Live, multi-screen National Security Council crisis simulations. Students take the principals' seats and are graded on the quality of their reasoning — and how well they fight through stress and their own biases.
It is autumn 2027. Beijing has thrown a "customs quarantine" around Taiwan, an amphibious force is loading out in Fujian, and Taiwan's energy reserve is a clock counting toward zero. The President's principals have 72–96 hours to shape a response. As they debate, a facilitator releases intelligence injects timed to the room's blind spots — an ally that hesitates, a fleet that was miscounted, a fabricated pretext that circles the globe before the denial. The map, the blockade, and the clocks all move live.
Each exercise runs as a live, multi-screen session. Pick one to see its roles — Facilitator, Student, and Red Cell — and open the view for your seat.
A Chinese blockade of Taiwan, autumn 2027. Principals have 72–96 hours as the cordon tightens, allies waver, and the energy clock runs down — now with the new Blockade by Fire module.
A devastating cyberattack cripples the Nasdaq after near-misses in the South China Sea. The NSC must weigh a cyber response, sanctions, or military measures — under attribution that is 90%, not 100%.
Every inject is engineered to surface a specific failure mode — then the debrief names it. Students don't just "do a wargame"; they watch their own cognition break in predictable ways and leave with a vocabulary for it.
Imagery shows civilian roll-on/roll-off ferries and maritime militia — a dispersed armada, not the concentrated fleet your attrition models assumed. The wargame numbers in your brief assumed the wrong fleet.
A canvas globe and a strait-traffic model carry the pressure a memo never could. Warships tighten a cordon, inbound cargo turns back, airports close in sequence, and Taiwan's LNG reserve drains toward the grid-collapse line. When the facilitator tightens the screw, the whole room feels the clock move.
Grounded in recent campaign-analysis research, a new inject models a coercion option most analysts miss. Instead of stopping every ship at sea, Beijing fires missiles at Taiwan's port cranes to close the harbors its cordon can't reach. Because no foreign ship is hit, the diplomatic case for intervention stays thin and the pressure to escalate first lands on Washington. A room that spent its planning on breaking a ship cordon is left with nothing that answers a crane reduced to scrap.
Storm Across the Strait runs as a standalone console offline, or fully live across a classroom in about twenty minutes of setup. Book a facilitated session or license it for your program.