Robert Hossal
The elements of an Operation Fardh al-Qanoon simulation
I finished the first draft of my simulation rules for Operation Fardh al-Qanoon (aka the Baghdad Security Plan) more than a month ago, which I no doubt thought was exceedingly clever and put me...
Drones and conspiracies
I wouldn’t ordinarily post something like this on the blog, but it was too long for Twitter. The most creative conspiracy theory I’ve heard in the past few days is that the US “lost”...
“The Coming Perfect Storm in Cyberspace”
Ron Deibert, Director of The Citizen Lab, gave a seminar on cyber security at King’s College London last night. Below are my notes from the seminar and comments: States all over the world want...
Using war games as a teaching aide
This post is a bit late, but I wanted to write something about my experience TAing for Professor Philip Sabin’s BA class about World War 2. Professor Sabin runs a module on Conflict Simulation...
Fardh al-Qanoon: Designing a simulation
As I mentioned last week, I decided to create a simulation for Operation Fardh al-Qanoon (aka the Baghdad Security Plan) for my Conflict Simulation course at King’s College London. Part of designing a war...
Picking my battles… Conflict Simulation at King’s College London
The Conflict Simulation module run by Dr. Philip Sabin is in the lead for most interesting class I’m taking at King’s College London right now. As part of the course, students have to research a...
Who gives the orders in the new Russian military?
Keir Giles, Director of the Conflict Studies Research Centre, led a seminar at King’s College London about Russia’s military transformation earlier today. Below are my notes from the seminar and the Q&A that followed:...
Reorientation: the next step in American grand strategy?
The US’s military and political goals in Afghanistan in Iraq have always been expressed in fairly nebulous terms, but the current behind-the-doors goal seems to be to simply draw down and get out as...
What is “War”?
Today was the first meeting of the “Approaches to War” module at KCL (which was in a bit of disarray, as the original instructor, Dr. John Stone, will apparently not be teaching the course...
