CO24 D2S2: Urban Warfare Wargaming: Past, Present, Future

Описание: Connections Online 2024 Day 2, Session 2: Urban Warfare Wargaming: Past, Present, Future

David Burden
Aaron Danis
Mike Markowitz
Brian Train

This experienced panel will look at the timely topic of urban board wargaming from the perspective of a graphic designer, a game designer, an academic researcher specifically studying this topic, and a military practitioner. It will survey from the earliest urban board wargames in the 1970s up through today. This promises to be a don’t-miss panel!

David Burden has been a wargamer and wargame creator for around 50 years. David started his part-time PhD on wargaming urban conflict at Bath Spa University under Dr John Curry in early 2022, and is researching what makes urban warfare different, how it has been wargamed in the past, and how it could be wargamed better in the future. Alongside the book research David is also designing new urban wargames looking at different aspects of the challenge.

Aaron Danis is an Assistant Professor of Practice at the Institute of World Politics in Washington, DC. Aaron spent 23 years in the US Army and Army Reserve as a Military Intelligence Officer, and over 30 years on the U.S. government working in intelligence and counterterrorism before retiring in 2022. Aaron uses wargames in his graduate classes, and has been a hobby wargamer since his teen years. He is an abject failure at fully retiring.

Mike Markowitz has been a wargamer since the age of 9. His design of ALEXANDROS won a 1991 Charles Roberts award for Best Pre-WWII Board Wargame. It was recently re-issued by Compass Games in a boxed edition along with his game I AM SPARTACUS. His design of SUPERMARINA (WWII Mediterranean scenarios for Larry Bond's COMMAND AT SEA system) won a 1995 GAMA Special Achievement Award. Since 1997 he has been a Senior Research Specialist at the Center For Naval Analyses in Northern Virginia.

Brian Train is a freelance writer and game designer who has published games and historical articles with a wide range of firms and magazines over the last 30+ years. His special interests in game design are irregular warfare, “pol-mil” games, and asymmetric games generally.


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