Lt. Cmdr. Dan McDonaugh covers the platforms, weapons and operational art of air war: the “robot” war of TLAMS, SCUDS and Patriots: Saddam’s “mini-Tet” at Khafji: and naval warfare.
Lt. Cmdr. McDonaugh on the evolution of wargaming, from chess-like Asian games through Prussian Kriegspiel to today, the art of damage assessment, and whether “the computer is our friend.”
Lt. Cmdr. McDonaugh presents a summary of open-source former Warsaw Pact sources of how the Soviets would have run air operations in Europe during a Pact-NATO war in the mid-80s.