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Post by Malchor on Oct 10, 2018 7:24:11 GMT -6
nymas.orgle in part thru a grant from The Society for Military History A NYMAS Two-Day Conference October 12-13 “Wargaming” Friday, October 12th 7:00 pm -8:45 pm 7:00pm Welcome to NYMAS/ General Information Jerry Trombella 7:10 -7:15 pm Introduction and presentation of the speakers Jeremy Paulson 7:15 pm – 8:00 pm An Outline History of Wargaming Dr. Peter Perla 8:00 pm – 8:45 pm Q&A Jeremy Paulson, Dr. Peter Perla, and Audience Saturday, October 13th 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm 1:00 pm – 1:05 pm Recap of Friday presentation Jeremy Paulson 1:05 pm – 1:45 pm Historical Considerations in Wargame Design Mark Herman 1:45 pm – 2:00 pm Q&A Mark Herman, Jeremy Paulson, and Audience 2:00 pm- 3:00 pm Some Curious Results of Wargames James F. Dunnigan 2:45 pm – 3:00 pm Q&A James Dunnigan, Jeremy Paulson & Audience 3:00 pm – 3:15 pm Intermission 3:15 pm – 4:00 pm General Q&A Jeremy Paulson, the speakers and Audience Sorry on mobile, so a bit of a data dump.
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Post by delta on Oct 13, 2018 8:27:23 GMT -6
Wow! Thanks for posting that.
Rapidly changing my plans to attend today.
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Post by premmy on Oct 13, 2018 12:35:31 GMT -6
Delta, if you are/were attending, would you happen to know if any of the lectures were recorded and put online?
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Post by delta on Oct 13, 2018 18:49:10 GMT -6
Delta, if you are/were attending, would you happen to know if any of the lectures were recorded and put online? Good question. I do believe they were recording the audio stream, and I see the habit on their website is to supply audio podcasts of their "Friday Night Talks" (about halfway down here: nymas.org), so without knowing I'd guess this might appear there at some point. The main talk by Jim Dunnigan was, I think, intended to be about uses and mis-uses of wargaming in real-world military campaigns, but it kind of went all over the map about everything historical. He's definitely an unstoppable firehose of information. I asked a short question right at the very end as the moderator was trying to wrap up. Lasted 4 hours today (Saturday), pretty intense. |
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Post by premmy on Oct 14, 2018 10:05:06 GMT -6
Thanks! Will have to keep a watch on that.
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Post by Malchor on Oct 14, 2018 10:06:40 GMT -6
Good question. I do believe they were recording the audio stream, and I see the habit on their website is to supply audio podcasts of their "Friday Night Talks" (about halfway down here: nymas.org), so without knowing I'd guess this might appear there at some point. The main talk by Jim Dunnigan was, I think, intended to be about uses and mis-uses of wargaming in real-world military campaigns, but it kind of went all over the map about everything historical. He's definitely an unstoppable firehose of information. I asked a short question right at the very end as the moderator was trying to wrap up. Lasted 4 hours today (Saturday), pretty intense. Was there on Friday. It was fairly similar that the presenter and panel members all started out with wargaming for entertainment in their teens, they went over a history of wargaming which touched more on boardgame wargame but mostly focused on use by the military. In both cases, the things that made a good wargame were the same things that make a good RPG (at least in my opinion). As it closer to the present the talk was firmly on military use of wargaming to enable strategic planning. Was still worth it, and while an intense topic, my 8 yo was there too and said she enjoyed it and had a great talk about parts of it on the way home. |
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Post by Malchor on Oct 14, 2018 16:55:52 GMT -6
One thing I left out.
In Dr. Peter Perla's talk on Friday, he mentioned the role of MIT and RAND Corp. in developing Pol-Mil games, considering both political and military aspects in wargaming. RAND corporation took it to the next step with role-playing the part of existing political figures with their motivations.
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