NYMAS WORKING DRAFT CALENDAR
Last updated on  March 11, 2020 07:39 PM

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NYMAS talks are free and open to the public.

NYMAS has been supported in part by grants from the
 New York Council for the Humanities and the Society for Military History

Old version of this list of proposed speakers is here.

These talks are usually held on Friday evenings at
The Soldiers', Sailors', Marines', Coast Guard and Airmens' Club 
283 Lexington Avenue (between 36th and 37th Streets)
New York, NY 10016-3540
from 7:00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. These Friday lectures are usually held on the 2nd floor in the historic South Lounge.


 NYMAS is associated with the Society for Military History, Region 2.

Topics and speakers may be subject to change without notice. A current updated schedule is always available at this website (http//:nymas.org)

 

Fall, 2020
NYMAS Working Draft Calendar

Fridays 7 pm to 8:45 pm

Date

Topic

Speaker

Affiliation

Date set w/speaker?

Sponsor/
Contact

Sept. 11     
Sept. 25     
Oct. 9     
Oct. 23America’s Buried History: Landmines in the Civil WarKenneth RutherfordJames Madison University  RR, Savas Beatie - Sarah
Nov. 6     
Nov. 20     
Dec. 4     

 


 

 

Winter- Spring, 2020
NYMAS Working Draft Calendar

Fridays 7 pm to 8:45 pm

Date

Topic

Speaker

Affiliation

Date set w/speaker?

Sponsor/
Contact

Jan 10

The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947Daniel Kurtz-PhelanCouncil on Foreign Relatins
Managing Editor of Foreign Affairs
yesRR, Benn Steil
Jan 24

 

Dangerous Melodies: Classical Music in America from the Great War through the Cold WarJonathan RosenbergHunter College and the
CUNY Graduate Center
yesRR, Kyle Radler, Norton

Feb 7

 

Winning a Future War: War Gaming and Victory in the Pacific Norman FriedmanAuthor, Lecturer, Defense AnalystyesJT, RR

Feb 21

Futile Exercise? The British Army’s Preparations for War, 1902-1914

Simon Batten

UK, 2018 NYMAS
Book Award winner

yes

RR, Casemate:
Ryan Lindsay

Mar 6

Tower of Skulls:
A History of the Asia-Pacific War, July 1937-May 1942
Richard B. FrankAuthoryesRR

Mar 20

War and Conflict in the Middle Ages: A Global PerspectiveStephen MorilloU.S. Military Academy
at West Point
yesRR, SW
Apr 3Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for his EmpireJames RommBard CollegeyesJT

Apr 17

Globalizing World War II, 1931-1953Andrew BuchananUniversity of VermontyesRR

May 1

Crushing the Reich: American and Allied Operations from Normandy to the Rhine, 1944-45

Stanley Carpenter

US  Naval War College

yes

RR

May 15

Strategies of WW2 Jeremy BlackAuthor/LectureryesRR

May 29

The CIA and the Tet OffensiveJohn PradosThe National Security ArchiveyesRR

Jun 12

Civil War Logistics: A Study of Military TransportationEarl J. HessStewart W. McClelland Chair in History 
Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tenn
yesRR

 


 

Suggested topics and speakers
without scheduled dates
as of Wednesday March 11, 2020 07:39 PM

Suggested topics and speakers
without scheduled dates

Topic

Speaker

Affiliation

Sponsor/
Contact

Top Choices for 2020

Fall, 2020? Stalin III (subtitle?) Stephen Kotkin Princeton University Benn Steil

Novembers

The 1929 Sino-Soviet War: The War Nobody Knew

Col. Michael M. Walker (ret.)

