war game
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war game
noun war games · wargame · war-game
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A simulation (by whatever means, physical or digital), for training and strategy purposes, of a military operation involving two or more opposing forces using rules, data, and procedures designed to depict an actual or assumed real-life situation.
Well, the WOPR [War Operations Planning Response] spends all it's time thinking about World War III. Twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, it plays an endless series of war games using all available information on the state of the world. The WOPR has already fought World War III as a game time a
Similar: military exercise, training exercise
- A game, for entertainment or edutainment purposes, that simulates or represents a military operation.
verb war games · war gaming · war gamed · wargame · war-game
- To run a military simulation of this kind. Together Britain, the United States and Ukraine conducted an assessment of the new plan, trying to war game it once more.
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noun military simulation
| Español | simulacro de guerra, juego de guerra |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | 軍事演習 gunji enshū, ウォーゲーム wōgēmu |
| 中文 | 軍事演習 /军事演习 jūnshì yǎnxí |
| Français | jeu de guerre |
| Deutsch | Planspiel, Planübung, Militärübung, Gefechtsübung, Gefechtssimulation, Manöver |
| Русский | вое́нные уче́ния vojénnyje učénija, войсковы́е манёвры vojskovýje manjóvry, вое́нные и́гры vojénnyje ígry |
| العربية | لُعْبَة حَرْب luʕbat ḥarb |
noun game
| 中文 | 戰爭遊戲 /战争游戏 zhànzhēngyóuxì |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Kriegsspiel |
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title = {war game},
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