| Tango01 | 13 Apr 2020 9:39 p.m. PST |
…Nuclear War? "On a recent morning, 15 teenage girls and young women reported for duty at an office overlooking the Pentagon. Their mission: Save the world from nuclear war. "This is where I want you to stop being you," said Stacie Pettyjohn, a political scientist at the RAND Corporation, a defense think tank. "You're going to have to start to role-play." Pettyjohn was leading a war-game exercise on North Korea. Typically, military commanders and policymakers use war gaming to test strategies and their likely consequences. But nothing about this game was typical. It was designed by women — RAND's "Dames of War Games" — for teenagers from Girl Security, a nonprofit that introduces girls to defense issues. The partnership was a first for both groups; it's among a series of recent efforts to boost women's participation in national security…"
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 Dan Cyr  | 13 Apr 2020 10:02 p.m. PST |
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| 15th Hussar | 14 Apr 2020 10:56 a.m. PST |
Agreed! In all ways possible and imaginable! |
 Legion 4  | 14 Apr 2020 2:06 p.m. PST |
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| emckinney | 14 Apr 2020 3:42 p.m. PST |
Well, girl gamers did win the Battle of the Atlantic … |
| Ten Fingered Jack | 14 Apr 2020 4:00 p.m. PST |
I wonder what will happen when PC meets reality. link |
| Andrew Walters | 14 Apr 2020 5:34 p.m. PST |
Yes, most excellent. We did something like this in my sophomore year of high school. I don't understand why tools like this aren't used constantly. But this particularly manifestation is encouraging. |
| Augustus | 14 Apr 2020 6:38 p.m. PST |
And once again, they dont say where the miniatures come from? |
| Tango01 | 14 Apr 2020 8:44 p.m. PST |
Happy you enjoyed it guys!. (smile)
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| Fitzovich | 15 Apr 2020 7:00 a.m. PST |
Very interesting article, Thanks for Posting. |
| SBminisguy | 15 Apr 2020 9:13 a.m. PST |
We did something like this in my sophomore year of high school. I don't understand why tools like this aren't used constantly. Cool. Yep, we had a "Model UN" in my high school and once a year we'd do a "crisis" exercise which was primarily about avoiding a war, but then laid what happened if we failed to resolve the crisis using flip cards. Oh, if you wanted to, you could come in at lunch time to the teacher's room and play it out with Risk or Supremacy: link |
| Tango01 | 15 Apr 2020 12:29 p.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it too my friend!. (smile) Amicalement
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| von Schwartz | 15 Apr 2020 4:46 p.m. PST |
Maybe we should start offering to bring our minis to local schools in our respective areas, for the history classes. Maybe spark an interest in history and perhaps recruit some new gamers to the cause. |
| Uparmored | 16 Apr 2020 2:51 a.m. PST |
I've run alien invasions of my city for migrant English students. There is also a university near me that has a defence club that runs these kind of wargames. I've been meaning to join.. |
| Russ Lockwood | 22 Apr 2020 6:26 p.m. PST |
Maybe we should start offering to bring our minis to local schools in our respective areas, for the history classes. Maybe spark an interest in history and perhaps recruit some new gamers to the cause. HMGS has a program to do just that and has put on miniatures-as-history games in various schools. At Cold Wars, they noted they would work with volunteers to bring minis into schools. HMGS.org should have info. |
