Schedule for the Historical Analysis Annual Conference (HAAC), 27-29 September 2022 – update 16

Latest update to the provisional schedule for the first Historical Analysis Annual Conference (HAAC). We have 32 presentations scheduled by 23 speakers and 2 group discussions planned. We have slots available for at least another half-dozen more presentations. Each slot is an hour long, so planning for a 45-minute presentation and 15 minutes of discussion.

We are looking to add to presentations on Georgia in 2008, Ukraine in 2014 and Ukraine in 2022. Looking for volunteers for those, or for any other conflicts worth looking at. We have set up two group discussions: 1) Could We Have Won the War in Afghanistan 2001-2021?, and 2) Russo-Ukrainian War of 2022. I would prefer a presentation on these subjects, but I do think they need to be addressed regardless.

The conference is at 1934 Old Gallows Road, Suite 350, Vienna, VA 22182. This is basically across the street by Tysons Corner Shopping mall and the Marriot Hotel on Route 7. It is right off the Route 7 exit from 495 (the Beltway). It is at the corner of Route 7 (Leesburg Pike) and Old Gallows Road. It is in the building above the restaurant called Rangos. Parking is in the parking garage next door to it.

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)

The cost of the conference is $150 for entire conference or $60 a day. Please pay through paypal (www.paypal.com) to SRichTDI@aol.com. I really think that is better than everyone standing in line of Tuesday morning while we collect payment for the conference. The conference is priced to cover the costs of the conference facility.

We are also now set up to take credit card payments by phone. Call The Dupuy Institute during working hours at (703) 289-0007.

We do have six virtual presentations and we are set up for virtual attendees. To date, we have one person who will be attending the first day as a virtual attendee. We do have the option to record the presentations. I am not sure this is something we should do, but open to debating this. It does tend to suppress discussion.

 

Schedule: Pike and Gallows Conference Center

Updated: 16 September 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                     Christopher A. Lawrence (TDI)

1130 – 1230    Research fitting Lanchester Models to Battle Data

                                                                                    Dr. Tom Lucas (NPS)

1230 – 1400    Lunch

1400 – 1500    How Important are Superior Numbers?                     

Dr. David Kirkpatrick (University College London) – virtual

1500 – 1600    Killing Captain Hindsight: Quantifying Chance in Military History                                                    Dr. Niall MacKay (University of York)

1600 – 1700     Weaponizing Historical Analysis: A Case Study of the Introduction of HA into Doctrine                              Jim Storr

1700 – 1800    TND’s Theory of Combat                  Dr. Shawn Woodford (TDI)

 

 

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    Estimating War Deaths (in Iraq)

Dr. Michael Spagat (Royal Holloway University of London)

1200 – 1300    Lunch

1300 – 1400    Group Discussion: Could We Have Won the War in Afghanistan 2001-2021?

1400 – 1500    Close Combat Overmatch Weapons               Joe Follansbee (Col., USA, ret.)

1500 – 1600    Contentious Issues in Syria:  the Alawi Religion, their Political Struggles, Chemical Warfare in Syria and a Hypothesized Religicide of the Alawis                                            Jennifer Schlacht, M.A.

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    Quantitative Analysis of History of Direct Fire Weapons

                                                                                    Dr. Alexander Kott (ARL)

1100 – 1200    Quantitative Risk Assessment in Military Decisions

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

1200 – 1300    Lunch

1300 – 1400    The Criticality of Resurrecting TDI & TNDM

                                                                        Joe Follansbee (Col., USA, ret.)

1400 – 1500    The Future of TDI and work of the conference (new)

Christopher A. Lawrence (TDI)

1500 – 1600    open

1600 – 1700    open

 

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    Open

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

1600 – 1700    Air Combat Analysis on the Eastern Front in 1944-45

            Daniel Horvath – virtual

 

 

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 – virtual

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    Learning from History: The Army’s Future Study Program

                                                                                    LtC. Adam. L. Taliaferro

1500 – 1600    Artillery Suppression: New Analysis of Core Data – virtual

                                    Dermot Rooney (Wapentakes)

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    Patterns of Explosive Violence Harm in Ukraine Before and After the 24 Feb. Invasion                                 Chiara Torelli (AOAV) – virtual

1500 – 1600    Drone Warfare and the Nagorno-Karabakh War of 2020

                                                                               Dr. Alexander Kott (ARL)

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

 

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Christopher A. Lawrence
Christopher A. Lawrence

Christopher A. Lawrence is a professional historian and military analyst. He is the Executive Director and President of The Dupuy Institute, an organization dedicated to scholarly research and objective analysis of historical data related to armed conflict and the resolution of armed conflict. The Dupuy Institute provides independent, historically-based analyses of lessons learned from modern military experience.

Mr. Lawrence was the program manager for the Ardennes Campaign Simulation Data Base, the Kursk Data Base, the Modern Insurgency Spread Sheets and for a number of other smaller combat data bases. He has participated in casualty estimation studies (including estimates for Bosnia and Iraq) and studies of air campaign modeling, enemy prisoner of war capture rates, medium weight armor, urban warfare, situational awareness, counterinsurgency and other subjects for the U.S. Army, the Defense Department, the Joint Staff and the U.S. Air Force. He has also directed a number of studies related to the military impact of banning antipersonnel mines for the Joint Staff, Los Alamos National Laboratories and the Vietnam Veterans of American Foundation.

His published works include papers and monographs for the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and the Vietnam Veterans of American Foundation, in addition to over 40 articles written for limited-distribution newsletters and over 60 analytical reports prepared for the Defense Department. He is the author of Kursk: The Battle of Prokhorovka (Aberdeen Books, Sheridan, CO., 2015), America’s Modern Wars: Understanding Iraq, Afghanistan and Vietnam (Casemate Publishers, Philadelphia & Oxford, 2015), War by Numbers: Understanding Conventional Combat (Potomac Books, Lincoln, NE., 2017) and The Battle of Prokhorovka (Stackpole Books, Guilford, CT., 2019)

Mr. Lawrence lives in northern Virginia, near Washington, D.C., with his wife and son.

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