The idea is far from new, although in capability this is a vast improvement on the very basic models command teams trained on back in the sixties.

Apart from Wolfgang, the way this news has been received by those above seems pretty predictable.

It's potential use in disaster response and relief operations is immense.

US Army have been training their soldiers on computer simulators since "Desert Storm". Can't remember the name of the engagement, but it was unique, in that, from the US Army's side, it went exactly to plan. The battle was modelled and used for training, that could only be done because it did go to plan, you need something in which one side did everything exactly right, to be able to throw variables at it to see what the reactions are, and what counter-measures are effective.

Interestingly, the guy in charge of the programme said, that children who play these "Street Fighter" games, learn exactly the same skills required of platoon, or tank commander - i.e. You know what you've got, and you have to make instantaneous decisions on how to counter a multitude of varying threat situations.