STRATEGIC Engine: Strategic Training and Robust AI for Transferable and Effective General-Purpose Intelligence in Combat

In the pursuit of advancing military capabilities to meet the challenges of an increasingly complex global security environment, the strategic deployment of advanced wargaming platforms emerges as a pivotal innovation. This initiative proposes leveraging the Spring-Engine, known for its focus on Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games such as Beyond All Reason (BAR), as the foundational technology for a wargaming platform aimed at addressing a critical inquiry posed by the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) initiative: the potential for the transferability of intuitions, tactics, and operational strategies cultivated within virtual environments to real-world applications. Ā Our approach advocates for the development of a "wargaming cloud" that engages allied warfighters in immersive, analytically rich joint operation wargames, fostering the crowdsourcing of groundbreaking operational strategies from the Open-Source RTS gaming community.ĀWe seek to create a framework for easily reading game replays across a variety of games in a general manner which can be used in modern AI frameworks such as PyMARL and RLlib. By capitalizing on the Spring-Engine's robust support for several Massive Scale RTS gamesŚa genre inherently reflective of the cognitive and strategic intricacies of military operationsŚthis effort seeks to generate a comprehensive dataset from gameplay spanning several RTS games. This dataset will be a key resource for both conventional and AI-driven analytical techniques, aimed at extracting meaningful insights and facilitating AI-informed decision-making.Ā