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Author: Muira McCammon

Muira McCammon researches and writes about Guantánamo. She likes to FOIA the FOIAs​ and has a soft spot for polysyllabic poetry.
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The ghost of Churchill; or, how to make a wargame

“The cards I throw away are not worthy of observation or I should not discard them. It is the cards I play on which you should concentrate your attention.” – Winston Churchill, 1912, during a bridge game on the Admiralty yacht Enchantress /// Churchill: The Man Churchill has been on my mind a lot lately. It’s hard not to be wowed by the man, his tenacity, his military tactics, his signature three-piece suits.  When obstacles arise in my research or when I bump into my wargaming ex-boyfriend, I think to myself What would Churchill do? I’m not the first American to…

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The Wargamer and I

“All play has its rules.” —Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture (1950) The first time I encounter the Wargamer, he is militantly editing a Word document and downing an Americano. Hundreds of red marks, crisscrosses, and deleted commas fill his MacBook screen. I make a small quip about how his desktop looks like a battlefield, and the Wargamer hastily explains that the color isn’t his fault, but rather, a courtesy of Microsoft Office. He tells me that he edits game rulebooks professionally, that he’s worked on games about pirates, migraines, and cats. I begin…

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