The war in Ukraine has served as a stark illustration of the rapid evolution of modern conflicts. The jarring shift from trench warfare to drone warfare and the dynamic use of real-time intelligence ...

Staff Sgt. Karen Najera conducts a U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa wargaming event in Vicenza, Italy. (Brian Andries/U.S. Army) In a wargame last month to test crisis plans, the Army’s ...

Military wargames date back thousands of years, but their modern versions have many of the same challenges that civilian wargames do—in particular, weak computer opponents. The United States Air Force ...

POINT PLEASANT -- Growing up in West Orange and Point Pleasant with a father in the publishing business, Brandon Rospond was an avid reader and history buff who built a strong network of authors and ...

Over nearly 40 years in uniform, I saw war shift from the massed battles we braced for in the Cold War, to pinpoint strikes on terrorists, and now to a battlefield ruled by autonomous machines, ...

October 12, 2025: Nine years ago, the U.S. Department of Defense called for increased use of wargames to better examine an increasingly uncertain future. There was a sense of déjà vu in all this ...

The Chinese now use their wargames in much the same way Western armies do. A lot of wargaming is just to train staffs and commanders to work together while at lower tactical levels officers and troops ...

In a wargame last month to test crisis plans, the Army's Southern European Task Force, Africa, or SETAF-AF, used artificial intelligence to enhance the approach. "AI helps planners search curated data ...