Current & Past Complete Schedules
NYMAS Winter-Spring 2009
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Schedule of Friday Evening Talks & the Spring Friday/Saturday Conference | Date | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation | | Jan. 9 | America's Captives: American POW Policy from the Revolution to the War on Terror | Paul Springer | United States Military Academy at West Point | | Jan. 16 | German Air Operations on the Eastern Front, 1914-1917 | Richard DiNardo | US Marine Corps Command and Staff College / NYMAS | | Jan. 23 | Borrowed Soldiers: Americans under British Command during the First World War | Mitch Yockelson | National
Archives
| | Jan. 30 | The Intendance and the Logistics of The Grande Armée 1806-7 | Alex Stavropoulos | CUNY Graduate Center | | Feb. 6 | Pre-WWI Thinking and the Theory and Practice of Field Fortification | Nicholas Murray | United States Army Command and General Staff College | | Feb. 13 | Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History | John Fabian Witt | Columbia Law School | Feb. 14
(Sat.) | 10-12:30
The War in Gaza, 20092-4
Six Months in Liberia | Jim Dingeman Frank Radford | NYMAS NYMAS | | Feb. 20 | God Willing: My Wild Ride with the New Iraqi Army | Eric Navarro | US Marine Corps Reserve | | Feb. 27 | Islam in the French Army during the Great War | Richard S. Fogarty | University at Albany, State University of New York | | Mar. 6 | Policing the White Man’s Democracy? Army Aid to the Civil Power in Jacksonian America | Samuel Watson | United States Military Academy at West Point | | Mar. 13 | Fahrenheit 2,200: A History of Napalm | Bob Neer | Columbia University | Mar. 14
(Sat.) | Obama’s First 100 Days:
An Examination of Foreign Policy, National Security an d Domestic Issues Facing the Obama Presidency
| 10:00 am- 12:30 noon
CUNY Graduate Center
Room C-198 | The First 100 Days:
An Overview | Jim Dingeman | NYMAS | | Obama And Iran | Prof. Ervand Abrahamian | Baruch College and CUNY Graduate Center | | Obama And Africa | Prof. Xerxes Malki | Africana Studies,
New York University | | Colonialism and Neo Colonialism: Continuities in Obama's Policy Towards Latin America and the Pacific Islands | Juan Blanco | Columbia University | 12:30-2:00 pm - Lunch Break + Movies Unlimited + Video E-Flash | 2:00 pm - 4:15 pm
CUNY Graduate Center
Room C-198 | | Defense and National Security Issues Facing Obama | Jim Dingeman | NYMAS | | Why and How Obama Rose to Power | Peter Okonkwo | Columbia University | | The Stimulus Package and Veterans | Joseph A. Bello | NYC Veterans Advocate | | Obama and Asia | Martin Rivlin | Columbia University and LaGuardia Community College |
| | Mar. 20 | Naval Aviation and the U.S. Fleet Problems, 1923-1940 | Al Nofi | NYMAS | | Mar. 27 | Issues of Identity in the Wartime Occupation of Okinawa, April-June 1945 | Major Courtney Short | United States Military Academy at West Point | | Apr. 3 | Why Iraq Wanted Nuclear Weapons | Norman Cigar | Marine Corps University Research Fellow | | Apr. 10 | Passover / Easter weekend | | Apr. 17 | Breaker Morant: Film and History | James Kirschke | Villanova University | | Apr. 24 | The NYMAS Spring Conference From Vietnam to Afghanistan:
New Perspectives Why Vietnam Matters:
Why the Right Lessons from Vietnam Matter in Afghanistan | Rufus Phillips | Former consultant, advisor | Ending Deadly Conflict:
Lessons from Vietnam and Iraq | Robert. K. Brigham | Shirley Ecker Boskey Professor Of History And International Relations
Vassar College | In the Iraq War Narrative:
Why Vietnam Shouldn't Matter, But It Does | Colonel Gian Gentile
| United States Military Academy
at West Point | US. War Crimes in Vietnam:
Revelations from a Declassified Army Archive | Deborah Nelson
Peter Berenbak
| Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
Carnegie visiting professor, University of Maryland, College of Journalism former Infantry
1st Lieutenant | Operational Concepts: Vietnam and Afghanistan
| Dr. John Prados
| National Security Archive | Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan: Re-learning the Same Lessons | Colonel Kevin Farrell | United States Military Academy
at West Point |
| Apr. 25
(Sat.) | | May 1 | Winning the English Civil War: Fairfax, Cromwell and the Formation of the New Model Army in 1645 | Florene
Memegalos | Hunter College | | May 8 | Chinese Amphibious Operations: 1949-1958 | Edward Chen | NYMAS member | | May 15 | Sparta and the Greek Art of War 550 – 362 BC | Scott Rusch | Independent Scholar | | May 22 | Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs from Communism to Al-Qaeda | Robert Wallace | Former Director of the CIA's Office of Technical Service | | May 29 | Right vs. Left Politics in the Cold War and the Improbable Saga of Major General Edwin Walker | Bob Rowen | NYMAS |
NYMAS Fall 2008
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Schedule of Friday Evening Talks & the Fall Friday/Saturday Conference
