Jacob Ganz is the Program Manager for the Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative at the Hoover Institution. His research focuses on the history of wargames and their present-day influences on American foreign policy. Ganz wrote his master’s dissertation on the 1964 Sigma Wargames and their impact on the Vietnam War decision-making process.
Ganz holds an MA/MSc in international and world history from Columbia University and the London School of Economics. He graduated with a BA from the University of California, Davis, where he received highest honors for his thesis on the history of the Phil Burton-Willie Brown political machine.
