New York Magazine - With a nuclear North Korea and Iran on the way, the geopolitical situation is evolving in unpredictable ways. Can a hypersophisticated World War II simulation teach us 21st-century global strategy? Eminent historian Niall Ferguson rates the state of play.

New York Times - There is a reason American military officers express grim concern over the tactics used by Iranian sailors last weekend: a classified, $250 million war game in which small, agile speedboats swarmed a naval convoy to inflict devastating damage on more powerful warships...yet another look at Millennium Challenge 2002.

Virtual Worlds News - A look at the future of military training - the use of virtual worlds as "first person thinkers" for training.

New York Times Magazine - In an age of microscopic technologies and sweeping Google Earth panoramas, Will Wright, the world’s most successful video-game inventor, has set out to create a game (or is it the art form?) that will teach us how to really see. A preview of Spore, the ultimate game (or wargame?). What will be Spore's applications in - and implications for - military education?

Wired - Roadside bombs. Hostile insurgents. 1,200 extras in Arab dress. Welcome to Louisiana and the Army camp known as the Box, where the violence is fake but the fear is for real.