Real War Games Inc

Author : Michelle Hamilton
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 131275687X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Real War Games Inc. written by Michelle Hamilton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-12-14 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was on a bus full of sociopaths. The trouble was I had volunteered to be here. Had I only known, I lamented for the hundredth time since I'd boarded this small bus emblazoned with the Real War Games Inc. logo at the Denver International Airport, I never would have gotten off my plane from New York, never would have registered online six months ago, never would have followed through with this harebrained idea in the first place. But I had, thinking that somehow I would be able to understand, to discover the answer to the question that had begun to consume me more than a year ago when my twin brother had died in Iraq: What need had driven Brian to join the army - a decision that had resulted in his death? So I was here in order to understand. And hopefully find some way of moving on with my life. Although I couldn't imagine how to that without Brian. But somehow instead I'd ended up not on a bus with the other participants in this game but with sociopaths. Where had I gone wrong?

Author : Philipp Von Hilgers
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262300370
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Games written by Philipp Von Hilgers and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-03-16 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The convergence of military strategy and mathematics in war games, from medieval to modern times. For centuries, both mathematical and military thinkers have used game-like scenarios to test their visions of mastering a complex world through symbolic operations. By the end of World War I, mathematical and military discourse in Germany simultaneously discovered the game as a productive concept. Mathematics and military strategy converged in World War II when mathematicians designed fields of operation. In this book, Philipp von Hilgers examines the theory and practice of war games through history, from the medieval game boards, captured on parchment, to the paper map exercises of the Third Reich. Von Hilgers considers how and why war games came to exist: why mathematical and military thinkers created simulations of one of the most unpredictable human activities on earth. Von Hilgers begins with the medieval rythmomachia, or Battle of Numbers, then reconstructs the ideas about war and games in the baroque period. He investigates the role of George Leopold von Reiswitz's tactical war game in nineteenth-century Prussia and describes the artifact itself: a game board–topped table with drawers for game implements. He explains Clausewitz's emphasis on the “fog of war” and the accompanying element of incalculability, examines the contributions of such thinkers as Clausewitz, Leibniz, Wittgenstein, and von Neumann, and investigates the war games of the German military between the two World Wars. Baudrillard declared this to be the age of simulacra; war games stand contrariwise as simulations that have not been subsumed in absolute virtuality.

Author : Roger Stahl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135837503
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Militainment, Inc. written by Roger Stahl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Militainment, Inc. offers provocative, sometimes disturbing insight into the ways that war is presented and viewed as entertainment—or "militainment"—in contemporary American popular culture. War has been the subject of entertainment for centuries, but Roger Stahl argues that a new interactive mode of militarized entertainment is recruiting its audience as virtual-citizen soldiers. The author examines a wide range of historical and contemporary media examples to demonstrate the ways that war now invites audiences to enter the spectacle as an interactive participant through a variety of channels—from news coverage to online video games to reality television. Simply put, rather than presenting war as something to be watched, the new interactive militainment presents war as something to be played and experienced vicariously. Stahl examines the challenges that this new mode of militarized entertainment poses for democracy, and explores the controversies and resistant practices that it has inspired. This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between war and media, and it sheds surprising light on the connections between virtual battlefields and the international conflicts unfolding in Iraq and Afghanistan today.

Author : David Bischoff
Publisher : Puffin
ISBN 13 : 9780140317015
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Games written by David Bischoff and published by Puffin. This book was released on 1983-08-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in the control room the nation's chiefs watch with alarm as their computers show imminent missile attack. Could this be it? Or is the truth funnier, though almost as alarming.Romanen er baseret på den succesrige film "WarGames" om, hvordan en und computer hacker sætter nationens forsvar i alarmberedskab.

Author : Francis J. McHugh
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9781935352006
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fundamentals of War Gaming written by Francis J. McHugh and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1966 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fundamentals of War Gaming provides an in-depth introduction to the basics of military gaming, and offers historical insights into the devewlopment of war gaming methodologies. It covers the evolution of gaming tools such as the ancient adaptations of chess and the development of Kriegspiel to teach military tactics to Prussian officers. The employment of gaming by various military powers, before and during the World Wars, is explored and culminated with the introduction of computer support and simulations in the U.S. Navy.

Author : James Park Sloan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Games written by James Park Sloan and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas B. Allen
Publisher : Berkley
ISBN 13 : 9780425116470
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Games written by Thomas B. Allen and published by Berkley. This book was released on 1989 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Startling and disturbing, this is an up-to-date look at today's high-tech rehearsals for war. Political scenarios, military strategies and frightening, true-to-life maneuvers--all the games played by today's leaders are here, based on information gained through the Freedom of Information Act.

Author : Jon Freeman
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9780671253745
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Book of Wargames written by Jon Freeman and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1980 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and evaluates in terms of presentation, rules, playability, realism, and complexity, wargames located in various ages and in real and imaginary lands

Author : Benjamin Gilad
Publisher : Career Press
ISBN 13 : 9781601632814
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Business War Games written by Benjamin Gilad and published by Career Press. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a global, complex, and competitive world, developing a plan without testing it against market reaction is like walking blind into a minefield. War gaming is a metal detector for a company. Yet war games run by the large consulting firms are kept secret and cost millions. For the first time, this book makes them accessible to every product and brand manager, every project leader, every marketing professional, and every planner, no matter how small or large the company. Business War Games will show you in steps and practical detail: How to decide if war gaming is right for you Which decisions call for war gaming How to prepare, organize, and run a realistic and inexpensive war game How to predict competitor moves with accuracy and little information Why you do not need computers, consultants, software, or a PhD in math to do it well This book is your bible of how to stay one step ahead of your competitors. Do not leave home without it.

Author : Julius Adrian Friedrich Wilhelm von Verdy du Vernois
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Simplified War Game written by Julius Adrian Friedrich Wilhelm von Verdy du Vernois and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: