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The New York Military Affairs Symposium
The 42nd Anniversary of this organization
1981-2023

The 23rd Anniversary of this website
January 1, 1999-2023

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NYMAS is devoted to increasing public
knowledge, awareness, and understanding
of the interrelationship of war, society, and
culture through the presentation and
dissemination of diverse scholarly viewpoints.


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Gregory McNiff is the new  Executive Director of NYMAS

Gregory McNiff is a Managing Director in the New York office of the Blueshirt Group. He has more than 25 years of technology and telecom experience. Prior to joining the Blueshirt Group, Greg worked at Nomura as a sell-side equity research analyst covering the communications infrastructure sector. Greg also has experience in early stage venture capital, investment banking, and corporate strategy. Greg holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, an M. Litt. in Shakespeare Studies from the University of St. Andrews and a B.A. in Classical Languages from Columbia.

Greg has been fascinated by military history since his first exposure to Thucydides’ The History of the Peloponnesian War in high school. He is extremely appreciative of the opportunities NYMAS offers the public to hear and learn from first rate scholars throughout the world. He hopes to extend NYMAS’ programs to a wider audience so as to foster a greater appreciation for the benefits of studying military history. When not reading about military history, he is most likely writing overdue book reviews for the NYMAS newsletter.



Jerry Trombella became Executive Director of NYMAS in 2016

Nov 18, 2016, NYC:  Meeting in the aftermath of the loss of Bob Miller, the Directors unanimously elected Jerry Trombella as NYMAS Executive Director.

Jerry is Dean of Research and Planning at Hudson County Community College. He holds a B.A. from the State University of New York at Binghamton with a triple major in History, Political Science and Classical Studies, an M.B.A. in Business Computer Information Systems from Hofstra University, an M.P.A in Public Administration with a specialization in Public Finance from the State University of New York at Albany, and a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from Seton Hall University, where he periodically teaches a graduate course in higher education organization and governance.

Jerry has 25 years of experience in higher education administration, including the areas of institutional research, institutional assessment, planning, budgeting, financial aid leveraging, decision analytics and information systems. In addition his administrative and teaching duties, Jerry is doing research in the economics of higher education and in colleges and universities as complex systems.

Jerry has a longstanding interest in military history, and is especially appreciative of the NYMAS interdisciplinary approach in seeking to understand issues associated with military affairs. His current research focus within military history involves predictive models of combat using historical data, based more on his longstanding interest in wargaming than in a belief in their utility. Job responsibilities, time, and financing permitting, he hopes to extend current research associated with predictive combat modeling into a formal proposal for an eventual second PhD in military history.


Click here to go to the "History of the Chosin Story"
Korea, 1950-51
Table of Contents for
75 chapters!

The Changjin Journal

NEW
Chapter 76
NEW IN THIS ISSUE The foundation of this issue began some years ago after the publication of my e-book The Chosin Chronology: Battle of the Changjin Reservoir 1950 wherein the sacrifice of Task Force Faith was addressed in the summary.

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In Memoriam

Robert Miller
1945-2016

Publisher, author, history scholar and
NYMAS' outstanding Executive Director since 2012.

On Saturday, Nov. 5 at 1pm at the Soldiers Sailors Club
a Memorial and Remembrance for Robert Miller was held
.

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Robert Miller became Executive Director of NYMAS


NYC, Oct. 19, 2012 - The NYMAS Board of Directors today elected Robert Miller, publisher of Enigma Books, as Executive Director of NYMAS.  Miller succeeds Daniel David, formerly of Skye Books, who remains head of the NYMAS Book Awards Committee.


