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Title: New Dissertation on Wargaming!
Post by: blackndecker on April 09, 2020, 03:54:20 AM

Elizabeth Bartels' eagerly anticipated Ph.D. dissertation, "Building Better Games for National Security Policy Analysis: Towards a Social Scientific Approach" hit the streets last night.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/rgs_dissertations/RGSD437.html

Title: Re: New Dissertation on Wargaming!
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 09, 2020, 07:52:43 AM

I've known Ellie for years.  Curious what's in there.... 🤔

Title: Re: New Dissertation on Wargaming!
Post by: blackndecker on April 10, 2020, 07:56:18 AM

This is the part where I can't tell if the comment is humorous sarcasm...only because she seems to have had a pretty consistent theme in many of her podcast interviews and her other published work :)

I submit that this might be the most important professional wargaming book of 2020...maybe she'd come on Mentioned in Dispatches?

Title: Re: New Dissertation on Wargaming!
Post by: bayonetbrant on April 10, 2020, 12:13:32 PM

Quote from: blackndecker on April 10, 2020, 07:56:18 AM

This is the part where I can't tell if the comment is humorous sarcasm...only because she seems to have had a pretty consistent theme in many of her podcast interviews and her other published work :) 

She's wicked smart and has some very specific ideas about how gaming can and should be used



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Quote from: blackndecker on April 10, 2020, 07:56:18 AM

I submit that this might be the most important professional wargaming book of 2020...maybe she'd come on Mentioned in Dispatches?

I'm sure she would relish the chance to make us look like the dunces we are!  :biggrin: