Saturday 10 July 2021

My latest book- Paddy Griffith’s Wargaming Operation Sealion

 The Game that Launched Academic Wargaming

 Paddy Griffith’s wargame of Operation Sealion, at the British Army Staff College in 1974, was a ground breaking piece of research. It was a serious piece of academic research, using a wargame to explore a contested area of military history.

Paddy assembled a team of subject matter experts from Britain and Germany to run a wargame to explore what would have happened if the Germans had launched their planned invasion of Britain. To umpire and play in the game, he used combat veterans with senior command experience, including some who were involved in 1940. They included Adolf Galland, the Luftwaffe ace. This is the story of that game, including previously unpublished material such as briefings, analysis, guidance for umpires and post-game reflections. Their conclusions about the outcome of the game, based on using a wargame as an academic tool, were unanimous.

“The resulting analysis of the Sealion Wargame is the most authoritative assessment yet produced of the prospects for this titanic and consequential hypothetical struggle.” Peter Perla

The book is published by the History of Wargaming Project as part of its work to document the development of wargaming. 

A talk about this book is now available on YouTube  YouTube


 

7 comments:

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  2. You might want to set your comments to "moderated" John.....

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  3. Here's a link
    http://www.wargaming.co/recreation/details/pgopsealion.htm

    Available in paperback or Kindle format from Amazon

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    1. There don't seem to be any "add to cart" buttons on the page, and nothing comes up on Amazon when I search for the title.

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  4. Try searching on
    Paddy Griffith’s Wargaming Operation Sealion

    I can find it on amazon.co.uk and amazon.com

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