The U.S. Department of Defense has started using artificial intelligence (AI) in a brand-new way to improve military training. The Department of Defense launched a project called Thunderforge, which ...

In March 2025, the U.S. government conducted a wargame on how to defend military bases in the United States from drone attacks. Just three months later, what had seemed a theoretical possibility ...

Staff Sgt. Karen Najera conducts a U.S. Army Southern European Task Force, Africa wargaming event in Vicenza, Italy. (Brian Andries/U.S. Army) In a wargame last month to test crisis plans, the Army’s ...

Students move pieces around the board during a wargame based on Pacific conflict while attending Air War College at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, in 2023. (Billy Blankenship/U.S. Air Force) Lessons ...

Military wargames date back thousands of years, but their modern versions have many of the same challenges that civilian wargames do—in particular, weak computer opponents. The United States Air Force ...

In August 2025, 25 international experts gathered at Syracuse University to do something unusual: plan China’s invasion of Taiwan. For two days, academics, policy analysts, and current and former U.S.