Simulation De-Brief

For the past few days, our class has explored a simulation of opposing countries, and what security truly means.  There were six groups of students, each representing a different country, each given different resources and growth capabilities. There were two obvious stronger nations from the start, with the four others much smaller. The nation I was a part of, 5, was one of the smallest, so we immediately tried to create alliances with stronger nations. We created a strong alliance with country 2, the strongest nation, and went on to ally with countries 1 and 3. We then, as an allied group, declared war on country 4, who had a strong military and we perceived as a threat. This is when the simulation ended, and we came to discuss all that had occurred. Through this discussions, we realized that we should not have created so many alliances, and instead created a much stronger bond with only nation 2. If we had done this, we could have held better security long term. The war would have been destructive to everyone, and was not a good idea.