As McCarry is a former CIA agent, some aspects of his storytelling may have been informed by agency wargaming.
Which is a pity, because in other respects Soldiers takes wargaming to new levels of complexity and detail.
"I am not going to sit here wargaming what would I do if we were in government, what would I do if we were in opposition.
The wargaming company Games Workshop has to come to terms with 3D printing of its miniatures in the same way that Paramount Pictures and Warner Music Group are starting to acknowledge that a certain level of piracy will always be endemic.
The Washington Post had a story this week about a bunch of hawks and enthusiasts for the Iraq war like James Woolsey, the former CIA director, who were wargaming a similar oil shock assisted by a couple of al-Qaida attacks.
Basically, this bridges the gap in wargaming between simulators and physical forces.
Backers of the new fund include Asian freemium gaming giant Nexon, long-time strategy game developer Wargaming, and social gaming company Zynga's CEO Don Mattrick.
Meanwhile, the company's new strategic investors Wargaming and CME Group see Wickr's potential in their own industries, gaming and financial services, respectively.
It will bring together content companies like Valve, gameloft, and Wargaming (from Mopay) together with Facebook, Sony, Spotify, and Electronic Arts (from Boku's existing client base).
Self-destructing and encrypted messaging app Wickr raised $30 million in Series B funding, the company is announcing today, in a round led by Jim Breyer, founder and CEO of Breyer Capital, with participation from CME Group and Wargaming.
