Sustainability, Environmental Impacts and Resilience of Strategic Infrastructures

Constantly evolving hybrid threats and consequent changes in defense lead to develop new Methods and Solutions for Strategic Decision Makers. Indeed, recent conflicts demonstrate how Parties, which address properly such changes, take advantages over the ones who did not. In this paper, the Authors propose an innovative Wargame using M&S (Modeling & Simulation) that address issues related to protection of Strategic Assets and Critical Plants at Sea, including FPSO (Floating Production Storage and Offloading Unit), Off-Shore Platforms, Seabed Fields, Pipelines, Underwater Cables, Off-Shore Wind Farms, etc. It is evident the importance to protect these assets and their strategic value for a Nation as well as their impact on Energy and Networking Infrastructures. This subject has to deal with complex operations (e.g. multi domain, underwater environment) as well as to the development of new Strategies. In order to succeed it is evident the importance to prepare and develop new Capabilities within decision makers, with particular attention to Strategic Impacts on Country and Population, Operations over Multi Domains and related C2(Command and Control), Autonomous Systems Intensive Environments. Indeed, it is proposed an innovative Wargame that combines MS2G (Modeling, interoperable Simulation and Serious Games) paradigm with a framework using virtual 3D Chessboard as Command & Control tool, with the aim to improve awareness of decision makers regarding new generation of threats employed in hybrid multidomain conflicts and the related Risks and Impacts