Nicholas Murray
Adjunct Lecturer
Wargame Designer and Instructor for the Strategic Thinkers Program
About
Nicholas Murray is the wargame designer and instructor for the Strategic Thinkers Program. He has designed and run hundreds of war and decision games. He is the author of four books, as well as a number of articles, and he is currently working on new translations of Clausewitz's writings, including On War. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal for Military History. He advises the OSD with policy regarding military education and wargaming, and he has received numerous awards including the OSD's highest medal: the Exceptional Public Service Award.
The Coalition Crumbles, Napoleon Returns: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 2. Translation with commentary of Vol. 6 of Clausewitz’s writings. University Press of Kansas, 2021.
Napoleon Absent, Coalition Ascendant: The 1799 Campaign in Italy and Switzerland, Volume 1. Translation with commentary of Vol. 5 of Clausewitz’s writings. University Press of Kansas, 2020.
Napoleon’s 1796 Italian Campaign. Translation with commentary of Vol. 4 of Clausewitz’s writings University Press of Kansas, 2018.
The Rocky Road to the Great War: The Evolution of Trench Warfare to 1914. Potomac Books Inc. (an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press), 2013.
“Geniuses Dare to Ride Their Luck: Clausewitz’s Card Game Analogies,” Parameters Journal 53, no. 2 (2023), DOI: 10.55540/0031-1723.3224.
“The Results of War are Never Final? Meditations on an American defeat (2022),” RUSI Journal 166, issue 5 (2022). DOI: 10.1080/03071847.2021.2022529. This was co-authored with Anand Toprani and Michael Dennis.