Sim City Baghdad

On the Media | May 5, 2011

The U.S. Army has long used video games to train troops in conventional warfare. But the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are anything but conventional. US troops fighting insurgencies need a unique skill set, one they're learning from a simulator that resembles the popular game SimCity. Kim LeMasters, creative director of the Institute for Creative Technologies, describes how UrbanSim works.

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