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NEWS ABOUT: war games

war games stories: 7 news summaries

 Iran Kicks Off 5 Days 
 of War Games 

Drill meant to boost air defense of nuclear facilities

Nov 22, 09 7:42 AM CST
(AP) - Iran today begins large-scale air defense war games aimed at protecting the country's nuclear facilities, state television reports, adding that the five-day drill will cover a third of the country, including regions that are home to Iran's nuclear facilities. The drill involves both Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard, the paramilitary Basij... More »

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Iran • war games • nuclear program • Basiji • Natanz • Iranian Revolutionary Guard • air defense

 Pentagon Holds 
 Secret Afghan 
 War Games 

Mullen leads exercise to assess effects of troop surge

Oct 26, 09 6:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, led a secret war game earlier this month to assess the Obama administration's options in Afghanistan, including a 44,000-troop surge. A team of military leaders used Gen. Stanley McChrystal's analysis to examine how Taliban insurgents and the Afghan... More »

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Afghanistan • Barack Obama • war games • troop surge • Robert Gates • Joint Chiefs of Staff • Adm. Mike Mullen • counterterrorism • troop levels • Afghanistan war • Stanley McChrystal

Pentagon Game Simulates Global Economic Warfare

The exercise showed China to be the savviest economic operator

Apr 9, 09 9:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - Last month, the Pentagon hosted a new kind of war game, focused not on a “shooting war,” but on how hostile states might damage the US economy, Politico reports. Instead of decorated military brass calling the shots, shirt-sleeved hedge fund managers, academics, and executives played out scenarios shifting... More »

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China • Russia • Pentagon • war games • global economy • Chinese economy • economy

German Gamer Admits to
Brutal Murder

Knifes UK man to death, was in love with victim's girlfriend

Sep 27, 08 6:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - A German man has confessed to stabbing to death a Brit he met through an online war game, the Guardian reports. The 20-year-old victim ran a forum for fans of the game. Detectives had initially believed that the slaying stemmed from an online feud but it later emerged that the... More »

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Internet • war games • United Kingdom • murder • Nintendo • online gaming • video games

 Iran to Launch War Games 

Sessions will train troops, test weapons

Sep 7, 08 12:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iran’s military will start 3 days of war games tomorrow amid talk of a US or Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities, which Israel and the West say may house weapons operations, Reuters reports. The “maneuvers” will involve anti-aircraft defense systems, Iranian media said, and are meant to... More »

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Iran • war games • anti aircraft guns • nuclear facilities

New 'Call of Duty' Offers Players Modern Combat

Video game set to conquer the competition

Nov 9, 07 5:19 PM CST
(Newser) - "Call of Duty 4: Modern Combat," released this week, takes players on the missions of elite modern fighters like the US Marines or British SAS, a departure for a video game series that previously focused exclusively on WWII. The game is set to be this holiday season's biggest... More »

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war games • computer games • multiplayer games • Activision • Call of Duty • Infinity Ward • video games

War Games Should Include Media, Civilians

"I yearn for the days when 'Battleship' reflected real war"

Mar 27, 07 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Modern warfare calls for modern war games, and that means the players can't be just armies and navies, but also civilians, the media, and the international community. Gary Anderson, the Marines' first director of war gaming, writes that victory in post-Cold War combat is no  longer determined by battlefield fighters,... More »

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Iraq • media • military • war games • war

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