war game
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.27 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A simulation (by whatever means, physical or digital), for training and strategy purposes, of a military operation involving two or more opposing forces using rules, data, and procedures designed to depict an actual or assumed real-life situation.
noun
A game, for entertainment or edutainment purposes, that simulates or represents a military operation.
verb
To run a military simulation of this kind.
Example Sentences
- "Well, the WOPR [War Operations Planning Response] spends all it's time thinking about World War III. Twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, it plays an endless series of war games using all available information on the state of the world. The WOPR has already fought World War III as a game time and time again."
- "On the other hand, war games in the Weimar era did not first develop into a political instrument when they began to incorporate political entities. Rather, only war games were able to approximate exactly the situation that was to be avoided at all costs."
- "In a sort of blooper reel, I will go over some of the things that occurred in a few of the wargames but we left out when collating the overall timeline."
- "Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, said last November that in the Pentagon’s war games against China, “we lose every time.” […] War games can be wrong; analysts sometimes overstate adversaries’ abilities. Yet this larger point should not be ignored."
- "Together Britain, the United States and Ukraine conducted an assessment of the new plan, trying to war game it once more."