A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
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France, 1940:
National Failure and the Uses of Defeat

David Gordon
History Department

CUNY Graduate Center

Talk presented at a joint meeting of The Historical Society
(New York Section)
 and The New York Military Affairs Symposium
May 10, 2002

 




REVIEW by George A. Rasula
THE COLDEST WINTER
 by David Halberstam

 

A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
Click here to go to Air Force Combat Units of World War II - Part 2

Air Force Combat Units of World War II

Complete 506 page work, keyword searchable

Edited by Maurer Maurer ; USAF Historical Division, Air University, Washington :Date: 1986


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Click here to see the graphics from Steven J. Zaloga's Talk on February 2, 2001 on
Operation Cobra


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A Brief Introduction to the Why We Fight series
 



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THE IRISH CIVIL WAR, 1922-1923
Full text and illustrations from Paul V. Walsh's talk on  December 11, 1998
 


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Complete slide presentation from
Nov. 22, 2002 talk:

 Pope v. Lee:
 The Second Manassas
Campaign      


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

 


Complete slide component from the Jan. 23, 2004,  presentation
Information Warfare:
What it Is, Isn’t, and How it Shapes National Security

by Dr. Daniel Kuehl of
National
Defense University  

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The Fall 2006 Conference

October 20-21, 2006
Click here for details & reading list

 

A NYMAS Fulltext Resource

The Battle
of the Boyne

Fulltext of the recent paper presented to NYMAS by
Roger Kennedy



Jessie James

Complete slide component from the October 1, 2004 talk by Capt. Clay Mountcastle of the
 USMA at West Point


The Union War against Confederate Guerrillas


A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
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"All Germany listens to The Fuhrer on the People's Radio"

Gray and Black Radio Propaganda against Nazi Germany
Fulltext of the recent paper
 by Bob Rowen

NEW
Now readable & printable
in Adobe Reader
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Complete slide component from the Feb. 20, 2004 presentation
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by Norman Friedman
Author / NYMAS
 



A NYMAS Fulltext Resource

America First:
the Anti-War Movement,
 Charles Lindbergh
and the Second World War
 1940-1941


 
Fulltext of the paper presented to NYMAS by
David Gordon
History Department
Bronx Community College / CUNY Graduate Center on September 26, 2003
 



1916:
 The Year Germany Was Defeated

Complete slide component from the November 19, 2004 talk by Chuck Steele of the
 USMA History Department
 at West Point

 

 


 

In Memoriam

Eugene Feit
1948-2010

Outstanding attorney, history scholar and NYMAS' most extraordinary
Executive Director, leader,
and author of the NYMAS By-laws.
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Look further below for the NYMAS Schedule
for this
Summer, 2023

                NEXT at NYMAS                 

Please note
special date & time
:

Saturday, June 3, 2023
1:00 PM ET

Command:
The Politics of Military Operation

(Postponed from April)

Sir Lawrence Freedman
King's College London



 

On the date & time of the talk,
use this link
to join the Zoom event

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of each NYMAS event and new posts?
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Spring, 2023

On-line Fridays at 7pm
unless otherwise noted

On the date & time of the talk
click on the title in last column to join the Zoom event

 

Date Topic Speaker Speaker's
affiliation
Zoom link
on the date & time
 of the event

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YMAS Spring 2023 Schedule (conrmed)

Armada:
The Spanish Enterprise and England's Deliverance in 1588

Geoffrey Parker

Ohio State University

January 14, 2023 Saturday
3:00 PM ET

Blood and Ruins:
The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945

Richard Overy University of Exeter

January 20, 2023

Debate:
 Did Rome Have
a Grand Strategy?

James Lacey, Ph.D., Horner Chair of War Studies, Professor of Strategic Studies and Political Economy at Marine Corps War College
&
Michael Taylor
Assistant Professor. History, University of Albany
&

with special guest
Edward Luttwak

January 27, 2023 Heavy Metal: The Hard Days and Nights of the Shipyard Workers Who Build America's Supercarriers
 
Mike Fabey Independent Scholar    

February 4, 2023
Saturday
1PM ET
D'Erlon's Attack at Waterloo Andrew Field Waterloo author and independent military historian

February 10, 2023

The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution

        

Benjamin L. Carp Daniel M. Lyons Associate Professor of American History at
Brooklyn College    
February 17, 2023 War of Supply: World War II Allied Logistics in the Mediterranean
 
David Dworak Deputy Provost, US Army War College

February 24, 2023

Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft

Peter Westwick University of Southern California and director of the Aerospace History Project at the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West

March
3, 2023

History of Battle: Understanding Conflict from Hastings to Helmand

Drs Graeme Callister / Rachel Whitbread

York St John University

March
10, 2023

Parker Hitt: The Father of American Military Cryptology

Betsy Rohaly Smoot Intelligence historian, former NSA

March
17, 2023
Friday, 1:00 PM
ET

Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921

Antony Beevor

Independent Scholar

 

