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Assessing Command Judgment: The Human AAR The wargame is over.

From 12 to 16 October 2026, CNN Academy held its first-ever journalism simulation in Pakistan, in conjunction with the University of Central Punjab (UCP) in Lahore.

The Connections Oz interdisciplinary wargaming conference will be meeting in person this year, in Canberra on 10-11 December 2026.

AI image The following article was instigated by ED McGrady A few years ago, I went out and asked a bunch of game designers what games a new professional game designer should be familiar with.

From October 8 to 10, the Baltic International Security Center (BISC) and ISM University of Management and Economics brought two dozen practitioners to Vilnius for three days of crisis simulations focused on Kaliningrad.

The following article was written by Lorenzo Nannetti, Senior Analyst at Il Caffè Geopolitico.

Frederick II writes dispatches and orders in the village church at Elsnig during the night after the Battle of Torgau, 3–4 November 1760.

Two recent articles in the Canadian media on outside interference in Alberta’s October 19 independence referendum say a good deal about the challenge hostile actors now pose to liberal democracies.

This article was written for PAXsims by Joseph Chretien, a retired Models and Simulations (M&S) US Army Lieutenant Colonel.

On October 14, Archipelago of Design will be holding a playtest in Montreal of their Mission Critical climate security game.

For the inaugural PAXSims Editors’ Roundtable, we asked the editorial team one question: What is one thing you wish you had known about professional (war)gaming before you entered the field?

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The MORS Professional Gaming Society is offering a number of wargaming courses in October, November, and December 2026.

Broadcast in the UK on Sky One from 21 to 24 September 2026, The Wargame places experienced political and military figures inside a simulated national-security crisis.

Trouble in Paradise: Micronesia, a matrix game exploring contemporary political and strategic competition in the South Pacific.

PAXsims is pleased to present some recent items on serious (and not-so-serious) gaming that may be of interest to our readers.

The following article was written for PAXsim by Ben Taylor.

The following item was written for PAXsims by Jordan Nicholls.

The September 2025 issue of the Public Sector Counter Fraud Journal includes an interesting article by Madeline Johnson on the use of serious games by the Canadian Revenue Agency.

Defending Defender is a wargame about strategic communications developed by the UK Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl).

Hawaii, 1795 by Decision Games I have been doing a considerable amount of research lately on warfare in the Hawaiian Islands in the late eighteenth century.

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This article was originally published on Linkedin as part of the Command Learning Series and has been lightly adapted for PAXSims.

Welcome to the August 2026 edition of Fight Club Monthly!

The Lithuanian Armed Forces’ new wargaming handbook, Įvadas į karžaidą [Introduction to Wargaming], is now available.

The University of Vaasa and the Finnish National Defence University are strengthening their collaboration in research and education.

Armchair Dragoons has published a report by Aaron Danis on the recent U.S.

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Sixteen games.

Overview Designing Tactical Games Course – Military Operations Research Society The MORS Designing Tactical Games Course is a three-day course that focuses on building tactical games.