>>5797558>>5797559>>5797566Incredibly obscure reference, but I possess a vague memory of once seeing an exhibition of surrealist / purposeless nonsense art games made by Xul Solar, a friend I believe of Jorge Luis Borges. In addition to inventing imaginary languages Xul Solar made cryptic meaningless object ensemble sculptures that seemed to embody mystical board games. For some reason those disappointing CSIS wargame miniatures cubes and counters reminded me of this
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/110562You can read the CSIS report here, it is 165 pages
https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publication/230109_Cancian_FirstBattle_NextWar.pdf 