War game

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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 and time again."

  2. 2
    a simulation of a military operation intended to train military commanders or to demonstrate a situation or to test a proposed strategy wordnet
  3. 3
    A game, for entertainment or edutainment purposes, that simulates or represents a military operation.
Verb
  1. 1
    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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