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Inside the Hidden World of War Games: Simulating China’s Taiwan Invasion

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In war games, the blue team almost always loses. Why? Atlantic Council's Global China Hub Associate Director Kitsch Liao takes us behind the doors of tabletop exercises (TTX) — now a go-to tool for officers, military planners and policymakers. With Taiwan Strait contingencies emerging as the most common scenarios, we uncover how war games really work, what’s real vs. illusion and why results of a game ‘don’t matter’.