March
24, 2023

The Battle of Crecy

Michael Livingston

The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina

April 1, 2023
Saturday,
1:00 PM
ET

Command: The Politics of Military Operation

POSTPONED UNTIL
JUNE 3RD

Sir Lawrence Freedman King's College London

Command: The Politics of Military Operation

April 14, 2023

Faustian Bargain:
The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War

Ian Ona Johnson

Notre Dame University

April 21, 2023

The Mongol Storm:
Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East

Nic Morton

Nottingham Trent University

 

April 29, 2023 Saturday
1:00 PM
ET

Conquering the Ocean: The Roman Invasion of Britain


 

Richard Hingley University of Durham

May 6,
2023
Saturday
1:00 PM
ET
Original Sin: Power, Technology, and War in Outer Space Bleddyn Bowen University of Leicester

May 12,
2023
Armies, Plagues, and Politics: Explaining the Rise and Fall of the Assyrian Empire
 
Eckart Frahm  Yale University

May 19,
2023
The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution, Kevin Weddle US Army War College (Winner: 2021 Gilder-Lehrman Prize for Military History)

May 26, 2023

General Grant and the Verdict of History: Memoir, Memory, and the Civil War

Frank Varney

Independent Scholar

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June 3,
2023
Saturday
1 PM ET

Command: The Politics of Military Operation
(Postponed from April)

Sir Lawrence Freedman King's College London Command: The Politics of Military Operation

Summer, 2023

On-line Fridays at 7pm
unless otherwise noted

On the date & time of the talk
click on the title in last column to join the Zoom event

June 16, 2023
 
Soldiers & Silver: Mobilizing Resources in the Age of Roman Conquest Professor Michael Taylor University of Albany
July 1st,
2023
Saturday
1pm ET
Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire: 1811-1821
 
Prof. Michael Broers Oxford University
August 11,
2023

China and the Pacific
 
Prof. Toshi Yoshihara Center for Strategic and Budget Assessments

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  NYMAS is a part of The Society for Military History as Region 2

NYMAS papers of the last 26 years
by NYMAS WEBMASTER
Robert Rowen

A NYMAS Fulltext Resource

American Privateers
in
the War Of 1812


Fulltext, documents and illustrations from a paper
by Bob Rowen
delivered to NYMAS on October 19, 2001 at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York


 

Jim Quinn
  
Civil Warrior
Fredericksburg to Spotsylvania

      

A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
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"All Germany listens to The Fuhrer on the People's Radio"

Gray and Black
Radio Propaganda
against Nazi Germany

Fulltext of the recent paper
 by Bob Rowen

NEW
Now readable & printable
in Adobe Reader
Get Adobe Reader logo

                                             
 

NYMAS is a part of The Society for Military History as Region 2

The New York Military Affairs Symposium

Officers

Executive Director & Program Chair: Greg McNiff
Assistant to the Director: Jerry Trombella
President: David Gordon
Secretary
: Robert Bulko
Treasurer: Constance Alburger
Counsel: Ching Wah Chin

 

NYMAS Newsletter Chief Editor & Book Committee Chair:
Al Nofi
Operations & Webmaster: Bob Rowen

 

Board of Directors

Constance Alburger
Bob Bulko
Ed Chen
Ching Wah Chin
Ted Cook
Frank Luberti
David Gordon

 
Gregory McNiff
Albert Nofi
Bob Rowen
Benn Steil
Jerry Trombella
Kathleen Williams
 

NYMAS is a tax exempt, not-for-profit membership corporation chartered under the laws of New York State. Donations are deductible from both Federal and New York State taxes. Membership dues are $35.00 a year, payable in September. Checks should be made out to "NYMAS" and mailed to:

NYMAS
 Post Office Box 592
 115 East 34th Street
 New York, NY 10156-0592

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Click here for more podcasts

Audio Podcasts of Friday Evening Talks
NEW

On the Crest of Fear:
The V-2s, the Battle of the Bulge, and the Closing Months of the Second World War

 
recorded
March 1, 2019
1 hour and 47 mins


click here to listen

 


