Forging Wargamers : A Framework for Professional Military Education /

"How do we establish or improve wargaming education, including sponsors, participants, and future designers? The question stems from the uncomfortable truth that the wargaming discipline has no foundational pipeline, no established pathway from novice to master. Consequently, the wargaming comm...

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Other Authors: Bae, Sebastian J. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Quantico, Virginia : Marine Corps University Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Summary:"How do we establish or improve wargaming education, including sponsors, participants, and future designers? The question stems from the uncomfortable truth that the wargaming discipline has no foundational pipeline, no established pathway from novice to master. Consequently, the wargaming community stands at a dangerous precipice at the convergence of a stagnant labor force and a patchwork system of passing institutional war-gaming knowledge. Unsurprisingly, this can lead to ill-informed sponsors, poorly scoped wargames, an unreliable standard of wargaming expertise, and worst of all, risks the decline of wargaming as an educational and analytical tool. This fundamental challenge is a recurring theme throughout this volume and each author offers their own perspective and series of recommendations"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (264 pages).
ISBN:9798985340334
Access:Open Access