PhD Papers and Presentations
Listed below are the main papers and presentations that I've produced as part of the PhD so far.
Papers, Chapters, BOOKS and Articles
- Jan 26 - Working Paper on The Descent of a City - 20 Days in Mariupol
- Dec 25 - Building an Urban Wargames Database in the Military Operational Research Society (MORS) Journal of Wargaming
- Dec 25 - Working Paper on Civilians in Urban Warfare - particularly looking at Ukrainian data about how many people stay behind - and for how long
- Oct 25 - Working Paper on Derivation of Combat Factors
- Aug 25 - Book chapter on Wargaming and the Just War Theory in Just War Theory and Artificial Intelligence (Routledge)
- Jun 25 - Nugget Preprint on the Vertical Urban Wargame
- Jun 25 - Working Paper on Elements of Urban Conflict
- Apr 25 - Working Paper on Informative Urban Battles
- Mar 25 - Nugget Preprint on Using ChatGPT for Matrix Game Simulation
- Sep 24 - My Battles of Hue paper is reprinted as a chapter in AUSA's Urban Operations book.
- Sep 23 - The Battles of Hue - Comparative review of 5 wargames on the Vietnam era Battle of Hue published in the Journal of Strategic Security (open access)
- 1 Dec 22 - Wargaming and Validity - short working paper in WD's The Nugget, working on full paper in due course
- 1 Oct 22 - Urban Battles that Weren't - short working paper in WD's The Nugget, working on full paper in due course
Presentations
- 10 Sep 25 - Presentation on Wargaming Urban Conflict as part of the Academic Research panel at ConnectionsUK 2025
- 19 Aug 25 - Wargaming and the Just War presentation at GUWS (video)
- Mar 25 - Presentation at IT2EC 2025 on the latest iteration of our POBL information synthetic wrap for wargaming and LVC training, and extended abstract
- 15 Feb 25 - Video panel session on Urban Warfare Characteristics at Connections North 2025
- 9 Feb 25 - Presentation and Demo of Matrix Game Simulation at VCOW 2025 (video)
- 5 Nov 24 - Civilian Typology presentation at ConnectionsOz 2024 (video)
- Apr 24 - Presentation from the Urban Wargaming panel at Connections Online 2024 (and video from Armchair Dragoons)
- Feb 24 - Wargaming Urban Conflict - presentation for the Georgetown University Wargaming Society's lecture series (video)
- Sep 23 - My Urban Wargaming 102 presentation for Connections UK 2023 (video)
- Jun 23 - Presentation on Urban Wargaming research at Kings Wargaming Week
- 29 Jul 22 - Slightly updated video of the VCOW 2022 presentation
- 26 Apr 22 - Presentation at IT2EC on the simulation of social media for urban wargaming - also the extended abstract
- 5 Feb 22 - Wargaming Urban Combat - PhD overview presentation to Wargame Developments (WD) at VCOW 2022.
Game Sessions
The following are the main game play sessions that I've run for the PhD. Not all of these were used for explicit data capture:
- 11 Sep 25 - OPUC game and Mixed Reality Wargaming demo at Connections UK 2025.
- 12-13 Jul 25 - OPUC, City & CEMA and Mixed Reality Wargaming demo at COW 2025
- 28 May 25 - OPUC at King Wargaming Week 2025
- 8 Feb 25 - Vertical Urban Wargame at VCOW 2025 - Onside report
- 12 Sep 24 - TUC at ConnectionsUK 2024
- Jul 24 - The Urban Calculus Game (TUC), COBE - Company Operations in the Built Environment, Rubble Town Modern and Cityfight2024 at COW 2024
- Jun 24 - The Urban Calculus Game (TUC) and COBE - Company Operations in the Built Environment at DSET 2024
- Apr 24 - City & CEMA Battalion-level at the NATO/KCL Wargaming Week
- Jan 24 - Cityfight2024 at VCOW 2024
- Jul 23 - City & CEMA and Rubble Town at COW 2023
- Jun 23 - Festung:Ortona and Rubble Town at DSET 2023
- Feb 23 - Vertical Urban Wargame at VCOW 2023, using Dropzone Commander, mobile phones, Jitsi and some 10mm miniatures - see http://newconverj.blogspot.com/2023/02/vertical-urban-wargame-summary-report.html
- 7 Sep 22 - Christmas in Hell v1.6 (Ortona) at Connections UK