Given an alternative future, the Blue Team addressed each vignette sequentially, considering a world indications and warning picture, hedging forces accordingly to respond to potential emerging crises. Upon completion of this process, the cycle was repeated for each subsequent vignette. Dozens of times over the game's duration, the players resourced sequential and parallel events, ranging from peace operations in Europe to noncombatant evacuation operations in Africa, to shows of force in the Pacific, to disaster relief operations at home and abroad. Game Series Results and Outcomes Dynamic Commitment provided its participants an extensive forecast of likely future demands on U.S. Forces. The projected POM Force is suitable, though stressed, to execute the strategy.
Forward presence remains a cornerstone of strategy execution.
The current force structure is fragile. Preserving the effectiveness of uniquely configured platforms or units in the face of force reductions, must receive careful consideration. The Global Military Force Posture, Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan, and forward presence requirements should be revisited in conjunction with any proposals for substantial force cuts. Additionally, Service and QDR panel-specific insights were used to shape their own respective inputs to the QDR report. Beyond direct gameplay insights, Dynamic Commitment spurred a number of other QDR-related study and analysis efforts.