Richard Rodgers' Victory at Sea comes lilting over the loudspeakers as the men prepare for war. It is not real war−just a game−but the men are very serious as they take their places in the wide, two-story room. More than 100 of them, in dark-blue uniforms with the gold sleeve stripes of admirals, commanders and captains, move to the banks of computer terminals in the center of the room and along the sea-green walls.
They are in the Center for War Gaming of the U.S. Naval War College at Newport, R.I., and they are about to fight one of...
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