Meaning of war game | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A simulation (by whatever means, physical or digital), for training and strategy purposes, of a military operation involving two or more opposing forces using rules, data, and procedures designed to depict an actual or assumed real-life situation.
2. A game, for entertainment or edutainment purposes, that simulates or represents a military operation.

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Examples

“Well, the WOPR [War Operations Planning Response] spends all it's time thinking about World War III. Twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, it plays an endless series of war games using all available information on the state of the world. The WOPR has already fought World War III as a game time and time again.”

“On the other hand, war games in the Weimar era did not first develop into a political instrument when they began to incorporate political entities. Rather, only war games were able to approximate exactly the situation that was to be avoided at all costs.”

“In a sort of blooper reel, I will go over some of the things that occurred in a few of the wargames but we left out when collating the overall timeline.”

“Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, said last November that in the Pentagon’s war games against China, “we lose every time.” […] War games can be wrong; analysts sometimes overstate adversaries’ abilities. Yet this larger point should not be ignored.”

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