The United States Marine Corps has a unique role in development of the next-generation warfare gaming system for command staff training. This system, titled the Joint Simulation System (JSIMS), is under development by the Department of Defense through a Joint Program Office acting to coordinate the activities of multiple DoD agencies and military services. The nature of operations conducted by the USMC requires modeling and simulation across all JSIMS domains -- Land, Air/Space, Maritime, Intelligence, and Command and Control. The Marine Corps requires the broadest reach across these domains to provide battlespace representations that will support staff training, from Marine Expeditionary Unit through multiple Marine Expeditionary Force operations.

The operational benefits of having a learning organization include at the very minimum increased organizational competitiveness and responsiveness in a given realm of competition. Military simulation worlds have served and continue to serve as practice fields for organizational learning. Organizational learning mechanisms like the simulation debriefing session have been linked to organizational learning through a taxonomy for rare events. This research provides both descriptive and prescriptive findings for military interactive simulation and debriefing systems. Some suggestions for simulation system design are made based on the research.