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 | Date | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation | | Sept. 5 | Thieves of Baghdad: Rescuing Iraq's Stolen Antiquities during Operation Iraqi Freedom | Col. Matt Bogdanos | USMC Reserve | | Sept. 12 | The Roman Navy: Its Development from Oxymoron to Ruler of the Mediterranean | Mark Wilson | Brooklyn College | | Sept. 19 | Hitler's Gift to France | Robert Miller | Enigma Books | | Sept. 26 | Transformative Military Innovation: Why Only Some Military Organizations, Some of the Time? | Wayne A. Thornton | Harvard University | | Oct. 3 | Failed States, Revolution, and Democracy:
Progressive Rationales for Military Intervention, 1914 to 1918 | Jacob Kramer | Borough of Manhattan Community College / CUNY Graduate Center | | Oct. 10 | Yom Kippur | | | | Oct. 17 | The NYMAS Fall Conference
A History of U.S. Occupation Policy Friday, October 17, 2008
7 pm to 9 pm | INTRODUCTION:
Historiography of Occupation | Jim Dingeman | NYMAS / INN | Uncle Sam and the Banana Wars: The Long History of U.S. Military Occupations in Latin America | Kyle Longley | Snell Family Dean's Distinguished Professor, Professor of History, Arizona State
University | Saturday, October 18, 2008
10 am to 4 pm | A HISTORICAL REVIEW:
A Topology of the US
as an Occupier | Jim Dingeman | NYMAS / INN | The Surge-Narrative as
Matrix: Misreading the Surge
and the Atrophy of American Army Conventional Warfighting Capabilities | Colonel Gian Gentile | United States Military
Academy at West Point | Post-conflict Integration of
Militias in Iraq | Major James Smith | United States Military
Academy at West Point | Views from under the Jungle Canopy: The American Combat Soldier in Vietnam | Kyle Longley | Professor of History, Arizona State University | The Challenges of Counter-
insurgency on the Afghan/Pakistan Border | Major Thomas Spahr | United States Military
Academy at West Point | Reflections of an OIF Battalion Commander in Baghdad | Colonel Kevin Farrell | United States Military
Academy at West Point |
| Oct. 18
(Sat.) | | Oct. 24 | Nurses in the Crimean War | Moira Egan | CUNY Graduate Center | | Oct. 31 | The Use of Force to Prevent Nuclear Proliferation
| Tim Bakken
| Dept. of Law,
United States Military Academy at West Point | | Nov. 7 | The 14th USAAF in China, 1944-45 | Paul R. Martin | Independent scholar | | Nov. 14 | Scottish, Scots Irish, Irish, African Americans and Jews in the Battle of Baltimore, September 1814 | Christopher George | The War of 1812
Symposium | | Nov. 21 | The 2d Massachusetts in the American Civil War | Major Matt Hardman | United States Military Academy at West Point | | Nov. 28 | Thanksgiving | | Dec. 5 | U.S. Military Government in Mexico, 1847-1848 | Major Tom Spahr | United States Military Academy at West Point | | Dec. 12 | African American USMA Graduates in the Nineteenth Century | Major Jeremy James | United States Military Academy at West Point | | Dec. 19 | America's Captives: American POW Policy from the Revolution to the War on Terror | Paul Springer | United States Military Academy at West Point |
NYMAS Winter-Spring 2008
CALENDAR | Date | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation | | Jan 4 | Radical Designs: Pre-War USAAF Interceptor Projects | Tom Wisker | NYMAS / WBAI | | Jan 11 | The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow that Changed the Course of World War II | Andrew Nagorski | Newsweek | | Jan 18 | Rarely Told Stories from May-June 1940 | Jonathan Epstein | NYMAS and John Jay College | | Jan 25 | The Soldier’s Experience of Battle in the Middle Ages | Cliff Rogers | United States Military Academy at West Point | | Feb 1 | The Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive, May 1915. | Richard DiNardo | US Marine Corps Command and Staff College / NYMAS | | Feb 8 | Daniel Harvey Hill and the
Shaping of Civil War Memory | Major Brit Erslev | United States Military Academy at West Point | | Feb 15 | Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 | Mark Moyar | Marine Corps University | | Feb 22 | The 2nd Massachusetts Infantry, 1861-1865: Who Fought and Why
Cancelled because of weather | Major Matt Hardman | United States Military Academy at West Point | | Feb 29 | Line in the Wilderness: The Adaptation of European Military Theory to British North America | Major Mark Olsen | United States Military Academy at West Point | | Mar 7 | Where Have All the Wars Gone? | Jim Dunnigan | Author | | Mar 14 | The Spring, 2008 NYMAS Friday Evening / All-day Saturday Conference The Emergence of Turkey as a Regional Power | Mar 15
(Sat.) | | Mar 21 | The War on Film | Roger Spiller | Combat Studies Institute | | Mar 28 | Kandahar Tour: The Royal Canadian Regiment in Afghanistan, 2007 | Lee Windsor
| Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society, University of New Brunswick | | Apr 4 | French Military Expertise and the U.S. Army, 1801-1830 | Major Mike Bonura | United States Military Academy at West Point | | Apr 11 | A Friday Evening / All-day Saturday Open Forum:
Military History and Current Events | Apr 12
(Sat.) | | Apr 18 | Rebellion in the Ranks: Mutinies of the American Revolution
| John A. Nagy | American Revolution Round Table of
Philadelphia /Author | | Apr 25 | The Failure of Interwar Baltic Collective Defense