Idaho Military History Museum

RR, Book Award

  Cold Warriors: Writers Who Waged the Literary Cold War Duncan White Harvard University Benn Steil
         
  Killing for the Republic: Citizen-Soldiers and the Roman Way of War

(also co-author of Philosophers on War)

Steele Brand
Assistant Professor of History
 

 

The King’s College RR, JT
John D. Moore
Publicist, Johns Hopkins University Press
  On Cyber War
 
Jason Healey
jh3639@columbia.edu
School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University / Director, Cyber Statecraft Initiative, Atlantic Council / Benn Steil.
Adam Segal
 
not Fridays The Hacked World Order: How Nations Fight, Trade, Maneuver, and Manipulate in the Digital Age Adam Segal Ira A. Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies and National Security and Director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program of the Council on Foreign Relations Benn Steil
  The Cost of Loyalty: Dishonesty, Hubris and Failure in the U.S. Military Tim Bakken U.S. Military Academy
at West Point
AS, RR
  All Hell Breaking Loose:
The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change
 Michael Klare Hampshire College (Amherst, Massachusetts) JT, RR
  America’s Buried History: Landmines in the Civil War
Kenneth Rutherford
James Madison University RR, Savas Beatie - Sarah
 
Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Arab Military Effectiveness
Kenneth M. Pollack

 

 

American Enterprise Institute JT, RR
  The Age of Illusions:
How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory
Andrew J. Bacevich Boston University RR (refused once)
 

War in eastern Ukraine

 

 

Col. Robert Hamilton (US Army, Ret) US Army War College,
FPRI
RR, DC
  The Management of Savagery Max Blumenthal   RR, AS, MR
  German Missiles of WWII

or

Air Campaign: Ploesti

or

Duel: Panzerfaust vs Sherman Tank

or

Smashing Hitler’s Panzers

Steven Zaloga

 

Author / former NYMAS Boardmember RR

The Heidelberg Myth: The Nazification and Denazification of a German University

-or-

" 'Small Wars' as the First World War: Reconsidering the 'Great War'."

Steven P. Remy

Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York

RR, DG

Jan – March
2020

Environmental Impacts on Regional Security from Climate Change

 

Drones and Cyber Warfare in Africa

Lt. Col. John P. Ringquist

US Army United States Africa Command

RR

Government Issue: The Material Culture of the Red Army 1941-1945

Brandon Schechter

NYU
Elihu Rose Scholar in Modern Military History

RR

2020

The Battleship Yamato: Beyond the Fog of War?

John Prados

The National Security Archive

RR

Confederate Monument Controversies

Christy Coleman

CEO. The American Civil War Museum

RR

  Sand and Steel: The D-Day Invasion and the Liberation of France Peter Caddick-Adams Centre for International Security & Resilience at Cranfield University UK Bobby Wintermute, Queens College

Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War II

The Fear and the Freedom: How the Second World War Changed Us

Keith Lowe

Author (in UK)

RR

Redefining the Modern Military: The Intersection of Profession and Ethics

Tyrell O. Mayfield and Nathan K. Finney

USAF
US Army

RR, Vanya Eftimova Bellinger

 

Glenn F. Williams, Ph.D.

Author

RR

Thorstein Veblen and Henry George on War, Conflict, and the Military
by Jim Horner and John Martinez
or

Henry George's Perspective on War and Peace

Alanna Hartzok

Earth Rights Institute in Harrisburg PA)

RR, HGSSS


Gettysburg's Bloody Wheatfield

Jay Jorgensen

in NJ / Judge

RR, AW

Strategy and Strategic Planning in the Middle Ages:
The Conquest of Wales by Edward I

Clifford J. Rogers

U.S. Military Academy
at West Point

RR, SW

Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation.

Caroline Janney

Director, University of Virginia Civil War Center

RR

  The Secret History of RDX: The Super-Explosive that Helped Win World War II
Colin F. Baxter
Professor Emeritus of History
 

 

East Tennessee State University RR

Today’s Wars Are Based on a Fundamental Misunderstanding of History

-or-

The Left Needs to Stop Crushing on the Generals

Danny Sjursen

RR, MR

also as Fill in

Strangers in a Strange Land: A Belgian Armored Car Detachment on the Russian Front in World War I‘I’ and ‘Strangers in a Strange Land: The Belgian Armored Expeditionary Corps on the Russian Front in World War I’.

