"Confrontation Analysis - Any Historical Users?" Topic

I have just been reading The Confrontation Analysis Handbook link and very interesting it was too. However, because it is a professional wargaming tool, all the examples associated with it seem to be near contemporary. I was wondering if anyone knew of any uses of it for historical analysis? Some subjects would seem to be ideal for this kind of thing: Napoleon in 1815 (and 1802,,1805, 1808, 1809, 1812, 1813 and 1814 for that matter!), 1919-1939, some parts of the Wars of the Roses and so on.

Whirlwind:

I considered getting the book, but when I read this, "This handbook aims to document the method and equip the reader to apply Confrontation Analysis as an operational analysis technique to structure through multi-party interactions such as negotiations."

I wasn't sure it was applicable except for multi-player games. How do you see it being used in wargames?

Third possible use occurred for hobby/recreational gaming: firstly, it looks quite a powerful but streamlined tool for gaming out political bits; secondly as a device for focusing committee games; thirdly, it looks a decent tool for evaluating strategies and perhaps seeing which strategic decisions were optimal and which weren't. I'm still very much dabbling in it, but on the face of it there is no reason why it couldn't be used 1-v-1 or solo.

In some ways, it looks a bit like matrix games; not that it uses the same techniques, but that it could be useful for the same sorts of things that they were used for.

I'll admit I didn't buy it for hobby gaming reasons, but reading through it made me think of certain historical situations, as I mentioned above, that it might make quite an interesting game out of.