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.
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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.
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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) , The Battle of Prokhorovka (Stackpole Books, Guilford, CT., 2019), The Battle for Kyiv (Frontline Books, Yorkshire, UK, 2023), Aces at Kursk (Air World, Yorkshire, UK, 2024), Hunting Falcon: The Story of WWI German Ace Hans-Joachim Buddecke (Air World, Yorkshire, UK, 2024) and The Siege of Mariupol (Frontline Books, Yorkshire, UK, 2024).
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Mr. Lawrence lives in northern Virginia, near Washington, D.C., with his wife and son.
I’ll keep an eye out for the new book. Very much enjoyed the smaller book on Prokohrovka and on the Kursk air war.
Thanks.
Hello!
Good news!
I have a question about German documents. Have you come across any references or documents about Das Reich SS-Panther Abteilung KTB? I need information about the Battle of Kharkov in August 1943.
I have not looked. I have considered writing a book about the August Soviet offensive towards Kharkov, but have not done any work on it in a while. I would take a year or two of my time, so it may not ever get done.
Specifically, we did a series of Urban engagements on 18 – 23 August 1943 for our Urban Warfare study and our DLEDB (Division-level Engagement Data Base). The German defending units were the 106th ID, 320th ID and the 282nd ID. We did not look at Das Reich as it was not directly defending Kharkov.
P-Abt had four companies upon arrival. One company was assigned to the 320th Infantry Division on August 22 (No. 3). Two other companies (No. 1 and No. 2) were in the 3PD sector of Lujbotin, Stary Lujbotin. On August 22, they achieved success, destroying 47 Soviet tanks (5 g TA 1 mc). Another Panther company was assigned to the 198th Infantry Division, near Pesochin.
Yes, looking at the 320th ID engagement for 22 August, we do report a reinforcement of 11 tanks from 3/I PzBn/Das Riech. They had 9 tanks on 21 August and 20 on 22 August (we do count StuG IIIs as tanks). And on the 23rd our notes report that “one company of Panthers are still attached the 320th ID.
This engagement was “created by Chris Lawrence 13 January 2003”: Been a while since I looked at this.
Just to annoying, has this claim been cross-checked to 5th GTA or 1st MC records?
“And on the 23rd our notes report that “one company of Panthers are still attached the 320th ID.” – This Panther coy has been returned to DR August 24 at 10:45.
“Just to annoying, has this claim been cross-checked to 5th GTA or 1st MC records?” – this claim has been cross-checked to 5th gTA & 1st MC records the result is: 5th gTA – 37 T-34 & 10 T-70, 1st mc – 18 T-34 & 2 T-70, 1548 hSPAR(53 A.) – 1 SU 152.
https://oigen-e.livejournal.com/13827.html – unfortunately on Russian language
second part: https://oigen-e.livejournal.com/14238.html
As I remember correct the 11 AK daily record shows 57 Knocked out tanks in this day