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GETTING WAR (GAMING) BACK INTO THE WAR COLLEGE

"SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?" These are the iconic words from the 1983 movie WarGames, in which a high school student unknowingly hacks a government computer system to play a game called "Global Thermonuclear War." The protagonist sets off a chain of events that blurred the lines between gameplay and reality until the wayward artificially intelligent computer ultimately concluded that no one could win a nuclear war, a thoughtful revelation inspired after playing Tic-Tac-Toe with itself.

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