Risk

There were two things I noticed in our game of Risk that I wondered how problematic they would be if it happened this way in the real world. One was a lack of communication between our head of state and diplomat and the other was the lightning speed with which changes on the global platform were occurring. Regarding the first, I felt that there were several occasions where our diplomat would find out new information, make an alliance with someone, or decide on a new plan of action and this information wouldn’t be transferred over to our head of state. There was one instance where we made a peacekeeping agreement with another group but when I went over to our head of state to see how things were progressing, he had no knowledge of the agreement and was clearly caught off guard by the sudden change. Also, it seemed like every thirty seconds there would be a whole new slew of alliances, changed aims, and different negotiations being made. It was hard to keep up with everyone else’s change of plans, let alone know what was going on with my own team’s plan. I guess the moral of the story is that head of state and diplomat must be on the same page at all times, and that maybe not major, but definitely minor changes are constantly occurring, making world politics as complex as they currently are.