Book Discussion: Peter Perla's Art of Wargaming
Sat, Mar 21
|https://meet.google.com/uxr-isqe-xuz
If you've spent any time in the wargaming world, you've probably heard this book mentioned. The Art of Wargaming is widely considered the foundational text of the field, and for good reason.
Time & Location
Mar 21, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
https://meet.google.com/uxr-isqe-xuz
About the event
📚 Book Discussion: The Art of Wargaming by Peter Perla with Ed McGrady
📅 March 21, 2026
🕙 10:00–11:00 AM EST / 16:00 - 17:00 CET
📍 Online (Google Meet) – https://meet.google.com/uxr-isqe-xuz
If you've spent any time in the wargaming world, you've probably heard this book mentioned. The Art of Wargaming is widely considered the foundational text of the field, and for good reason.
Peter Perla spent a career straddling two worlds: hobbyist gamer and professional wargamer in the U.S. defense community. That dual perspective is what makes this book unlike anything else. Rather than treating hobby and professional wargaming as separate universes, Perla brings them together: tracing the full history of the field, defining what wargaming actually is (and isn't), and laying out the principles that make it genuinely useful for exploring complex problems. From the Naval War College to the tabletop, he maps the terrain that so many…