Shall we play a game?

[EndtheMadnessNow]

How about a nice game of heh-JEM-uh-nee...







RAND Corporation scientifically engineered these event cards to represent the most probable future events. It literally says so in the rulebook.


RAND Corp

No, I'm not giving them $250 toward their propaganda psyops, but good luck trying to figure out how to play the "game" - the rulebook is free to download.
Whatever a player chooses, their goal is to gain more influence—within a certain region or throughout the world—than their competitors. The game requires 5 facilitators.



Hedgemony is a pedagogical wargame designed for U.S. defense strategy and policy professionals, as well as graduate school faculty and students in related fields of study.

Funding to produce the game in a format useful for a broader policy making audience was provided by gifts from RAND supporters and income from operations.


Hedgemony was on RAND's list of top 10 most popular research projects for 2020. The #1 most popular RAND research of 2020...“Quarantine,” “social distancing,” and “flatten the curve.” Shocking but not surprised.


In a separate PDF downoad they offer a listing of (real world) acronyms & abbreviations for the game. From a quick scan of interest:

DIME (Diplomatic, Information, Military, and Economic)
DIME is a framework that emerged from U.S. military academia for characterizing powers that a state may use to influence outcomes in the world.

The term "gray zone" might be new, but the phenomenon is not. Although many of the techniques used now are based on modern technology, notably cyber and networked communication, many are as old as history. What are now being called gray zone methods have been conducted in the past under such names as “political warfare,” “covert operations,” “irregular warfare,” “guerrilla warfare,” “active measures,” and the like.

The "White Cell" is the team of people administering and facilitating the game on behalf of the players.

Etymology



Speaking of RAND & the "Whiz-kids" this clip coincides with that wild king cobra venom/Vaxx conspiracy story going around.

Dr. Strangelove - "Precious Bodily Fluids"