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2006 ORIGINS WAR COLLEGE

No other symposium the world over can boast this incomparable collection of world class authorities in the collective fields of military history, battle simulation and international affairs as the Origins War College (OWC). Come ask the hard questions and engross yourself in the depth of the most enthralling topics. This exclusive Origins experience is unsurpassed anywhere.

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STRATEGICORPS THEME FEATURE PRESENTATIONS
Many OWC topics are linked to StrategiCorps wargames. This year the StrategiCorps theme is "Extended Wars." What if major wars of history had lasted another year, or more?"

· Patton vs. Zhukov Charles Sharp on US vs. Soviet Combined Arms and what if possibilities of a 1946 conflict. An illuminating look with evidence from US and Soviet manuals of the era

· After Waterloo Napoleon's Campaign of 1815-1816 Dana Lombardy answers could a French victory in Belgium prevent an eventual overwhelming Allied triumph as it did 1813 and 1814? Or was the entire 1815 campaign, not Waterloo more of a close run thing than later generations are aware?

· Prolonging the Civil War Dave Powell on Alternate Southern Strategies. What was the optimal CSA strategy for prolonging the American Civil War? Aggressive offense, Fabian defense, or guerrilla war?

· Extended Gulf War Impact of Wargaming Matt Caffrey suggests what might have happened if the 1^st Gulf war had continued, and covers the role wargaming played in the 191 decision to stop, and the 2003 decision to GO! Would removing Saddam in ’91 been as much trouble?

WAR COLLEGE SEMINARS

· THE AMERICAN WAY OF WAR IN THE 21st CENTURY John Prados explores the USA in three recent wars and the new model of warfare they show.

· BAY OF PIGS REVISITED John Prados previews his next book with new CIA evidence.

· IRAQ INTELLIGENCE UPDATE John Prados presents latest update in his series

· BOCAGE Catalyst of Victory Frank Chadwick covers the Normandy campaign in the Bocage

· MY GUNNERS ARE BETTER THAN YOURS Frank Chadwick covers the Strange Evolution of World War II Field Artillery Doctrine

· INCREDIBLE VICTORY AT ARRACOURT Frank Chadwick covers this engagement where 50 German Panther tanks and assault guns were destroyed but only a half dozen U.S. armored vehicles. How was this amazing victory won?

· The Battle for Kiev Part I David Glantz describes Penetrating the Stalin Line and the Uman’ Encirclement, July-August 1941 and the Soviet 5th, 6th, and 26th Armies’ counterstrokes.

· The Battle for Kiev, Part II David Glantz covers the German Advance to the Dnepr River, 926 August 1941. Army Group South’s encirclement battles, First Panzer Group’s advance and the Soviet 26th Army’s counterstroke.

· The Battle for Kiev, Part III David Glantz covers the encirclement and Destruction of the Southwestern Front, August- September 1941, German attacks and Soviet counterstrokes.

· The Battle for Bessarabia and the Southern Ukraine, June - September 1941 David Glantz describes Army Group South’s advance, the Stalin Defense Line and southern Ukraine.

· Flashman’s Army – The British Army 1839 to 1879 Chuck Kamps describes institutional changes and battle fortunes of the British Army from pre-Crimea old army to the new army.

· Teddy v. the Mikado Chuck Kamps on the US and the Japanese Cold War before World War I.

· Counterinsurgency Theory Chuck Kamps covers the theories of counterinsurgency from Callwell’s “Small Wars” of the late 19^th Century to modern practitioners like Trinquier and Kitson. Provides a wrap up with practices which have worked in countering insurgencies in the past, and why we should be doing these in Iraq.

· Contingencies, Campaigns & Crises – How the US Military Plans Chuck Kamps examines the way the US military plans at the strategic and operational (theater) levels to deal with joint and combined operations.

· Wargaming and Operational Planning Matt Caffrey on wargaming strengths, weaknesses and influence.

· Anticipating the Evolution of Warfare Matt Caffrey, from ACW to present, projects how future wars will be different what shape they are likely to take.

· Wargaming and the Evolution of Warfare Matt Caffrey explains how changes in warfare call for changes wargaming, and how wargaming help to stay one step ahead of potential adversaries.

