As an effort to support the material taught in our ExCollege course we -- seven freshmen along with our two instructors -- attended the Montreal 2019 Connections Wargames conference at McGill University. The Institute for Global Leadership supported our participation in the conference in an effort to strengthen this unique community at Tufts, centered on experiential and simulation-based learning.
On the first day of the conference, we learned about the main issues regarding wargaming in the modern world. We heard from several different speakers such as Ben Taylor and Steve Downes Martin from the Naval War College in Rhode Island, where they explained not only the theory of wargaming but also its importance in the modern world.
