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Voulet-Chanoine Mission

Thanks very much for your work in copyediting; it was immensily appreciated. As for the question of the reunion of the missions, that isn't clear enough, and especially the Gentil mission, which I had only mentioned in the lead. To speak much of the Gentil Mission much before is unfortunately difficult, as they had arrived to Chad not from Algeria or Senegal, but from Congo, that is a completely different route, with hardly any contacts with the other missions. BTW, I've noted you're a new user; I'm an admin and I've been around here quite a long time, so if there's any way I can help you, don't be afraid to ask.--Aldux 14:15, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

sims

Thanks for the reply. Deighton is fiction, but it deals with a sims specialist who uses a model to make a point (one I obviously didn't make well): Soviet flying boats may be able to land on ice & deploy sonobuoys, or weaps, thru it, a fact not accounted for in NATO exs & models... I made a minor correction to your correction; Dupuy didn't actually say models that can't repro are whimsy, I did, because it seems true to me. (Maybe I overstated it...) I'm wondering if you've seen anything on the work Canadian Professor Patrick M. Blackett did on convoys in WW2, which demononstrated large convoys were actually better than small ones, or on ASWORG. (Maybe this is more appropriate to an article on ops research...) You might look to van der Vat's Atlantic Campaign, or Milner's North Atlantic Run, to name 2, for sources. I've got one small stylistic criticism: including so much detail on the Ardennes wargame seems out of place (interesting as it is); I'd suggest breaking it out into a "practical examples" section, if possible, & summarinzing the event in the section it's now in. I'm looking forward to the complete article. It's been pretty interesting so far... Trekphiler 00:43, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Sims (again)

I was looking at your wrok in prorgess (...) & it occured to me: Roman armies trained rigorously, using field exercies, to crib a phrase, "as bloodless battles, & battles as bloody drills" (& I wish I could attribute the quote). Something of a breakout into "history" section, where this might be included, occurs to me. So do some additional examples; the ones now seem a bit selective, like they were readily available. (Maybe I'm fussy.) The Roman example, not to beat a dead equus, leads me back to exs not being sims. I doubt the Romans even had a concept of "field ex", just training. My thinking is, it's a bit difficult to draw a "bright line" between the two, which leads me to think "Simulations" should be merged with "Military Training" (if such page exists), with a link to "Sims". No? Trekphiler 19:56, 12 October 2006 (UTC) (Post Scriptum {showing off my command of Latin, Y...) No need to answer, unless you've got questions. )

'Training', manual

Wish I could offer examples. My info is much more general; you've already got more depth than I could offer. I've heard of Lanchester, of course, but that's by way of books on wargaming, & the Ardennes example I came across in books on the operation, with (probably) fewer specifics than you've got. I'm no more a linguist, I'm afraid, so I can't point to foreign language sources, but let me offer some possible leads, if you can connect with somebody--say, on Japanese Wikipedia: before the Pacific War, & during, IJN did several map exercises, & all were stopped as IJN fell into a war of attrition, so as to avoid defeat. A Midway map ex showed four IJN CVs sunk, until the umps stepped in & changed the outcome. IJN umps would routinely provide positional info, so faulty (or absent) recon wasn't penalized, a major problem for IJN thru the war. As to sources for this, look at...(I'm getting my bibliography... I wrote an essay on the war, & it includes just about every book I ever read on it.)

Appleyard, Rollo, Commander, RN. Elements of Convoy Defense. 1917 (if you can find it...& if you can, tell me immediately!)

Ito & Pineau, End of the Imperial Japanese Navy. W W Norton, 1962.

Willmott, H. P. Empires in the Balance. USNI Press, 1982.

________. Barrier and the Javelin. USNI Press, 1983.

Hartman, Gregory. Weapons that Wait. (mine warfare) USNI Press, 1979.

Peattie & Evans. Kaigun. (IJN) USNI Press, 1997.

Badsay, Stephen. Hutchinson Atlas of World War II Battle Plans. Oxford: Helicon Publishing, 2000.

Calvocoressi & Wint. Total War. NY: Pantheon, 1989. (I don't recall much pertinent in it.)

Jones, R V. Wizard War. (The bibliography might have sources.)

Hartcup. Challenge of War. (The bibliography might have sources.)

Look into the work Prof Patrick M. Blackett did on OR (or did I mention him already?). In Zimmerman, Scientists and War, I think. Hope that's some help, at least.

Thanks for the tip on "bloody drills". I came across it recently in a book on the Roman army, & it fits with the "train hard, fight easy" motto I've also seen. This is what IJN did prewar, which is why ops around Guadalcanal went so well for IJN & so badly for USN for so long.

As you can probably guess, I've little specific knowledge on sims, beyond Dupuy's Numbers (which I still think is definitive).

Hope I've been some help. Trekphiler 03:23, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Sims again

Reading the article, I recall something else I came across once. (I've no idea where, I'm afraid...) The Israeli Army trains officers with a surprise exercise. It gives them days to prepare a plan, & when the plan is presented, the trainee is told, the conditions have completely changed, you have hours to formulate a new plan. When he presents that one, again he's told, the conditions have completely changed, you have minutes. (The ones who don't have heart attacks become famous generals...)

And RN has a program described by Tom Clancy in Submarine, called "The Perisher" (for very good reason): the command candidate must pass, or he will never command a ship at sea. The Brits have a great system for producing leaders, something the USN could afford to learn. (End of editorial) Trekphiler 03:39, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Don`t worry

I accept your apologies, we all work for the sake of Wikipedia and for that objective sometimes we have to be harsh on others, i thank you for doing a good work editing the article and glad to be your acquaintance. Zidane tribal 05:35, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Military simulation

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--howcheng {chat} 23:52, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Word to the wise: ibid mixes badly with the nature of Wikipedia, as you can see here. I suggest you fix this before it gets out of hand, if it hasn't already. You would be a better judge of that than myself, naturally.--Rmky87 01:01, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

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Jellyfish

Thanks for the comments and context. I have been adding to Wiki for a while but do not have time to commit to it. As well as running Magforum, I am an editor at the Financial Times, a former lecturer in publishing and magazine editor. I am also an external examiner at the London University of the Arts. Tony Quinn tony@magforum.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.5.69.244 (talk • contribs)

Sino-Indian War

I like what you did with the introduction and do not mind at all if you copyedit the whole of the article. Traing 01:31, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Hi, great comment. Cheers. ←Humus sapiens ^ну? 11:09, 31 May 2007 (UTC)