Mark Herman
Mark Herman (born November 1954 in Brooklyn, New York) is a prolific wargame designer known as the designer of the first Campaign / Battle Card Driven wargame, We the People. He was also the CEO of Victory Games (I). He started working for SPI on September 1, 1976. Herman was a senior partner for Booz Allen Hamilton and was a leader in the fields of wargaming, modeling, simulation, strategic planning, and analysis…
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work. His 1983 design Gulf Strike, which covered the Iran-Iraq War and a US-led defense of Saudi Arabia, was used in the initial US analytic efforts at the beginning of the Gulf War in August 1990. Herman, along with Booz Allen Principals Mark Frost and Robert Kurz, are co-authors of Wargaming for Leaders: Strategic Decision Making from the Battlefield to the Boardroom (McGraw-Hill, December 2008). He has also co-authored books on military history and a number of strategy articles on robotic and cyber warfare. He has been an adjunct professor teaching military strategy and analytic methods for Georgetown University and has also taught and lectured for the U.S. Naval War College and the University of Maryland. His father was a frogman in the U.S. Navy. His brother also served in the U.S. Navy. Mark Herman holds a bachelor's degree in history from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a master's degree in national security studies from Georgetown University. He also runs the building for the Marshall Chess Club in Greenwich Village in New York City. The Marshall Chess Club founded in 1915 by a group of players led by Frank Marshall is the second oldest chess club in the United States. Awards Charles S. Roberts Award for Best Pre-World War II Boardgame for For the People Charles S. Roberts Award for Best World War II Boardgame for Empire of the Sun: The Pacific War 1941-1945 with Stephen Newberg 1991 Charles S. Roberts Hall of Fame Award. 1998 James F. Dunnigan Award for Playability and Design at Origins '99. two Booz Allen Hamilton Professional Excellence Awards Abridged List of Notable Games 1979 John Carter: Warlord of Mars 1983 Gulf Strike 1985 Pacific War: The Struggle Against Japan 1941-1945 1992 SPQR with Richard H. Berg 1994 We the People 1998 For the People 2003 The Great Battles of Alexander: Deluxe Edition with Richard H. Berg 2005 Empire of the Sun: The Pacific War 1941-1945 2010 Washington's War ConsimWorld webpage: http://social.consimworld.com/profile/MarkHerman He was interviewed in episode 14 of the podcast Point 2 Point: http://point2pointsource.com/xoops/modules/news/article.php?storyid=50 Microbadges
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