In March 2025, the U.S. government conducted a wargame on how to defend military bases in the United States from drone attacks. Just three months later, what had seemed a theoretical possibility ...

Airmen can now play the strategy game "Command" inside the secure Air Force network to help plan for potential real-world conflicts. By Nicholas Slayton Published Oct 27, 2024 4:10 PM EDT The U.S. Air ...

Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the military community has watched the conflict closely, hoping to glean as many insights into large-scale combat operations (LSCO) as possible. One ...

Staff Sgt. Karen Najera conducts a U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa wargaming event in Vicenza, Italy. (Brian Andries/U.S. Army) In a wargame last month to test crisis plans, the Army’s ...

The U.S. defense community has developed a healthy obsession with innovation. AI, modeling and simulation, machine learning — these are the buzzwords driving conversations about the future of warfare.

Military wargames date back thousands of years, but their modern versions have many of the same challenges that civilian wargames do—in particular, weak computer opponents. The United States Air Force ...

U.S. Airmen Are Playing A Wargame on Secure Networks: The United States Air Force has an “eSports” team that regularly competes against other professional gamers. But the “elite” team members are far ...

When Lieutenant Georg Heinrich ­Rudolph Johann von Reisswitz of the Prussian army presented his new game to his military leaders in 1824, wargames weren’t a new phenomenon. The board game Reisswitz ...