Fort McNair, Washington DC –
NDU’s Center for Applied Strategic Learning (CASL) hosted the
2015 Connections Interdisciplinary Wargaming Conference on July 27-30. Over 170 members of the wargaming community, from the public, private, commercial, and academic sectors, met to share best practices and develop innovative solutions to problems. Dr. Zachary Mears, Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of Defense, provided keynote remarks addressing the recent DepSecDef memos on wargaming. The remainder of the conference featured speakers, demonstrations (pictured above), working groups, seminars, and a workshop element (the Game Lab), all focused on different aspects of the conference theme of "Reinvigorating Wargaming for Innovation." Connections 2015 served as a forum for wargamers from all parts of the field to discuss and develop the discipline as a whole.