Simulating War
Studying Conflict through Simulation Games
Endorsements:
‘Brilliant. Professor Sabin has produced a masterwork, one worthy to grace bookshelves that are home to Von Reisswitz's Kriegsspiel, Wells’s Little Wars, Morse and Kimball’s Methods of Operations Research, and Schelling’s The Strategy of Conflict. If you want to learn more about the unquestionably horrible but quintessentially human activity that is War, you need to read this book. Take its lessons to heart and play or, even better, design some wargames of your own.’
Dr Peter Perla, Center for Naval Analyses, author of The Art of Wargaming.
'War is, at its roots, a competitive human activity: it is, in the final analysis more about ‘minds’ than it is about ‘stuff’. In Simulating War Professor Sabin gets deep under the skin of this essential fact, and provides us with a scholarly and very useable toolkit that allows us to supplement the dry data of statistical analysis or computer simulation with the realities of human interaction and the play of Clausewitz’s ‘chance’. This book provides an accessible and genuinely useful aid not only to the academic understanding of the history of warfare, but also to the very practical and current demands of military force development, of concept and courses-of-action testing, and of training. Wargaming is a neglected and misunderstood art in the modern military: this book does much to put that right, and should be on the shelf of any thinking military professional.'
Major General Andrew Sharpe, Director General of the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre, UK Defence Academy.
'If I had to recommend one military history book I’ve read this year it would be Philip Sabin’s Simulating War.' Dr Brett Holman, Society for Military History.
FuenteThe book’s main aim is to teach you how to research and design your own simple wargames on conflicts of your choice, just as do Professor Sabin’s own students in his MA course on Conflict Simulation. You can use this design process to raise new questions to enhance your understanding of the conflict, or as an innovative device for active learning with your own colleagues and students.
Simulating War is essential reading for all recreational or professional simulation gamers, and for anyone from teachers to military officers who is interested in modelling war. Professor Sabin has been working closely with the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre of the UK Defence Academy in its own recent efforts to encourage greater use of wargaming techniques in military education and force development.
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