Hoover fellow Jacquelyn Schneider discusses the history of wargaming, how wargaming exercises can assist policymakers in times of crisis, and the rationale for the establishment of the Wargaming Archive at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. To illustrate the importance of wargaming outcomes and assessments for policymakers and statesmen grappling with an unfolding crisis, Schneider discusses the Berlin Crisis Wargame, organized at Camp David in September 1961 as the construction of the Berlin Wall brought the US and the USSR to a high-stakes confrontation.
