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Slideshow: When War Games Meet Video Games

A Department of Defense group tests a new battle simulator to see what it can learn about urban combat. But this ain't no . By Amit Asaravala.
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warfare simulation may not be the greatest. But the game lets defense experts model the behavior of up to 1 million different soldiers, civilians, tanks and other entities, thanks to two supercomputers in Virginia and Hawaii.Courtesy of University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute

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players can call up a three-dimensional, street-level display to get a better sense of what a city looks like and where enemy forces might be hiding. Current simulations being run by the U.S. Joint Forces Command do not use this feature.

Courtesy of University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute