How and why does the Polish Army “play war”?

**In the last weeks of June, in the context of an exercise with commands codenamed “Beaver — 23" conducted by sub-units of the 11th Lubusz Armoured Cavalry Division named after King Jan III Sobieski (11 DKPanc), media information about the usage of a wargame tool during the exercise appeared. The statements emphasised the possible of this method of training the commanding staff, which enabled an innovative approach and the acquisition of completely fresh experience by the officers participating in it. In the plan of the game system, existing solutions from commercial war games were utilized as the basis, however, creating their own tool dedicated to the exercise in the kind of classical “Kriegsspiel” . **