PLAYER PARTICIPATION GAMING IN LIMITED WAR APPLICATIONS

Abstract

This paper defines a feasible approach to developing a facility for gaming limited wars, with particular emp a is on United States Air Force participation in such wars. It discusses some special circumstances associated with limited wars and the eff cts of these speci l circu s nce on the requirements for a war gaming facility designed for limited war analysis. Three approaches to the problem of gaming limited wars are compared - the highly automated, one or two-sided, closed game; the closed, two-sided manual game; and the open, manual war game. An approach is proposed which provides each of these three capabilities as progressive steps in a developmental program. An appendix, listing and briefly describing some of the major current war gaming activi ies, is included (Aut or

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 16, 1961
Accession Number
AD0261620

Entities

People

  • Alan G. Eddy
  • Paul C. Hewett

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Military Forces (United States)
  • Military Organizations
  • United States
  • War Games

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