Origins International Game Expo
July 5-8,2007

No other symposium can boast this collection of world-class authorities in the fields of military history, conflict simulation and international affairs. The Origins War College (OWC) experience is unsurpassed anywhere.  Come listen to the experts, ask the hard questions, and engross yourself in the depth of these enthralling topics! Download the full Seminar event charts for further details.

Here is a taste of the schedule:

War College Seminars
• D-Day: A Remembrance - Carlo D’Este examines the 1944 invasion of France, including little-known facts behind its planning and execution.
• Carlo D’Este presents Patton: A Genius for War and Ike: A Soldier’s Life
• David Glantz will give three talks on the Eastern Front, Odessa 1941, Kar’kov 1941, and Rostov 1941.
• Eastern Front “What Ifs” - David Glantz considers German victory prospects in 1941.
• Confronting the Basmachi: A Successful Counter-Insurgency – Les Grau examines a fight against an Islamic insurgency in the 1920’s and 30’s.
• Getting Out: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan – Les Grau explains why this was a Soviet success and not a failure.
• The Bigger Arms Room: Fielding an Expeditionary Force - Les Grau looks at training and configuring forces for deployment in the modern world.
• The Cavalry Raid through Contemporary and European Eyes
• The Long Arm of Mr. Lincoln’s Army - Dana Lombardy examines Civil War artillery.
• Murfreesboro, Tullahoma, and Chickamauga : variations on a theme
• Chickamauga, Sept 18-19 and Chickamauga, Sept 20 and Close of Battle
• The British Army: Boer War to World War
• Armed and Alone: Gunboat Development and Operations in the US Navy
• Maritime Raiding in Greek and Roman Antiquity: Piracy and Counter-Piracy BC
• Drake’s Raids in Historical Context: Policy or Piracy?
• The Campaign of 1757: Frederick at His Best (and Worst)  
• Soviet Tank Divisions: Doctrine during Disaster - Charles Sharp checks out battles in mid-1941 between Soviet and German armored forces.  
• Frank Chadwick presents three talks on WWII in North Africa with Rock Bottom: The British Desert Army 1942; Many Weapons, Few Men: The Italian Desert Army, 1942 and On to Cairo: The German Desert Army, 1942
• A “Soviet” Offensive against the US Army - Charles Sharp examines “what if” the Soviet Union and the USA fought a ground war in Europe in 1945.
• The Great Killer: Artillery in WWII - Charles Sharp discusses artillery in Europe.
• The Doolittle Raid: a Masterful Effects-Based Operation?
• An Air Force at Dawn: the Army Air Force Learns How to Fight
• Tanks and Tank Losses at Kursk, the Real Story – Charles Sharp presents his analysis.   
• Son Tay: POWs in North Vietnam
• Operation Eagle Claw: What went Wrong and El Dorado Canyon: U.S. vs. Libya
• The Battle of Khafji: When a Raid Goes Wrong and The Battle of Burqan: Iraq 1991
• The Battle of Tora Bora: Afghanistan 2001
• Air and Space Power 101 and Joint Warfighting
• Theater of War: The Central Command AOR Today and Tomorrow
• USCENTCOM Updated and Iraq F.A.Q. – 2007 Update
• Global War on Terror: 2007 Update and Global Hot Spots – 2007 Update
• WMD Terrorism: the Next 9/11 and Nuclear Security in the U.S.
• Advice and Consent:  Winning the “Other” Wars in Counter-insurgency
• Islam Primer and Hizballah: Terrorism’s “A-Team”
• The Long War and U.S. Strategic Options and Strategy Development
• The War on Terror and Matrix Games and Simulating Reality: Words versus Numbers
• Iran: Our Biggest National Security Concern
• Russian Hand-to-Hand Combat Systems and Submarine and Anti-Submarine Warfare
• The Russian Navy: It’s Still There, and Modernizing  
• The Red Chinese Threat: Scarier this Year than Last
• American Strategic Wargaming Today: Wargaming at the Highest Levels
• What Can Wargaming do in the National Interest? A Thought Experiment
• The Anatomy of Defeat

War College Faculty

Our Special Guests sponsored by Armchair General Magazine are:

Frank Chadwick: A 1984 Origins Hall of Fame inductee, Frank Chadwick founded Game Designers’ Workshop in 1972 and was one of the original GAMA organizers. Chadwick has more than sixty published games to his credit, and his Desert Shield Factbook (1991) reached number one on the New York Times bestseller list.

Carlo D’Este: A retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, Carlo D’Este is the author of six books on military history, including the acclaimed Decision in Normandy and Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily. Mr. D’Este is currently working on a biography of Winston Churchill and serves on the advisory board for Armchair General Magazine.

Colonel David M. Glantz: COL Glantz taught at West Point, the Combat Studies Institute, and Army War College, founded and directed the U.S. Army’s Foreign (Soviet) Military Studies Office. He started and currently edits The Journal of Slavic Military Studies. He has written or coauthored more than 60 books, studies and atlases, plus hundreds of articles on Soviet military strategy, intelligence, and deception and the history of the Soviet Army, Russian military history, and WWII.

Lester Grau: A retired US Army lieutenant colonel, Les Grau is a Military Analyst for the Foreign Military Studies Office at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.  He has published over 100 articles and studies on Soviet and Russian tactical, operational and geopolitical subjects.
Dana Lombardy: Dana Lombardy has contributed as an editor, graphic artist, designer and cartographer on many books, games and magazines.  He was publisher of Napoleon Journal from 1996 to 2000.  He is best known for his multiple award-winning Streets of Stalingrad board game.  

Charles Sharp: Charles Sharp is a former tanker in the US Army.  He is the author of more than a dozen books on the organization and orders of battle of units of the Red Army during World War Two.