One of the interesting ideas from this article is how simulations can map out how a war is going to turn out _badly_ for the people who wish to engage in it, su

One of the interesting ideas from this article is how simulations can map out how a war is going to turn out _badly_ for the people who wish to engage in it, such as Vietnam. Of course, the wargamers' advice was not heeded in the case of Vietnam, but this strikes me as probably one of the best ways in how war games could "replace the real thing", because a computer simulated it, and turns out the war is a terrible idea. This leads to the other interesting idea from Buckminster Fuller: that Earth is a (ONE) spaceship, and we need to quit acting like each nation is on a different ship...