The Object of Games? To Learn;

           To Play: Whether it's Monopoly or Prisoner's Dilemma, these matchups reveal
         truths about ourselves and teach us about the world.;         

                   One morning in the late 1980s, Richard Duke received a phone call he
         would later characterize as "somewhat amazing." The call came from the
         office of the secretary of Defense, at the behest of the man who had just
         been appointed secretary. Gen. Colin Powell was apparently finding himself
         stymied in his efforts to reorganize his new and notoriously complex
         department, in particular the coordination of the three service branch
         bureaucracies. Being an "old war-simulation guy himself," he'd directed his
         staff...

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