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January 2024 Semiannual Members Meeting

That to everyone who was able to join us for our semiannual members meeting, held virtually on January 25, 2024. Please check out the video of our meeting for WWN highlights from 2023 and what is coming up in 2024.

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GAO Report Highlight

In the 2023 GAO report: Defense Analysis – Additional Actions Could Enhance DOD’s Wargaming Efforts, the Women’s Wargaming Network received a shout-out. Read the full report for an overview of current efforts and suggests for improvements.

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Granted Non-Profit Status

We’re pleased and excited to announce that the Women’s Wargaming Network is formally a non-profit organization. This will allow us to participate in fundraising, give women official leadership positions within the organization, enter into formal agreements with other organizations, and more.

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Brave and ever watchful: female military leadership before the modern era

Contributed by Paul Edward Strong. First published in Women In War WiW Group Newsletter No.28 Autumn/Winter 2020, Ed: Paul Strong & Celia Lee. Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians, with her nephew, Æthelstan (Source: Wikimedia photo of the statue at Tamworth) In the millennia between the emergence of organised warfare and the modern era (post 1800), […]

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Marie von Clausewitz

Every discussion of wargaming demands a von Clausewitz quote:  War is merely the continuation of politics with other means. Maria Von Clausewitz, On War. The wording of one of Carl’s most famous ideas, that war is the extension of politics, appears as it does only in Marie’s hand on a rough draft. The idea was […]

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Announcing the Women’s Wargaming Network

We’re excited to announce the Women’s Wargaming Network, aimed at providing women in professional wargaming with networking and mentorship opportunities. We’re scheduled to launch at this year’s all-virtual Connections Wargaming Conference, August 10-14, 2020. For more information on Connections, including how to register, visit their website.