The Difference Between Civilian and Military Wargames
Chapter 9 of James F. Dunnigan’s seminal text The Complete Wargames Handbook explores this issue in depth.
(1992 edition: http://www.hyw.com/Books/WargamesHandbook/9-wargam.htm#Overview)
A useful article (from 2004) on the difference between “civilian” military games and simulations and “military” ones is found at strategypage.com: http://www.strategypage.com/wargames/articles/wargame_articles_2004919231.asp
This article is one of a collection of other wargames-and-the-military-related articles:
http://www.strategypage.com/wargames/articles_default.asp
“Successful War Games Combine Both Civilian and Military Traits”, by Michael Peck (National Defense Magazine, November 2003)
http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/ARCHIVE/2003/NOVEMBER/Pages/Successful_War3734.aspx
And the ever-helpful-in-a-Special-Olympics-kind-of-way Wikipedia entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_simulation
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