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James F. Dunnigan (born August 8, 1943) is an author, military political analyst, Defense and State Department consultant, and wargame designer currently living in New York City.

Dunnigan was born in Rockland County, New York. After high school, he volunteered for the military instead of waiting to be drafted. From 1961 to 1964, he worked as a repair technician for the Sergeant ballistic missile; his service included a tour in Korea. Afterwards, he attended Pace University studying accounting, then transferred to Columbia University, graduating with a degree in history in 1970. In college he became involved in wargaming. He designed Jutland, which Avalon Hill published in 1967, following it up with 1914 the next year, and PanzerBlitz in 1970, which eventually sold more than 300,000 copies. Meanwhile, Dunnigan had founded his own company, initially known as Poultron Press, and which was soon renamed to Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI). Dunnigan created SPI to save the magazine Strategy & Tactics, which at that time was published by Chris Wagner. Between 1966 and 1992, he designed over 100 wargames and other conflict simulations, ranging from 1969's Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker about the student takeover at Columbia (which he witnessed as a bystander), to the gigantic War in Europe, to the online Hundred Years War with his long time partners Albert Nofi and Daniel Masterson, which has been running since 1992. In 1979, he wrote The Complete Wargames Handbook (first edition), and in 1980 How to Make War. With his partners from the Hundred Years War, Daniel Masterson and Albert Nofi, Dunnigan founded the online military news site StrategyPage in 1999, of which he is the editor in chief. Podcasts of his commentaries on history, military affairs, and the contemporary world are regularly posted on StrategyPage. Com and as at Instapundit. com

Dunnigan regularly lectures at military and academic institutions, such as the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group, in Newport, Rhode Island.

In 1975, Dunnigan was inducted into the Charles Roberts Awards Hall of Fame. In 1999 Pyramid magazine named him as one of the millennium's most influential persons "at least in the realm of adventure gaming". He was honored as a "famous game designer" by being featured on the king of diamonds in Flying Buffalo's 2008 Famous Game Designers Playing Card Deck.

(contributor) Wargame Design: The History, Production, and Use of Conflict Simulations, Simulations Publications, 1977. Foreword to H. G. Wells's Floor Games (Skirmisher, 2006)