Michael C. Markowitz

Expertise

• War game design, development, testing, evaluation and applications
• History of science and military technology
• Analytic graphics and cartography

Michael C. Markowitz has studied and written about military history for many years. He designed several published historical war games, including “Alexandros,” based on the campaigns of Alexander the Great (Charles Roberts Award for best pre-WWII board game) and “Supermarina,” on Italian Navy operations in WWII (1995 Special Achievement Award by the Game Manufacturers’ Association). His articles and reviews of games and books articles have appeared in a wide variety of industry and computer periodicals including China Quarterly, U.S. Naval Institute’s Proceedings and the Naval War College Review. He holds a California Community College lifetime teaching Credential and taught classes as adjunct faculty at Pepperdine University and Saddleback College.

Recent Work: Multi-year multi-site project for the Army TRADOC Analysis Center developing a series of war games to explore social and cultural factors in irregular warfare; ongoing projects to develop war games and complex analytic graphics, maps and diagrams for a wide variety of Navy, defense and government sponsors; invited speaker at the annual CONNECTIONS war gaming conference hosted by National Defense University.

Education: B.A. in History, University of Rochester, New York. M.A. in Social Ecology, UC, Irvine.

Languages: Latin, Russian

Publications of Interest:

• Organizing OPNAV (1970-2009). P. Swartz, M. Markowitz. 124 pp. CAB D0020997.A5/2Rev. Jan. 2010
• Conversations with Wargamers. P. Perla, M. Markowitz. 108pp. CRM D0019260.A2/Final Jan. 2009
• Wargaming Strategic Linkage. P. Perla, M. Markowitz. 124pp, CRM D0019256.A2/Final Jan. 2009
• Wargame Creation Skills and the Wargame Construction Kit. P. Perla, M. Markowitz. 112 pp. CRM D007042.A3/Final. Dec 2004