Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and
military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and
historical contexts. Games with military themes date back to
antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the
academic and trade literature on games and game history. This
volume fills that gap, providing a diverse set of perspectives on
wargaming's past, present, and future. In Zones of Control,
contributors consider wargames played for entertainment, education,
and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and
historical contexts. They consider both digital and especially
tabletop games, most of which cover specific historical conflicts
or are grounded in recognizable real-world geopolitics. Game
designers and players will find the historical and critical
contexts often missing from design and hobby literature; military
analysts will find connections to game design and the humanities;
and academics will find documentation and critique of a
sophisticated body of cultural work in which the complexity of
military conflict is represented in ludic systems and procedures.
Each section begins with a long anchoring chapter by an established
authority, which is followed by a variety of shorter pieces both
analytic and anecdotal. Topics include the history of playing at
war; operations research and systems design; wargaming and military
history; wargaming's ethics and politics; gaming irregular and
non-kinetic warfare; and wargames as artistic practice.
Contributors Jeremy Antley, Richard Barbrook, Elizabeth M. Bartels,
Ed Beach, Larry Bond, Larry Brom, Lee Brimmicombe-Wood, Rex Brynen,
Matthew B. Caffrey, Jr., Luke Caldwell, Catherine Cavagnaro, Robert
M. Citino, Laurent Closier, Stephen V. Cole, Brian Conley, Greg
Costikyan, Patrick Crogan, John Curry, James F. Dunnigan, Robert J.
Elder, Lisa Faden, Mary Flanagan, John A. Foley, Alexander R.
Galloway, Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, Don R. Gilman, A. Scott Glancy,
Troy Goodfellow, Jack Greene, Mark Herman, Kacper Kwiatkowski, Tim
Lenoir, David Levinthal, Alexander H. Levis, Henry Lowood,
Elizabeth Losh, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Rob MacDougall, Mark
Mahaffey, Bill McDonald, Brien J. Miller, Joseph Miranda, Soraya
Murray, Tetsuya Nakamura, Michael Peck, Peter P. Perla, Jon
Peterson, John Prados, Ted S. Raicer, Volko Ruhnke, Philip Sabin,
Thomas C. Schelling, Marcus Schulzke, Miguel Sicart, Rachel
Simmons, Ian Sturrock, Jenny Thompson, John Tiller, J. R. Tracy,
Brian Train, Russell Vane, Charles Vasey, Andrew Wackerfuss, James
Wallis, James Wallman, Yuna Huh Wong
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