2020 Connections Wargaming Award

“One of the real pleasures I have at connections is the caliber of people I get to introduce, and I think I've never been quite so pleased as I am now to be introducing Dr. Phil Sabin. He was one of the very first international participants at Connections and he is now the first non-US recipient of the coveted connections lifetime achievement award.

Many people have attested that Phil has earned this award. Phil’s leadership was critical to the creation and ongoing success of the first non-US Connections Wargaming Conference, Connections UK, supported by King’s College London University. He was the single person most responsible for making wargaming an established tool within the British Military and more broadly the British Government, and was a critical force behind the creation of the UK MoD Wargaming Handbook and Doctrine. His research, publications and teaching has established wargaming as a respectable field of scholarship with global reach.

Phil, thank you for all that you have done for the professional wargaming community. It is with great pleasure that I award you the 2020 Connections Wargaming Achievement Award!”

-- Matthew Caffrey