Kevin Boylan
Kevin Boylan is prolific wargame designer/developer who has produced titles for Victory Games, GMT Games, Clash of Arms, and Avalon Hill, including 'We the People', the first card-driven wargame. Boylan is a professional military history professor who has taught at the University of Maine, the University of Wisconsin, and Temple University. He is the author of two groundbreaking books on the Vietnam War - 'Losing…
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Binh Dinh: The Failure of Pacification and Vietnamization, 1969-1971' and 'Valley of the Shadow: The Siege of Dien Bien Phu.' He has also published numerous military history articles in peer-reviewed journals, and is a two-time winner of the Society for Military History's Moncado Prize. Boylan also spent a dozen years performing military analysis for the U.S. Department of Defense, Director of Program Analysis and Evaluation (PA&E) and the Undersecretary for Acquisition Technology and Logistics (AT&L), as well as the U.S. Army Staff, War Plans Division. He produced a wide array of memoranda, briefings, reports, databases and other analytical products for the U.S. Congress, NATO, and the Coalition Provisional Authority, and directly participated in NATO diplomatic conferences in Washington and Brussels, Belgium. Kevin Boylan earned a bachelor's degree in history at Rutgers University (New Brunswick,NJ) and a Doctorate in History at Temple University (Philadelphia, PA) Wargames Designed/Developed • Carrier: The Southwest Pacific Campaign – 1942-1943 (Victory Games) • Flashpoint: Golan – The Fifth Arab-Israeli War (Victory Games) • The Peloponnesian War, 431-404 BC (Victory Games) • Across 5 Aprils (Victory Games) • We the People (Avalon Hill Game Co) • Six Days of Glory (Clash of Arms Games) • Victory in the West: Plan Yellow, The French Campaign 1940 (GMT Games) • Britain Stands Alone (GMT Games) • Invasion: Norway (GMT Games) • Clash of Sovereigns (GMT Games, in development)
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