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.
Ooh! Definitely on my Christmas list now!
Thanks.
Isn’t it too early to write a serious history about these events? Without access to Russian sources to get that perspective it seems all that is likely to be produced here is a toney rehash of the Ukrainian and Western “perspectives”.
It’s too soon for this sort of thing. I won’t waste my money on this.
Was it too early for Thucydides to write his history? What about Trevor Dupuy’s Elusive Victory?
Got to start somewhere.
Chris: “Was it too early for Thucydides to write his history? What about Trevor Dupuy’s Elusive Victory?”
-I agree that you do the best you can with what you’ve got, but TND definitely got (IIRC) most sides of the story, and Thucydides ostensibly did (how much of his dialogues were made up?). Current Russian sources are a little dubious. The Ukrainians aren’t much better. That leaves outside sources.
I guess we’ll see.