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Jun 1, 2018 · 1. THE ORIGINAL IDEA WASN’T ABOUT COMPUTERS OR HACKING. Before it became a story that blended the rise of hackers and personal computing with the ongoing threats of the Cold War, WarGames was an...
Sep 7, 2024 · To keep things simple: Let’s define wargaming as the simulation of a military conflict: be said conflict real, or fictitious, grounded in reality, or not. Wargaming isn’t limited to current conflicts, and it can be used to both simulate future scenarios, as well as to learn and build knowledge from past conflicts in history.
• Fiction creates an alternative world aka “fictitious narratives” • These narratives create meaning in the readers’ minds • Fictitious narratives cause readers to engage with the text in a serious and creative manner • Narrative fictions act as a spring board for further thought and research
Oct 2, 2024 · There are wargames and other historical documents from nations including Sweden, Russia, and Japan. The collection even includes CONPLAN 8888 (Counter-Zombie Dominance), a completely fictitious wargame depicting a worldwide zombie apocalypse created in 2011 by junior US military officers undergoing training on contingency planning.
Recreational wargames only need to be as realistic as it pleases the players, so in most recreational wargames the emphasis is on verisimilitude, i.e. the satisfactory appearance of realism. In any case, no wargame can be perfectly realistic.
May 19, 2023 · Wargames are interactive scenarios, presented in the form of a game, representing conflict or competition in which people make decisions and respond to the consequences of those decisions. As they can depict competition between groups, non-kinetic actions are a possible pathway to victory.
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Sep 19, 2022 · The paper discusses wargames, their many different types, their practical uses, and some of the dangers or pitfalls that arise when wargames are used in order to generate useful outputs. The intention is to promote debate rather than to assert any definite conclusions.