· 1862 in the East: Second Manassas. Dave Powell on Second Manassas as one of Lee's most Napoleonic campaigns.

· 1862 in the East – Antietam Dave Powell shows a campaign gone awry. Why did Lee stand? Did McClellan bungle as badly as history judges?

· Counterattack at Shiloh Sherman and McClernand Dave Powell’s talk on a daring decision in Jones Field on April 6th, 1862 saved the Union army.

· 20th Century American Coast Defenses Gordon Bliss starts in the 1890's when the US built extensive peacetime coast defenses. Key features and details as well as the history of this system.

· Kursk Tigers and Panthers and Elephants, Oh My! Dana Lombardy with Charles Sharp on the greatest tank battle of WWII, and the greatest variety of armored vehicles ever concentrated. BONUS every attendee of this seminar will receive a FREE sample 1/144 scale model! (1/144 is equivalent to 10mm or N scale)

· Prokhorovka the greatest tank battle ever fought mostly by infantry Dana Lombardy with Charles Sharp on the greatest tank battle in history a detailed view of the battle.

· Ancient Cavalry Myths & Realities Charles Sharp on effectiveness of ancient horsemen, Armor, lances, bows, shields and all.

. Judaea Invicta: An Alternate Roman Jewish War Jim Bloom on what if the Jews of Judea fought the Romans to a stalemate in AD 73.

· The Pacific War Prefigured Jim Bloom on Prophecies and Planning Papers, 1880s through the 1930s the looming confrontation between America and Japan for 50 years.

· The Napoleonic Era Ottoman Army Ahmet Ilpars expounds on military reforms in the Ottoman Army during and Napoleonic Wars, 17931807, Could it have changed Napoleonic history?

· Austerlitz Campaign Kevin Zucker shows how Napoleon brought about the battle of Austerlitz

. Dresden Campaign Kevin Zucker on the Autumn Campaign of 1813 and Four Lost Battles, the subject of OSG's most recent board wargame.

· Battles of Grossbeeren, Katzbach, Kulm, and Dennewitz Kevin Zucker on four individual battles of the 1813 Campaign.

· Operation LINEBACKER I “Doomed to Failure?” Ohio State University Professor and prolific Viet Nam War author Dr. John Guilmartin covers one of the more controversial engagements of the Vietnam War.

· Operation LINEBACKER II through enemy eyes Les Grau reveals newly declassified coverage from Soviet advisers who monitored Vietnamese radio traffic and AAR’s from this Operation during the closing days of the Vietnam War.

· Afghanistan half-way through 2006 ---Afghanistan update from Author Les Grau’s extensive travel throughout the region.update on how Afghanistan is faring.

· Iranian Military Planning - Document Exploitation from the Iran-Iraq War Les Grau talks on this topic as well as Preserving Shock Action: A new Approach to Armored Warfare?

War College Seminars by National Security Decision Making (NSDM) Team

· Air and Space Power into the Future – Key issues facing the development of U.S. aerospace capabilities? Technology, doctrine, and national policy.

· Airpower-101 – Why airpower is America’s greatest asymmetric edge. Strengths and limitations.

· Carryout Counterinsurgency Recent Strategic and Operational Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan and how to better prepare for the next counterinsurgency.

· The Cold War Defining the Modern World –What major Cold War themes and events created and still affect the international system as we know it?

· Global Hot Spots, Update 2006 – Common causes of conflict population, culture, resources, and economics. Impact of technology. Future warfare.

· Global War on Terror, Update 2006 – Lots more than last year’s presentation, current strategy and the nature of Islam.

· Indian and Pakistani Seapower – Naval policies and doctrines. Industrial base, geographical situation, technological capability, national tradition, and political resolve. Future flashpoints.

· International Relations A Blunt Introduction –Do the traditional ideas of blood, gold and power still have relevance?

· Iran Even More Evil Than Last Year – The current situation in Iran.

· Islam Primer – What is Islam? What do its adherents believe? How does Islam affect the world? What might happen in the near future?

· The Maple Leaf Forever Canada and the Great War – From a tiny regular force, Canada created one of the most effective corps on the Western Front.

