War is not a game, no. But a lot of very successful games are doing just that ? I never play games (only table top ;-) but I am amazed how much money goes around in gaming.

And surely this is a joke: satellite communication is still way to expensive or otherwise to slow to make this happen. Its only more or less affordable at the email / phone call level.

And I assume no-one will give his life waiting for some distracted dude at the other side of the world to give order to shoot or not. Or to walk out in the open field just because that person wants you to ?