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.
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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 | |||||
Date | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation | Date set w/speaker? | Sponsor/ |
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Sept. 25 | |||||
Oct. 9 | |||||
Oct. 23 | America’s Buried History: Landmines in the Civil War | Kenneth Rutherford | James 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 pmDate
Topic
Speaker
Affiliation
Date set w/speaker?
Sponsor/
ContactJan 10
The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947 Daniel Kurtz-Phelan Council on Foreign Relatins
Managing Editor of Foreign Affairsyes RR, Benn Steil Jan 24
Dangerous Melodies: Classical Music in America from the Great War through the Cold War Jonathan Rosenberg Hunter College and the
CUNY Graduate Centeryes RR, Kyle Radler, Norton Feb 7
Winning a Future War: War Gaming and Victory in the Pacific Norman Friedman Author, Lecturer, Defense Analyst yes JT, RR Feb 21
Futile Exercise? The British Army’s Preparations for War, 1902-1914
Simon Batten
UK, 2018 NYMAS
Book Award winneryes RR, Casemate:
Ryan LindsayMar 6
Tower of Skulls:
A History of the Asia-Pacific War, July 1937-May 1942Richard B. Frank Author yes RR Mar 20
War and Conflict in the Middle Ages: A Global Perspective Stephen Morillo U.S. Military Academy
at West Pointyes RR, SW Apr 3 Ghost on the Throne: The Death of Alexander the Great and the Bloody Fight for his Empire James Romm Bard College yes JT Apr 17
Globalizing World War II, 1931-1953 Andrew Buchanan University of Vermont yes RR 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 Black Author/Lecturer yes RR May 29
The CIA and the Tet Offensive John Prados The National Security Archive yes RR Jun 12
Civil War Logistics: A Study of Military Transportation Earl J. Hess Stewart W. McClelland Chair in History
Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tennyes RR
Suggested topics and speakers
without scheduled dates
as of Wednesday March 11, 2020 07:39 PM
Suggested topics and speakers
without scheduled datesTopic
Speaker
Affiliation
Sponsor/
ContactTop 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 BrandAssistant Professor of History
The King’s College RR, JT
John D. Moore
Publicist, Johns Hopkins University PressOn Cyber War
Jason Healey
jh3639@columbia.eduSchool 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 PointAS, RR All Hell Breaking Loose:
The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate ChangeMichael Klare Hampshire College (Amherst, Massachusetts) JT, RR America’s Buried History: Landmines in the Civil War Kenneth RutherfordJames 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 VictoryAndrew J. Bacevich Boston University RR (refused once) War in eastern Ukraine
Col. Robert Hamilton (US Army, Ret) US Army War College,
FPRIRR, 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
2020Environmental 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 HistoryRR
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 ArmyRR, 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
orHenry 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 IClifford J. Rogers
U.S. Military Academy
at West PointRR, 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. BaxterProfessor 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 ICynthia Wachtell
Research Associate Professor of American Studies & Director of the S. Daniel Abraham Honors Program
Yeshiva UniversityRR
America's Needless Wars, Cautionary Tales of US Involvement in the Philippines, Vietnam and IraqDavid 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
Author
RR, AW
Redefining the Modern Military: The Intersection of Profession and Ethics
Tyrell O. Mayfield and Nathan K. Finney
USAF
US ArmyRR, 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 PennsylvaniaRR, RL
June??
History of Normandy | D-Day topicsNigel 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. DavisAuthor
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 PointRR, 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 PointRR
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 guerrillas2018
Interpretations of the US Army's Fighting Ability in World War II in NW Europe
MAJ Greg Hope
U.S. Military Academy
at West PointSW, RR
2019?
Violence and Sex: A Cultural History of War
Eugenia Kiesling
U.S. Military Academy
at West PointRR
Mao
Thomas Nimick
U.S. Military Academy
at West PointRR, 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, 1899MAJ Mark Askew
U.S. Military Academy
at West PointSW, 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
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 DarknessHoward 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 NorthADM 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 AllisonThe 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 FrontMAJ Mary Jennings Hegar
Author (Austin, TX)
RR
The Future of War
-or-
Tales from the PentagonRosa 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
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 IINicole 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 DiffusionRobert 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.eduRR
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 EarthMark 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 WarAustro-Prussian War Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792-1914
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 UniversityTC, 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
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
RR
A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism
Daniel Byman
Georgetown University, The Brookings
InstituteRM
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 WarJim 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
1914-1918Paul Halpern
Florida State
UniversityDD
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 ValleySteven 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,
1944-45Robert 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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