· Preparing for the Savage Wars of Peace Counterinsurgency and Fourth Generation Warfare –War on Terror, Afghanistan, and Iraq counterinsurgency.

· The Red Chinese Threat – What is the Politburo’s policy with regard to its neighbors? How are they armed today, and how might they be armed in the future?

· Secret Agencies and Secret Warriors – What agencies collect intelligence for the U.S., and how do they go about it? How are special operations forces equipped, and what do they do?

· Transforming to Fight…Who? U.S. Strategic Options– DoD policy calls for fighting asymmetric enemies and cutting stability operations, what are the most dangerous?

ORIGINS WAR COLLEGE FACULTY

· GUEST OF HONOR: Colonel David M. Glantz served for over 30 years in various field artillery, intelligence, teaching, and research assignments in Europe and Vietnam, taught at the United States Military Academy, the Combat Studies Institute, and Army War College, founded and directed the U.S. Army’s Foreign (Soviet) Military Studies Office, and established and currently edits The Journal of Slavic Military Studies. Written or coauthored more than 60 books and self-published studies and atlases, as well as hundreds of articles on Soviet military strategy, intelligence, and deception and the history of the Red (Soviet) Army, Soviet (Russian) military history, and WW II.

· SPECIAL GUEST: John Guilmartin, Ph.D. Prominent Professor at The Ohio State University Department of History, and prolific Vietnam War author and veteran (two tours) having flown over 120 combat missions; awarded two Silver Stars. Served in the Rescue staff tactics shop 1978-79, then as editor of Air University Review, the professional journal of the U.S. Air Force. Previously taught at Rice University and the Naval War College. An authority on military and maritime history, and the history of technology, and the author of Gunpowder and Galleys. An early modern Europeanist whose research focuses on the 16^th and 17^th centuries, is also interested in aerospace history, and written about the Gulf War.

· SPECIAL GUEST: Lester W. Grau US Army LTC (Rtd.) Military Analyst for the Foreign Military Studies Office at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Graduate of Army's Institute for Advanced Russian and Eastern European Studies. He served a combat tour in Vietnam, four European tours, a Korean tour, and a posting in Moscow; traveled to the Soviet Union and Russia over forty times; and been to Afghanistan and Iraq in recent years. CENTCOM Fellow and Author of several books, Les has published over ninety articles and studies on Soviet and Russian tactical, operational, and geopolitical subjects.

· John Prados Award winning author and noted analyst of national security affairs. His credits include more than two dozen published boardgames, including THIRD REICH (Avalanche) and FORTRESS BERLIN (ATO), fifteen books, contributions in twenty or more, and hundreds of articles and reviews.

· Frank Chadwick Founded Game Designers' Workshop in 1972 was one of the original GAMA organizers with over sixty published games to his credit, and his Desert Shield book reached number one on the New York Times best seller list.

· Major Peter F. Panzeri Jr. US Army, Infantry WAR COLLEGE DIRECTOR Award winning book Little Big Horn 1876 Custer's Last Stand, Combat Infantryman's Badge and Bronze Star in Iraq, Chief of Military History at the US Army Infantry School, Tactics Chief at the Military Intelligence School, and at the US Military Academy, West Point Prep, ·

· Dana Lombardy WAR COLLEGE MODERATOR Publisher of Napoleon, on History Channel Series Tales of the Gun and a dozen other documentaries. Wpm 1980 Origins Award for Streets of Stalingrad and designed more than a dozen published wargames and contributed to at least two dozen more.

· Matthew B. Caffrey Jr. Colonel (Rtd.) USAF Reserve WAR COLLEGE MODERATOR Currently Chief, Wargaming Development and Education, Wargaming Branch, Directorate of Plans, HQ Air Force Research Laboratory. Previously Professor of Wargaming and Campaign Planning at the Air Command and Staff College Coauthored the Gulf War Fact Book.

