Playing Army

Military video games and simulation technology has improved a lot since we were playing TacOps and Harpoon in the mid-nineties. In fact, the military is finding that commercial video games can be useful training tools for real soldiers. A recent Wired article gives a brief description of the Army's efforts to harness this technology, and mentions the National Simulation Center by name (a Ft. Leavenworth facility employing some folks we've known).