INTRODUCTION; What is an exercise?. What is a scenario?. Natural disaster, man-made, climate, cyber, other. The history of disasters. The history of exercises. Why exercise work. Emergency Management/Disaster Management and the Preparedness Cycle. How this Book Works.

CHAPTER I - Why do you need an exercise?. High level planning worksheet. CHAPTER 2 - What type of exercise?. The "which exercise" grid - high level planning worksheet. Data Gathering Techniques. Get to Work. CHAPTER 3 - Designing your exercise. How do we all get on the same page?.

Seminars. How do we build a plan?. Workshops. Tabletop Exercises. Scenario Planning. Games. Drills. Functional Exercises/Command Post Exercises.

Full-scale exercises. CHAPTER 4- Additional Exercise Parts. Build. Deliver. CHAPTER 5- Seeing is improving. Exercise Evaluation. Improving from Lessons Learned. Repeating the process.

CHAPTER 6- Additional Evaluation Exercise Parts. Complete the exercise. CHAPTER 7 - The Broader Timeline. Continuity of Operations (COOP) Exercises. Private-Public Partnership Exercises. Environmental/Climate Exercises. CHAPTER 8- The Future of Exercises. What will exercises be like in 5, 10, 20 years?.

Index. Glossary.