March 26, 2004

Masters of the Game

By MICHAEL ARNONE

War is hell, but war games can be fun -- just ask a retired combat general.

A former top Vietnamese military leader surprised Paul H. Rohrbaugh, a librarian at Youngstown State University, in Ohio, by buying 100 copies of a board game Mr. Rohrbaugh had created. Called "Valle de la Mort" ("Valley of Death"), the game depicts the siege of Dien Bien Phu, where Communist guerrillas under that leader, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, overwhelmed French troops in 1954 and brought an end to French

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