King's College London's Wargaming Network aims to advance wargaming as a method of inquiry and as a method for learning and teaching. It builds on a rich history of King’s gaming activities and will serve as a hub for the growing community of King’s students and staff studying, researching and applying games and simulations. The network seeks to engage and convene world-class wargaming scholars, practitioners and emerging talent. 

Wargaming Lecture Series 

We are launching a new public lecture series on wargaming. The lectures will examine fundamental challenges for adapting wargaming theory and practice to usefully address contemporary security problems facing the UK and its NATO allies.

Lecture Series - 02 April 2019 

Air Marshal Edward Stringer, "Advancing the UK's Analytical Tools to Address Strategic Competition and Modern Deterrence Post-Brexit" 

Air Marshal Edward Stringer, the Director General of Joint Force Development and the Defence Academy, will kickstart the week with a public lecture, part of the WN’s inaugural wargaming lecture series. He will discuss the need for a reinvigorated wargaming effort in the UK and among NATO allies to support robust analysis and innovation in the context of the new strategic challenges facing the alliance. In this lecture he will discuss three sets of questions:

1. What new analytical requirements does the changing security environment present to the UK and its allies? What is the value of wargaming as part of the broader analytical toolkit in meeting these requirements? 

2. What has the UK done to reinvigorate wargaming as a tool for strategic and operational analysis? 

3. How should the current practice of wargaming adapt to meet the new policy requirements? What could the policy, professional wargaming and academic communities do to further the utility of wargaming?

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