We have blogged about the work of a few of our presenters at HAAC. The schedule for the conference is here: Schedule for the Historical Analysis Annual Conference (HAAC), 27-29 September 2022 – update 7 | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org). Let me flag a few those presenters. This will take three or four posts:
1. Dr. Michael Spagat (Royal Holloway University of London) – see: TDI Friday Read: Mike Spagat’s Economics of Warfare Lectures & Commentaries | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org) and Accounting for Death in War | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org). We ended up doing about thirty blog posts on Dr. Spagat’s work.
2. Dr. Richard Harrison – Richard Harrison worked at TDI on the Kursk Data Base: Validation Data Bases Available (Kursk) | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org) and Losses of the 32nd and 31st Tank Brigades at Prokhorovka | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org) and here is his author’s list on Amazon (4 books): Amazon.com: Richard W. Harrison: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle. His latest release (27 July) is The Soviet Army’s High Commands: The Soviet Army’s High Commands in War and Peace, 1941–1992: Harrison, Richard W: 9781952715105: Amazon.com: Books
3. William (Chip) Sayers – He worked with Trevor Dupuy in the early 1990s on developing the TNDM. See his blog posts: A story about planning for Desert Storm (1991) | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org) and An Independent Effort to Use the QJM to Analyze the War in Ukraine | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org).
4. Dr. Tom Lucas (NPS) – We have discussed some of his work a few times: The Use of the Two Campaign Data Bases | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org) and Lanchester equations have been weighed…. | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org) and Really…..Lanchester? | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org).
5. Dr. Michael Johnson (CNA) – He did one blog post for us: The Meaning of Military Expenditures II | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org).
His bio is here:
For over 34 years, Michael Johnson—known as Mike—has been an operations analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), the Federally Funded Research and Development Center for the Department of the Navy. He has served as the CNA Field Representative or CNA Scientific Analyst at several Navy, Marine Corps, and Joint commands such as Commander, Battle Force, 6th Fleet; Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center; Marine Corps Air-Ground Task Force Training Command; Marine Corps Information Operations Center; Joint UAV Joint Test and Evaluation; Joint UAS Center of Excellence; OPNAV N-80; and Deputy Commandant for Combat Development and Integration. He has led or participated in analytical studies related to anti-air warfare, surface-to-air radars, multinational naval operations, peace operations, advanced gun systems, unmanned aircraft systems, operations in the information environment, and in organizations, roles, and missions.Â
He has a PhD in Physics from Brigham Young University (1989), Bachelor’s Degrees in Physics and Math from the University of Utah (1985), a Graduate Certificate from the Naval War College, and also studied British history and institutions at Cambridge University in the UK. He has taught various mathematics courses for Chapman University and physics courses for the Brigham Young University—Idaho.
He has had an interest in the Battle of Midway since receiving the Avalon-Hall game on Midway as a birthday present in 1970.
6. LtCol. Amos Fox (USA) – His work has caught our attention: The Battles of the Donetsk Airport (May 2014 – Jan 2015) | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org) and Toward An American Approach To Proxy Warfare | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org) and Active Defense, Forward Defense, and A2/AD in Eastern Europe | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org) and U.S. Army Doctrine and Future Warfare | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org) and Back To The Future: The Return Of Sieges To Modern Warfare | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org) and The Combat Value of Surprise | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org) and Sketching Out Multi-Domain Battle Operational Doctrine | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org) and Linking Operations, Strategy, and Policy In Russian Hybrid Warfare | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org) and Tanks and Russian Hybrid Warfare | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org).
7. Dr. Alexander Kott (ARL) – We have blogged about some of his work before: Dupuy’s Verities: Fortification | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org) and The Evolution of Weapons and Warfare? | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org) and Data Used for the ARL Paper | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org) and Data Used of the ARL Paper – post 2 | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org) and Technological Advancement Lessons from History? | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org) and Two ARL Reports | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org) and Dupuy used for Click Bait | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org).
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