Games, Strategy & Play · Strategy & Wargaming
A topic within Strategy & Wargaming, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Games, Strategy & Play.
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Peter P. Perla & Ed McGrady
Argues a wargame's purpose is to change how its participants think rather than to forecast a result, and that treating its output as a prediction is the most common way professional wargaming is misused.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Matthew B. Caffrey Jr.
A history of professional wargaming from Prussian Kriegsspiel to modern defence simulations, arguing a wargame's value comes from forcing hidden assumptions into the open rather than from predicting an outcome.
link checked 17 Sept 2026