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Students
Tuition Fee
GBP 450
Per course
Start Date
Medium of studying
Fully Online
Duration
3 months
Program Facts
Program Details
Degree
Courses
Major
Emergency Management | Homeland Security | National Security
Area of study
Security Services
Education type
Fully Online
Course Language
English
Tuition Fee
Average International Tuition Fee
GBP 450
Intakes
Program start dateApplication deadline
2025-04-01-
About Program

Program Overview


Professional Education

Wargaming and Strategy

Security & Defence


Course Overview

Wargaming is undergoing a renaissance. Not since the interwar period has the method been so popular with not only governments, militaries, and NGOs, but also with a host of public and private institutions. This may not be surprising. The modern world is presenting us with a host of novel challenges including pandemics, climate crises, the rise of great power conflict, supply chain vulnerabilities, cyber security threats, and radical politics. Many of these challenges are new and poorly understood. Others are interacting in new and complex ways. Wargaming offers a potential way to help discover and evaluate strategies for dealing with them. But how?


Course Features

The purpose of this course is to consider how wargaming might be used to analyse and develop strategy. As such, it is a course about two different but linked issues. First, we must consider what strategy is, how it flows from one’s understanding of victory, and how it is influenced by the choices of others. Second, in applying wargaming to strategy, we must first unpack wargaming as method by understanding its history, its unique features, and how it can be best applied to questions of strategic analysis. Over the course of five units, students will receive introductions into strategic theory and the method of wargaming. By the end of the course students should be well positioned to be able to evaluate if, when, and how wargaming might address some of the challenges organizations and individuals face today.


This is a self-paced online course where students can access and work through the material at their own convenience. You will have access to the course for 3 months.


Course Content

The course is designed to give students an understanding of the potential of wargaming as a tool of strategic analysis by:


  • Introducing them to the history of wargaming
  • Introducing them to theories of strategic choice
  • Outlining the unique features of wargaming
  • Detailing how wargaming is used professionally
  • Providing guidance on how to use wargaming in research

Learning Outcomes

Through this course, students will:


  • Be able to identify core concepts of theories of strategic choice
  • Be able to identify the unique methodological features of wargaming
  • Be able to locate wargaming both as an object and method of study, with specific emphasis on how it can contribute to strategic analysis
  • Gain an overview of the history and practice of professional wargaming
  • Learn how to incorporate wargaming as an analytic tool into their organisations

Entry Requirements

No formal education or professional requirements, however, all learning will be delivered in English, therefore we recommend minimum IELTS Level 6 for learners to get the most from the spoken and written content.


Key Information

  • Credit value: Not for credit
  • Duration: 5 hours
  • Self-paced over 3 months

Fees & Discounts

  • Full Price: £450.00
  • Staff: £382.50
  • Alumni: £382.50
  • King's Students: £382.50

Who Will I Be Taught By

Dr David Banks, Senior Lecturer in Wargaming


Offered By

Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy, King's Institute for Applied Security Studies


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