Beyond the black box
Subtitle: an assessment of strategic war gaming
Contributors: Tritten, James John
Published: 1987
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
Subjects: National security affairs
Description: War games are currently enjoying a revival of interest and popularity within the American defense community.  Strategists, analysts and policy-makers alike are turning more and more to gaming as a medium for education, planning and discovery.  This thesis invesitgates the nature, utility and limitations of strategic-level war gaming as a tool for strategic planning and international negotiations.  It offers a perspective on gaming different (yet complementary) to that of operatioins research: war games are viewed as sources of synthetic history, to be studied and interpreted by historical-type methods.  Theses.
Notes: Thesis advisor, James John Tritten.

Available from National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Va.

Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs) Naval Postgraduate School, Dec. 1987.

Bibliography:  p. 89-91.

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