war game

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war game (plural war games)

  1. (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.
  2. 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

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war game (third-person singular simple present war games, present participle war gaming, simple past and past participle war gamed)

  1. To run a military simulation of this kind.
    • 2022 September 13, Julian E. Barnes, Eric Schmitt, Helene Cooper, “The Critical Moment Behind Ukraine’s Rapid Advance”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
      Together Britain, the United States and Ukraine conducted an assessment of the new plan, trying to war game it once more.