· Dave Powell American Civil War author, designed Thunder at the Crossroads, This Hallowed Ground, and This Terrible Sound, and published in Civil War themed magazines, most recent A fearful Slaughter Battle of Shiloh (MMP)

· Gordon Bliss WAR COLLEGE MODERATOR Coast Defense Study Group, Gordon Bliss is a past Chairman of the organization as well as the current Preservation Officer. He has also been an active wargamer for over 30 years.

· Charles Sharp WAR COLLEGE MODERATOR Researched the Soviet Army in World War Two, and has written a 12 volume set of booklets on the orders of battle and units of the Red Army 1941 to 1945.

· Jim Bloom Published military and naval historian, written over 50 articles in wargaming journals, military and naval history mags and encyclopedia, including hypotheticals.

· Ahmet Ilpars Turkish National Military Historian from University of Istanbul as System Analyzer Computer Programmer for 5 years, and is now writing his own web magazine Immortal Janissary.

· Kevin Zucker Game Designer, Historian, Game Publisher, The driving force the Operational Studies Group’s Campaigns of Napoleon Series [1796 to 1815]

· Ed Durkin Air Force Research Laboratory publications on Japanese WWII destroyers.

Biographies of NSDM Staff Lecturers for Origins War College-2006 Program

Lieutenant Colonel Robert Blanke, USAF LtCol Blanke is a career Air Force intelligence officer with long service as a Strategic Analyst with the Commander's Advisory Group at U.S. Central Command. He has served in the United States, Europe, and Southwest Asia as part of Operations Allied Force, Enduring Freedom, and Iraqi Freedom. Currently he is assigned as a senior advisor to national-level security decision makers. LtCol Blanke’s awards include Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Service and Air Force Commendation Medals.

Professor Craig B. Greathouse, PhD Craig Greathouse holds a doctorate in political science from the Claremont Graduate School (University). His expertise is in international relations theory, American foreign policy, European security and defense policy, European integration, and European federalism. He has presented papers at national conferences on security and defense policy, and is published in the area of European federalism. Professor Greathouse teaches international relations and politics at the University of Arkansas at Monticello.

Lieutenant Colonel James C. Laughrey, USA LTC Laughrey is an Army intelligence officer with long service as a Strategic Analyst with the Commander's Advisory Group at U.S. Central Command. A veteran of Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Joint Forge (Bosnia), Enduring Freedom, and Iraqi Freedom, LTC Laughrey has served in the United States, Europe, and Southwest Asia. He received the Bronze Star for heroism in combat against the Iraqi Republican Guard in 1991. He is presently assigned to the National Defense University.

Dan McDonagh During his Navy career Dan McDonagh specialized in intelligence, electronic warfare, and war gaming. He served in anti-air, anti-submarine, amphibious, and combat logistics ships, and was second in command of all sealift assets during Operation Desert Storm. One of only two officers ever selected to serve two tours at the War Gaming Department of the Naval War College, he was as a member of its Advanced Concepts Team and also designed and ran war games. Dan McDonagh created the NSDM Game.

Captain Mark McDonagh, USNR Captain Mark McDonagh served on the latest nuclear submarines for ten years and was the assigned to assist the Submarine Force and the Navy as a whole. He was decorated for operational actions in forward areas; has created and tested submarine tactics; and prepared analyses of U.S. submarine tactics that were forwarded to the CNO. He currently develops tactical decision-making systems for the Submarine Force, and serves as the Executive Officer for the Naval War College’s Reserve war game design unit.

Merle S. Robinson A career civil servant, Merle Robinson has almost three decades of DoD experience as a Systems Analyst, Installation Manpower Officer, Installation Services Officer, Environmental Protection Specialist, and Budget Officer. He is a graduate of Miami University of Ohio and two DoD institutions, with majors in Finance, Accounting, History, Political Science, Foreign Affairs, and Diplomacy. Merle Robinson is a member of AUSA, USNI, and USAFA.

Michael Tucker Mike Tucker is systems engineer in the Canadian telecommunications industry who has maintained a close association with military history and war gaming since his university days. A descendant of generations of Canadian soldiers, Mr. Tucker is a lifelong student of the armed forces of his nation and military history in general across many periods. As a member of the Canadian Institute for Strategic Studies in the 1980s he focused on potential NATO/Warsaw Pact conflict and Canadian defense policy.

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