| Eugene Feit | Executive Director of NYMAS | | Apr 25 | The British Commonwealth Campaign for Vichy Madagascar, 1942 cancelled | Paul Walsh | Author | | May 2 | The Influence of the Russo-Japanese War on U.S. Army Doctrine. | Major J.P. Clark | United States Military Academy at West Point | | May 9 | The Perils of Peace: America's Struggle for Survival After Yorktown | Thomas Fleming | Author | | May 16 | Gouverneur Kemble Warren: The Final Casualty of the Civil War | Frank Varney | William Paterson University of New Jersey | | May 23 | From Bucharest to the Baltic: German Air Operations on the Eastern Front 1916-1917 moved to Winter, 2009 | Richard DiNardo | US Marine Corps Command and Staff College / NYMAS | | May 30 | The Forgotten Cavalier, George Goring: The English Civil War
(1642 - 1646) | Florene
Memegalos | Hunter College | | June 6 | Omar Bradley's D-Day | John Prados | National Security Archive | | June 13 | How Lee Lost & Grant Won the Civil War | Ed H. Bonekemper, III | Author | | June 20 | Recruiting Churchill's Army - What Went Wrong? | Dan David | NYMAS |
NYMAS Fall 2007 CALENDAR
as of Wednesday, October 28, 2009 06:16 PM
Schedule of Friday Evening Talks & the Fall Friday/Saturday Conference
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Date | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation | Sept. 7 | American Interpretation of the 'Asian Military Mind': Jun, 1944 - Jan, 1945 | Frank Radford | NYMAS | Sept. 14 | The U.S. and the Colonial Wars: Indochina, Korea, Algeria, Vietnam, and Their Influence on the Two Wars in Iraq 1945-1963 | Robert Miller | Enigma Books | Sept. 21 | Scorching Iroquoia: The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign of 1779 as New York's Missing Link | Bob Spiegelman | Independent Scholar | Sept. 28 | Brutal Justice: Decimation and the Roman Legion | Mark Wilson | CUNY Graduate Center | Oct. 5 | Failures and Facades in Iraq:
A Soldier's Perspective | Paul Rieckhoff
| Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America | Oct. 12 | The Fall, 2007 NYMAS Friday Evening / All-day Saturday Conference
Topics and speakers to be announced Friday, October 12, 2007 7 to 9 pm | INTRODUCTION:
The Surge in Context | Jim Dingeman | NYMAS / INN | The Training, Preparation, and Readiness of the Iraqi Security Forces and Army | Lt. Col. Michael
Zacchea | US Marine Corps Reserve | Strategic Reset | Brian Katulis | Center for American Progress | Saturday, October 13, 2007 10am to 4 pm | What Went Wrong--in Iraq | Ervand Abrahamian | Department of History, Weissman School of Arts &Sciences, Baruch College | A Framework for Analyzing the Middle East and Islam | Lt. Col. Steven G. M. Biro | New York Guard,
an attorney formerly in the Persian Gulf States | Measuring the Success of the Surge | Lt. Col. Gian Gentile | USMA, formerly a tactical battalion commander in Baghdad in 2006. | Beyond Blackwater:
Contractors on the Battlefield | Raymond Kimball | Iraq and Afghanistan
Veterans of America | The Surge and the al-Anbar
Miracle: The Real Bottom Line | Wayne White | Former Head of US State
Department Intelligence, Iraq |
| Oct. 13
(Sat.) | Oct. 19 | Battle of Hondeschoote, 1793 | Alex Stavropoulos | CUNY Graduate Center | Oct. 26 | Military Discipline in the Greek World | Jennifer Roberts | CUNY Graduate Center | Nov. 2 | Frank Luke, Jr.: Maverick of the Skies. New Perspectives and Details of this WWI Ace's Life and Career | Blaine Pardoe | Author | Nov. 9 | The Madero Revolution
Mexico, 1910-1911 | Jim Dingeman | NYMAS / INN | Nov. 16 | The German Naval Mutiny and Revolution: November 1918 | Edmund Clingan | Queens Community College | Nov. 23 | No meeting | Nov. 30 | Was the Nineteenth-Century Army Isolated from American Society? | Samuel Watson
| United States Military Academy | Dec. 7 | Japan Under the Bombs: The Air War from Target Level | Theodore F. Cook, Jr. | William Paterson University of New Jersey | Dec. 14 | Command in the Continental Army | Major Jason "Dutch" Palmer | USMA | Dec. 21 | Al Qaeda's Doctrine for Waging an Insurgency | Norman Cigar | Marine Corps University |
Updated Wednesday, October 28, 2009 06:16 PM– Bob Rowen rrowen@nymas.org
NYMAS Winter-Spring 2007
CALENDAR | Date | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation | | Jan. 5 | Viking Armageddon in Ireland? The Battle of Clontarf, 1014, in History and Legend | Paul Walsh | Delaware County Community College | | Jan. 12 | Not Quite As Dismal As Commonly Believed: The P-43 and P-66 in Combat, China 1942-1943 | Tom Wisker | NYMAS / WBAI | | Jan. 19 | New York City and the Civil War
| Bud Livingston | Civil War Roundtable of New York | | Jan 26. | War Made New | Max Boot | Council on Foreign Relations | | Feb. 2 | The Sea is Ours, Islam in the
Mediterranean, 642 - 850 | Neil Graham | NYMAS | | Feb. 9 | French Athletics and the Cold War | Lindsay Krasnoff | CUNY Graduate Center | | Feb. 16 | Much Like Us: The American Military’s Perception of the Argentine Armed Forces circa 1910 | Major Evan Wollen | USMA | | Feb. 23 | The Battle of Adwa, Ethiopia 1896: Changing Italian Colonial Narratives (1896-1936) | David Aliano | CUNY Graduate Center | | Mar. 2 | Targeted Killing: Battlefield Excess or A New Paradigm? | Gary Solis | Georgetown University | | Mar. 9 | The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail: Herbert O. Yardley and the Birth of American Intelligence | David Kahn | Author | | Mar. 16 | Naval Experimentation the Old Fashioned Way: The US Navy Fleet Problems, 1923-1940 | Al Nofi | Author / NYMAS | | Mar. 23 | Double Dealing with Europe: Churchill, Détente, and the European Defense Community | | USMA | | Mar. 30 | Revolving Door War: The Impact of the Twelve-month Tour on the Tactical Performance of Companies in Vietnam | Major Brad Helton | USMA | | Apr. 6 | No meeting - Easter / Passover | | | | Apr. 13 | | | Apr. 14
