Hertog Summer - Potomac Simulation Hegemon

The Navy's Grade 36 Bureaucrat: Hertog Summer Study: Turn 1

Hegemon is designed as a game to get policy makers to understand the military consequences of a war. Military actions are written at the strategic level, so there is a lot of detail of military action that is auto-generated. The negotiations are done person to person, with different people playing different parts. On Tuesday we got our team assignments, and I was picked to play Indonesia. How about that!
Unfortunately, because there are two different games ongoing, I have to play an Indonesian A and B team. That requires a bit more brainpower to keep everything straight, but I'm up for the challenge

When we finally got our KMZ file
(the game is played on Google Earth),
the world looked like this

So first, my country is pink. Luckily, I'm manly enough to take that. However, I really don't have any units. Because the game designers made the game at the strategic level, I don't have a lot of units.

» Simulations The Potomac Foundation

The Potomac Foundation’s proprietary Hegemon© platform and methodology offer an interactive simulation and modeling experience to teams of analysts and strategists. Based on open-source and de-classified data points for tactical, operational, theater and strategic levels of analysis, Hegemon allows the participants to work through diverse sets of scenarios, test old assumptions and develop new concepts of operations. Our past and current wargaming clients include the U.S. and allied government agencies, military colleges, national security contractors and the private industry.

» The Hertog Summer Study The Potomac Foundation

The Potomac Foundation Hegemon: Rise of China simulation has been featured at the Hertog  Summer Study Program, a program run by Johns Hopkins SAIS to educate field-rank officers being prepared for flag-rank promotion, for the past three years.

The simulation allows officers and academics to take up the challenges currently facing the United States, People’s Republic of China, and various other players in the Asia-Pacific theater (including
but not limited to Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, Australia, and Russia) and compete to achieve their long-term objectives in the theater.

China's own course:

The China Factor--- Managing China’s Global Challenge - CLASS DETAIL - PKU Summer School International 
The rise of China over the last two decades is one of the most significant events that shape global market competition, trade and economic development, and geopolitics. Its implications on worldly issues from global and regional peace and security to the sustainability of the environment are profound. The China factor is an amalgamation of dynamic, complex and interactive forces that appear as problems, puzzles or challenges to different people at different times. This course aims to provide an orientation for students to understand those forces, especially those related to the major stakeholders and their evolving relationships, policies and game rules, and collective behaviors. The orientation is grounded in both Chinese historical and cultural legacies and the contexts of China’s state building, modernization and globalization. The course covers a wide array of topics in primarily three areas: international relations, investment and trade, and market competition.

Another view:

Why the Rise of China Will Not Lead to Global Hegemony
Domestic inadequacies and a loss of international prestige has left a growing number of scholars, analysts, and other experts worried about the imminent decline of the United States of America (U.S.).  This coincides with the assumptions of Hegemonic Stability Theory (HST), which presupposes the cyclical transition of world leadership.  Said differently, the reigning world leader could soon be replaced by a new power.  Over the last few decades military thinkers, journalists, policymakers, and scholars alike, have been watching with a wary eye, the rapid rise of China.  Understandably, some are uneasy about the emergence of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as a new superpower.  Given the apparent decline of the U.S., many experts even wonder if the PRC is positioning itself to succeed the U.S. as global hegemon.[1] Its impressive economic growth and formidable military buildup could indicate that China is preparing for just such an occasion.