Paul V. Walsh

NYMAS

RR

also as Fill in

II Italian Corp in the Second Battle of the Marne, 1918 Italian Forces on the Western Front in World War

Paul V. Walsh

NYMAS

RR

also as Fill in

The Best the Navy Had to Offer: Biographies of Admiral Dewey's Staff at the Battle of Manila

Jason McDonald

NYMAS

RR

The Backwash of War: An Extraordinary American Nurse
in World War I

Cynthia Wachtell

Research Associate Professor of American Studies & Director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program 
Yeshiva University

RR

America's Needless Wars, Cautionary Tales of US Involvement in the Philippines, Vietnam and Iraq
David R. Contosta Chestnut Hill College Lawrence Stelter

1)  Crushing the Reich: American and Allied Operations from Normandy to the Rhine, 1944-45


2) Crushing Japan: The U.S. Navy in the final year of World War II

 

3) The Rise and Fall of the Austro-Hungarian Navy, 1900-18

 

4) A Forgotten Front: War in the Adriatic, 1914-18

 

5) The Air War, 1914-18

 

6) The Desert War: The British Empire against the Ottomans, 1915-18

Stanley Carpenter

US  Naval War College

RR

         

TR's Last War: Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Tragedy

David Pietrusza

Author

RR, AW

Redefining the Modern Military: The Intersection of Profession and Ethics

Tyrell O. Mayfield and Nathan K. Finney

USAF
US Army

RR, Vanya Eftimova Bellinger

Unlikely General: Mad Anthony Wayne and the Battle for America

Dr. Mary Stockwell

Confederate Monument Controversies

►►Christy Coleman

CEO. The American Civil War Museum

RR

The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age

David Sanger

NY Times

RR

2019

The Evacuation of Vietnamese after the Fall of Saigon

Jan Herman

Former Medical Historian of the Navy.

RR, Dr. Steve Lomazov

I am Become Death, Destroyer of Worlds

Hamish Lutris

Capital Community College (CI)

RR, FL

The Cold War’s Killing Fields

Paul Thomas Chamberlin (Hang's husband)

Columbia University

RR, AS

A Global History of Fortifications including 20th Century and Gated Communities 
-or-

Land Warfare since 1860
-or-

Causes of War
-or-

The Long War 1914-45
-or-

A Brief History of Italy

Jeremy Black

MBE,  University of Exeter

RR

Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power -or-

Steve Coll

Dean, Columbia Journalism School

RR, Judith Matloff

The Soul of Armies: Counterinsurgency Doctrine and Military Culture in the US and UK

Austin Long

Columbia, Saltzman Institute, Rand,

RR, RL

The End of MAD? The Nuclear Dimension of U.S. Primacy.

Keir A. Lieber /or Daryl G. Press.

Notre Dame /
University of Pennsylvania

RR, RL

June??


History of Normandy | D-Day topics

Nigel Stewart

Tour guide / Lecturer

RR, Bob Bulko

In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives Hardcover – September 20, 2016


Kenneth Davis, More Deadly Than War: The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War


Kenneth C. Davis

Author

RR

In DC 2018

US Army relations with native Americans in the 19th Century

John W. Hall

University of Wisconsin

RR, Alfred McCoy

Civil War Logistics: A Study of Military Transportation

Earl J. Hess

Lincoln Memorial University, Tenn.

RR

2019

"Civilized Soldiers": African-American and Native-American Service in the United States Army, 1890-1914

CPT David Krueger

U.S. Military Academy
at West Point

RR, sw

The Red Cross, Daughters of the American Revolution, and the Origins of the Army Nurse Corps in the Spanish-American War

CPT David Krueger

U.S. Military Academy
at West Point

RR

Black, Frederick H LTC MIL USA USMA <Frederick.Black@usma.edu>
  Napoleonic
 
 Chang, Adam CPT MIL USA USMA <Adam.Chang@usma.edu>;
  Falkenhayn in China (Boxers)
 
 Collins, Devon C CPT MIL USA USMA <Devon.Collins@usma.edu>;
  WWI POWs
 
 Danley, Mark H CIV USA USMA <Mark.Danley@usma.edu>;
  British warfare in India during American Revolution
 
 Gatzemeyer Garrett T MAJ MIL USA USMA <Garrett.Gatzemeyer@usma.edu>;
 Army physical training, 1890-1960
 
 Geheran, Michael J CIV USA USMA <Michael.Geheran@usma.edu>;
  Holocaust/genocide subjects
 
 Gibby, Bryan R COL MIL USA USMA <Bryan.Gibby@usma.edu>;
  Korean War
 
 Gioe, David V Dr. CIV USA USMA <David.Gioe@usma.edu>;
  intel, espionage
 
 Greene, Channing M LTC MIL USA USMA <Channing.Greene@usma.edu>;
  his topic for cadet senior theses is raids and Special Operations
 
