The Phalanx is the quarterly journal for the Military Operations Research Society (MORS). I did have an article in the Summer issue of the journal called “What We Have Learned from Doing Historical Analysis.” This originally was just an aside in an email exchange between Dr. Dean Hartley, Dr. Robert Helmbold and I that Dean Hartley recommend I dress it up and turn it into an article. He arranged for it to be published by the Phalanx. I minimized the clean-up so that the tone of the article remained the same as what I said in my original email rant. I did go through and make nine observations based upon years of doing this work.
The issue is here (Volume 55, Number 2): Phalanx-Current-Volume.pdf (mors.org). It is at the end of the issue in the section called “Last Word.” I think you can access the entire issue even if you are not a member of MORS. The article by itself is here: What We Have Learned from Doing Historical Analysis on JSTOR.
The Dupuy Institute
Excellence in Historical Research and Analysis
The Dupuy Institute
Excellence in Historical Research and Analysis
C.A.L: “Research “on the cheap” (usually meaning using secondary sources) ends up costing you more in the long run. If people are going to do analysis from that research, best to get it done well to start with. A lot of our early historical research efforts were underfunded, and as a result we ended up later going back and having to correct them whenever we decided to use the data again. So sometimes when we ended up doing analysis based upon previous research, we ended up going back and re-addressing the original research. This is time consuming…”
-Yup.