In C.S. Lewis's famous book, The Lion, The Witch in the Wardrobe, the Pevansi children

happen upon the magical land of Narnia, entering through a secret passage in an English country

house.

When I spoke with Yuna Wong about her own adventures, that story was the first thing she brought

up.

Until recently, the path into wargaming is similar to the path to getting to Narnia.

You stumble upon it by accident, it's not of your own design, you don't even know it

exists.

Narnia, an imaginary world that teaches us something important about the real world.

Yuna Wong's zoom background is a still from Star Wars.

Part 2.D.2 standing next to C.3PO, she's part of the group of intellectuals, scholars,

PhDs, strategists who spend their careers helping the Pentagon think about how to better

wage war and, more importantly, how to better avoid war.

And how do they do that?

By playing games.

Someone said I should go to the Connections War gaming conference, so that was in 2011.

But I walked into this room of middle-aged men in baseball caps, hunched over miniatures,

rolling dice, and I suddenly had this sense that I had come home.

And these were my people.

And this is what I was supposed to have been doing all along and I didn't know it.

Why was it you walk in that room and you say, oh, this is where I belong?

Can you explain why you had that feeling?

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