The war in Ukraine has served as a stark illustration of the rapid evolution of modern conflicts. The jarring shift from trench warfare to drone warfare and the dynamic use of real-time intelligence ...

Staff Sgt. Karen Najera conducts a U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa wargaming event in Vicenza, Italy. (Brian Andries/U.S. Army) In a wargame last month to test crisis plans, the Army’s ...

Over nearly 40 years in uniform, I saw war shift from the massed battles we braced for in the Cold War, to pinpoint strikes on terrorists, and now to a battlefield ruled by autonomous machines, ...

Military wargames date back thousands of years, but their modern versions have many of the same challenges that civilian wargames do—in particular, weak computer opponents. The United States Air Force ...

October 12, 2025: Nine years ago, the U.S. Department of Defense called for increased use of wargames to better examine an increasingly uncertain future. There was a sense of déjà vu in all this ...