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- Unified Quest 2008
- The Unified Quest series of war games are the Title X war games of the US Army. These are comments on the 2008 game from MG Fast, US Army, Col Collett, British Army, and others.
- Unified Quest 2008 — An Australian’s View
- This provides a perspective on Unified Quest from LTCOL Rowlatt, representing the closest US ally in the South Pacific.
- Unified Quest 2011 — The Profession of Arms Seminar
- Unified Quest 2011 included seminars that hardly had a war game structure at all. Participants were given scenarios of the future and engaged in seminars to assess the consequences in a professional manner on assigned topics. The video describes how scenarios and seminars (and this was short of being a seminar war game) can address critical issues of the military profession.
- Unified Quest 2011 — Glenn Beck’s Take
- Even Glen Beck pays attention to seminar war games… but his conclusions are a bit over the top! Surprised?
- Unified Quest 2011 — Yet A Different Take
- Even avatars can have a lucid discussion on the economic issues within an army seminar war game.
- The Fred Friendly Seminars
- Over several decades the Public Broadcasting System and Columbia University produced television programs of seminars intended to educate Americans on issues of public importance. Fred Friendly, former president of CBS News and later on Columbia’s faculty, initiated this work and his name has become associated with the ongoing activity. Snippets of recent programs illustrate the use of ‘hypotheticals’ or ‘case studies’ that are largely the civilian counterparts to seminar war games, as they would be used in a military setting. In particular the snippets illustrate the skills required of a facilitator in seminar war gaming. Some examples can be seen at: