Playing War: Wargaming and U.S. Navy Preparations for WWII by John M. Lillard (review)

To cite just two of his examples: 99 percent of the Navy's admirals in WWII were Naval War College graduates, and completion of Naval War College was a prerequisite for assignment to the Navy's war strategy cell. Virtual sea trials on possible future ship designs became more common, the role of logistics increased and the college set up a research function to examine insights from war games and Fleet Exercises. Matthew Caffrey Matthew Caffrey is the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Liaison to Air Force Material Command (AFMC) for Wargaming, and a former professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy.