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Foreign Policy: Slaughter in the East China Sea
What happens if China fights the United States and Japan? A mutual disaster, wargame predicts. BY MICHAEL PECK AUGUST 7, 2020 “The year is 2030. Chinese troops seize a Japanese island in the South
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Forbes: What If The A-Bomb Had Never Been Invented And America Invaded Japan In 1945?
Michael Peck: “In the summer of 1945, U.S. leaders expected one million American soldiers would soon be dead or wounded. Operation Downfall – the codename for the proposed amphibious invasion of Japan in 1945 – would
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The National Interest: NATO, Nukes & Nazis: The Craziest World War III Game Ever Made
BY Michael Peck December 5, 2016 “It’s 1990, and the Third Reich lives. Ever since World War II ended with a compromise peace between Germany and the Allies, the Cold War has been waged between
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GovTechWorks: How a Board Game Helps DoD Win Real Battles
by Michael Peck | Oct 5, 2016 Computers continue to revolutionize modern warfare, not the least of when it comes to putting battle plans to the test. Devise the scenario, feed it into the
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Foreign Policy: Launch Your Own Gaza War
BY MICHAEL PECK “Wargame designer Paul Rohrbaugh has just created a board game based on the recent Israel-Hamas conflict. He is playtesting “A Reign of Missiles” to tweak the rules, and he wants your
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Foreign Policy: Storm the Beaches from your Living Room
BY MICHAEL PECK: Six D-Day wargames that let you invade Normandy all over again. “D-Day isn’t just one of history’s epic battles. It is also a magnet for wargamers. The Normandy invasion has that
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Foreign Policy: Fortress America (3rd edition) Review
By Michael Peck Playing the new Cold War board game is a trip back to the 1980s. So why is the theme of an America being invaded still so popular? “Chinese marines storm San
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DefenseNews: Game Review – When Real Wargamers Design Wargames
By Michael Peck: “It is a strange fact that nowadays most people who design wargames have never been in the military (for that matter, neither are the politicians who fight wars). So I was
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War Is Boring: It’s Kamikazes Versus U.S. Destroyers in This Brutal War Game
By Michael Peck: “From all around the compass, the Japanese suicide planes descend on your U.S. Navy destroyer. On the port bow, a Zero fighter skims the waves. From astern, a Betty bomber plunges
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DefenseNews: Return to the 38th Parallel – Next War: Korea
By Michael Peck: Massive Conventional Conflict Plays Out in ‘Next War: Korea’ The thought of war erupting on the Korean Peninsula is scary enough. But what’s really frightening is that no one can be
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