{"id":12047,"date":"2011-11-14T08:57:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T12:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=12047"},"modified":"2011-11-14T11:01:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T15:01:17","slug":"new-wargame-ripped-from-the-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/11\/14\/new-wargame-ripped-from-the-headlines\/","title":{"rendered":"New wargame “ripped from the headlines”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clash of Arms games is releasing a new wargame based on a possible Israeli airstrike<\/a> against Iranian nuclear facilities:<\/p>\n

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Speculation regarding a possible Israeli air campaign against Iran’s nuclear facilities has been rife for years — a pair of MIT students wrote an analysis on the subject back in 2007, and countless articles have appeared before then and since. Now, however, it’s possible to do more than simply talk about such a battle: should you wish to, you can set aside the Monopoly<\/em> or the chess set in favour of a rousing boardgame pitting one player as Iran against another as Israel, with preservation or destruction of Tehran’s nuclear capability as the prize.<\/p>\n

The game is called — perhaps inevitably — Persian Incursion<\/em>, and is the brainchild of technothriller writer Larry Bond, formerly well known as a designer of tactical combat games (Bond has collaborated with Tom Clancy, and it’s said that his games were used extensively in development of such seminal Cold War works as The Hunt for Red October<\/em> and Red Storm Rising<\/em>).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The CoA webpage for Persian Incursion<\/em> is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clash of Arms games is releasing a new wargame based on a possible Israeli airstrike against Iranian nuclear facilities: Speculation regarding a possible Israeli air campaign against Iran’s nuclear facilities has been rife for years — a pair of MIT students wrote an analysis on the subject back in 2007, and countless articles have appeared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,370,5],"tags":[287,291,107,623],"class_list":["post-12047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-middle-east","category-military","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-nukes","tag-wargames"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-38j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12048,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047\/revisions\/12048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}