No. 319: The Promise and Peril of Wargaming

Author(s): Taylor Grossman
Editor(s): Julian Kamasa
Series Editor(s): Névine Schepers, Sophie-Charlotte Fischer, Julian Kamasa, Fabien Merz
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 319
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich
Publication Year: 2023

Wargaming can be a powerful tool for educating soldiers, developing military doctrine, and determining future investment strategies. However, wargaming also has real limitations: if misapplied, wargaming can reinforce bad assumptions and be used to justify unrealistic or faulty battle plans.

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Evolution of Wargaming