NATIONAL WAR GAMING CENTRENWGC

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NATIONAL WAR GAMING CENTRE(NWGC) NATIONAL DEFENCE
UNIVERSITY ISLAMABAD-PAKISTAN
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ROLE OF NDU

• To groom senior civil and military leadership in
  security and defence related fields as well as
  crisis management.
• To act as a think tank for policy making in the
  field of defence and security.
• Provide strategic input to senior
  politico-military leadership.

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INTRODUCTION
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CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS

• NDU Teams Ist Visit to Turkey - Feb 2004
• Presentation by Dr J Roland at - Apr 2005
• Islamabad
• First Meeting of Steering
• Committee - Feb 2006
• Commandant's visit to Turkey - Jun 2006
• Signing of Contract with Rolands - Sep 2006
• Posting of JTLS Team to NDU - Nov 2006

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CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS

• Hardware Infrastructure Deployment - Dec 06-Apr
  07
• 6 Weeks training of Team at Monterey - Feb-Mar
  07
• Inauguration of JTLS at NDU - Apr 07
• Commencement of Data Base Work - May 07
• Visit President of Pakistan - 29 Jun 07
• Tactical Test Runs - Sep-Oct 07
• Operational Test Runs - Nov-Dec 07
• Scenario and Database Development -
  To Date

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ORGANISATION OF NWGC
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CURRENT ORG OF NWGC (8xOFFICERS)
CENTRE HQ (DIRECTOR) 1 x Brig
PLANNING / COORD / EVAL 1XLt Col 1 x NCO
SYSTEM ADM/DBA GIS 3 x Civ Offrs
COMBAT MODEL DEVELOPMENT / OP CELL 3 x
Offrs (Army,Navy,Air)
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EXPECTED ORGANISATION
CENTRE HQ (EX DIRECTOR) 1 x Brig 1XCol
PLANNING / COORD / EVAL 4 x Offrs, 2 x NCOs
SYSTEM ADM/DBA GIS 4 x Offrs, 6 x Assts
COMBT MODEL DEV / OP CELL 16 x Offrs, 10 x Assts
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HEX TERRAIN WORK

• a. All roads in Area of Operation including
  their categorization into good, fair and bad
  roads.
• b. Rail network.
• c. Large canals essential for ops.
• d. Major built up areas down to town level.
• e. Air infrastructure incl air bases.
• f. Port infrastructure.
• g. Fine tuning of mountains into low,medium and
  high mountains.
• h. Imp bridges and tunnels.
• j. Pipelines.
• k. Classification of rivers and their portions
  into navigable and non navigable ones.
• l. Lakes and other barriers.
• m. Artificial obstacles ,sand berms.mine fields.

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DATA BASE AND TERRAIN DEVELOPMENT

• Preliminary stage, Data base and terrain
  development will take approx 5 more months before
  first test run of a war game can be conducted.
• Use of open source (Google Earth)
• Digital maps
• Use of Geo Rectified Satellite Imagery
• Development of a software, where you dont have
  to essentially use TMU.

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Image By Google Earth
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GIS Software To Link CADRG With Google Images
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Use of Satellite Imagery With JTLS
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTJTLS CAPABILITIES

• User Friendliness
• Flexibility
• Operational and Strategic Utility
• Cost Effectiveness
• All encompassing

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CHALLENGES FACED

• Terrain-Data base interface in High mountains
• Artillery Fire (hex to hex), high trajectory not
  addressed
• Artillery Deployment challenges cannot be
  realistically modeled.
• Rail-road Movement
• Inherent limitation
• Value of Prepared defences(modelling parameters)
• Strategic and Operational summary (at least every
  24hrs)
• Indigenization of data base (specially logistics)
• New weapon systems