Conflict simulation, peacebuilding, and development
At Armchair Dragoons, Ian Brown offers an overview of—and some thoughtful reflections on—the June 2026 Connections US professional wargaming conference. As previously noted at PAXsims, the Connections US 2026 conference presentations can be found here.
Medevac!, designed by Ian Robinson and Ed Farren, is a serious game addressing the challenge of stabilizing, transporting, and treating battlefield casualties. Players are forced to make difficult choices about triage and treatment, while dealing with friction and uncertainty. The game is more described more fully in these YouTube videos, and is available for free [ ]
The Women’s Wargaming Network will host an online discussion with Dr. Ed McGrady on Saturday, 22 August 2026, exploring the use of gaming in public health preparedness and response. Gaming Public Health Responses What happens when the crisis you planned and gamed for doesn’t unfold as expected? The discussion will examine where gaming can genuinely [ ]
The following piece was written for PAXsims by Stephane Benoit. I own bigBITS Tactical Cyber Security Operations in Québec City, and I also work full-time as a Vulnerability Analyst for the Government of Canada — a hacker by night, a VA analyst by day. My background is in Python and automation, which shapes how I think about [ ]
PAXsims is pleased to welcome its newest Associate Editor, Jerry Hall. Jerry Hall is a retired U.S. Army officer whose final 20 years of service focused on modeling and simulation, wargaming, and exercise planning and control in the Indo-Pacific region. He currently serves as a senior wargaming and simulation consultant and supports U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) J7. He [ ]
In the last few years, LinkedIn has emerged as a major professional network for those interested in conflict simulation and other serious games. Indeed, not a day goes by that I don t see something of interest posted by one of my wargaming colleagues. This is hardly surprising: LinkedIn has a cultivated professional ambiance, whereas other [ ]
The UK Resilience Academy has published a new insight paper, Wargaming in a Resilience Context. Authored by Rob Grayston, it argues that resilience exercising should borrow deliberately from military wargaming, adapting tools like matrix games, serious games, and megagames to encourage group discovery, surface problems and contingencies, and build a genuine willingness to challenge plans—all…
This short video on how to play a matrix game was developed by members of the wargaming team at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu, HI. You can access the video at this link.
The Looking after Eden serious board game is a student project developed within a Vertically Integrated Project (VIP) at the University of St Andrews. VIPs allow students to identify their own projects which can be in form of research projects or stakeholder engagement projects. In the VIP Looking after Eden, which is centred around the Eden Estuary near St Andrews, students [ ]
The Professional Gaming Society (a division of the Military Operations Research Society) is offering a number of wargaming courses later this year. WARGAMING EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES WORKSHOP 22–25 September 2026 Alexandria, VA Our annual wargaming workshops consistently attract some of the brightest minds in the field. This year, we re looking forward to exploring how wargaming [ ]