Fog of War

Extracted Attributes

• Primary Domain

  Military Operations

• Core Definition

  Uncertainty in situational awareness experienced by participants in military operations.

• Application in Gaming

  Uncertainty mechanics in wargames and strategy video games, obscuring unexplored or unseen map areas.

• Modern Contextual Use

  Describes difficulty in discerning truth amidst conflicting narratives, particularly regarding the October 7th attacks and related denialism.

• Historical Attribution

  Often attributed to Carl von Clausewitz, though he did not directly use the phrase 'fog of war'.

• Mitigation Strategies (Military)

  Military intelligence, friendly force tracking systems, command and control (C2) systems.

• Encompasses Uncertainty Regarding

  One's own capability, adversary capability, and adversary intent.

Timeline

• The concept of 'fog of war' was applied to describe the difficulty in establishing truth amidst conflicting narratives following the October 7th attacks in Israel and the subsequent denialism of atrocities, as discussed by Sheryl Sandberg on the All-In Podcast. (Source: Related Documents)

  2023-10-07

Fog of war

The fog of war is the uncertainty in situational awareness experienced by participants in military operations. The term seeks to capture the uncertainty regarding one's own capability, adversary capability, and adversary intent during an engagement, operation, or campaign. Military forces try to reduce the fog of war through military intelligence and friendly force tracking systems. The term has become commonly used to define uncertainty mechanics in wargames.

Web Search Results

• What is Fog Of War? - Machinations.io

  Fog of War is a mechanic commonly used in strategy and tactical games where unexplored or unseen areas of the game map are obscured from the player's view. The term originates from military strategy, where the fog of war describes the uncertainty and lack of information about an opponent's movements and intentions on the battlefield. In video games, the Fog of War is employed to simulate this uncertainty, requiring players to explore and gather intelligence to uncover hidden areas and reveal [...] Fog of War is a gameplay mechanic commonly used in strategy or real-time strategy games to simulate limited knowledge or visibility of the game world. It represents unexplored or inaccessible areas that are concealed from the player's view. The fog of war adds strategic depth by requiring players to gather information, scout, and make decisions based on partial knowledge. It creates uncertainty, encourages exploration, and introduces a dynamic element to the gameplay. Fog of War Diagram [...] For example, in real-time strategy games like "StarCraft," the Fog of War conceals parts of the map that players have not explored. As units move across the map, the shroud of the Fog of War is lifted, revealing the terrain and enemy units within the line of sight. This mechanic adds a layer of strategic depth, as players must carefully explore and maintain visibility to gather information about their opponents' actions, adapt their strategies, and plan effective attacks or defenses.

• Fog of war - Wikipedia

  Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia ## Contents # Fog of war The fog of war is the uncertainty in situational awareness experienced by participants in military operations. The term seeks to capture the uncertainty regarding one's own capability, adversary capability, and adversary intent "Intent (Military)") during an engagement, operation, or campaign. Military forces try to reduce the fog of war through military intelligence and friendly force tracking systems. [...] The fog of war is a reality in all military conflict. Precision and certainty are unattainable goals, but modern military doctrine suggests a trade-off of precision and certainty for speed and agility. Militaries employ command and control (C2) systems and doctrine to partially alleviate the fog of war. [...] A computer's ability to effectively hide information from a player is seen as a distinct advantage over board games when simulating war. Fog of war in strategy video games refers to enemy units, and often terrain, being hidden from the player; this is lifted once the area is explored, but the information is often fully or partially re-hidden whenever the player does not have a unit in that area.

• [PDF] Like most useful military concepts, “fog of war” normally is attributed ...

  The so-called “fog of war” is one of the most pervasive and natural metaphors in the English lan-guage.2 War is inherently volatile, uncertain, com-plex and ambiguous. For this condition, contempo-rary US military usage offers the acronym VUCA, to which anyone would prefer the terse elegance of fog. For 19th-century writers, fog of war has the added merit of evoking the opacity of the black pow-der battlefield. It is not surprising that the phrase is popular and widely used. Like most military [...] concepts, “fog of war” is normally attributed to Clausewitz, who receives credit for the alliterative “fog and fric-tion”—friction referring to physical impediments to military action, fog to the commander’s lack of clear information. The only problem with this neat formula is that Clausewitz neither uses fog of war nor gives fog significant weight in his argument. [...] 2. A book picked at random to illustrate this point contains the sentence, “. . . ‘fog of war’ includes the direct stresses arising from the ordeal of battle, but also censorship, secrecy, deception, propaganda, camouflage, and rumour,” Roger Beau-mont, War, Chaos, and History (Westport, CT and London: Praeger, 1994), 2. Note that Beaumont treats fog of war as if it has an accepted definition. 3. A claim that will undoubtedly inspire readers to find additional examples.

• Fog of War - BoardGameGeek

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• Fog Of War - Free Edition on Steam

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