Jorit Wintjes

• Professor
• Akademischer Rat at University of Wuerzburg

This chapter covers the introduction of wargaming to the British army in some detail, whereas only very brief mention will be made of how other armies took up the Kriegsspiel . Before turning to the actual history of the Prussian Kriegsspiel , two brief preliminary remarks are necessary – one on the terminology of what was to become the very first...

The sea is omnipresent in the ancient cultures of the Mediterranean basin. It is an inexhaustible source of food, but also a well-traveled roadway and a means to communicate, trade with, or wage war against one’s neighbors. Perhaps because these practical meanings of the sea were so deeply embedded in daily life, the sea also had a profound religio...

This article provides a brief overview over military action in Roman Britain during the four centuries of Roman rule, taking a closer look at how the Roman army reacted operationally to military threats to Roman rule. It covers the use of infrastructure to rapidly move forces within the province and the establishment of zones of control both throug...

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The Culture of Military Organizations - edited by Peter R. Mansoor October 2019

The dilectus (“selection”) was the Roman levying of soldiers for military service among the Roman citizenry. It took place on the Capitolium, where the initial mustering took place, and on the Campus Martius, where the new recruits’ weapons were inspected. It was one of the most important duties of the consuls, to whom it fell to preside over it.

The nineteenth century saw dramatic changes in military technology that profoundly changed the nature of warfare, and integrating the performance of that new technology into the existing operational and tactical thinking became hugely important. In Prussia, from 1824 onwards, the Kriegsspiel , the world’s first professional conflict simulation in o...

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Although the Prussian Kriegsspiel was a key training instrument in the Prussian army, it has so far attracted comparatively little scholarly attention. The article covers the early history of the Prussian Kriegsspiel, which was officially adopted as a training tool in 1824, and concentrates on the development of the first two Prussian wargames by G...

Ever since its invention around the beginning of the 4th century bcartillery found employment not only during sieges, but also in the field. By the time of the Roman principate, artillery was regularly employed as field artillery, and to considerable effect; field artillery was both an integral and an important element of Roman land forces. The pre...

The history of professional war gaming is usually understood to have begun around the turn of the 18 th to the 19 th century and mainly associated with the Prussian Kriegsspiel, with chess-based predecessors traceable down to a game published in 1664 by Christoph Weickmann. Yet already a century before Weickmann and more than two centuries before t...

The HermesWiki project is a semantic wiki application on Ancient Greek History. As an e-learning platform, it aims at providing students effective access to concise and reliable domain knowledge, that is especially important for exam preparation. In this paper, we show how semantic technologies introduce new methods of learning by supporting teache...

Machiavelli and the OraniansFrom Montecuccoli to ClausewitzThe Impact of IndustrializationCaesar at Military AcademiesConclusion Notes

ber die Datierung der vierten Rede des Themistius sowie ihr zeitliches Verhältnis zur dritten Rede besteht in der Forschung keine Einigkeit. Verschiedene Termine zwischen dem Winter 355/356 und dem Winter 358/359 sind dabei vorgeschlagen worden. An der nunmehr fast einhundert Jahre alten Diskussion fällt auf, daß die jeweils ins Feld geführten Argu...