I’m excited to report that my Baghdad counterinsurgency simulation, Fardh al-Qanoon was displayed at the Connections Wargaming Conference held at the National Defense University last week. While I was not an attendee, others had the chance to see the latest version of the game thanks to Dr. Peter Perla.
The rules for my Fardh al-Qanoon simulation have been updated to include minor tweaks and fixes.
Far from being just the setting of the modern-day Great Game, Iran is an active player. Its recent war game exercises signal a desire to deter Israel and prove its regional power to its neighbors.
While not a direct parallel, the Catholic Church’s 13th century Inquisition against the Cathars in southern France resembles a modern counter-insurgency campaign.
A US Army medic who served in Iraq and Afghanistan answers questions from Redditors.
The first recommended war & intelligence reading lists are now available here. The first lists added are Ray Odierno’s and Martin Dempsey’s professional reading lists for the US Army. Over time, I’ll be collecting...
Interested in learning more about naval operations? Check out the U.S. Navy’s professional reading list. As regular readers of this blog might know, I’ve developed an interest in conflict simulation ever since taking Professor Philip...
The following reflection was written for my Fardh al-Qanoon project as part of the Conflict Simulation course at King’s College London. The completed version 1.0 of the simulation can be found here. As someone...
The finished version of my manual conflict simulation, Fardh al-Qanoon, is now available. Fardh al-Qanoon simulates the operation by the same name that took place in 2007 in Baghdad as part of the Coalition’s “surge” in Iraq.
Michael Geisler has a fantastic article on Inside Higher Ed about why Larry Summers, former Treasury secretary and Harvard University president, is wrong in his op-ed about foreign language education in the United States....
The Latest
The cost of sea power, then and now
08 October 2013
Afghan policewoman involved in the latest green-on-blue attack
24 December 2012
Battling the beast: models of insurgency in Afghanistan
28 August 2012
Fardh al-Qanoon simulation, version 1.1
21 July 2012
Designing an insurgency wargame – Part 2: The Environment
19 February 2013
Designing an insurgency wargame – Part 1: The Basics
11 January 2013
