war game
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See also: wargame
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- (military) A simulation (by whatever means, physical or digital), for training and strategy purposes, of a military operation involving two or more opposing forces using rules, data, and procedures designed to depict an actual or assumed real-life situation.
- Synonyms: military exercise, training exercise
- 1983, Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes, WarGames, spoken by Paul Richter:
- Well, the WOPR [War Operations Planning Response] spends all it's time thinking about World War III. Twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, it plays an endless series of war games using all available information on the state of the world. The WOPR has already fought World War III as a game time and time again.
- 2012, Philipp Von Hilgers, War Games: A History of War on Paper, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 65:
- On the other hand, war games in the Weimar era did not first develop into a political instrument when they began to incorporate political entities. Rather, only war games were able to approximate exactly the situation that was to be avoided at all costs.
- 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 29:29 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918[1], archived from the original on 4 August 2022:
- In a sort of blooper reel, I will go over some of the things that occurred in a few of the wargames but we left out when collating the overall timeline.
- A game, for entertainment or edutainment purposes, that simulates or represents a military operation.
- Hyponyms: first-person shooter, shooter; airsoft, archery tag, dart tag, laser tag, MilSim, paintball, tagball
Translations
[edit]military simulation — see also military exercise
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Verb
[edit]war game (third-person singular simple present war games, present participle war gaming, simple past and past participle war gamed)
- To run a military simulation of this kind.