Littoral Crisis and Conflict

This scenario document is a companion to the previously published Information Warfighter Exercise Wargame Second Edition: Rulebook. The scenario is intended as a resource for anyone considering administering an Information Warfighter Exercise (IWX) Wargame; this is not for players.

The scenario encompasses competition, crisis, and large-scale combat operations between two fictional countries: Khorathidin and Bagansait. The scenario begins with humanitarian assistance and disaster response operations, progresses to include an attempted fait accompli, and concludes with a division-level multidomain fight. Each team must plan influence activities to support semiscripted military operations in its attempt to destroy enemy forces and gain control of a disputed littoral region.

This document will allow IWX exercise control personnel to run a wargame without first building their own scenario by providing the following resources: (1) background information on two fictional, adversarial countries and a road to crisis that escalates them through the competition continuum; (2) a default turn-by-turn overview of Red and Blue team objectives and concepts of operations; (3) orders of battle and information environment overviews for both the Red and Blue teams, initially drawn from U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command's Decisive Action Training Environment and then modified and augmented to meet the needs of the IWX; references and supplemental materials to augment the information environment; and a step-by-step guide for developing more IWX Wargame scenarios, with explanations of how and why this particular scenario was developed.