 Krueger, David G CPT MIL USA USMA <David.Krueger@usma.edu>;
 U.S. ordnance and gunpowder production, 1790s-1830s
 
 Lambert, David W MAJ MIL USA USMA <David.Lambert@usma.edu>;


 Lovering, Richard S CPT MIL USA USMA <Richard.Lovering@usma.edu>;
Vietnam
 
 Mobbs, Michael H MAJ MIL USA USMA <Michael.Mobbs@usma.edu>;
military staff and decisionmaking processes
 
 Musteen, Jason COL MIL USA USMA <Jason.Musteen@usma.edu>;
 WWI memory, commemoration, literature // French Revolution and Napoleonic
 
 Rogers, Clifford J DR CIV USA USMA <Clifford.Rogers@usma.edu>;
 
 Sculley, Seanegan P LTC MIL USA USMA <Seanegan.Sculley@usma.edu>;
 leadership, motivation, discipline, recruiting, and morale,
in the colonial militias and the Continental Army
 
 Stapleton, John DR CIV USA USMA <John.Stapleton@usma.edu>;
sieges and logistics in the wars of the age of Louis XIV
 
 Villanueva, James A CPT MIL USA USMA <James.Villanueva@usma.edu>;
 Filipino guerrillas vs. the Japanese, U.S. aid and coordination for the guerrillas

2018

Interpretations of the US Army's Fighting Ability in World War II in NW Europe

MAJ Greg Hope

U.S. Military Academy
at West Point

SW, RR

2019?

Violence and Sex: A Cultural History of War

Eugenia Kiesling

U.S. Military Academy
at West Point

RR

Mao

Thomas Nimick

U.S. Military Academy
at West Point

RR, mk

Nelson’s Refuge: Gibraltar in the Age of Napoleon

LTC Jason Musteen

U.S. Military Academy at West Point

RR via Cliff Rogers

Jackson's Valley Campaign

Major Paul Belmont

United States Military Academy at West Point

SW, RR

The Siege of Fort Erie in 1814

Samuel Watson

U.S. Military Academy at West Point

RR

2018

Strategic Ambiguity in the American
Military Government of Cuba, 1899

MAJ Mark Askew

U.S. Military Academy
at West Point

SW, RR

Domestic Politics, Interservice Impasse, and Japan's Decisions for War

Michael Barnhart

SUNY Stony Brook

RR, Rory via Mark Herman

2020

Philip II and Alexander the Great

or

Hadrian's Wall

Adrian Goldsworthy

Historian and Author

RR

The Wehrmacht's Last Stand: The German Campaigns of 1944-1945

Robert M. Citino

The National WWII Museum Senior Historian

RR, JT

1914: History of the Descent into War.

Gerald Protheroe

Browning School

RR, Linda Meyers

On the Brink of War and Revolution

William Englund

Washington Post (?)

RR, Linda Meyers


My Lai: Vietnam, 1968, and the Descent into Darkness

Howard Jones

University of Alabama

RR

The Trade: My Journey through the Labyrinth of Political Kidnapping

Jere Van Dyk

CBS News

RR, Judith Matloff

The Constellation's Errand of Mercy to Ireland in 1880

Harvey Strum

Sage College of Albany

RR

Who Won The Cold War?

Thomas F. Berner

Strategic Studies Institute Newsletter, U.S. Army War College

RR, via Hart Island history

"Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans"
Admiral Stavridis' new book is Sailing True North

ADM James Stavridis, USN (ret.)

Tufts University

Frank Luberti, RR

The Good Occupation: American Soldiers and the Hazards of Peace

Susan L. Carruthers

Rutgers University–Newark - returned to UK.

RR

Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?... or North Korea


Graham Allison

The John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University

RR

Fall, 2018 ?

