Had an informative, interesting and enjoyable visit to York, UK to attend the Niall MacKay organized HADSS: Final Schedule for HADSS 2024 – The Dupuy Institute
Good stuff and a wonderful city. My understanding is that the next HADSS will be held there in 2026.
Meanwhile, the third HAAC is coming up in less than three months. The current schedule is:
Schedule: Pike and Gallows Conference Center
Updated: revised 23 July 2024
Day 1: Analysis of Conventional Combat
0900 – 0930 Introductory remarks – Christopher A. Lawrence (TDI)
0930 – 1030 Studying Combat: The “Base of Sand” Problem – Dr. Shawn R. Woodford
1030 – 1130 Slouching Towards Wabash: The Withering of Historical Analysis in the American Profession of Arms – Ivan Torres (Major, U.S. Army, ret.)
1130 – 1230 Redux: Quantifying Warfare – Alexandru Filip (Canadian Center for Strategic Studies)
1230 – 1400 Lunch
1400 – 1500 Temporal and Geographic Patterns of Fatal Casualty Rates in WWI and WWII – Sasho Todorov, esquire
1500 – 1600 Validation Challenges in Wargaming: What’s Real Here? – Dr. Doug Samuelson (InfoLogix)
1600 – 1700 open
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 Haiti: The Risks of a Failed State in the Western Hemisphere – Dr. Christopher Davis
1100 – 1200 Native American Wars and Conflicts, 1500-1900 – Dr. David Cuberes
1200 – 1300 Lunch
1300 – 1400 The Islamic State of Khorasan: The Evolution of Terrorism – Dr. Christopher Davis
1400 – 1500 The Gaza Death Numbers – Dr. Michael Spagat (Royal Holloway University)
1500 – 1600 Open
1600 – 1700 Group Discussion: The Next Middle East Wars
Evening (1900): Group Dinner – BJs
Day 3: Other Analysis of Warfare
0900 – 1000 Close Combat Overmatch Weapons (SLAMMER) – Joe Follansbee (Col., USA, ret.)
1000 – 1100 The Debate over French Armored Warfare Doctrine 1935 to 1940 – Dr. James Slaughter
1100 – 1200 Ground Warfare in 2050: How it Looked in 2017 – Dr. Alexander Kott
1200 – 1300 Lunch
1300 – 1400 The Red Army’s Offensive Operations in Ukraine, 1943-44 – Dr. Richard Harrison
1400 – 1500 Critique of Western Wargames of NATO-WP Conflict – Walker Gargagliano
1500 – 1600 Capabilities of FPV drones in Ukraine: Revolution or Continuation of Historical Quantitative Trend? – Dr. Alexander Kott
1600 – 1700 Group Discussion: Russo-Ukrainian War
Evening: Happy hour – Rangos
Schedule: Einstein Conference Room
Day 1: Poster and Book Room
Opened at 0800
Afternoon Day 1: Air Warfare Analysis
1400 – 1500 open
1500 – 1600 Temporal and Geographic Patterns of Fatal Casualty Rates in WWI and WWII (part 2 or overflow presentation) – Sasho Todorov, esquire
1600 – 1700 open
Day 2: Analysis of Conventional Combat – mostly virtual
0900 – 1000 Designing Computer Based AI Wargaming Systems for Simulating and Investigating Historical Battles – Clinton Reilly (Computer Strategies, Australia) – virtual
1000 – 1100 Beaches by the Numbers – Dr. Julian Spencer-Churchill (Concordia University, Quebec) – virtual
1100 – 1200 Surveying and Quantifying Naval Warfare – Alexandru Filip
1200 – 1300 Lunch
1300 – 1400 Urban Warfare: Myths and Reality – Dr. James Storr (UK) – virtual
1400 – 1500 Urban Warfare (old) – Christopher A. Lawrence (TDI)
1500 – 1600 New Findings on Artillery Suppression – Dr. Dermot Rooney (Wapentakes) – virtual
1600 – 1700 Winfield Scott: Architect of American Joint Warfare (LtC. Nathan A. Jennings) – virtual
Day 3: Other Analysis of Warfare
0900 – 1000 The Impact of Horses on Native Americans – Dr. David Cuberes
1000 – 1100 The Red Army’s Plans for a Preemptive Attack in 1941 – Dr. Richard Harrison
1100 – 1200 Mass Egress after an IED Explosion: Lessons Learned about Validation – Doug Samuelson (InfoLogix)
1200 – 1300 Lunch
1300 – 1400 Political Science Pedagogy in Strategic Studies (A Contrast in Quantified History) – Dr. Julian Spencer-Churchill – virtual
1400 – 1500 open
1500 – 1600 open
1600 – 1700 open
Friday, October 11: Tour of a Civil War Battlefield – Antietam: bloodiest day of the U.S. Civil War (and in the Western Hemisphere?). – we will arrange transport there and back ($20 charge for tour).
