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Originally Posted by ASW Jedi
Since their are so many scenarios out there with many of them plausable why should the military go through the trouble of writing their own?
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There have been Harpoon scenarios that have been used by the military. A guy I know said they used Harpoon at the Naval War College. I know the Australians also use it.
There are a lot of good scenarios for all wargames out there made by knowledgable people. The problem is that there's also a lot of scenarios out there that aren't plausible for various reasons or else have some other problems with them and who wants to sort through them all to find those which you might find useful?
My experience with military wargames has been that they usually create a scenario with a specific problem in mind as an exercise for decision makers. With that in mind, it's easier to just pay someone to make a scenario that does exactly what you want it to do than MAYBE find something out there you could use. It might not save any money, lord knows analysts aren't cheap, but the convenience of having something that represents exactly what you want, based on the latest intelligence working exactly the way things are supposed to, rather than something you just happened to find, is worth paying for.