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:
Connections US AAR
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:
Connections US AAR
They mostly come at night. Mostly.
- university webpage: McGill University
- conflict simulations webpage: PaxSims
Some musings on uses for wargaming
http://grogheads.com/featured-posts/9720
(way more at the link)The professionals talk about wargaming in very different terms than the casual hobbyists do. Don’t get me wrong, the professionals know the difference between a hobby or game and their jobs. Most of them also wargame for fun, and have a huge knowledge of the hobby. But for casual wargamers the professional uses of wargames mainly seem like two cases, and an occasional third.
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“their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of ‘rights’… and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure.” Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers 1959
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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/2018/0...oming-nineveh/
- Trip report from a week of wargaming discussions at the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory: https://paxsims.wordpress.com/2018/0...isdom-at-dstl/
They mostly come at night. Mostly.
- university webpage: McGill University
- conflict simulations webpage: PaxSims
Good article, albeit two years old.
INTERWAR-PERIOD GAMING TODAY FOR CONFLICTS TOMORROW: PRESS ‘START’ TO PLAY, PT. 1
http://cimsec.org/interwar-period-ga...z_PCp4sYOUZW-c
Shoutout here -“As the interwar period suggests, wargaming is one of the most effective means available to offer senior leaders a glimpse of future conflict, however incomplete. Wargames offer opportunities to test new ideas and explore the art of the possible. They help us imagine alternative ways of operating and envision new capabilities that might make a difference on future battlefields.”1
– Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert O. Work and General Paul Selva, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, December 8, 2015
Red “cells” and red “teams” are frequently confused for each other. A red cell is an entity typically led by a staff intelligence officer tasked with representing enemy doctrine and its likely courses of action. A red team is tasked with challenging perceived norms and assumptions made by a commander and his staff in order to improve the validity and quality of a plan.
A scrimmage in a Border Station
A canter down some dark defile
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail
http://i.imgur.com/IPT1uLH.jpg
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