(Sat.) | | | Apr. 20 | The Role of Cavalry in Medieval Warfare | Clifford J. Rogers | USMA | | Apr. 27 | Triumph and Tragedy: Royal Marines in Russia, 1919 | Major Mark Bentinck | Royal Marines Historian, UK Naval Historical Branch | | May 4 | China at War | Ted Cook | NYMAS | | May 11 | Irregular Warfare on the Revolutionary Frontier | Glenn F. Williams | U.S. Army Center of Military History | | May 18 | The Death of a City: The
Athenian Destruction of Melos in 416 B.C | Francis Phillip Varney | Cornell University | | May 25 | 'American Indian' Wars and their Relevance to the 21st Century | Donald F. Bittner | US Marine Corps Command and Staff College | | June 1 | The Greatest Generation Comes Home: The Veteran in American Society
| Michael D. Gambone | Kutztown
University | | June 8 | The Mary Carver Affair:
United States’ Foreign Policy and the Africa Squadron, 1841 – 1845
| Amy Van Natter | CUNY Graduate Center | | June 15 | Viva Villa! The Politics and History of the Punitive Expedition into Mexico,1916 | Jim Dingeman | NYMAS / INN | | June 22 | Thwarting a Confederate Coup D'etat, Washington, D. C., April
1861 | C. Kay Larson | NYMAS |
Previous Seasons' Schedules
NYMAS Fall 2006 CALENDAR
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Schedule of Friday Evening Talks & the Fall Friday/Saturday Conference Date | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation | | Sept 8 | The India - Pakistan Air War of 1965 | Samir Chopra | Brooklyn College | | Sept 15 | Switzerland 1799: Turning Point of the French Revolutionary Wars | Alex Stavropoulos | GC/CUNY. | | Sept 22 | No Meeting - Rosh Hashanah begins at Sundown | | Sept 29 | Wargaming: a critical analysis | Steve Rawling
Jim Dingeman
| Founder and publisher, Against the Odds INN / NYMAS | | Oct 6 | Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in World War II Veterans | Mark D. Van Ells | Queensborough Community College | | Oct 13 | Victory at Sea: Pearl Harbor | Frank Radford | NYMAS | | Oct 20 | Fall Conference | | Oct 21
(Sat.) | Fall Conference
The Historian & the Novelist
Click here for details & reading list | | Oct 27 | Vietnam and the POW Issue | Scott Catino | Univ. of So Carolina | | Nov 3 | The Genesis of American Command: George Washington & Command in the Continental Army, 1775-1777 | Major Jason Palmer | USMA | | Nov 10 | Coercive Hostage-Taking (and its failures) in the Roman Empire | Joel Allen | Queens College | | Nov 17 | Selective Realities, Selective Memories: the German Generals and National Socialism | Geoffrey Megargee | U.S. Holocaust Museum | | Nov 24 | No Meeting - Thanksgiving weekend | | Dec 1 | The Impact of Weather on the Modern Battlefield | Major Donald J. Miller III | Pennsylvania Air National Guard | | Dec 8 | Japan's War Imagined | Theodore F. Cook, Jr. | William Paterson University of New Jersey and NYMAS | | Dec 15 | Alexander the Great and Lessons from the Past: How to Fight and Win a Counter-insurgency War | Guy MacLean Rogers
| Wellesley College |
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NYMAS Winter-Spring 2006
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Schedule of Friday Evening Talks & the Spring Friday/Saturday Conference Date | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation | Jan. 6 | The Dream of Civilized Warfare: World War I Flying Aces and the American Imagination | Linda R. Robertson | Hobart & William Smith Colleges | Jan.. 13 | The Endicott System of American Coastal Defense, 1880-1940 | Captain Frank Schantz | USMA | Jan.. 20 | Breaking Ranks: The History, Limitations, and Importance of American Active Duty Issue Advocacy | Raymond Kimball | Iraq and Afghanistan
Veterans of America | Jan.. 27 | Pyrrhic Victory:
French Strategy and Operations in the Great War | Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Robert A. Doughty | Author / former Head of the Department of History at the United States Military Academy | Feb. 3 | The 1920 Iraqi Insurrection: Counterinsurgency Lessons from the British Occupation | Major Daniel Barnard | USMA | Feb. 10 | Saving Private Ryan -- and His Friends: Canadians Defeat the German Armored Assaults at Normandy, 7-10 June 1944 | Marc Milner | University of New Brunswick | Feb. 17 | Clear, Hold, Build: Counterterrorist Strategies and Civil Affairs Tactics in Operation Iraqi Freedom -- An Eyewitness Analysis
| Joseph Skelly | US Army Reserve/College of Mt. St. Vincent | Feb. 24 | The USAAF's Other Very Heavy Bomber -
the Consolidated B-32 | Tom Wisker | NYMAS / WBAI | Mar. 3 | Eisenhower vs. Montgomery: The Historiography of the Battle of the Memoirs | Patrick Murray | Valley Forge Military College | Mar. 10 | Washington's Secret War:
