ABSTRACT
Strategic wargaming aims at answering the question where an organization wants and needs to be at some point in the future. Before describing the case studies in this chapter, the authors briefly highlight the application of wargaming in the public sector. Wargaming in the public sector has a long tradition, for instance, in the United States (US). During the Cold War, in particular, the US government was looking for insight into how various scenarios and developments would play out and what the consequences for its foreign policy might be. During the 1970s the Open Skies legislation was introduced in the United States, which led to deregulation and greater competition not only in the United States but also in Europe and much of the rest of the world. The overall preparation for the game took about three months in order to assemble the necessary information and decide on the setup and structure and the game process.