George Washington’s America: A Biography Through His Maps

Emancipation and Its Enemies: The Legacy of the Civil War Draft Riots

The Exclusion of Blacks from the New York City Funeral Procession for Lincoln in April 1865

Barney Schecter

Historian & author

from UK

Ardennes 1944

Antony Beevor

Cambridge University Press

RR

US History I and II, Colonial and Revolutionary America, The Early Republic (American 1787-1830), Pirates and the Atlantic World, NJ History

Jonathan Mercantini

Kean University

C Warren

Vietnam

Wyatt Evans

Drew University

C Warren

Irish Civil War or American Civil War

William Rogers

Drew University

C Warren

Mark Bowden

Dunmore's War: Last Conflict of America's Colonial Era

Glenn F. Williams

U.S. Army Center of Military History

RR

Henry Lloyd and the Military Enlightenment of Eighteenth- Century Europe

Patrick Speelman

U.S. Merchant Marine Academy

RR

Operation Nemesis: The Secret Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide

Eric Bogosian

Historian, actor
(Speakers Bureau)

AW, RR

Breaking Iraq: The Ten Mistakes That Broke Iraq

Andrew Flibbert

Trinity College, Hartford

RR

Shoot Like a Girl:
One Woman’s Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front

MAJ Mary Jennings Hegar

Author (Austin, TX)

RR

The Future of War
-or-
 Tales from the Pentagon

Rosa Brooks

Georgetown University Law Center

RR

Alligators in the Moat: Politics and the Mexican Border

Martin Scott Catino

Air University

RR

Sevastopol’s Wars: Crimea from Potemkin to Putin

-or-

Manstein

Maj General(Ret.) Mungo  Melvin CB OBE

Author

RR, Christian Waters at Osprey

A Great Place to Have a War: America in Laos and the Birth of a Military CIA

Joshua Kurlantzick

Council on Foreign Relations

AS, RR

The Battle of Caporetto

Brian Sullivan

NYMAS

RR

2018?

Lawrence of Arabia's War: The Arabs, the British and the Remaking of the Middle East in WWI

Neil Faulkner

University of Bristol

DD, RR

Our Germans: Project Paperclip and the National Security State /Werner von Braun

Brian Crim

Lynchburg College

TC, RR

To Kill Nations: American Strategy in the Air-Atomic Age and the Rise of Mutually Assured Destruction

Gates Brown

US Army Command and General Staff College.

RR

David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War

-or-

Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

Fred Kaplan

Slate Magazine

RR

Spectral Soldiers: Domestic Propaganda, Visual Culture, and

Images of Death on the World War II Home Front

James J. Kimble

Seton Hall University

RR

Worse than War

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

Author

RR, Jason McDonald

Przemyśl, Galicia: A Garrison Town Before, During, Between, and After War (1873-1953)

John Fahey

U.S. Military Academy at West Point

RR, SW

The Smell of Battle, the Taste of Siege: A Sensory History of the Civil War / How the Civil War transformed taste

Mark M. Smith

University of South Carolina

RR

Unceasing Strife, Unending Fear: Jacques de Thérines and the Freedom of the Church in the Age of the Last Capetians

John Haldon

Princeton University

RR

Myths of American Armor

Nicholas Moran

Historian

RR, Jason McDonald

Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare

-or-

Targeting: The Challenges of Modern Warfare

Michael N. Schmitt

Naval War College

RR; Rick Solomon

Women and War in the Twentieth Century: Enlisted with or Without Consent

-or-

France under Fire
German Invasion, Civilian Flight and Family Survival during World War II

Nicole Dombrowski Risser

Towson University, Maryland

RR

Defeating ISIS

Malcolm Nance

The Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics & Radical Ideology

RR, AW

The Unraveling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq

Emma Sky

The Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University

RR, John Cartafalsa

The Untold Story of Reconstruction

Gene Dattel

Author

RR, spoke at CWFMNY

War Plan Red: The United States’ Secret Plan to Invade Canada and Canada’s Secret Plan to Invade the United States

Kevin Lippert

Princeton Architectural Press

RR

Saipan: The Japanese Truths

Ted Cook

NYMAS,  William Paterson University

RR

Black April: The Fall of South Vietnam, 1973-75

George J. Veith

Author

RM

Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War

David F. Schmitz

Whitman College

RM

Operation Whisper: The Capture of Soviet Spies Morris and Lona Cohen

Barnes Carr

RM

Ethics and Cyber Warfare

George Lucas

University of Notre Dame

RR, Oxford

Drones: What Everyone Needs to Know

Sarah E. Kreps

Cornell University

RR, Oxford

Waging Insurgent Warfare

Seth G. Jones

RAND Corporation, Johns Hopkins University

RR, Oxford

Playing to the Edge:

