Category Archives: Analysis

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Economist article on new low-end warfare models

Posted on April 28, 2012 by

This article in the Economist discusses 6 models. I cut and paste from the article the following summaries: SCARE, the Spatio-Cultural Abductive Reasoning Engine, developed at the United States Military Academy at West Point by a team led by Major … Continue reading →

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Ben Kohlmann on Wargaming

Posted on April 28, 2012 by

Many of you may have seen Lt Ben Kohlmann’s post on Small Wars Journal, and the wide variety of discussions it sparked. Ben’s Blog: Disruptive Thinkers has some excellent posts, most recently some thoughts on wargaming. The following I found … Continue reading →

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Great review of Sabin’s latest book

Posted on March 27, 2012 by

PAXsims has a nice review of Phillip Sabins “Simulating War”. I have it on order.

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In case you missed it…more from Michael Peck

Posted on November 21, 2011 by

This time in Foreign Policy The Persian Incursion The result is a recurring gig for Michael to post about gaming at Foreign Policy mag. Congrats to Micheal and to FP mag for giving serious gaming some love… The article talks … Continue reading →

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“Goodbye OODA Loop…” how about “Hello Wargame”

Posted on October 25, 2011 by

The new Armed Forces Journal has this article which proposes to fix some of the problems with planning operations involving complex interactions using a more culturally astute Red Teaming process. COLs Benson and Rotkoff lay blame for the problem on … Continue reading →

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Rand Analyses of Air Force Security Cooperation efforts

Posted on October 3, 2011 by

The first paper is: (hat-tips to Mike Markowitz and Chris Weuve) Summary This study looks at two Unified Endeavor Building partnerships (UEBP) seminars held in Sweden and Estonia (2009 and 2010 respectively). The UEBP series looks to get contributions from … Continue reading →

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