Zones of Control

<b>Examinations of wargaming for entertainment education and military planning in terms of design critical analysis and historical contexts.</b> <p/>Games with military themes date back to antiquity and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game history. This volume fills that gap providing a diverse set of perspectives on wargaming's past present and future. In <i>Zones of Control</i> contributors consider wargames played for entertainment education and military planning in terms of design critical analysis and historical contexts. They consider both digital and especially tabletop games most of which cover specific historical conflicts or are grounded in recognizable real-world geopolitics. Game designers and players will find the historical and critical contexts often missing from design and hobby literature; military analysts will find connections to game design and the humanities; and academics will find documentation and critique of a sophisticated body of cultural work in which the complexity of military conflict is represented in ludic systems and procedures. <p/>Each section begins with a long anchoring chapter by an established authority which is followed by a variety of shorter pieces both analytic and anecdotal. Topics include the history of playing at war; operations research and systems design; wargaming and military history; wargaming's ethics and politics; gaming irregular and non-kinetic warfare; and wargames as artistic practice. <p/><b>Contributors</b> <br>Jeremy Antley Richard Barbrook Elizabeth M. Bartels Ed Beach Larry Bond Larry Brom Lee Brimmicombe-Wood Rex Brynen Matthew B. Caffrey Jr. Luke Caldwell Catherine Cavagnaro Robert M. Citino Laurent Closier Stephen V. Cole Brian Conley Greg Costikyan Patrick Crogan John Curry James F. Dunnigan Robert J. Elder Lisa Faden Mary Flanagan John A. Foley Alexander R. Galloway Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi Don R. Gilman A. Scott Glancy Troy Goodfellow Jack Greene Mark Herman Kacper Kwiatkowski Tim Lenoir David Levinthal Alexander H. Levis Henry Lowood Elizabeth Losh Esther MacCallum-Stewart Rob MacDougall Mark Mahaffey Bill McDonald Brien J. Miller Joseph Miranda Soraya Murray Tetsuya Nakamura Michael Peck Peter P. Perla Jon Peterson John Prados Ted S. Raicer Volko Ruhnke Philip Sabin Thomas C. Schelling Marcus Schulzke Miguel Sicart Rachel Simmons Ian Sturrock Jenny Thompson John Tiller J. R. Tracy Brian Train Russell Vane Charles Vasey Andrew Wackerfuss James Wallis James Wallman Yuna Huh Wong