Some recent wargaming posts at PAXsims that may be of interest:
Developing a wargame of the 2017 liberation of West Mosul: https://paxsims.wordpress.com/2018/07/25/we-are-coming-nineveh/
Trip...
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Some recent wargaming posts at PAXsims that may be of interest:
Developing a wargame of the 2017 liberation of West Mosul: https://paxsims.wordpress.com/2018/07/25/we-are-coming-nineveh/
Trip...
My report on the 2018 Connections US professional wargang conference can be found at https://paxsims.wordpress.com/2018/07/20/connections-us-2018-report/
Connections UK 2018 will be held at...
My report on the recent Connections UK professional wargaming conference can be found here:
Connections UK 2017 Report
Tom Mouat's report on the earlier Connections US conference is here:
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A report on the recent Connections UK professional wargaming conference at King's College London:
main conference report (via PAXsims)
Civil War in Binni (pre-conference not-so-serious...
I've written up a brief report on the recent "wargaming in the classroom" event at the US Army War College, and posted it at PAXsims:
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In an effort to explore the benefits of bringing wargaming into the classroom, the US Army War College's Strategic Simulations Department is conducting a discussion panel and game play event on 27...
There are several Connections interdisciplinary wargaming conferences being held in various parts of the world this year:
Connections US
9-12 August 2016
Maxwell AFB in Montgomery, AL...
The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst has recently reintroduced manual wargaming into the curriculum—part of a slow renaissance of manual wargaming methods at a few professional military education...
The Military Operations Research Society recently held a multi-day workshop on professional wargaming. You'll find an informal summary of the event at PAXsims:
workshop:...
This may be of interest to some folks...
AFTERSHOCK is a game that explores the interagency cooperation needed to address a complex humanitarian crisis. Although designed for four players, it can...
Another AFTERSHOCK AAR, this time from the Chilean Joint Peacekeeping Operations Center (which has adopted the game for HADR training):
AFTERSHOCK at the Chilean Joint Peacekeeping Operations...
AFTERSHOCK: A Humanitarian Crisis Game explores the interagency cooperation needed to address a complex humanitarian crisis. Although designed for four players, it can be played with fewer (even...
It hasn't had any discussion here (yet), but back in February US Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work emphasized the need to "reinvigorate, institutionalize, and systematize wargaming across the...
Last week a group of us assembled at the University of Ottawa to matrix-game the current conflict concerning the self-styled “Islamic State” in Iraq and Syria. For practical reasons and to limit the...
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One of the issues that has been casually discussed at recent professional conferences (MORS, Connections, etc.) is the small...
One of my undergraduate students, Alex Langer, is currently designing a wargame of the Syrian civil war as a class project--you'll find a link to the instalments in his "designer diary" below. I'm...
Two reports on the recent Connections UK 2014 interdisciplinary wargaming conference are now available on PAXsims:
Situation Report
Final Report
For those who weren't able to make it, we've posted some conference reports at PAXsims:
http://paxsims.wordpress.com/2014/08/05/connections-2014-a-first-report/...
Can we get an inflatable Brant Guillory to bring to the conferences? I remember the splash you made in 2012!
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With the recently-announced launch of a Connections conference in...
Feel the need to bomb Iran? Here's your chance—the March/April 2014 edition of Modern War magazine included Target: Iran, a solitaire (manual) wargame of a fictional coalition strike against Iran. It...
Anyone else attending the MORS (Military Operations Research Society) 82nd annual symposium in (Alexandria, 16-19 June 2014)? There's quite a bit of wargaming (and related analytical goodness) this...
I'll be there!
The Connections 2014 interdisciplinary wargaming conference will be held be held at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia on 4-7 August 2014:
update from conference co-chair Matt Caffrey
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A quick round up of commercial/hobby wargames on the crisis in the Ukraine (current or fictional): http://paxsims.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/gaming-the-crisis-in-the-ukraine/
Some of the following might be of interest:
Review of commercial wargame BCT Command Kandahar (via PAXsims)
Interview with me on conflict simulation, education, and policy at the Serious...