“Military exercises and wargaming in professional military education” – a special issue of the Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies.

In 12 articles international experts along with scholars and teaching staff at the Norwegian Defence University College (NDUC) and the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) offer classroom-based examples and discuss their experiences with using exercises and games in military education.

Participants:

Dr. Peter Perla has been a wargamer, a designer, a Navy defence researcher, a contributing editor to wargaming magazines, and in 1990 published The Art of Wargaming which remains the authoritative work in the field. In 2017 he received the first award for Lifetime Achievement in Wargaming by the Connections Wargaming conference.

Prof. Carsten Rønnfeldt is the editor of the SJMS special issue «Military exercises and wargaming in professional military education». As a teacher of International Relations at the NDUC/Norwegian Military Academy he has long been a keen user of educational wargames. He has published in several academic journals.

Vårin Alme is a political scientist and works as a researcher at the FFI. She uses wargames both as a research method and as an educational tool. Alme is partner in the research project “Designing educational wargames” that gathers data on how to ensure learning through wargaming.

Cathrine Caspari is a third-year cadet at the NDUC/Norwegian Military Academy, as well as part time student of peace and conflict studies at the Oslo New University College. Previously, she was a conscript in the King's Guard.