war game
a simulated military operation, carried out to test the validity of a war plan or operational concept: in its simplest form, two opposing teams of officers take part, and when necessary, military units of the required strength are employed.
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How to use war game in a sentence
That month, he took part in a war game hosted by the Center for New American Security, a Washington-based research group.
The Big Thaw: How Russia Could Dominate a Warming World | by Abrahm Lustgarten, photography by Sergey Ponomarev | December 16, 2020 | ProPublicaThat is the lesson of a recent war game on Syria played out at the Brookings Institution.
And I think her sons are mighty lucky chaps—especially just now that the war game's on.
The Whistling Mother | Grace S. RichmondUntil that time she had been just a figure in the great war game that might provide me with something to 'write up' into a book.
War and the Weird | Forbes PhillipsThe Germans call it Krug-spiel—which means war-game, and that term has been adopted all over the world.
The Boy Scout Automobilists | Robert Maitland
Cutting the wire is legitimate, even in the war game, because it's necessary to do the actual cutting.
The Boy Scout Automobilists | Robert MaitlandThis money equipped and furnished the gymnasium in the tower, the room now devoted to the war-game.
The Old First Massachusetts Coast Artillery in War and Peace | Frederick Morse Cutler
British Dictionary definitions for war game
a notional tactical exercise for training military commanders, in which no military units are actually deployed
a game in which model soldiers are used to create battles, esp past battles, in order to study tactics
(intr) to prepare for battle by considering possible tactics and enemy responses
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