Wargaming Weekly

Thank you to the @armchairdragoons.bsky.social for featuring my debut military micro-wargame "Call Sign: Modern Land Warfare" (inspired by @sebastianbae.bsky.social's "CALLSIGN") 🪖

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"Wargaming for PME not only helps develop better decision makers but can also lead to our people gaining an enhanced aptitude in military reasoning, improved tactical understanding, and a superior ability to out-think and thus out-fight our adversaries."

Hull dad starts wargaming club for men's mental health Joe founded Dad's War Room to support men struggling with mental health through tabletop gaming.

"The plan is to open these Dad's War Room clubs across the country"

New AI Wargaming Platform Scores $2 Million To Kill The “Gut Instinct” Strategy Business strategy is finally moving out of the era of the "hunch. " Principle, a startup building what it calls a "strategic foresight" platform, just secured $2 million in pre-seed funding to help co...

It’s essentially "wargaming" for the boardroom. The platform is currently being piloted by Fortune 500 companies and government agencies looking to move away from intuition-based planning."

New AI Wargaming Platform Scores $2 Million To Kill The “Gut Instinct” Strategy Business strategy is finally moving out of the era of the "hunch. " Principle, a startup building what it calls a "strategic foresight" platform, just secured $2 million in pre-seed funding to help co...

"Unlike generic tools like ChatGPT, which start every conversation from scratch, Principle maintains a persistent memory of a company’s specific landscape."

Thank you to the @armchairdragoons.bsky.social for featuring my interview with Viltė Radzytė (designer of "The Shadow Lines") in last week's #TuesdayNewsday 🗞️

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"Venezuela resembles a sudden stroke in an operational-level wargame, while Greenland resembles strategic, positional pressure."

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"In wargames, disruption matters less for its own sake than for what it does to the other side’s decision cycle — pushing humans and systems past their capacity to interpret, decide, and adapt. The same logic applies in the real world."

Marine Corps Logistics Command Sharpens Readiness Through Campaign Planning and Professional Military Education The session opened with an update on Marine Corps Logistics Command’s five-year campaign plan, outlining priority tasks informed by recent wargaming and operational analysis, as well as the Commanding...

“This isn’t work we can put off. We need to be postured forward, and we need to close our capability gaps to ensure we’re ready when it matters most.”

Col. Adam Taylor, assistant chief of staff, G 3/5 also underscored the urgency of closing the gaps identified through war gaming and operational analysis.

AI Wargame Points to Catastrophe for US Through the use of artificial intelligence, researchers have proven that the U.S. is not prepared for a war with China.

"For example, in a conflict with China, critical U.S. munitions would begin to be unavailable after about a week and would be completely exhausted after 35-40 days in most cases, the exercise found."

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"We can build prototypes. We can test it. We can fly it. We can break it. We can fix it. And we can … move on into procurement and sustainment.”

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“Advanced war gaming allows us to embark in earnest on a risk taking, iterative cycle of rapid prototyping. We can figure out an idea that works. We can work with program offices, in the labs. We can in industry."

U.S. Space Command to bring commercial firms into classified wargame on nuclear threats in space U.S. Space Command to bring commercial firms into classified wargame on nuclear threats in space U.S. Space Command to bring commercial firms into classified wargame on nuclear threats in space

Gen. Stephen Whiting, commander of U.S. Space Command, said the initial exercise will examine how the United States would respond to the potential deployment of weapons of mass destruction in space, a scenario he described as “a future that none of us want to happen.”

Wargames Keep Warning Us About Congested Logistics—It’s Time to Take Action - Modern War Institute After examining more than a hundred wargames and tabletop exercises, the conclusion is unavoidable: The US joint force has a logistics problem. And it does not stem from a lack of effort, insight, or ...

"Logistics is frequently treated as a movement problem focused on how to push forces forward once disruption occurs, rather than as a system that must be designed to operate under persistent pressure."

Wargames Keep Warning Us About Congested Logistics—It’s Time to Take Action - Modern War Institute After examining more than a hundred wargames and tabletop exercises, the conclusion is unavoidable: The US joint force has a logistics problem. And it does not stem from a lack of effort, insight, or ...

"Across logistics-focused wargames, the most persistent limitation is not a lack of creativity or analytic rigor, but inconsistent problem framing."

Wargaming in support of planning military operations Published in Impact (Vol. 2025, No. 2, 2025)

"The modern battlefield is very empty – the first rule of battlefield survivability is ‘don’t be seen’, since if you haven’t been seen, you can’t be attacked."

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"A key focus of the design of the wargame is intelligence and target acquisition. Over many decades the increasing lethality of weapons has forced armies to ever greater levels of dispersion."

Wargaming Weekly #058: Why has this Economics & Politics major designed a wargame for her Bachelor’s thesis? My interview with Viltė Radzytė, wargame designer and Economics & Politics major at ISM University of Management and Economics in Lithuania

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Thank you @armchairdragoons.bsky.social for featuring yet another edition of my "Are we ready for AI-powered wargaming?" series in last week's #TuesdayNewsday 🗞️

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"Our commercialized crisis scenario takes a first step in filling the gap between corporate and political-military wargames, more clearly illustrating the challenges and tradeoffs businesses and governments may face in future crises."

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"The past omission of commercial actors in the vast majority of wargames obfuscates the policy and logistical challenges that both the private and public sector will face in future crises."

YouTube video by IITSEC General Generative AI: Applying Off‑the‑Shelf GenAI Tools to Wargaming | I/ITSEC 2025

"AI is simply a tool to improve efficiency and accuracy, it is not designed to replace human responsibility."

- LTC Sean Fraser, US Army Artificial Intelligence Integration Center (AI2C) at I/ITSEC 2025

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YouTube video by IITSEC General Generative AI: Applying Off‑the‑Shelf GenAI Tools to Wargaming | I/ITSEC 2025

"I'm actually coming around to the assumption that every Gen AI output is a hallucination but it's up to us as users to assess the usefulness and validity."

- LTC Robert Prescott, US Army Futures and Concepts Command (FCC) at I/ITSEC 2025)

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