[roveo]

Interesting, just yesterday I discussed with a friend of mine how dumb it is for Putin to attack and try to capture Kiev, because urban warfare is very difficult and usually leads to very heavy casualties. She asked "why?" and I realised that I have an intuitive understanding about this because I've played Call of Duty and she hasn't (obviously not saying that CoD is representative of actual war, but you get the idea of what a sniper or machine gun nest in a city is just from game mechanics). Things that are obvious for some people are absolutely not obvious for others.

Btw, Pavlov's House defence is mentioned in the article and there's a corresponding mission in CoD.

[structural]

You can look at CoD and similar games as being very basic introductory material to military ground operations - building a surprising amount of intuition from a young age. It's also useful as a propaganda & recruitment tool.

[Sporktacular]

It has been sooo cringy watching gamers try analyse actual military operations with zero competence, self-awareness, humility or respect for what is really at stake.

[HideousKojima]

Also CoD and Battlefield aren't going to teach real tactics. Arma is the closest you'll get to what "real" war is like, but even that mostly forgets that logistics is about 90% of winning a war.

[Sporktacular]

Not my point but...