The Hidden History of Valley Forge | Thomas Fleming | Author | Mar. 17 | Perspectives on
the American Way of War in the 21st Century | | | Mar. 18
(Sat.) | The American Way of War in the 21st Century | | | Mar. 24 | MacArthur's Eyes: Reassessing Military Intelligence in 'The Forgotten War' | Major Pete Knight | USMA | Mar. 31 | After Action Report:
Vets from the Iraq & Afgan Wars talk
| Jim Dingeman | NYMAS /
INN | Apr. 7 | The Latvian Army in World War II: A Small State at War | Prof. Val Lumans | Univ. So. Carolina, Aiken | Apr. 14 | Easter / Passover – No meeting | Apr. 21 | Germany and the Axis Powers: From Coalition to Collapse | Richard DiNardo | US Marine Corps Command and Staff College | Apr. 28 | The War of the Apostacy, Arabia, 633-634AD | Neil Graham | NYMAS | May 5 | Alexis DeTocqueville: Algerian Conflict in the 1840s | Sheryl Gordon | CUNY, GC | May 12 | Current Ideas, Concepts and Controversies in Military Affairs | Lt. Col. Roger Morin
Richard DiNardo
| US Marine Corps Command and Staff College | May 13
(Sat.) | Hamburger Hill: Operation Apache Snow (Saturday all-day) | Allen Walberg
Jim Dingeman | NYMAS / INN | May 19 | Victory in Tripoli :
How America's War with the Barbary Pirates
Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation | Joshua London | Author | May 26 | Amphibious Marine and Colonial Soldier: Major General A. R. Chater, Royal Marines, 1913-1948 | Don Bittner | US Marine Corps Command and Staff College | June 2 | Corporal Punishment in the Greek Phalanx and Roman Legion: Modern Myths and Ancient Realities | Jennie Kiesling | USMA | June 9 | Conspiracy or Coincidence?
The Civil War Draft Riots and the Gettysburg Campaign | Barnet Schecter | Author | June 16 | War in the Alps: Austria vs. Italy 1915-1918 | Dan David | NYMAS | June 23 | Napoleon's 1812 Campaign
Analyzed through Contemporary Artwork
| Frank Radford | NYMAS |
Updated Wednesday, October 28, 2009 06:16:09 PM– Bob Rowen rrowen@nymas.org NYMAS talks are free and open to the public. They are held on Friday evenings at the City University of New York Graduate Center, at 365 Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. These Friday lectures are usually held on the 6th floor in Room 6-495, but confirmation of the room number should be obtained from the guard at the street-level entrance. These talks are sponsored by the New York Military Affairs Symposium in conjunction with CUNY's Conference on History and Politics, Dr. George D. Schwab, Director. 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) Check for the latest changes and updates:
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NYMAS Fall 2005 CALENDAR
Schedule of Friday Evening Talks & the Fall Friday/Saturday Conference Date | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation | Sept. 9 | Anglo-Dutch Coalition Warfare in the Late 17th Century | John Stapleton | USMA | Sept. 16 | Count Felix von Luckner and the Cruise of the Seeadler
| Blaine Pardoe | Author | Sept. 23 | Allied Intervention in Russia, 1918-1920 | Eugene Feit | NYMAS /
CUNY Graduate Center | Sept. 30 | Introduction, screening and discussion of the film Battle of Algiers in a newly translated and subtitled print (Special start time: 6 pm) | Mark H. Jacobsen | US Marine Corps Command and Staff College | Oct. 7 | Harassment and Interdiction Fire: Resolving American Strategy during the Vietnam War | Major John Hawkins | USMA | Oct. 14 | The End of World War II | TBA | | Oct. 15
(Sat.) | All Day Saturday Conference
60th Anniversary Reflections on
The End of World War II Inside Japan's Final Days:
Ending the Greater East Asia War | Theodore F. Cook, Jr., | William Paterson University | The End of One War, the Beginning of Another | Norman Friedman | NYMAS / Author | They Were All Above-Average: French Myths of the Resistance and Liberation | David Gordon | NYMAS / CUNY Graduate Center History Dept. |
| Oct. 21 | The Wehrmacht in the Soviet Union: Ethics and the Untermenschen | André Mineau | University of Quebec | Oct. 28 | U.S. Military Advisers in Greece during the Greek Civil War in 1947-1950 | Major John Walmsley | USMA | Nov. 4 | Fact and Fiction: Why Napoleon Really Invaded Spain in 1808
| Alex Stavropoulos | CUNY, GC , History Dept. | Nov. 11 | The Battle of Corinth: How Grant Took Credit for a Victory 50 Miles Away | Frank Varney | Cornell University | Nov. 18 | German Special Operations Forces and Doctrine in the 1920s and 30s | Major Bill Mengel | USMA | Dec. 2 | War of Annihilation: Operation Barbarossa and the Crimes in the East, 1941 | Geoffrey Megargee | U.S. Holocaust Museum | Dec. 3
(Sat.) | The Battle for Berlin, 1945 | Jim Dingeman | NYMAS / INN | Dec. 9 | Brooklyn in the Civil War | Bud Livingston | Civil War Round Table of New York | Dec. 16 | Duty, Honor, Privilege: NY's Silk Stocking Regiment and the Breaking of the Hindenburg Line | Stephen L. Harris | Author |
Updated Saturday, June 25, 2005– Bob Rowen rrowen@nymas.org
NYMAS Winter-Spring 2005 Calendar
Schedule of Friday Evening Talks & the Spring Friday/Saturday Conference | Date | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation | | Jan 7 | 1,350 years: Islam vs. the West | Howard Bloom | NYU | | Jan 14 | Rescued from the Reich: How One of Hitler's Soldiers
