Wargaming Small Wars (merged thread)

[AdamG]

1000 Days of Syria is a hypertext-based historical fiction game centered on the first 1000 days of the Syrian Civil War. Created in 2014 by Mitch Swenson, it is considered to be one of the first examples of an electronic literature newsgame.[1][2][3][4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1000_Days_of_Syria
http://1000daysofsyria.com/

[Rex Brynen]

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 number of players/teams, the game largely focused on Iraq. The purpose, as with an earlier game held at the UK Defence Academy, was to explore the value and limits of matrix games as an analytical method.

You'll find a full report at PAXsims: https://paxsims.wordpress.com/2015/0...e-isis-crisis/