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Author profile: Aggie Hirst

Dr Aggie Hirst is Reader (Associate Prof.) in International Relations Theory and Methods in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. Her research is situated in international political theory and critical military/war studies. She completed her ESRC-funded PhD at the University of Manchester in 2010. She is author of Politics of Play: Wargaming with the US Military (OUP 2024), co-author of Global Politics: Myths and Mysteries (OUP 2023), and has published articles with International Studies Quarterly, Security Dialogue, International Political Sociology, and Review of International Studies.

Wargaming in the US Military: Ludic Militarism and the Production of Warfighters

Aggie Hirst • May 31 2025 • Articles

By means of a deconstructive play mode we can perhaps glimpse some of the ways our games produce our realities and ourselves.

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