American Intelligence in the Age of Terror

General Michael Hayden (ret.)

former Director of the National Security Agency

RM, JT

Israeli Military Intelligence

Samuel M. Katz

Journalist

RM

Post Cold War Peace and Stability Operations around the World

Lee Windsor

Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society, University of New Brunswick

RR

Inferno or The Secret War

Max Hastings

Journalist

RR

Amiable Scoundrel: Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War

Paul Kahan

Author

RR

The Trajectory of Nazi War Propaganda: 1939-1945

-or-

Nazi anti-Semitic Propaganda

Randall Bytwerk

Calvin College

RR

ISIS in West Africa as well as intelligence-related topics

Major John Ringquist

U.S. Military Academy at West Point

RR

D-Day in History and Memory

Michael Dolski

U.S. Joint POW/MIA Command

RR, David Ulbrich

'Twixt the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Hydrography, Sea Power, and the Marine Environment, 1898-1901

Jason Smith

US Naval Academy at Annapolis

RR, David Ulbrich

Russia and the Strategic Challenges for the United States and its Allies.

Samuel Charap

Center for American Progress

RM

Fall 2016

Moving the Mountains: Culture & Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan

Aaron O'Connell

US Naval Academy at Annapolis

RR

Imperial Grunts: The American Military On The Ground

Robert D. Kaplan

Center for a New American Security

RM

Ships of State: Battleships from HMS Victoria to RFS Pyotr Velikiy -or-
Patents for Power: Intellectual Property and Military Diffusion

Robert Farley

University of Kentucky

RR

Geopolitics and the Quest for Dominance

George III: America’s Last King

Jeremy Black

MBE,  University of Exeter

RR, RM

The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East

Eugene Rogan

Oxford University

RM

The USS Edsall vs. Nagumo's Fleet in the Java Sea, 1942

-or-

Flying Landing Crafts: The US Marine Corps Glider Program in WWII

Tom Wisker

NYMAS Board

RR

Martial Bliss or Defend The Valley: A Shenandoah Family in the Civil War

Margaretta Barton Colt

Author

RM

The Last Classic War

Richard N. Haass

President of the Council on Foreign Relations

RM

The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order

Sean McFate

Georgetown University

RR

The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World

Holger Herwig

University of Calgary

DD, RD

The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire

Andrew J. O'Shaughnessey

University of Virginia

RM

Loathing Lincoln: An American Tradition from the Civil War to the Present

John McKee Barr

Lone Star College, Kingwood, TX

RR

The Right Way to Lose a War: America in an Age of Unwinnable Conflicts

Domininc Tierney

Swarthmore College
dtierne1@swarthmore.edu

RR

Spring 2016

Winter Warfare against American Indians

Albert Winkler

Brigham Young University

RR

Mobilizing the Home Front: War Bonds & Domestic Propaganda

James J. Kimble

Seton Hall University

RR

Making Peace with War -or- Afterwar -or- Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy Behind the Military Mind

Nancy Sherman

Georgetown University

RR

May, 2016

1) the invasion of Egypt and the 
British counteroffensive into Cyrenacia, Sept 1940-Feb. 1941;  2) the 
tragi-comic Italian participation in the Battle of Britain, Sept 
1940-Jan 1941; 3) The invasion of Greece and the subsequent Italian 
disaster,Oct 1940-March 1941; the East African Campaign, Jan-Nov. 1941; 
5) Matapan. March 1941.

