Modern War #9 - War by TV

From Decision Games:
The Magazine:

War by Television: NATO and the Serbia/Kosovo Crisis of 1999 with particular emphasis on the crucial role of airpower. It’s said to have been the first war in which airpower alone achieved victory – or was it?

Other Articles:

• USMC Over the Horizon: Analysis of the extreme evolution forced on the US Marines’ amphibious assault doctrine during the past 25 years due to the advent of ever-deadlier Surface-to-Ship Missles (SSM).
• Congo Rescue: Belgian airborne forces, delivered by US air transports, freed hostages in 1964's Congo Crisis.
• Tanks in Counterinsurgency: The armored edge in fighting guerrillas comes from using tanks as ‘assault guns.’
• Spooky Gunships: US Air Force special operations aviation.
• Italian Aircraft Carriers Today. Analysis of the Italian Navy’s small but modern carrier force.

The Game:

War by Television: If The US & NATO Had Invaded Serbia is a "what-if" simulation of the fighting that might have occurred across rump-Yugoslavia in the late summer or early autumn of 1999 if the Western alliance had decided on a ground war to settle the Kosovo crisis. WbT is a two -player wargame of low-to-intermediate complexity that posits this might-have-been war lasting about a month, about the maximum time before the invaders' diminishing supplies, and their loss of the political will necessary to continue the fighting, would force a truce if victory had not already been achieved in the field.

Each hexagon equals 7.5 miles (12 km .) from side to opposite side. Each game turn represents two days. The units of maneuver are mostly brigades and divisions-size groupings for the Serbians; each with about 2,000 to 5,000 men, and about 25 to 50 armored fighting vehicles in the tracked mechanized units. On the NATO side, units are divisions, corps and armies, each containing about 9,000 to 25,000 men and up to 350 or so armored fighting vehicles. The invaders' air supremacy is built into several aspects of the rules (such as the CRT) and therefore is not represented by separate aircraft unit-counters.