Saved the Lubavitcher Rebbe | Bryan Rigg | Author | | Jan 21 | From Tobruk To El Alamein:
The American Contribution to Victory in the Desert | Andrew Buchanan | NYMAS | | Jan 28 | Mussolini: The Secrets of his Death | Robert Miller | Enigma Books | | Feb 4 | August von Mackensen, 1914-1916
| Richard DiNardo | US Marine Corps Command and Staff College | | Feb 11 | The Lies of Iuka: the Origin of the Grant-Rosecrans Feud | Frank Varney | Cornell University | | Feb 18 | From "Bolt-On" to Built-In: The Evolution
of the Dedicated Attack Helicopter from the 1950s up to
the RAH-66A and AH-1Z Kingcobra | Tom Wisker | NYMAS / WBAI | | Feb 25 | Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment That's Killing Our Soldiers--And Why GI's Are Only The First Victims | Gary Matsumoto | Author:/ investigative journalist | | March 4 | The 'Water Cure' in U.S. Army Courts-Martial, 1898-1902 | Louise Barnett | Rutgers University | | March 11 | Himmler and SS Thinking
in the Context of Operation Barbarossa | André Mineau | University of Quebec | | March 18 | OSS Ops in Greece
and the beginnings of the Greek Civil War, 1944-47 | James A. Poulos | Fairfield University | | April 1 | Prison Camps in the American Civil War | Major Clay Mountcastle | USMA | | April 8 | The Amazon Century: Women and War
in Eleventh-Century Italy | Valerie Eads | NYMAS | | April 15 | Counterinsurgency in Iraq | Jim Dingeman and others | | April 16
(Sat.) | Spring All-day Conference
Approaches to Counterinsurgency
Moderator: Richard DiNardo | | The Portuguese Experience in Africa | Dr. John P. Cann | | The British Experience in Iraq during the Arab Revolt | Dr. Mark H. Jacobsen | | Lunch | | The Evolution of American Counterinsurgency Doctrine | Dr. Wray R. Johnson | | The Phoenix Program in Vietnam | Dr. Mark Moyar |
| US Marine Corps Command and Staff College | | April 22 | Rajah Brooke and the Conquest of Sarawak | Major Mike McDermott | USMA | | April 29 | Whose Side Were They On? Indian Auxiliaries
in the Black Hawk War | Major John Hall | USMA | | May 6 | A Vital Link: American Corps Command in the Battle of the Bulge | Hal Winton | Air University’s School of Advanced Air and Space Studies | | May 13 | Sources and Historians: How We Try to Reconstruct the Past | Don Bittner | US Marine Corps Command and Staff College | | May 20 | The Battle of Putot-en-Bessin: Blunting the Counterattack
against the Canadians, June 8, 1944 | Michael Jankowitz | Writer / NYMAS | | May 27 | The Fear Factor: A History of the Impact of Fear
on Military Effectiveness | Major Greg Daddis | USMA | | June 3 | Views on the Current War in Iraq
| Jim Dingeman David Enders | INN/NYMAS Baghdad Bulletin | | June 10 | Presidential Decision Making in the Two Gulf Wars | Meena Bose | USMA | | June 17 | British versus Indian Martialities in Company India | Joseph Sramek | CUNY Graduate Center | | June 24 | 1919: The Year that Ought to Live in Infamy | Frank Radford | NYMAS |
Updated Wednesday, October 28, 2009 06:16:09 PM– Bob Rowen rrowen@nymas.org
NYMAS Schedule for Fall, 2004
Schedule of Friday Evening Talks & the Fall Friday/Saturday Conference Date | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation | Sept. 10 | The Dutch Military Campaign
of 1673-1674 to Recapture New York
from the British | Thomas Wysmuller | Vice-Chairman, The New Netherland Museum | Sept. 17 | The Man in the Red Battleshirt: The Life of General A.P. Hill | Patrick Falci | Civil War Roundtable, Actor / Historian | Sept. 24 | The Nazi Camp and Ghetto System | Geoffrey Megargee | US Holocaust Museum | Oct. 1 | The Union War against Confederate Guerrillas | Capt. Clay Mountcastle | USMA | Oct. 8 | Terrible Terry Allen : Combat General of World War II | Gerald Astor | Author | Oct. 15 | Lt. Col. John Eager Howard and the Maryland Line | Christopher T. George | War of 1812 Consortium | Oct. 22 | The 1938 Oster Conspiracy against Hitler | Terry Parssinen | University of Tampa | Oct. 29 | Lessons of the Afghan War | Stephen Biddle | Army War College | Nov. 5 | Redefining the Battle for New York
in the American Revolution | Barnet Schecter | Author, historian | Nov. 12 | A Snapshot of Canadian Military Forces Today | Col. Michael Hanrahan | Military Adviser, Permanent Mission of Canada to the UN | Nov 13
(Saturday) | All-Day Conference:
Peacekeeping: Military Operations other than War | | | Nov. 19 | 1916: The Year Germany Was Defeated | Chuck Steele | USMA | | Dec. 3 | Grace Hopper: Admiral of the Cyber Sea | Kathleen B. Williams | NYMAS / CUNY | Dec. 10 | 9/11, Terrorism and Iraq | Jim Dingeman | NYMAS / INN Reports | Dec. 17 | Operation Shô: The Japanese Defense of Leyte Sixty Years On
| Theodore F. Cook | William Paterson University |
Updated Wednesday, October 28, 2009 06:16 PM– Bob Rowen: rrowen@nymas.org
Talks are held, except as noted, on Friday evenings at the City University of New York Graduate Center at 365 Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets in midtown Manhattan from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. These Friday lectures are usually held on the 6th floor in Room 6-495, but confirmation of the room number should be obtained from the guard at the street-level entrance.