Tami Davis Biddle
Photo: U.S. Army War College
Tower of Skulls:
A History of the Asia-Pacific War,
July 1937-May 1942


recorded  Match 6, 2020
1 hour and 31 mins


click here to listen

 


Richard B. Frank
Photo: Ching Wah Chin
The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War,
1945-1947

Special introduction by
Benn Steil of the Council on Foreign Relations / NYMAS Board


 recorded  January 10, 2020
1 hour and 43 min
s


click here to listen


Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
Photo: Ching Wah Chin
What Russia
Can Teach Us
 about War


 Recorded  Jun 1, 2018
1 hour and 35 mins


click here to listen


Reina Pennington
Photo: Malcolm Arnold
Elvis's Army:
Cold War GIs
and the Atomic Battlefield

 

 recorded March 2, 2018
1 hour and 31 mins


click here to listen


 
Brian McAllister Linn
Photo: Texas A&M
The Great War and Ireland's 1916
Easter Rising

 

recorded November 11, 2016
1 hour and 41 mins


click here to listen


Paul V. Walsh
Photo: Ching Wah Chin

 


The Politics of James Bond:
From Fleming's Novels
to the Big Screen

 

 recorded April 1, 2016
1 hour and 48 mins


click here to listen

Jeremy Black
Jeremy Black MBE
Photo:  http://www.jeremyblack.co.uk/

 

An Examination of British Cryptography during the Second World War

recorded November 7, 2014
1 hr 30 min


click here to listen


Aki Snyder
Photo: Ching Wah Chin
Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army

recorded March 14, 2014
1 hr 34 min


click here to listen

 


Kayla Williams

Photo: Ching Wah Chin
The Devil's Garden:
Rommel's Desperate Defense of Omaha Beach on D-Day

recorded June 6, 2014
1 hr 38 min


click here to listen


Steven Zaloga

Photo: Ching Wah Chin

The First Century of Gunpowder Artillery in Europe - Innovation and Effectiveness:
1326-1450


recorded May 17, 2013
1 hr 35 min


click here to listen


Clifford J. Rogers
Photo: Ching Wah Chin
Roman Warfare


recorded May 24, 2013
1 hr 47 min


click here to listen


Adrian Goldsworthy

Photo: Ching Wah Chin
Click here for many more podcasts including:
Retribution:
The Battle for Japan, 1944-45

recorded May 2, 2008


click here to listen


Max Hastings
Photo: Random House

Bankrupting the Enemy:
The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan
Before Pearl Harbor

recorded April 12, 2008


click here to listen


Edward S. Miller
Photo: Phil Gilson

Click here for more podcasts

 



 

NYMAS presents Grant Check
to Soldiers Sailors Club

Hazel Cathers, Executive Director of the The Soldiers’, Sailors’, Marines’, Coast Guard and Airmen’s Club of New York City receives a check from NYMAS boardmembers Allen Walberg (L) and Arnold Albert (R).    The funds come from a grant provided by the New York Council for the Humanities to NYMAS for the Soldiers Sailors Club generously providing space for NYMAS' Friday evening talks.


 

NYMAS on  

Dozens of of additional NYMAS events on C-SPAN
HERE

Vidcasts at C-SPAN | Audio Podcasts at nymas.org

 

 

Axis Sally
The American Voice of Nazi Germany

 Author Richard Lucas' talk to NYMAS on May 20, 2011


The Deceivers:
Allied Military Deception

Author & former Deputy Undersecretary of the Army Thaddeus Holt's
talk to NYMAS on Jun 4, 2004


Mussolini:
The Secrets of His Death
Enigma Books' publisher Robert Miller's talk to NYMAS on Jan 28, 2005

Click above for the complete online video of each talk to NYMAS

 


The 2012 NYMAS Book Award
The Arthur Goodzeit Award
2012 The Wehrmacht retreats : fighting a lost war, 1943 by Robert M. Citino. (Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2012)
     
The 2012 Civil War Book Award
The Eugene Feit Award  in Civil War Studies
2012 War on the waters : the Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 by James M. McPherson. (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012)

 

 





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22 years of outstanding speakers and topics
listed here

NEW
The 2023 NYMAS /
Arthur Goodzeit
Book Award