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Play the Prototype Tactical Decision Game 1 (TDG 1) Interactive Experience
Step into command from either commander's perspective.
Make decisions under uncertainty, compare outcomes and explore the interplay of terrain, momentum and timing.
The Command Learning Series
The Command Learning Series explores how people develop judgment for leadership and command: how we learn to think, decide and act under uncertainty.
Drawing on military history, wargaming, decision exercises and simulation, the series examines different methods for developing judgment and how those methods can contribute to better decision-making and leadership.
Command Learning Series #1
How Tactical Decision Games Develop Judgment
Tactical Decision Games have survived for more than a century because they do more than teach tactics. They develop judgment.
Command Learning Series #2
How Matrix Games Develop Judgment
Matrix games develop judgment by requiring participants to understand competing perspectives, justify their reasoning, anticipate consequences and adapt as events unforld.
Command Learning Series #3
How Do We Actually Get Better at Deciding?
Judgment develops through meaninful repetitions: confronting difficult problems, making consequential decisions, receiving feedback, reflecting and deciding again.
Command Learning Series #4
How Historical Battle Studies Develop Judgment
Explores how historical battle studies develop Judgment by placing learners inside a commander's problem before revealing what happened. Requiring a decision first transforms military history from a record of past events into an opportunity to practice reasoning under uncertainty.
