The phrase "tabletop exercise" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a situation in which a group of people work together to plan for a possible problem or disaster. For example, "Our company recently held a tabletop exercise to plan for a security breach."
City officials also participated in a tabletop exercise of responding to a bioterrorism attack last week.
In 1998, Clark and the national security adviser, Sandy Berger, led senior officials through a "tabletop" exercise, war-gaming a terrorist attack against America.
One indication of concern was a secret cabinet-level "tabletop" exercise conducted last month that simulated the simultaneous release of anthrax in different types of aerosols in several American cities.
In Nassau, county officials tested their plan in a tabletop exercise on Wednesday, the 67th anniversary of the hurricane of 1938, which killed some 600 people, including about 50 on Long Island.
Tabletop exercise also provided a better chance than field exercise to evaluate the response without the use of telephones, which are not always reliable in real emergency situation.
The sample consisted of 72 students who performed a tabletop exercise in groups in order to plan a Project or a Cross Thematic program.
So I said, let's start with some tabletop exercises.
As one frequent participant in these tabletop exercises put it to me, "Most of them don't end well".
Both sides have mapped out detailed blueprints akin to the tabletop exercises the military uses for war.
He said the group was constantly conducting field and tabletop exercises to answer such questions as "how to keep the roads open, maintain order, stop fear and panic.
The administration has invited members of the Obama agency review teams to observe some of those so-called tabletop exercises between now and the inauguration, on Jan . 20
