×


 x 

Shopping cart
Professor Philip Sabin - Simulating War: Studying Conflict through Simulation Games - 9781472533913 - V9781472533913
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.

Simulating War: Studying Conflict through Simulation Games

€ 30.99
€ 30.57
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Simulating War: Studying Conflict through Simulation Games Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages, 26 colour illus. BIC Classification: JWKT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 652.
Over the past fifty years, many thousands of conflict simulations have been published that bring the dynamics of past and possible future wars to life. In this book, Philip Sabin explores the theory and practice of conflict simulation as a topic in its own right, based on his thirty years of experience in designing wargames and using them in teaching. Simulating War sets conflict simulation in its proper context alongside more familiar techniques such as game theory and operational analysis. It explains in detail the analytical and modelling techniques involved, and it teaches you how to design ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472533913
SKU
V9781472533913
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-5

About Professor Philip Sabin
Philip Sabin is Professor of Strategic Studies in the Department of War Studies at King's College, London, UK. He has worked closely with the armed services and appears regularly on TV and radio. He has also co-edited the two volume Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare (2007).

Reviews for Simulating War: Studying Conflict through Simulation Games
Brilliant. Professor Sabin has produced a masterwork, one worthy to grace bookshelves that are home to Von Reisswitz's Kriegsspiel, Wells's Little Wars, Morse and Kimball's Methods of Operations Research and Schelling's The Strategy of Conflict. If you want to learn more about the unquestionably horrible but quintessentially human activity that is war, you need to read this book.
Dr ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Simulating War: Studying Conflict through Simulation Games


Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!