On War Gaming: [pt. 3] – Levels of War

The previous posts of “On War Gaming” part 1 and part 2, examined the definition of war gaming and provided a digital example. Let’s take a step back and thing more broadly about further defining the types of war games. Believe it or not, there are levels to warfare. No, not levels like in a video game, but rather levels as in the scale of operations. These levels range from the extremely broad on a national scope, all the way down to the individual. It’s important that we start by creating some definitions to go off of.