Hutspiel © 1955 Operations Research Office.
A theater-level war game directed to the study of the effects of various employments of tactical nuclear weapons and conventional air support on the defense of stabilized positions in Western Europe.
The game was played by two persons, Red and Blue, one representing the NATO commander and the other the USSR theater commander.
The combat area consisted of two Army group sectors, each with a frontage of about 150 miles containing front-line divisions aggregated to include tactical reserves, airfields, and forward supply depots. The Blue theater included the main NATO military supply system, transport facilities, and troops in France, Belgium, and West Germany. The Red theater contained the Soviet supply installations, transport lines, and troops committed west of the Oder-Neisse line. Troop reinforcements and materiel resupply from outside the theater were continuous throughout the play of the game.
HUTSPIEL was the outgrowth of a series of simpler man-machine games developed at ORO for the GEDA. These games considered such problems as the allocation of artillery fire among competing targets and the allocation of weapons in a two-sided missile exchange.
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