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Wonder how they wargamed logistics in the old days? Here are the instructions for Monopologs, a 1957 logistics game that RAND ran for the Air Force. Report written by Jean Renshaw and Annette Heuston. [1/6]
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM1917-1.html
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM1917-1.html
Monopologs was developed by the RAND Logistics Department. The game system is a simple simulation of one depot and five bases. Players practice inventory management and gain insight into inventory control problems. [2/6]
![Monopologs was developed by the RAND Logistics Department. The game system is a simple simulation of one depot and five bases. Players practice inventory management and gain insight into inventory control problems. [2/6]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EcQw4VIX0AARV3V.png "Monopologs was developed by the RAND Logistics Department. The game system is a simple simulation of one depot and five bases. Players practice inventory management and gain insight into inventory control problems. [2/6]")
The 1957 game Baselogs was next. It deals with Air Force base interactions between squadron operations, maintenance, and supply. Report written by Leon Gainen, Robert Levine, and William McGlothlin. [3/6]
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM2086.html
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM2086.html
Baselogs allows players to make funding decisions about aircraft, maintenance personnel, maintenance facilities and equipment, and parts. A playing field displays the aircraft and their conditions during the game. [4/6]
![Baselogs allows players to make funding decisions about aircraft, maintenance personnel, maintenance facilities and equipment, and parts. A playing field displays the aircraft and their conditions during the game. [4/6]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EcQxTF6XsAINVwE.png "Baselogs allows players to make funding decisions about aircraft, maintenance personnel, maintenance facilities and equipment, and parts. A playing field displays the aircraft and their conditions during the game. [4/6]")
There is also Misslogs, a 1959 game of missile logistics, written up by Bernard Voosen. The game illustrates the interactions between operations, supply, maintenance, and personnel in a ballistic-missile squadron. (Available via hardcopy) [5/6]
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM2455.html
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_memoranda/RM2455.html
What other military logistics games are out there in the public domain? Anyone else care to weigh in? [6/6]
