Army decision context
Twenty years of Army service provided firsthand context for staff roles, commander decisions, training constraints, and the friction between functions.
About NextGen Wargame
Training systems built from the controller’s side of the room.
NextGen Wargame develops low-overhead decision-training systems that help military staffs expose how they reason under pressure.
CADE—the Combined Arms Decision Exercise—is the capstone. It creates a controlled cycle of context, choice, consequence, and review without requiring heavy simulation infrastructure.
Founder and designer
Vincent “TJ” Taijeron
CADE began with a recurring training problem: leaders could see meetings, briefings, and products, but not always the thinking behind the recommendation.
TJ designed CADE to make that reasoning visible. His role combines military training experience, simulation operations, controller-focused product design, and governed AI production.
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Relevant foundation
Experience connected to the design.
Simulation operations
Work at the Command and General Staff College, West Point, and multinational training environments shaped what a lighter training system must preserve.
Multinational operations
NATO curriculum work and seven years with the OSCE in Ukraine added practical experience with language friction, incomplete information, and operational consequence.
Governed AI production
Source control, acceptance criteria, review gates, and live evidence keep AI subordinate to the training purpose and human design authority.
See the proof
The About page is context. CADE is the system.
Review the case study for the training problem, design decisions, execution evidence, and boundaries.