Air Force Wants Wargame Program for “Dummies”:

Dec. 1, 2005

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Air Force Wants Wargame Program for “Dummies”: USAF has proffered $750,000 to Stottler Henke Associates to provide a software toolkit—called WarCon—that will make it possible for instructors who are subject matter experts rather than computer programmers to create computer-based wargames. Stottler calls the program a “visual authoring tool” that will “simplify and streamline” the process to create high-quality wargames. Actually, this sounds like a good plan. Want to know more, read here.

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