Mentioned In Dispatches S16 E3 – Connections Online 5yr Anniversary

13 February 2026 ~

Brant, Chris, and Merle3 gather ’round the virtual campfire to talk about why & how Connections Online came into being, a couple of standout panels & stories from the past 5 years of events, and the inevitable struggle to stay on topic whenever another shiny digression goes prancing across their view.

Some key links and references—

• 2021 – Distributed Wargaming
• 2022 – Developing Wargame Practitioners
• 2023 – The Enemy Gets A Vote
• 2024 – Distributed Wargaming — Recent Lessons Learned
• 2025 – Wargaming Future Technologies

The Connections Online homepage at Armchair Dragoons Some specific sessions that were also called out

• Connections Online 2021 Day 2, Session 4: Western Approaches Tactical Unit and CO22 D2S4: Western Approaches Tactical Unit, Revisited
• Connections Online 2021 Day 3, Session 2: Distributed Campaigns Over the Long Haul
• CO23 D1S2: What Exactly is “Red-Teaming” Anyway?
• CO25 D3S4: Concluding Remarks, & Reviving Dune — How the AH classic game came to be reborn
• CO24 D2S2: Urban Warfare Wargaming: Past, Present, Future

Also, pay no attention to the SETI intercepts in the background of Merle’s audio whenever he’s talking.

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