Wang Du was in Paris when the war in Kosovo broke out in 1998. Reading Western European newspapers as well as coverage from outlets in Yugoslavia, he noticed that different narratives about the war were being told. Wang began to collect daily reports and analyses, creating an assemblage of papers with plastic toy tanks, ships, and fighter jets. Busts of American president Bill Clinton and Russian president Boris Yeltsin appear embedded within this carefully landscaped battlefield. The work’s title, which translates from French as ‘armchair strategy’, describes the position of a distant observer whose idle talk is based entirely on media reportage. Wang creates a war zone in which alternate truths engage in conflict.