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Today I’m reading about a completely fascinating wargame that was set up at Harvard to explore which strategies might work with regard to Iran and its weapons programs. Experienced foreign policy professionals were brought in to play the United States, Israel, the Iranian government, and others. Columbia University professor Gary Sick played Iran, and writes [...]
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First-person shooters and RTSs may be modern inventions, but they're really only the latest in a long line of games that attempt to simulate the experience of combat. Greg Tito offers an overview of the history of wargames, from Ancient Egypt's Senet to Prussia's Kriegsspiel.
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From escapistmagazine.com
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Randall C. Reed is preparing some material on the early history of commercial board wargaming and needs some help locating any photos or scans of the following events, places, or people: Any photos of Russell Powell of the period 1965 - 1975 Any ...
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From search.live.com
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ARTICLE: U.S. tested 2 Afghan scenarios in war game, By Greg Jaffe and Karen DeYoung, Washington Post, October 26, 2009
Frankly, the limitations of a wargame in such scenario forecasting are immense.
Really, all something like that can show is a sense of logical sequencing and an associated "cone of plausibility"--as in, when we get to this point, this is possible.
Basic point that I made in a previous post about how even accepting the...
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From thomaspmbarnett.com
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StarCraft and Total War have their origins in games like chess. But where did games like chess take their inspiration from?
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From escapistmagazine.com
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