Training Development Division (TDD)

TDD Mission Overview:

The Training Development Division (TDD) is responsible for designing, delivering, and supporting training programs that translate LFSG’s validated research, doctrine, and operational concepts into practical application for Lightfighters. TDD ensures LFSG’s tactics, techniques, procedures, and force structure models are integrated into actionable training solutions through:

  • Classroom instruction

  • Field exercise Support

  • Mobile Training delivery

  • Structured opposing forces simulation

TDD programs reinforce the continuous improvement of force effectiveness by closing the gap between conceptual development and practical field execution.

TDD Organizational Structure

TDD is structured around two branches:

1. Training Systems and Support Branch (TSB)
Develops and delivers training products, instructional design, and mobile training packages. Includes:

  • Instructional Systems Development (ISD)

  • Mobile Training Teams (MTTs)

  • Classroom and field training support

2. Opposing Forces (OPFOR) Branch
Designs, trains, and deploys structured threat emulation forces for exercises and scenarios. Includes:

  • Balto-Slavic Republic (BSR) Red Team

  • Insurgent/Guerrilla Force (IGF) Asymmetric Threat Team

Training Systems and Support Branch (TSB)

Branch Mission:

The Training Systems and Support Branch (TSB) is responsible for developing and delivering training content, instructional design products, mobile training capabilities, and integrated exercise support. TSB ensures that LFSG’s research findings, validated force structures, and doctrinal innovations are translated into effective instructional programs and field-based training systems that meet the cognitive, physical, and tactical demands of Lightfighters.

Core Focus Areas:

  • Instructional Systems Design (ISD):
    Designs outcome-based learning objectives, task analyses, lesson plans, and training support packages (TSPs) aligned with operational needs.

  • Mobile Training Teams (MTTs):
    Deployable instructional teams that deliver on-site or field-based training tailored to organizational requirements, terrain, and mission profiles.

  • Exercise Support:
    Coordinates planning, scripting, and observer-controller integration for live field training, supporting the full spectrum of training from rehearsal to after-action review.

  • Training Support Package Development:
    Creates and distributes scalable training products, including doctrine-focused modules, skills validation lanes, and scenario-based learning environments.

  • Program of Instruction (POI) Integration:
    Aligns training outputs with LFSG’s ongoing research programs and doctrinal shifts to ensure synchronization across institutional and operational domains.

Branch Statement:

The Training Systems and Support Branch (TSB) is the engine of LFSG’s instructional enterprise. By fusing cognitive training design with field-realistic implementation, TSB ensures that every validated concept from the Research Division becomes a training reality for Lightfighters. Whether in classrooms, forests, or simulated battlefields, TSB brings the learning ecosystem to life—delivering agile, immersive, and standards-based instruction to prepare warfighters for tomorrow’s fight.

Opposing Forces (OPFOR) Branch

Branch Mission:

The Opposing Forces (OPFOR) Branch replicates real-world threat models to support training, experimentation, and concept validation. The branch is responsible for developing and maintaining persistent, structured representations of conventional and asymmetric adversaries. By integrating these threat forces into exercises and scenario development, OPFOR ensures that Lightfighters are trained to understand, outmaneuver, and defeat contemporary peer, near-peer, and irregular adversaries.

Core Focus Areas:

  • Red Team Modeling:
    Develops and role-plays conventional threat forces modeled on adversary military doctrine, such as the Balto-Slavic Republic (BSR), to simulate motorized rifle and armored regimental formations.

  • Asymmetric Threat Replication:
    Builds and fields insurgent/guerrilla force (IGF) models that replicate decentralized, irregular warfare threats, including swarming, sabotage, and low-signature operations.

  • Threat Doctrine and TTP Development:
    Produces and maintains threat tactics reports (TTRs), orders of battle (OOBs), engagement decision matrices (EDMs), and doctrinal overlays for use in scenario scripting and tactical training.

  • Live Role-Playing and Embedded Opposition:
    Deploys trained OPFOR teams into training environments to serve as a thinking, adapting enemy—reinforcing realism and enabling dynamic Blue Force learning.

  • Threat Integration in LVCG Environments:
    Integrates OPFOR across Live, Virtual, Constructive, and Gaming (LVCG) domains, supporting unit exercises, simulations, and institutional wargames.

Branch Statement:

The OPFOR Branch brings the enemy to life.

Through immersive and authentic threat replication, OPFOR transforms training and experimentation environments into contested, competitive spaces. From mechanized regiments to guerrilla cells, this branch ensures that Lightfighters are not just rehearsing tactics—they're fighting to prove them. OPFOR is the opposing force you want in the field before you face the real one.

Balto-Slavic Republic

(A Red Team Army Model)

The Balto-Slavic Republic (BSR) Team represents LFSG’s structured Red Team Army model, designed to replicate the tactics, techniques, and organizational models of a near-peer, conventional adversary. Rooted in post-Soviet and modern Russian-style doctrine, the BSR Team provides realistic, doctrinally accurate opposition for force-on-force experimentation, training, and capability validation.

Insurgent/Guerrilla Force

(An Asymmetric Threat Model)

The Insurgent/Guerrilla Force (IGF) Team represents LFSG’s structured asymmetric threat model, focused on replicating irregular, decentralized adversaries such as guerrilla cells, insurgent bands, and non-state actors. The IGF Team provides realistic opposition through unconventional tactics, designed to challenge Lightfighters in patrolling, reconnaissance, and distributed operations environments.