: a simulated battle or campaign to test military concepts and usually conducted in conferences by officers acting as the opposing staffs
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: a two-sided umpired training maneuver with actual elements of the armed forces participating
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For example, a personal avatar in a war game may be wearing a full coat of armor or battle attire, with their faces hidden in masks or helmets. Tim Bajarin, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022 The annual war game will be much larger in scale and involve attack helicopters, artillery and armored vehicles. Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 9 Aug. 2022 The war game was organized in partnership with the D.C.-based think tank Center for a New American Security (CNAS). Carol E. Lee, NBC News, 12 May 2022 The war game simulated Chinese forces beginning their campaign by trying to take out the nearest US bases in places like Guam and Japan. Brad Lendon And Ivan Watson, CNN, 31 May 2022 The war game contains other elements of recent cyberattacks in Ukraine, said Rain Ottis, a professor of cyber operations at Tallinn University of Technology who helped organize this year’s Locked Shields. Catherine Stupp, WSJ, 20 Apr. 2022 Just a few days after Boeing delivered the second F-15EX test plane, the two Eagle IIs in early May flew to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska for a sprawling aerial war game called Northern Edge 2021. David Axe, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021 The only way for liberals to win the right's radicalizing culture-war game is not to play. Damon Linker, The Week, 1 Apr. 2022 The nation’s biggest utilities run an elaborate war game every two years, simulating such an attack.New York Times, 16 Jan. 2022 See More