Matthew B. Caffrey Jr., Wargame Designer, Theorist, Educator, Author

Mr. Matthew B. Caffrey Jr. is the Air Force Material Command (AFMC) Lead for the Air Force Chief of Staff’s Title 10 wargame, Futures Game, alternate AFMC Lead for wargaming, and the AFMC Integrator for Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Wargaming.

 

His prior position was Lead, Future Warfare Analysis Team, Directorate of Plans and Programs, HQ AFRL.  He has previously served as the Professor of Wargaming and Campaign Planning at the Air Command and Staff College, Research Associate at the School of Advanced Airpower Studies, and Senior Analyst for the SYSCON Corporation, serving at the Air Force Wargaming Institute, all at Air University, Maxwell AFB, Alabama. 

 

A retired Colonel in the Air Force Reserve, his final assignment was as Senior Reservist, Information Directorate, AFRL. His previous military assignments include; Chief, Wargaming Strategy Development, with the Air Staff’s Checkmate Division, the Pentagon, Washington DC and assignments at the major air command, wing, group and squadron levels. 

 

He is the developer of the 3rd Generation Wargame concept and the Strategy Cycle. In 1993 he helped found the Connections interdisciplinary wargame conference. In 2007 he created the Air Force Research Laboratory Wargame Course. Matt is the designer of the Air Force Research Libratory (AFRL) Wargame, the Engineer/Strategist Exercise, Joint Resource Allocation Exercise (JRAX), the Joint Deployment Employment Exercise (JDEX), and several other wargames. He co-authored the Gulf War Fact Book, and has written several chapters and many articles on wargaming, airpower, and defense issues. He has spoken on wargaming at the German War College, the United Kingdom’s defense research establishment, and in the US from The Pentagon to Silicon Valley. He is currently writing, On Wargaming, a book on the history, application, and potential of wargaming.

(Last Updated 29 May 2012.)

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