December 10, 2020

Like Your Brain Has Just Gone To the Gym (Wargaming Room)

A Better Peace welcomes Chris Dougherty and Becca Wasser from The Gaming Lab at the Center for New American Security (CNAS). Chris and Becca join host Ken Gilliam in our special series the Wargaming Room to discuss the efforts and contributions of CNAS to the gaming world. The three discuss how strategic gaming is used to shape the choices of leaders in government policy, industry and academia.

Listen to the full conversation on the U.S. Army War College's A Better Peace podcast.

  • Commentary
    • Foreign Affairs
    • October 8, 2024
    Wars Are Not Accidents

    The road to conflict is an action-reaction process. Leaders decide whether and how to respond to a rival’s moves, and they often search for ways to lower the temperature. Esca...

    By Erik Lin-Greenberg

  • Congressional Testimony
    • April 27, 2023
    Bad Blood: The TTX for the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

    I. Introduction Chairman Gallagher, Ranking Member Krishnamoorthi, distinguished members of the committee and staff, thank you for inviting me to come today to talk about the ...

    By Stacie Pettyjohn, Becca Wasser & Andrew Metrick

  • Video
    • April 23, 2023
    War Games: House Committee simulates Chinese invasion of Taiwan

    Last week, the Defense Team and Gaming Lab from CNAS conducted a tabletop exercise for the House Select Committee on China examining a hypothetical future invasion of Taiwan b...

    By Stacie Pettyjohn, Becca Wasser & Andrew Metrick

  • Reports
    • February 22, 2023
    Avoiding the Brink

    The United States is entering an unprecedented multipolar nuclear era that is far more complex and challenging than that of the Cold War. This report examines potential trigge...

    By Stacie Pettyjohn & Hannah Dennis

View All Reports View All Articles & Multimedia