{"id":185,"date":"2008-11-21T10:46:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T15:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/?p=185"},"modified":"2023-08-27T10:16:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T14:16:04","slug":"life-goes-to-wargames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2008\/11\/21\/life-goes-to-wargames\/","title":{"rendered":"LIFE Goes to War(games)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google’s searchable archive of LIFE<\/em> magazine images<\/a> provides a few images of board, or paper, wargames, as opposed to field exercises:<\/p>\n

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Dated 1915, the image is captioned:<\/p>\n

Group of English gentlemen and soldiers of the 25th London Cyclist Regiment playing the newest form of wargame strategy simulation called “Bellum” at the regimental HQ.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One battalion of the 25th<\/a> shipped off to India during World War I and later served in the 3rd Afghan War—though sadly, without their bicycles.<\/p>\n

And, of course, the RAND Institute<\/a> makes an appearance:<\/p>\n

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\nPhotographer Leonard McCombe captured this image in 1958, captioned:<\/p>\n

Scientists play at war strategy in mock air and missile battle to clarify problems of offense and defense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Talk about a deluxe map…though those counters don’t look clipped, and having beverages right on the map is a definite wargaming faux pas.<\/p>\n

I’m sure there are a few more good wargaming images in that archive.<\/p>\n

(Images from Google’s LIFE<\/em> Magazine archive<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google’s searchable archive of LIFE magazine images provides a few images of board, or paper, wargames, as opposed to field exercises: Dated 1915, the image is captioned: Group of English gentlemen and soldiers of the 25th London Cyclist Regiment playing the newest form of wargame strategy simulation called “Bellum” at the regimental HQ. One battalion … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[70],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wargaming","tag-journalism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pedXm-2Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6320,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions\/6320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}