Game Review: Operation Whirlwind - The Soviet Assault on Budapest, 1956

SWJED — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 10:15:16 +0000

Game Review: Operation Whirlwind - The Soviet Assault on Budapest, 1956 SWJED Wed, 12/21/2016 - 5:15am

Operation Whirlwind: A paper simulation of the Soviet assault on Budapest designed by prolific wargame designer Brian Train.

What Makes Heroic Strife?

Peter J. Munson — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:02:21 +0000

What Makes Heroic Strife?

The Economist offers a piece about breakthroughs in modeling civil wars. I, for one, am highly skeptical that our wunderkinder can do anything of the sort that is truly faithful to the massive complexity of human interactions.

For in the war-games rooms and think-tanks of the rich world’s military powers, bright minds are working on the problem of how to model insurrection and irregular warfare. Slowly but surely they are succeeding, and in the process they are helping politicians and armies to a better understanding of the nature of rebellion.

Peter J. Munson Sat, 04/21/2012 - 9:02am