Schedule for the Historical Analysis Annual Conference (HAAC), 27-29 September 2022 – update 8

Below is the provisional schedule for the first Historical Analysis Annual Conference (HAAC). We currently have set up two conference rooms for use and are issuing out a call for presentations. We do have 31 presentations scheduled by 21 speakers and 3 group discussions planned. We have slots available for at least another dozen presentations. Each slot is an hour long, so planning for a 45-minute presentation and 15 minutes of discussion.

If we get more requests than that, my bias is to either rent a third conference room at the facility or to reduce some presentations to 20 minutes with 10 minutes of discussion. This would allow us to do two presentations in an hour slot. We are probably not going to turn away any quality presentations.

We have created a new section called “Researching Operations,” which is somewhat related to but not quite the same as Operations Research. We are looking to add to that section presentations on Georgia in 2008, Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020 and Ukraine in 2022. Looking for volunteers for those, or for any other conflicts worth looking at.

In the meantime, we have set up three potential group discussions: 1) Could We Have Won the War in Afghanistan 2001-2021?, 2) Drone Warfare and the Nagorno-Kharabakh War of 2020, and 3) Russo-Ukrainian War of 2022. I would prefer a presentation on these subjects, but I do think they need to addressed regardless.

Conference description is here: The First Historical Analysis Annual Conference (HAAC), 27-29 September 2022 in Tysons Corner, VA – update 3 | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org)

Costs, Hotels and Call for Papers: The Costs, Hotels and Call for Papers – update 3 | Mystics & Statistics (dupuyinstitute.org)

We now have three virtual presentations and we are set up for virtual attendees:

Schedule: Pike and Gallows Conference Center

Updated: 17 June 2022

Day 1: Analysis of Conventional Combat

0900 – 0930    Introductory remarks (new)                Christopher A. Lawrence (TDI)

0930 – 1030    Studying Combat (old)                       Dr. Shawn Woodford (TDI)

1030 – 1130    Data for Wargames (recent version) – Christopher A. Lawrence (TDI)

1130 – 1230    How Lanchester modelling fits the historical data

                                                                                    Dr. Paul R. Syms (Dstl)

1230 – 1400    Lunch

1400 – 1500    Research fitting Lanchester Models to Battle Data

                                                                                    Dr. Tom Lucas (NPS)

1500 – 1600    How Important are Superior Numbers?                     

Dr. David Kirkpatrick (University College London) – virtual

1600 – 1700    Killing Captain Hindsight: Quantifying Chance in Military History

Dr. Niall MacKay (University of York)        

Evening (1900):          Group Dinner – Rangos

Day 2: Analysis of Unconventional Warfare

0900 – 1000    Iraq, Data, Hypotheses and Afghanistan (old)

Christopher A. Lawrence (TDI)

1000 – 1100    History as an Enemy and an Instructor: Lessons Learned from Haiti 1915-1934                             Dr. Christopher Davis (UNCG)

1100 – 1200    Group Discussion: Could We Have Won the War in Afghanistan 2001-2021?

1200 – 1300    Lunch

1300 – 1400   

1400 – 1500    Infantry Support Weapon                   Joe Follansbee (Col., USA, ret.) – ?

1500 – 1600   

1600 – 1700    The Silent Killers: A Quick Historical Review of Biological Threats.

                                                                        Dr. Douglas A. Samuelson (InfoLogix, Inc.) 

Evening (1900):          Group Dinner – BJs

Day 3: Other Analysis of Warfare

0900 – 1000    The Application of the Scientific Method to Military History

Clinton Reilly (Computer Strategies. Australia)

1000 – 1100    Risk Tolerance in Combat Decision Making             Matt Tompkins

1100 – 1200    Quantitative Risk Assessment in Military Decisions

                                                                           Dr. Douglas A. Samuelson (InfoLogix, Inc.)

1200 – 1300    Lunch

1300 – 1400    HA support for our Directorate of Land Warfare

Dr. Paul L. Syms (Dstl)

1400 – 1500    Quantitative Analysis of History of Direct Fire Weapons

                                                                                    Dr. Alexander Kott (ARL)

1500 – 1600    The Criticality of Resurrecting TDI & TNDM

                                                                                    Joe Follansbee (Col., USA, ret.)

1600 – 1700    The Future of TDI and work of the conference (new)

Christopher A. Lawrence (TDI)

Evening:          Happy hour  – Rangos and/or Hawk and Griffin 

Schedule: Einstein Conference Room

Day 1: Poster and Book Room

Opened at 0800

Afternoon Day 1: Other Analysis of Warfare

1400 – 1500    Estimating War Deaths (in Iraq) – virtual

Dr. Michael Spagat (Royal Holloway University of London)

1500 – 1600    Midway and the Aleutians                  Dr. Michael Johnson (CNA)

1600 – 1700    Simulation-Based Historical Analysis: a France 1940 Concept

                                                Timothy J. Smith, ONI

Day 2: Analysis of Conventional Combat

0900 – 1000    A Statistical Analysis of Land Battles: What is Associated with Winning?

                                                                                                Dr. Tom Lucas (NPS)

1000 – 1100    The Combat Assessment Technique               William Sayers

1100 – 1200    Machine Learning the Lessons of History      Dr. Robert Helmbold – virtual

1200 – 1300    Lunch

1300 – 1400    Penetration Division: Theory, History, Concept

                                                                                    LtC. Nathan A Jennings, PhD

1400 – 1500   

1500 – 1600    War by Numbers (old)                        Christopher A. Lawrence (TDI) – ?

1600 – 1700    Urban Warfare (old)                           Christopher A. Lawrence (TDI) – ?

Day 3: Researching Operations

0900 – 1000    The AEF and Consolidation of Gains Operations during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, 1918                                                            Dr. Christopher Davis (UNCG)

1000 – 1100    Evaluating German Aerial Photography at the Battle of Kursk, 1943

                                                                                    Eugene Matyukhin

1100 – 1200    The Red Army’s War in Ukraine 1943-44

                                                                                    Dr. Richard Harrison

1200 – 1300    Lunch

1300 – 1400    The Decline of War Since 1950        

Dr. Michael Spagat (Royal Holloway University of London)

1400 – 1500    Donbas Campaign 2014-2015                        Amos Fox (LtC, USA)

1500 – 1600    Group Discussion: Drone Warfare and the Nagorno-Kharabakh War of 2020

1600 – 1700    Group Discussion: Russo-Ukrainian War of 2022

Or Day 2 or 3: Combat Modeling

Or Day 2 or 3: Urban Warfare

Or Day 2 or 3: Air Combat Analysis

Or Day 2 or 3: Naval Combat Analysis