James F. Dunnigan

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James F. Dunnigan (born August 8, 1943 in Rockland County ) is an American author , policy advisor and game designer .

Life

After graduating from high school , he worked in the military as a repair technician. In 1967 he published his first game ( Jutland ) on Avalon Hill . In 1969 he founded Simulation Publications , where he moved most of its games until 1982, and in 1970 he graduated to historians at the Columbia University successfully. In total, he created over 100 board games , most of which are to be assigned to the genre of conflict similations from past or simulated wars of the 20th century. In 1975 he was honored for his games with the induction into the Clausewitz Hall of Fame .

James Dunningham has also served as an advisor and speaker at the United States Department of Defense and the United States Military Academy . In 1985 he counted ten million US military personnel in his player statistics, including 250,000 active soldiers in the combat units. Many of his games were sold in the PX stores of the American armed forces (see US depot Gießen ), but also went to “exclusive customers” such as the Pentagon, the CIA and the Israeli military and, according to himself, even to the Red Army .

In May 1980 he took part in a conference with leading American military and the former Wehrmacht generals Hermann Balck and Friedrich Wilhelm von Mellenthin , in which the attack by superior Soviet forces in the Fulda Gap was discussed and simulated as a simulation game . In 1977 he had already published the game Fulda Gap: The First Battle of the Next War . This could not be purchased in Germany. When it was discussed in its details (with the option of using atomic bombs playfully) in various press reports from 1982 in Germany, the peace movement used it to draw attention to the acute threat posed to the population by nuclear weapons.

Works (selection)

  • The Complete Wargames Handbook , 1979
    • The Complete Wargames Handbook: How to Play, Design and Find Them , revised edition, William Morrow, 1992. ISBN 0-688-10368-5 ( online )
    • Wargames Handbook: How to Play and Design Commercial and Professional Wargames , 3rd Edition, 2000. ISBN 0595155464
  • How To Make War: A Comprehensive Guide To Modern Warfare , 1983
    • How to Make War: A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Warfare for the Post-Cold War Era , 3rd Edition, William Morrow, 1993. ISBN 0-688-12157-8
    • How to Make War: A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Warfare in the Twenty-first Century , 4th Edition, HarperCollins, 2003.
  • Digital Soldiers , St. Martin's, 1996. ISBN 0-312-14588-8
  • Dirty Little Secrets of the 20th Century: Myths, Misinformation, and Unknown Truths About the 20th Century , William Morrow, 1999. ISBN 0-688-17068-4
  • The Perfect Soldier . Citadel, 2004. ISBN 0-8065-2416-2

Games

  • Jutland (1967)
  • 1914 (1968)
  • 1918 (1969)
  • Anzio Beachhead (1969)
  • Barbarossa (1969)
  • Crete (1969)
  • Deployment (1969)
  • Flying Fortress (1969)
  • Italy (1969)
  • Korea (1969)
  • Leipzig (1969)
  • Normandy (1969)
  • Tannenberg (1969)
  • Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker (1969)
  • Bastogne (1970)
  • Chicago, Chicago! (1970)
  • PanzerBlitz (1970)
  • Grenadier (1971)
  • Kursk (1971)
  • Lost Battles (1971)
  • Origins of World War II (1971)
  • Strategy I (1971)
  • USN (1971)
  • American Revolution (1972)
  • Breakout and Pursuit (1972)
  • Combat Command (1972)
  • Flying Circus (1972)
  • France '40 (1972)
  • Franco-Prussian War (1972)
  • Moscow Campaign (1972)
  • Origins of World War I (1972)
  • Outdoor Survival (1972)
  • Red Star / White Star (1972)
  • Turning Point (1972)
  • Wilderness Campaign (1972)
  • Year of the Rat (1972)
  • Ardennes Offensive (1973)
  • Battles of Bull Run (1973)
  • CA (1973)
  • Desert War (1973)
  • El Alamein (1973)
  • Foxbat & Phantom (1973)
  • Main battle tank (1973)
  • NATO (1973)
  • Napoleon at Waterloo (1973)
  • Panzer Army Africa (1973)
  • Scrimmage (1973)
  • Sinai (1973)
  • Sniper! (1973)
  • Solomons Campaign (1973)
  • Spitfire (1973)
  • World War Two (1973)
  • American Civil War (1974)
  • Combined Arms (1974)
  • Frigate (1974)
  • Operation Olympic (1974)
  • Patrol (1974)
  • Tank (1974)
  • The East is Red (1974)
  • War in the East (1974)
  • Wolfpack (1974)
  • Battle for Germany (1975)
  • Global War (1975)
  • Invasion America (1975)
  • Mech War '77 (1975)
  • Oil War (1975)
  • Panzer '44 (1975)
  • Sixth Fleet (1975)
  • The Fast Carriers (1975)
  • War in the Pacific (1975)
  • World War 3 (1975)
  • World War I (1975)
  • Wurzburg (1975)
  • FireFight (1976)
  • Panzer Group Guderian (1976)
  • Plot to Assassinate Hitler (1976)
  • Revolt in the East (1976)
  • Russian Civil War (1976)
  • Strike Force (1976)
  • Was in Europe (1976)
  • War in the West (1976)
  • Fulda Gap (1977)
  • Agincourt (1978)
  • Brusilov (1978)
  • Canadian Civil War (1978)
  • The Next War (1978)
  • Bulge (1979)
  • Berlin '85 (1980)
  • Dallas (1980)
  • Demons (1980)
  • Drive on Metz (1980)
  • Empires of the Middle Ages (1980)
  • Fifth Corps (1980)
  • NATO Division Commander (1980)
  • TimeTripper (1980)
  • Wreck of the Pandora (1980)
  • Light Infantry Division (1985)
  • Tactical Combat Model (1985)
  • Men-At-Arms (1990)
  • Hundred Years War (1992)
  • Victory at Sea (1992)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jim Dunningham at BoardGameGeek (accessed September 22, 2018)
  2. ↑ Der Spiegel: Auf Pappe , edition 31/1985, p. 66 (online as pdf, accessed on September 22, 2018)
  3. ↑ Helmut R. Hammerich : Fulda Gap: Focus of the Cold War between myth and reality in Thomas Heiler , Udo Lange, Gregor K. Stasch, Udo Verse: The Rhön - History of a Landscape , Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2015, ISBN 978-3 -7319-0272-0 , pp. 294-296
personal data
SURNAME Dunnigan, James F.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author, policy advisor and game designer
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Rockland County