NYMAS talks at the CUNY Graduate Center are sponsored by the New York Military Affairs Symposium in conjunction with CUNY's Conference on History and Politics, Dr. George D. Schwab, Director. 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 available at the NYMAS website at nymas.org. Check for the latest changes and updates on the web at NYMAS.ORG
Spring, 2004 Calendar
Schedule of Friday Evening Talks & the Spring Saturday Conference
Date | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation | Jan. 9 | Iraq : A View from the Palace | Col. Michael Hess (US Army, retired) | Former Deputy Chief of Staff in the CPA, Baghdad | Jan. 16 | The Bari Mustard-Gas Disaster, December 2/3, 1943 | Tom Wisker | NYMAS / WBAI | Jan. 23 | Information Warfare: What it Is, Isn’t, and How it Shapes National Security | Daniel Kuehl | National Defense University | Jan. 30 | Henry Rawlinson and the Indian Army | Mark Jacobsen | US Marine Corps Command
and Staff College | Feb. 6 | Huns with Webbed Feet: Amphibious Assault on Oesel, 1917 | Richard DiNardo | US Marine Corps Command
and Staff College | Feb. 13 | Dying for the Country: The Logic of War and Genocide
co-sponsored by  | Richard Koenigsberg
| Library of Social Science | Feb. 20 | The Battlecruiser and Pre-World War I British Trade Protection: A Prehistoric Case of Network-Centric
Naval Warfare | Norman Friedman | Author / NYMAS | Feb. 27 | Henry V’s Strategy in 1415: Was Agincourt an Accident? | Cliff Rogers | USMA | March 5 | Ambiguous Imperialism: Popular Response to American Military Intervention in Nicaragua and the Philippines , 1899 | Maj. Andy Koloski | USMA | March 12 | Sea Stories from the Submarine Force | Capt. David Marquet | US Navy | March 19 | Rape as a War Crime: From Nuremberg to Akayesu | Denise Scotto
| UN / International Federation of Women Lawyers | March 26 | Massacre or Myth: Banastre Tarleton and the Battle of Waxhaws, 29 May 1780 | Capt. Tom Rider | USMA | April 2 | The Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese
Wars in Meiji Grand Strategy and Its Consequences | Sally Paine | US Naval War College | April 9 | On Winfield Scott | Sam Watson | USMA | April 16 | The Battle of the Bulge: Leonard Gerow, V Corps & the Initial Defense of Elsenborn Ridge | Hal Winton | Air Command and Staff
College | April 17 | Spring All-Day Conference
The Makers of Non-Western Strategy: Papers on Abd-al-Qadir,
Abd-el-Krim and Chinese Strategic Thought | The Air Command & Staff College at Maxwell AF Base | | April 23 | ". . . . And that goes for all you damned Flemings, too!":
The Language Issue in the Belgian Army, 1914-1940
| Jonathan Epstein | NYMAS | April 30 | Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher: An Old Fashioned Warrior in a Newfangled Fight | Chuck Steele | USMA | May 7 | Women in the American Revolution | Carol Berkin | CUNY | May 14 | Staff Rides: Four Hooves and a Tale | Don Bittner | US Marine Corps Command
and Staff College | May 21 | Medical Care & Innovations in the Vietnam War 1967-69 | Lt. Col. Mariana Fodor (retired) | US Army | May 28 | Airpower in Small Wars | Wray Johnson | US Marine Corps Command and Staff College | | June 4 | The Deceivers:
Allied Military Deception
in the Second World War
| Thaddeus Holt | Author / former Deputy Undersecretary of the Army | June 11 | The Battle of the Boyne | Roger Kennedy | NY Public Library /
Independent Scholar | June 18 | Arms and Armor in the Maciejowski Bible | Richard Gradkowski | NYMAS | June 25 | The Influence of Sea Power on Ancient History | Jim Bloom | Author |
Updated DATE \@ "M/d/yyyy h:mm am/pm" 12/20/2003 8:18 PM – Bob Rowen rrowen@nymas.org Talks are held, except as noted, on Friday evenings at the City University of New York Graduate Center, at 365 Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets in midtown Manhattan from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. These Friday lectures are usually held on the 6th floor in Room 6-495, but confirmation of the room number should be obtained from the guard at the street-level entrance. NYMAS talks at the CUNY Graduate Center are sponsored by the New York Military Affairs Symposium in conjunction with CUNY's Conference on History and Politics, Dr. George D. Schwab, Director. 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 available at the NYMAS website at nymas.org
Archive of old schedules
Fall, 2003 Calendar
Tentative Schedule as of December 27, 2004
Schedule of Friday Evening Talks & the Fall Friday/All-day Saturday Conference Date | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation | Sept. 5 | Lincoln and McClellan in the early Civil War
| Russel H. Beatie | Author | Sept. 12 | Charlie Wilson's War
(current bestseller) | George Crile | 60 Minutes | Sept. 19 | The Information Component of Power and US National Security in the 21st Century | Daniel Kuehl | National Defense
University | Sept. 26 | America First: The Anti-War Movement and the Second World War
Co-sponsored by  | David Gordon | NYMAS / Bronx. Comm. College | Oct. 3 | Austro-Hungarian War Planning | Danny David | NYMAS | Oct. 10 | The Military and the Media | Lt. Colonel Bryan Hilferty | PAO, 10th Mountain
Division, US Army | Oct. 17 | The Beginning of War by Yet Another Means: Germany, 1919-1923 | Frank Radford | NYMAS | Oct. 24 | The Bush Doctrine:
War at Home and Abroad
