Are Naval Forces on the Right Path? Leaders Run Wargame to Check
Analysis of the classified, Pacific-focused “Global 14” will continue for weeks or months, a Navy official said.
By Caitlin M. Kenney
Staff Reporter
November 17, 2021
Top naval leaders attended a tabletop wargame Wednesday whose Pacific-conflict scenario was meant to help determine whether their decisions about capabilities and platforms have the Navy on the right path.
“This is a gut check, really, I think, for senior leaders on: Are we going in the right direction, not only in terms of how we're going to fight but, as I said earlier, what we're going to fight with,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said to reporters after the wargame concluded.
The classified “Global 14” wargame was held this week at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, and hosted by the Navy’s U.S. Pacific Fleet. More than 475 people were involved from the Navy, Marine Corps, and Army, including senior leaders Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro, Marine Commandant Gen. David Berger, and Adm. John Aquilino, the commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.
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