5-33 Red Cell

Narrator: The Red Cell is a task-organized element under the staff cognizance of the G-2 or S-2 and plays the enemy role during wargaming. The red cell presents a "thinking" enemy that uses threat doctrine and operational experience to brief enemy actions according to the event template and matrix, or threat COA and sync matrix, and react to friendly threats and dispositions in order to test friendly COAs during wargaming.