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TSJ FeaturesI love a good immersive flight sim or dome. The rumbling seat of a tank simulator is good fun, if a bit nauseating after a while. And Humvee extraction trainers have their place, and they aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
NATO has not exactly been in the forefront of using computer games for training. But it is starting to catch up. First came the 'Boarders Ahoy!' anti-piracy training game in 2010. Now, NATO has two new games coming this spring.
Even as more military training takes place on or with the help of simulators, the Defense Department lacks a general method to measure how effective that training is.
Disturbed by the devastating global conflicts of the early 20th century, Lewis Fry Richardson, a pacifist English Quaker and mathematician, decided to study the causes of war.
A new stress management iPad app is meant to teach users not just how to cope with stress caused by factors from war, such as PTSD, but also how use it to increase mental resilience.
U.S. Air Force Col. Charles Beam runs the live, virtual and constructive operational training division of the Air Staff's operations directorate.
Training troops to speak the local language isn't easy or cheap, but more and more militaries are coming to see linguistic training as a force multiplier.
The thought of war erupting on the Korean Peninsula is scary enough.
As in countless other areas of military endeavor, the operators of unmanned aerial vehicles are turning to simulation to make training faster, cheaper and better.
When the littoral combat ship Freedom set sail from San Diego in March, the ship carried an unusual crew. This newest class of warship normally sails only with experienced sailors and officers, most with at least one tour under their belts.
The drawdown of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, plus tightening budgets, are driving members of the aviation community toward new ways to develop and maintain perishable skills.
Despite budget uncertainties, this year's ITEC seems likely to gather most of the usual military, government and academic players.
LONDON — Lessons from a November exercise that used live, virtual, constructive and gaming (LVC-G) elements to train an entire combat brigade are being used to plan future training, U.S. Army officials said.
With the northeastern U.S. still digging out from Blizzard Nemo, it might not be the best time to speak of a game called “A Few Acres of Snow.” But if it’s any consolation, even a New England blizzard isn’t as arduous as fighting a winter war in 18th-century Canada.
