This is an article by Arthur J. Simental, an Article Out Loud from Domestic Preparedness, February 12, 2025.
Disaster wargaming may significantly change the future of tabletop exercises in emergency management and homeland security. Long used effectively to win and prevent wars throughout history, wargaming offers more realistic and engaging scenarios for emergency managers to prepare for real-world disasters.
Learn how disaster wargaming, compared to other types of exercises, provides a unique and impactful means to prepare for real-world disasters.
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Arthur J. Simental
Arthur J. Simental, M.S., CEM, is a homeland security and emergency management professor, researcher, consultant, and career certified emergency manager. Mr. Simental is the founder and chief executive officer of Simental Industries Ltd. and EM Disaster Gaming, a homeland security and emergency management consulting firm, disaster gaming initiative, and disaster research collaborative. Mr. Simental is also a former public health advisor for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Mr. Simental has over sixteen years of service in government, homeland security and emergency management, and emergency services. He has served all levels of government and private and nonprofit sectors in homeland security, emergency management, healthcare and public health, emergency preparedness, space and defense, security, education, and critical infrastructure. Mr. Simental is also a homeland security researcher; published author; threat liaison officer; a member of FEMA’s Science, Technology and Integration Special Interest Group; and disaster wargame creator.
