Studies in Concrete
March 31, 2019 3 Comments
…is the name of my presentation at the Military Operations Research Society’s (MORS) event “Analysis of Urban Warfare”, April 2-5 2019 at Marine Corps Base Quantico.
I’m speaking on Wednesday afternoon but I’m putting my script and slides up here now, just before I leave home because I don’t know what kind of Net access I will have on the base.
The point of my talk is to take three civilian wargames on urban irregular war, and talk about how basic concepts for the situations and supporting research flowed into game mechanics. The three games are
Duration | Urban centre | Type of conflict | |
Tupamaro | 4 years 1968-72 | Montevideo
~1.5 million |
Low-intensity insurgency, frequent terrorism |
Operation “Whirlwind”/ Nights of Fire | 5 days 1956 | Budapest
~ 1.6 million |
Corps-sized operations against disorganized and unprepared insurgents |
“We Are Coming, Nineveh” | ~ 5 months 2017 | West Mosul
~ 600,000? |
Corps-sized operations against organized and prepared insurgents |
So here are the items:
script Studies in Concrete am 26 mar
slides (PDF) Studies slides am 27 mar
It’s going to be an intense three days – I wish I weren’t fighting off a cold right now. After that I will be in Washington for a day and a half, then back home to the usual three ring circus here….
While in Washington, I hope to check out the Compleat Strategist satellite store in Falls Church!
Thanks for putting the slides up- its appreciated. On your recommendadtion I’m part way through Cities Under Siege now- finding it very interesting reading.
Cheers,
Pete.
You’re welcome Pete! I always do this, and reassure the audience they don’t have to scribble notes as the script and slides will be available right away. Of course, this presupposes that anyone is inclined to make notes while I am talking….
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