Jim Dunnigan

Born in Rockland County, New York, after high school he volunteered for the military instead of waiting to be drafted, and from 1961 to 1964 worked as a repair technician for the Sergeant ballistic missile, which included a tour in Korea. After the military, he attended Pace University[?] studying accounting, then transferred to Columbia University, graduating with a degree in history in 1970.

While still in college, he got involved in wargaming, and designed Jutland[?], which Avalon Hill published in 1967, following it up with 1914[?] the next year, and the groundbreaking Panzerblitz[?] in 1970, which eventually sold half a million copies. Meanwhile, he had founded his own company, Simulations Publications, Inc.[?] (SPI) and had begun publishing the magazine Strategy & Tactics.

Between 1966 and 1992, he designed over 100 wargames and other conflict simulations, ranging from 1969's Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker[?] about the student takeover at Columbia (Dunnigan having witnessed though not participated), to the gigantic War in Europe[?], to the online Hundred Years War, which has been running since 1992.

In 1979, he wrote his first book The Complete Wargames Handbook[?], still considered a definitive work, and in 1980 How to Make War[?].

He also regularly gives lectures to the military, and has appeared on TV as a commentator on military subjects.

Books

• (with Austin Bay[?]) A Quick & Dirty Guide to War: Briefings on Present and Potential Wars
• Digital Soldiers
• (with Albert Nofi[?]) Dirty Little Secrets: American Military Information You're Not Supposed to Know
• Dirty Little Secrets of the 20th Century: Myths, Misinformation, and Unknown Truths About the 20th Century
• (with Albert Nofi[?]) Dirty Little Secrets of the Vietnam War: Military Information You're Not Supposed to Know
• (with Albert Nofi[?]) Dirty Little Secrets of World War II: Military Information No One Told You About the Greatest, Most Terrible War in History
• (with Austin Bay[?]) From Shield to Storm: High-Tech Weapons, Military Strategy and Coalition Warfare in the Persian Gulf
• (with Raymond M. MacEdonia[?]) Getting It Right: American Military Reforms After Vietnam to the Gulf War and Beyond
• How to Make War: A Comprehensive Guide to Modern Warfare for the Post-Cold War Era
• (with William Martel[?]) How to Stop a War: The Lessons of Two Hundred Years of War and Peace
• (with Albert Nofi[?]) Medieval Life and the Hundred Years War (200,000 word online book)
• (with Albert Nofi[?]) Shooting Blanks: War Making That Doesn't Work
• (with Albert Nofi[?]) The Pacific War Encyclopedia
• The Complete Wargamers Handbook: How to Play, Design and Find Them
• (with Daniel Masterson[?]) The Way of the Warrior: Business Tactics and Techniques from History's Twelve Greatest Generals
• (with Albert Nofi[?]) Victory and Deceit: Dirty Tricks at War
• (with Albert Nofi[?]) Victory at Sea: World War II in the Pacific

Games

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External link

• James F. Dunnigan homepage (http://www.jim.dunnigan.com)