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We believe that wargaming’s power and success (as well as its danger) derive from its ability to enable individual participants to transform themselves by making them more open to internalizing their experiences in a game—for good or ill.
- Peter P. Perla, E. D. McGrady
- 2011
Apr 30, 2021 · Wargaming experts Peter Perla and E. D. McGrady argue, “Wargaming’s power and success (as well as its danger) derive from its ability to enable individual participants to transform themselves by making them more open to internalizing their experiences in a game.”
Mar 21, 2018 · The particulars of individual wargames are important, yet there is an undercurrent of something less tangible than facts or models that affects fundamentally the ability of a game to succeed—and to transform its participants into decision makers better able to face real-world challenges.
- Peter P. Perla, E. D. McGrady
- 2011
Nov 19, 2019 · Holding rigidly to the original wargame design can lead to slow play, unhappy participants, and ultimately less useful data for analysis. However, on-the-fly changes can also wreak havoc with interacting design elements and data collection plans.
Feb 25, 2023 · Wargames allow diverse groups with varied perspectives to temporarily detach from the urgencies of the present, momentarily transcend institutional barriers, share knowledge across domains, and grapple collectively with possibilities, risks, and other uncertainties about the future.
Wargaming’s power and success (as well as its dangerous potential for increasing self-delusion) derive from its ability to enable individual participants to transform themselves by making them more open to internalizing their experiences in a game—for good or ill. The particulars of individual wargames are important to their relative success,
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Wargaming experts emphasize that the value of wargames stems from the interactions of human cognition and game elements (Perla, 1990), and have argued the power of wargames are in their ability to enable participants to become more open, and to transform their thinking based on their experiences in games (Perla & McGrady, 2011).