Brian Sullivan

Former NYMAS president

RM, RR

Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis

-or-

Germany Unified and Europe Transformed

Philip D. Zelikow

University of Virginia

RM

Ardennes 1944

Antony Beevor

Cambridge University Press

RR

United We Stand Magazine Campaign in WW2

Steve Lomazov

Collector

RR

For Liberty and the Republic:The American Citizen as Soldier, 1775-1861

Rick Herrera

US Army Command and General Staff College

RR

Jefferson Davis

James McPherson

RR

The Tragedy of the American Military

James Fallows

Journalist

RR

The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered

Laura Auricchio

Chair of Humanities, The New School

RM

Gen. George C. Marshall and the Development of a Professional Military Ethic

Josiah Bunting III

The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

RR

Cassandra in Oz: Observations on the Long War

Conrad Crane

Army War College

RR from SMH

Fall 2015

Danish Participation in the Waffen SS and Connected War Crimes

Jonathan Beard

Michigan War Studies Review

RR

US-Iran Relations: Miscommunication and False Starts

Colonel David Crist

Senior Advisor to the Commander of US CENTCOM

RR, Don Stoker

Krushchev's and Putin's Cold Wars

Timothy Naftali

NYU

RM, RR

Ukraine and Crimea

Serhii Plokhy

Harvard University

RM

D-Day Deception Ops / WWII black, undercover / Kursk

Mary Katherine Barbier

Mississippi State

RC

The Way of the Knife
The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth

Mark Mazzetti

NY Times

RR

The Irish Brigade / Civil War Dairies

Susannah Ural

University of Southern Mississippi

RC

Women in the Vietnam War

Heather Stur

University of Southern Mississippi

RC

Quicksand: America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East

Franco-Prussian War

Austro-Prussian War Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792-1914

Dr. Geoffrey Wawro
Director, at wawro@unt.edu

Director of The Military History Center at the University of North Texas

RC, RM

Conquering the American Wilderness: European Warfare in the Colonial Northeast / Piracy and Atlantic History

Guy Chet

University of North Texas

RC

ARVN: Vietnam’s Forgotten Army / Boys of '67

Andy Wiest

University of North Texas

RC

Fri/Sat Conference?

In the Wake of Iraq and Afghanistan...

Paul Rieckhoff

Brandon Friedman

Loree K. Sutton, M.D,

Kayla Williams

others

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America

VetVoice

 

NYU

Verbatim Lecture Management

RR

Spring '15 -- The Fall of Napoleon and the Restructuring of Europe (it's Waterloo + 200)

 

Fall '15 -- Wars of Unification

AN

Fri/Sat Conference?

Fall, 2015

Mid-19th Century Wars of Unification:-- Italy, Germany, Japan (and the American War Between the States)

Al Nofi

Ted Cook,

Mark Ravena

NYMAS,

Paterson University


Emory University

TC, AN

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Steven Pinker

Harvard University

RR

Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of the Vietnam War, 1950-
1963

-or-

The Universe Unraveling: American Foreign Policy in Cold War Laos

Seth Jacobs

Boston College

RM

Lost Victories: The Military Genius of Stonewall Jackson (2004)
How America Got It Right: The U.S. March to Military and Political Supremacy (2006)

Bevin Alexander

Longwood University

RR

Plutopia: Nuclear Families in Atomic Cities and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters

Kate Brown

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

RR

U.S. Marines in the Banana Wars

-or-

Afghanistan

Aaron O'Connell

United States Naval Academy at Annapolis

RR

Benedict Arnold in the Company of Heroes

Arthur Lefkowitz

Independent Researcher

RR

NYC in the War of 1812

Kathleen Huslar

The New School

RR

Deserter: the Last Untold Story of the Second World War

Charles Glass

at charlesglassbooks
@gmail.com

RR

A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism

Daniel Byman

Georgetown University, The Brookings
Institute

RM

MacArthur at War

-or-

The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy and King

Walter Borneman

Colorado?

RM

How I Discovered the Greatest Spy of World War II and Other Stories of Intelligence and Code

David Kahn

Author

RR

Bolivar the Liberator

Marie Arana

RM

War of Resistance Continued - The Taierzhuang/Xuzhou Campaigns, January-May 1938 (75 years ago)

Ed Chen

NYMAS

RR

The Argentine–Brazilian War 1825-28

Paul V. Walsh

Author

RR

How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War

Prof. Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu

Michigan State University

RR

Napoleonic Battle Tactics

Alexander Stavropoulos

NYMAS

RR

My Fault:

Mussolini as I Knew Him

by Margherita Sarfatti

Brian Sullivan

Former NYMAS President and Research Professor at National Defense University

RM

Hitler's Plans for World Domination: Nazi Architecture and Ultimate War Aims

Jochen Thies

Author

RR

Forts in 17th -18th centuries

Victoria Sanger

Columbia University

RM, RR

Pro-Union Sentiment in the South


For God and Their Countries: Two Catholic Bishops during the Civil War

Jim Morgan

Loudoun County (Va.) Civil War Round Table.

