Category Archives: General Games
North Korea wargame compendium
Given the success of the previous (and ongoing) Israel vs Iran wargame compendium, I thought it might be a good time to start a similar listing of wargames dealing with a potential future conflict in the Korean peninsula. The listing includes commercial/hobby … Continue reading
Wargaming for Science and Technology investment insight
I’ve had some interesting discussions with Matt Caffrey at AFRL about the roles and uses of wargaming for S&T investment purposes. This has a lot of potential to be informed by business wargaming, but suffers from the typical desire for … Continue reading
Connections Game Lab: The Real-Life Spin-Off
Several people have asked about possible follow-on activities from the GameLab sessions on HADR operations and Haiti earthquake relief that were featured at the Connections 2012 interdisciplinary wargaming conference. Indeed we do plan to put together a group to refine … Continue reading
Post MORSS conversations on Publication: Where
As a first cross MORS-Connections Community conversation I wanted to expand on an issue that came up in the MORSS wargaming community of practice meeting from this past week. The issue of publication, or more specifically, the lack there of … Continue reading
And they just keep coming….
In recent weeks the continuing policy debate over a possible Israeli strike against Iranian nuclear facilities has become all the more interesting, with the former head of Israel’s Shin Bet internal security service criticizing the Netanyahu government for excessive willingness … Continue reading
Point I missed from Aldrich roundtable
One of the important discussion we had that I remembered last night dealt with the “limits of gamification”. In the discussion of gaming in context of “leveling up”, “+1′s”, trophys, etc. there was a discussion about how long you can … Continue reading
NWC round table with Clark Aldrich
A very interesting hour and half with the author of The Complete Guide to Simulations and Serious Games and more recently Unschooling Rules This was the first in what is hoped to be a series of wargaming related speakers. Mr. … Continue reading
Dr. Sabin’s simulating war list: Dilemmas in gaming
In conjunction with his new book, Dr. Phillip Sabin has started an e-list called “simulating war“. A discussion there regarding Dr. Peter Perla’s recent NDU talk got into some territory we have discussed here Dr. Sabin writes of Dr. Perlas … Continue reading
CASL Lectures on Strategic Gaming
We hope you enjoyour first lecture, Peter Perla’s “Way of the Wargaming”. Information about the series is also availible on the website.
The Power of Gaming
Hat tip to Jim Lewis International Security and Relations Network has a weeklong series on “The Power of Gaming” this week. I am a bit pressed for time this week, so I will post the links now and will have … Continue reading
