>>24711626
>If you play military strategy games, does it really help you at all rather than just learning the game's meta tactics?
A little bit. The U.S. military (and others) play with some commercial wargames. They tend to be specific ones from the Slitherine/Matrix people. What's interesting about them is they have commercial versions and then "professional" versions (which the military plays with) on some of these titles, and the military contracts is where the real money is made. You can see concepts that Clausewitz et al. talked about reflected in some of these games. Like the "culiminating point." I think a lot of it is about seeing conflict as a whole process with several phases. Chess is like that.

>>64111395
Or this is a specific Marine Corps college that plays around with these games. "Marine Corps' Wargaming Cloud"