All 11 Uses of
war game
in
Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Pentagon was in the earliest stages of planning for a war game that they were calling Millennium Challenge '02.†
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- It was the largest and most expensive war game thus far in history.†
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- The group that runs war games for the U.S. military is called the Joint Forces Command, or, as it is better known, JFCOM.†
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- Planning for the war game began in earnest in the summer of 2000.†
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- In war game parlance, the United States and its allies are always known as Blue Team, and the enemy is always known as Red Team, and JFCOM generated comprehensive portfolios for each team, covering everything they would be expected to know about their own forces and their adversary's forces.†
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- All those things we looked at very comprehensively," the commander of JFCOM, General William F. Kernan, told reporters in a Pentagon press briefing after the war game was over.†
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- Then they took a group of traders from Wall Street across New York Harbor to the military base on Governor's Island and played war games on computers.†
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- The war games required them to make decisive, rapid-fire decisions under conditions of high pressure and with limited information, which is, of course, what they did all day at work.†
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- On the opening day of the war game, Blue Team poured tens of thousands of troops into the Persian Gulf.†
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- Some would say that it was an artifact of the particular way war games are run.†
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- "The Operational Net Assessment was a tool that was supposed to allow us to see all, know all," Major General Dean Cash, one of the senior JFCOM officials involved in the war game, admitted afterward.†
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Definition:
a simulation of a military operation intended to train military commanders or to demonstrate a situation or to test a proposed strategy