Book Discussion: Peter Perla's Art of Wargaming
Sat, May 16
|https://meet.google.com/uxr-isqe-xuz
A discussion led by Ed McGrady exploring Peter Perla’s The Art of Wargaming, its influence on the field, and the enduring lessons it offers for game design and strategy.
Time & Location
May 16, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
https://meet.google.com/uxr-isqe-xuz
Guests
About the event
📚 Book Discussion: The Art of Wargaming by Peter Perla with Ed McGrady
📅 March 16, 2026
🕙 10:00–11:00 AM EST
📍 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 of us are still navigating today.