29 March 2024 ~
Brant is joined by Chris Weuve (chair of the Connections Online committee) and Pete Pellegrino, longtime professional wargamer and instructor. This slightly-rambling episode looks at some of the history of wargaming at the Naval War College, how and why it’s withered today, and what we can do about it.
You can always catch past episodes on the “podcast” tab of our site.
We also talk about how Pete came to wargaming and how its indicative of other people wandering into the wargaming practitioner field, and Chris (of course) tells us about a test-to-destruction as a valid type of wargame. And we unironically use the term “ambiguity horizon”. Of course, we wander off-topic here and there, because this is Mentioned in Dispatches and that’s our schtick.
A handful of references (look, there were a lot)
- The Bob Work Memo (or at least Bob Work talking about it) and some of our commentary on it
- Wargaming Pathologies
- That Nimitz quote
- CAPT William McCarty Little
- collected essays (midway down on the page)
- The Strategic Naval War Game Or Chart Maneuver
- Millennium Challenge
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