Friday, 30 October 2020

Note to self - Wargaming Monograph: References to Midway - pages 23-43 and DSTL Presentation

Sometimes the "little gods" of the Internet and the Google search engine algorithms smile fortuitously and come up with splendors you did not know existed (see the pdf link below): 

https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/1021990.pdf

I was looking for stuff on the IJN wargaming prior to the Battle of Midway and got back a deeper resource than I had previously been able to find courtesy of the USAF's staff training programme with a monograph entitled:

Improving Operational Wargaming: It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Loses a War.

A Monograph by Lt Col Matthew E. Hanson USAF

I have read the Midway stuff on p23-43 and will get round to reading the rest. 

Then I found: 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299597657_The_Legend_of_the_Fixed_Japanese_Wargaming_of_the_Midway_Campaign_slides_presented_at_the_DSTL_Historical_Analysis_Symposium_2012/link/5877687c08ae8fce492fb8df/download

Epic result :) much to think about ;)


2 comments:

James Fisher said...

It's always pleasing to find content with some depth isn't it? I regularly find gems on archive.org or jstor.
Regards, James

Geordie an Exiled FoG said...

Thanks for the tip I shall head that way more often ;)