I have a lot of theoretical knowledge of game theory (well a bit), but I have zero idea how to create a military war game.

I want to create a table top exercise to examine a set of problems or issues regarding techniques/tactics.

I want to format the tool so that anybody in the military or associated with the military would be familiar with the idea.

I have visited the great global google goodness and came away knowing a lot about dungeons and dragons and not a whole lot about how to create a war game. I'm not interested in entertaining anybody but examining thinking processes.

Likely this is another situation where I don't know what I don't know so I can't use key words I'm unaware of to accomplish the search. Any help would be truly appreciated.