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Trial by Combat
By Peter Drymalski Trial by Combat Lawyers on the Battlefields of the Civil War Common Destinies, Common Pasts On June 29, 1863, William Colvill was in a foul mood, which was only partly due
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New York Times: High-Tech Push Has Board Games Rolling Again
High-Tech Push Has Board Games Rolling Again By NICK WINGFIELD MAY 5, 2014 MERCER ISLAND, Wash. — Dan Shapiro sold a company to Google and worked at Microsoft. His name is on nearly a dozen technology-related
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Wall Street Journal: Two New Translations of ‘Herodotus: The Histories’
Book Review: ‘Herodotus: The Histories’ translated by Tom Holland & ‘Herodotus: Histories’ translated by Pamela Mensch The beleaguered Samians, needing Spartan military aid, held up a bag and said ‘Bag needs flour.’ The laconic
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New York Times: The Toys of War
The Toys of War By SARAH BURNS and DANIEL GREENE FEBRUARY 27, 2014, 9:26 PM Just in time for Christmas 1866, a 30-year-old game creator named Milton Bradley ran an advertisement in Colman’s Rural World, a St.
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Washington Post: In the world of war games, Volko Ruhnke has become a hero
War game designer Volko Rulnke plays the board game Angola at the World boardgaming Championships in Lancaster, PA., in August. (Al Tielemans/For The Washington Post) Written by Jason Albert At the last stop on a
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The Economist: To understand war, American officials are playing board games
Military strategy War games Mar 15th 2014 TWO evenings a month, four dozen defence and intelligence officials gather in an undisclosed building in Virginia. They chat informally about “what if” scenarios. For example: what
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Financial Times: War games in The Hague: global leaders 1, bad guys 0
Barack Obama, Xi Jinping, David Cameron and 50 other world leaders are battling against the clock to protect the world from a “dirty bomb” attack by terrorists in the heart of a major financial
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Los Angeles Times: Scientists use math — and computer war games — to show how society evolved
By Monte Morin September 24, 2013, 6:00 a.m. How did human societies ever manage to evolve from small, tightknit groups into vast, organized states? Researchers, using computers and math, show it was the result of
Read More »New York Times: Attack Ravages Power Grid. (Just a Test.)
By Matthew L. Wald Attack Ravages Power Grid. (Just a Test.) Published: November 14, 2013 WASHINGTON — In windowless rooms from here to California, nearly 10,000 electrical engineers, cybersecurity specialists, utility executives and F.B.I.
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The New York Times: Basic Training
Basic Training Recumbent strategist: H. G. Wells, left, plays at war in a game of his own devising. (Illustration from the Illustrated London News – 1913) By Mark Wallace If you happened to visit the
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