SIMULATING WAR: STUDYING CONFLICT THROUGH SIMULATION GAMES
Book ID/图书代码： 12771011B48134
English Summary/英文概要： Over the past fifty years, many thousands of conflict simulations have been published which bring the dynamics of past and possible future wars to life. Philip Sabin used such techniques in his acclaimed previous book Lost Battles to cast new light on Greek and Roman land engagements. In this new work, he explores the theory and practice of conflict simulation as a topic in its own right, based on his thirty years of experience in designing wargames and using them to educate both military and civilian students. Simulating War sets conflict simulation in its proper context alongside more academically familiar techniques such as game theory and operational analysis. It explains in detail the analytical and modelling techniques involved, and it teaches you how to design your own simulations of conflicts of your choice, as do Philip Sabin s MA students. The book provides eight simple illustrative simulations of specific historical conflicts, complete with rules, maps and counters. These games have all been employed successfully in class, and you can use them to see exactly how conflict simulation works. Simulating War is essential reading for all recreational or professional simulation gamers, and for anyone who is interested in modelling war, from teachers and students to military officers. A key feature of the book is its inclusion of illustrative wargames designed by Professor Sabin for use in class, complete with rules and full colour maps and counters. These are as follows: - Second Punic War (multiplayer diplomacy) - Roma Invicta? (Hannibal s early campaigns in Italy) - Kartenspiel (card game of Napoleonic battle) - Hell s Gate (the Korsun pocket, winter 1944) - Big Week (US bombing raids, February 1944) - Fire and Movement (WW2 British infantry battalion attack) - Block Busting (WW2 urban combat) - Angels One Five (grand tactical aerial dogfighting in WW2)
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在过去五十年内，已经公布的数千模拟战争将过去和未来可能发生的战争的动荡感引入了生活。菲利普-萨宾(Philip Sabin)在他早期的书《丢失的战争》(Lost Battles)中利用这样的技术手段来发现罗马和希腊的大陆新约定。在这本新的作品中，他在自己的权利范围内将战争模拟的理论和实践作为一个探究主题，这些是基于他三十多年在设计战争游戏并且利用他们来培训军队和普通院校的学生的经验之上的。模拟战争在它的适合的环境下本着更加学术的非正式的技术层面比如理论和操作分析来设置冲突模拟。它详细地解释了所涉及到的分析法和模型技术，它也教你怎么样设计属于你的你自己选择的冲突形式模拟，和菲利普-萨宾的学硕士学生们一样。本书提供了八种简单的解说特定历史上的冲突的模拟，包括游戏规则，地图，和沙盘。这些游戏都能够在课堂上得到很好的使用，你能用它们来完全地看到战争冲突是怎么样操作的，从老师和学生到军队官员，模拟战争对业余或者专业的模拟游戏者以及任何对模型战争感兴趣的人都是很重要的学习方法。这本书的关键特征就是它包含了萨宾教授在课堂上所设计的所有战争游戏的解释说明，完整的游戏规则和丰富的彩色地图以及沙盘。这些游戏列举如下：“二次迦太基战争”（可多人玩），“阿列希亚战役”（在意大利汉尼拔早期的运动），“卡特斯别”（拿破仑一世战争的纸牌游戏），“地狱门”（库尔松口袋，1944年冬），“大周末”（美国炸弹突袭，1944年二月） ，最基本的入门级训练门（英国步兵一营袭击），“区段击破”（都市战斗），“碧血丹心”（天空缠斗策略）(LNL & CK）
Awards/获奖情况："非凡的萨宾教授创作了一部杰作，一部可与凡-雷斯维茨(Von Reisswitz)的《克里格斯》(Kriegsspiel)，威尔斯(Wells)的《小战斗》(Little Wars)，莫尔斯(Morse)和吉姆勃(Kimblall)的《操作理论探究》(Methodes of Operations Research)，还有谢林(Schelling)的《冲突的战略》(The Strategy of Conflict)放在同一个书架上的优秀作品。如果你想学习这个叫做”战争“，一个无疑可怕但是确是人类活动的精髓，那你需要阅读一下这本书。”－彼特-普拉博士(Dr Peter Perla)，亚历山大弗吉尼亚州海军分析研究中心，《战争游戏的艺术》(The Art of Wargaming)的作者
"在本书中，萨宾教授为我们提供了一个学术性强的且非常好使用的让我们在枯燥无味的数据分析或者电脑模拟人类实践活动以及游戏克劳维茨的机会的过程中得到放松的工具箱。在现代军事中，战争游戏是被疏忽和误解的：这本书给予了此游戏权利，它应该被放在任何有思想的军事专家的书架上的。“—陆军准将安德鲁-夏尔巴(Brigadier Andrew Sharpe OBE)，英国国防大学新观念及教义研究中心主任
"Brilliant. Professor Sabin has produced a masterwork, one worthy to grace bookshelves that are home to Von Reisswitz’s Kriegsspiel, Wells s Little Wars, Morse and Kimball s Methods of Operations Research, and Schelling s The Strategy of Conflict. If you want to learn more about the unquestionably horrible but quintessentially human activity that is War, you need to read this book." －Dr Peter Perla, Center for Naval Analyses, Alexandria VA, author of The Art of Wargaming
"In Simulating War Professor Sabin provides us with a scholarly and very useable toolkit that allows us to supplement the dry data of statistical analysis or computer simulation with the realities of human interaction and the play of Clausewitz s chance . Wargaming is a neglected and misunderstood art in the modern military: this book does much to put that right, and should be on the shelf of any thinking military professional. "－Brigadier Andrew Sharpe OBE, Head of Research in the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre, UK Defence Academy
About the Author/作者介绍： 菲利普-萨宾(Philip Sabin)是伦敦国王学院战争部战略研究教授，他曾为军队工作过，而且也经常在电视和收音机里面做节目。他也一共编辑了两册关于希腊和罗马战争的剑桥历史书。
PHILIP SABIN is Professor of Strategic Studies in the Department of War Studies at King’s College, London. He has worked closely with the armed services and appears regularly on TV and radio. He has also co-edited the two volume Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare.
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