For years the Army's annual computer-simulated war game has focused on fighting a major war.
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This was made clear during a high-level war game at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government earlier this month.
November 2006: Chinese hackers attack the US Naval War College computer infrastructure, possibly targeting war game information on the networks.
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He recently created a new video of him playing "Battlefield 3, " the sort of realistic war game his mother usually forbids.
The generals "war game" -- play war games -- by examining what scenarios could unfold and what to do about it.
"Don't call it a war game", Pentagon officials were saying - a reflection perhaps of the sensitivities surrounding Nato at the moment.
Thurman also oversees the annual military maneuvers under way, known as Foal Eagle, as well as an accompanying war game, called Key Resolve.
The resulting work, Desert Rain, is part art installation, part interactive war game in which audience members try to rescue an assigned target.
As the title suggests, as this is now the sixth God of War game, what can they really do to keep combat feeling fresh?
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So, perhaps to show that it is giving space its due, the Air Force held its first space war game here, and even invited reporters inside for a few hours.
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The controversy started when the game was first announced, and people began murmuring about its apparent similarities to Day Z, a popular zombie mod of the war game ARMA II.
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For all the talk about Blackwater and Houston oil industry firms connected to Dick Cheney, it took a Wall Street player to truly figure out how to play the war game.
For example, the Windows RT version of TegraZone advertises games like SoulCraft, Riptide GP, and Great Big War Game, but also contains starter guides and tips for new Windows RT users.
In Kyrgyzstan, many problems that commanders wrestled with in the simulated war game -- troubles with partners' differing values, corruption, Islamic extremism and poverty -- are playing out in real life.
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The commander demonstrated the war game recently to top U.S. defense officials visiting Command Post Tango, the war-fighting headquarters for the U.S. and South Korean forces, located inside an underground bunker in South Korea.
Planes dopplered overhead, low, loud and frequent enough to suggest war-game dogfights concealed by the thick, rainforest canopy.
This allows it to war-game various ad budgets and media plans--evaluating TV versus print ads, say--for different target audiences.
Dividing the exercise into a northern war-game (called Ladoga) and a southern one (Zapad-09) brought each below the 13, 000-troop threshold at which Russia is obliged to invite outside observers.
Take Gears of War, a game critics love to say people play for the action, not the story.
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While there are those who want to turn war into a video game, someone needs to have the decency to pull the plug.
One man even died last year from a heart attack brought on by the stress of spending days waging war in an Internet game.
Lastly, handing out rewards and incentives for drone strikes only reinforces the fantasy of war as a video game, where you do well when you advance.
For instance, in a war-themed video game, a PC-user might be executing attacks, while another player on his iPhone at the same time might be coordinating communications between the virtual fighting units.
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Security fears centred on the war in Iraq forced the game to be played in front of just 800 invited guests.
Basically, it was a way to make people feel less guilty about watching baseball during World War I by tying the game to patriotism.
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Record dramatic images of war, save them in-game, then edit the results into a compelling frontline TV news story.
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As well as taking the award for top game, Gears of War won the technology and visual arts award.
Fixing Sales and Marketing begins with dropping the classic definitions of what Sales and Marketing are suppose to do along with the internal tug-of-war associated the zero-sum game mentality.
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