fight has just been published by Decision Games in the current issue of World at War magazine. This is a solitaire game simulating tactical combat on the Eastern Front during World War Two. The player leads a small unit of the German Army against the Russian Army in fighting…
This year LECMgt has completed an evaluation of the UH Manoa’s emergency exercise program. The campus is developing a multiyear exercise program. LECMgt has been contracted to design three exercises for the first year of the program. Hurricanes are always a possible threat to the Hawaiian Islands so the first exercise involved hurricane management. The…
Creating A Campus Police Advisory Board Part II: Developing the Function and Role of the Advisory Board Roger Mason Ph.D. Note: This article is a follow up to the first article titled Creating a Campus Police Advisory Board. Introduction: Once a campus has established their campus police/public safety advisory board the next step is developing…
While none of the PAXsims editors were able to attend the recent International Conference on Exercises, Games, and Simulations for Intelligence and National Security held at Georgetown University on 24-25 March, Roger Mason provided a short report on the day. See here: https://paxsims.wordpress.com