Peter Perla’s The Art of Wargaming: A Guide for Professionals and Hobbyists (Professional Wargaming)

"Wargaming is an essential part of the modern military curriculum and it is difficult to<br />see any officer rising to senior ranks in a Western country, without being proficient in the art of wargaming." Tim Price MBE, UK Defence<br /><br />“Peter Perla is the leading wargaming expert in the United States. His clear and insightful style make this book valuable to both the casual user and the serious professional. “ Larry Bond, military writer and game designer, including the classic Harpoon simulation.<br /><br />Peter P. Perla III has been involved with wargaming, both hobby and professional, for over forty years. An involvement that sparked a lifelong interest in military history and games of strategy. A frequent player of commercial wargames as a youngster, he had already published articles in the hobby press before he was an undergraduate. After earning a PhD from Carnegie-Mellon University with his thesis on Lanchester mathematical combat models, he joined the Center for Naval Analyses in 1977 as a naval operations research analyst. By the early 1980’s Dr. Perla had worked on several navy campaign studies, designed naval games, documented<br />existing navy wargames, and led a study to define the principal uses of wargaming and to identify some of its fundamental principles. Over the next few years, he<br />participated in a nearly a dozen classified major navy wargame, including the Global War Game. <br /><br />Since the first edition of this book was published, Dr. Perla continued his work on Navy wargaming, and branched out into analysis and gaming for other U.S.<br />government agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Army's Training and Doctrine Command.<br /><br />Dr. Perla is now regarded as one of the nations’s leading experts on wargaming and its use in defence research.<br /><br />This book provides the most comprehensive and coherent discussion of wargaming<br />wri