Wargaming Small Wars (merged thread)

[BayonetBrant]

and see the links above for the interview with the guys about A Distant Plain

[Rex Brynen]

A brief AAR on the recent Connections 2013 interdisciplinary wargaming conference has been posted at PAXsims.

[davidbfpo]

A rather unusual angle, more nostalgia IMHO from the BBC magazine:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22777029

[Rex Brynen]

An interesting piece by Lisa Lynch (Concordia University) on using a conflict simulation to teach international journalism students:

Foreign correspondents in a simulated civil war

Full disclosure: it is my simulated civil war at McGill University that she uses.

[BayonetBrant]

GrogHeads.com is looking for papers that folks might have written for varying research projects on games/gaming. I'm sure some of our FA57s in the audience have something floating around somewhere

Anyway, we're starting a new monthly series on these sorts of academic-focused articles and would love to have y'all submit anything you've got floating around out there that's not necessarily fit for SWJ or other traditional outlets.

announcement text here: http://grogheads.com/?p=2160

[AdamG]

For any fans of Yeats poems and Dystopian Futures, how about a War of the League of Cambrai, 21st Century style scenario?
http://www.thelocal.fr/20130930/swis...ankrupt-french

[AdamG]

China Adopts Board-Game Strategy to Blunt U.S. Pivot to Asia

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-1...e-in-asia.html

[Rex Brynen]

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 Department."

If you haven't seen the memo, there's a copy on PAXsims.