About Me

Wargamer and wargame designer who has designed and run wargames for the Baltic Defence College, Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, the King’s College Centre for Grand Strategy, Freeman Air and Space Institute, and NATO

Ph.D. student in the Department of War Studies at Kings College London and member of the Kings Wargaming Network

Interested in the future of conflict, China, seapower, and undersea cables

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Presentations

Presentations at Professional Meetings

My Portfolio

Games

Jaws of the Dragon (2025) – A brigade level wargame of a US-China war happening tomorrow.

Keep It Moving! (2024) – A simple solitaire game on sustaining operational momentum. It is intended to foster a discussion of what variables affect operational momentum and what effects those variables have.

Hex Encounters (2024) – An introduction to hex and counter wargames designed to be the simplest possible game that can include all of the standard features of a hex and counter wargame

We Must Tell the President! (2023) – A short educational solitaire game about a war between the US and China over Taiwan tomorrow

Red Seas Rising 2050 (2023) – A matrix game on the next 25 years in Asia

Ebola in the DRC (2022) – A short, simple game of an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Fiber Fighting (2022) – A game about undersea cables in a war between the US and China

Twilight in Taiwan (2022) – A crisis simulation game about tensions between China and Taiwan

Paratas Precipice (2022) – An educational game about tensions between China and Taiwan

Giants in the Greenhouse (2021) – A game of climate negotiations

Under the Sea (2021) – A game on China-Japan undersea mining environmental/border dispute

Time for Truth (2021) – A decision forcing game on grey zone operations in Estonia

A Sea of Fire (2021) – A matrix game of the 1996 Taiwan Strait crisis

A Woman’s Resolve (2020) – A game on Boudica’s revolt against the Romans in AD 60

Short Stories

Lifeblood (2019) – Speculative military fictional intelligence (FICINT) short story about countering Iranian naval swarm tactics with drones

Spasibo (2018) – Speculative military fictional intelligence (FICINT) short story about autonomous underwater vehicles defending a U.S. convoy against the Russians in a Third Battle of the Atlantic

Xiangliu (2017) – Speculative military fictional intelligence (FICINT) short story about a Chinese sneak attack against the U.S. Pacific Fleet

Contact Me

evan (dot) dalessandro (at) gmail (dot) com