EXPERIENCES OF THE APPLICATION OF WAR GAMES IN THE MILITARY DECISION-MAKING PROCESS

The military decision-making process is a set of mental and visual activities of an individual and/or a team that leads to optimal solutions to problems, that is, optimal decisions on the engagement of military forces in a specific situation. The military decision-making process itself is carried out using several strictly determined algorithms depending on the level of military organization at which the decision is made. War games are one of the tools within standard operating procedures, as an algorithm for the military decision-making process. The paper presents the results of research related to the experience of applying war games in the military decision-making process in foreign armed forces (The United States of America, The United Kingdom and Canada) and the Serbian Armed Forces. For the purposes of the research, the content analysis method was primarily used. The results obtained during the implementation of the research represent the basis for further research into this issue.