This week, Milstack Saturday showcases articles that provide especially fresh perspectives on ongoing conflicts.
At Cracking Defence, Matthew Palmer compares the current situation in the Middle East with a BOGSAT exercise about a Russian attack on the United Kingdom. (BOGSAT stands for ‘bunch of guys sitting around a table’.)
In Target Iran, Al Mauroni describes a board wargame of a less social sort, a solitaire simulation rolled off the press in 2014, giving it high marks for both prescience and playability.
At Trench Art, David Axe tells three tales of innovation in electronic warfare, shares a story about the employment of Leopard tanks in Ukraine, and reminds us of Cold War plans to drop very large nuclear weapons on bunkers buried deep below the surface of the earth.
BOGSAT is much more colorful and descriptive than TTE (Table Top Exercise) 🤣
(probably more accurate too!)