The Battle Research Group Foundation, Inc. – a U.S. nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) corporation registered in Virginia – is dedicated to improving collective understanding of modern warfare.
We conduct field research to build detailed battle narratives and holistic, map-driven military histories. We also manage the Ground Combat Database, teach and mentor student researchers.
On-the-ground, interview driven, military history field research on past and current battlefields, focused on building new empirical battle evidence
The Battle Research Group maintains the Ground Combat Database, a coded collection and analysis of nearly 600 combined-arms battle – 423 from the 2000s
Detailed, map-centered battlefield studies that tell a narrative story anchored to a timeline, order of battle and geometry of forces - driven by field evidence
We teach
Our experts provide classroom instruction focused on improving collective understanding of modern warfare, building student desk and field research capabilities, understanding regional crises, and we support syllabus and curriculum design.We mentor
Our experts help academic, military and other national security professionals to develop their research and writing capabilities, and to help them publish their works about war and modern conflict.We wargame and lead exercises
Our experts design, build and run tabletop exercises for academic, military and other national security professionals to help build understanding of modern warfare, explore historical cases, think through future scenarios and explore theories.