RR,
co-ordinate CWFMNY?
$$?

The US Armed Forces in Post-Armistice Korea

Michael F. Davino

The Second Indianhead Division Association

RR

Film & Photography of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Jason McDonald

NYMAS

RR

Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War

Jean-Louis Cohen

Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

AW

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning /or/ What Every Person Should Know About War

Chris Hedges

The Nation Institute

RR

The Real Pappy Boyington and the Black Sheep Squadron

Bruce Gamble

Author

RR

The Defense Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury

Brigadier General Loree K. Sutton, M.D (Ret.)

NYU

RR

The Yalta Papers

Josh Botts

Historian at the U.S. Department of State

RR

Railways in Vietnam in the Wake of WWII

David Gordon

CUNY Grad Center

RR, DG

Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam

Fred A. Wilcox

Ithaca College.

RR

Last Man in Spandau

Thomas Lipscomb

Annenberg Center for the Digital Future

RR,

The Warrior Ethos

Stephen Pressfield

Author

RR

Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath

Michael and Elizabeth M. Norman

NYU

RR,

Jason McDonald

French Strategic Bombing in WW1

Steve Suddaby

WW1 Historical Association

Jeff Milman

The European and North African origins of the rifle musket (Minié) and its effects on military tactics prior to and during the Civil War. see email

Brent Nosworthy

Author

Louis G.

James Earl Rudder and the Attack on Pointe du Hoc

Thomas M. Hatfield

Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin

RR

Changing Perceptions of the War of 1812

Harold W. Youmans

Co-Editor,Journal of the War of 1812

RR

SW

Navy Medicine in Vietnam


Jan K. Herman

Historian of the Navy Medical Department, curator of the old U.S. Naval Observatory, and editor-in-chief of Navy Medicine

RR

Steve L.

Ancient or Medieval Warfare

from John Shean

JS

Adak, the Rescue of Alfa Foxtrot 586, 2003) or the second (Sailors In The Holy Land: The 1848 American Expedition To The Dead Sea and The Search For Sodom and Gomorrah , 2005).

A. Jampoler

RR

Development of German ‘V-weapons’ in World War II;

The history and development of PT boats

Philip J. Gioia

Presidio of San Francisco

RR

The Royal Navy in the Mediterranean
1914-1918

Paul Halpern

Florida State
University

DD

Hanging Captain Gordon The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader-or- Major Robert Rogers in The French And Indian Wars

Ron Soodalter

Abraham Lincoln Institute,

Civil War Times magazine

Rob Gagnon?

Top Secret America: A Look at the Military’s Joint Special Operations Command

Dana Priest

Washington Post

RR

Chronicles of the Soviet Bear Bomber in the Cold War

Miguel Vargas-Caba

Author

RR, check TW

Engineering Communism:
How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley

Steven T. Usdin

The Weekly Standard

RM

State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration.

James Risen

New York Times

RM

The Brother: The Untold Story of the Rosenberg Case

Sam Roberts

New York Times

RM

The Gothic Line,
1944-45

Robert Miller

Enigma Books

RM

 

 

 

Talks listed on this working schedule may be subject to final approval of the NYMAS Board of Directors.


Older suggested topics and speakers
without scheduled dates

 

Topic

Speaker

Affiliation

Sponsor/
Contact

 

The Fall of Madero

Jim Dingeman

NYMAS / INN

RR

Mid-War Strategy and Opinion in Walt Disney's "Victory through Airpower"

Bob Rowen

NYMAS

RR

The End of WW2 and the Dutch Resistance

Jennifer Foray

Columbia Univ.

EF

Updated Wednesday November 18, 2015 07:31 PM

 

 

 

 

 

NYMAS talks are free and open to the public.

They are usually held on alternate Friday evenings at
The Soldiers', Sailors', Marines', Coast Guard and Airmens' Club
283 Lexington Avenue (between 36th and 37th Streets)
New York, NY 10016-3540


from 7:00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. These Friday lectures are usually held on the 2nd floor in either the North or South Lounge as posted by the staircase.

NYMAS is associated with the Society for Military History, Region 2.

Topics and speakers may be subject to change without notice. A current updated schedule is always available at this website (http//:nymas.org)

 

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