(tentative schedule) --- Friday evening --- Scott Ritter, former UN Weapons Inspector
Gary Leech, Columbia Report
--- Saturday all-day ----
Jonathan Schell, Nation Institute
Norman Friedman, NYMAS, author
Conrad Crane, Army War College
David Isby, Author
Leon Segal, Director, Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project
Stanley Aronowitz, CUNY
| Oct. 25
(Saturday) | Oct. 31 | From Lewis and Clark to the Burr Conspiracy and Martial Law: General James Wilkinson, the U.S. Army, and Expansion in the West, 1803 to 1807 | Prof. Sam Watson | USMA | Nov. 7 | The Battles of Megiddo | Major Risa Cowher | USMA | Nov. 11
(Tuesday) | Hitler’s Second Book Co-sponsored by
 Enigma Books and  | Gerhard Weinberg | Professor Emeritus
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill | Nov. 14 | The Rearming of Germany after WWII | Chuck Steele | USMA | Nov. 21 | Transform the Personnel System
and You Transform the Army | Major Donald Vandergriff | Georgetown University | Dec. 5 | War and Boundaries in Medieval and
Early Modern France | Louis Cooper | American University | Dec. 12 | On Vietnam Veterans | Major Erik Overby | USMA | Dec. 19 | The Lord Matilda | Valerie Eads | NYMAS |
Updated December 27, 2004 04:31 PM – Bob Rowen rrowen@nymas.org NYMAS talks are free and open to the public. They are held on Friday evenings at the City University of New York Graduate Center, at 365 Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. These Friday lectures are usually held on the 6th floor in Room 6-495, but confirmation of the room number should be obtained from the guard at the street-level entrance. These talks are sponsored by the New York Military Affairs Symposium in conjunction with CUNY's Conference on History and Politics, Dr. George D. Schwab, Director. 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 available at the NYMAS website at http://nymas.org. Check for the latest changes and updates:
on the web at NYMAS.ORG
|
Spring, 2003 Calendar
Schedule of Friday Evening Talks & the Spring Friday/Saturday Conference Date | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation | | Jan. 10 | The Bush Doctrine and the War on Terrorism and Iraq | Jim Dingeman | NYMAS | | Jan. 17 | Cornwallis and the Slaves of Virginia : A New Look at the Yorktown Campaign. | Gregory Urwin | Temple University | | Jan. 24 | Screening and Q&A "WE WERE IN IT TOO: American Jewish Women Veterans Remember World War II" | Debora Duerksen | Filmmaker | | Jan. 31 | Joseph Johnston and the Defense of Richmond | Steven W. Newton | Delaware State University | | Feb. 7 | Eisenhower, Arms Control and The Cold War | Major Ben Greene | USMA | | Feb. 14 | Draft Resistance during the Vietnam War: Confronting the War Machine | Michael S. Foley | CUNY – College of Staten Island | | Feb. 21 | War in the Arctic | Eugene Feit | NYMAS | | Feb. 28 | Culture and the Great War | George Robb | William Paterson University | March 7 | Why We Fight: Divide & Conquer Film and discussion from the 1943 Frank Capra / US Army Signal Corps Series | David Gordon | NYMAS | | March 14 | War Guilt | March 15 | March 21 | Not Going Home Alone:: A Marine Platoon Commander's Reflections on the Vietnam War | Capt. James Kirschke, USMC (Ret.) | Villanova University | | March 28 | The British Army and the Conduct of the War of the Western Front | Ian Becket | Quantico | | April 4 | Swords into Plowshares into Swords: The Evolution and Failure of U.S. Intervention in Somalia , 1992-1994 | Major Frank Sobchak, SF | USMA | | April 11 | Major General John Millikin's Role in the Relief of Bastogne :
A Preliminary Assessment | Hal Winton | Air Force University | | April 18 | Gray and Black Radio Propaganda against Nazi Germany | Robert Rowen | NYMAS | | April 25 | Oiling the Gears of War with Blood: A Case Study of the American Individual Replacement System during World War II | Major Mike Runey | USMA | | May 2 | War, Technology, and the Rise of the West, 1453-2003, Reconsidered | Jeremy Black | Exeter University | | May 9 | Between France and Germany: the Formation of Belgian Defense Policy, 1932-1940 | Jonathan Epstein | NYMAS | | May 16 | What Wins Battles? | Don Bittner | Marine Corps Command & Staff College | May 23 | The Evolution of French Strategy during the Battle of the Marne (1914) | Col. Robert Doughty | USMA | May 30 | Bataan and its Aftermath | Maj. Richard Gordon, USA (Ret.) | “Battling Bastards of Bataan ” | June 6 | Life Magazine and the Vietnam War | Carol Wilder | Chair of the Dept of
Communications, New School University | June 13 | The Japanese Occupation of the Dutch East Indies | Jan Krancher | Author | June 20 | The Role of Women in the French Resistance | Rita Kramer | Author | June 27 | Kursk: How Summer Campaigns Changed the Course of the War | Victor Madeja | NYMAS |
Updated December 21, 2002 – Bob Rowen rrowen@nymas.org
Talks are held, except as noted, on Friday evenings at the City University of New York Graduate Center, at 365 Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets in midtown Manhattan from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. These Friday lectures are usually held on the 6th floor in Room 6-495, but confirmation of the room number should be obtained from the guard at the street-level entrance. NYMAS talks at the CUNY Graduate Center are sponsored by the New York Military Affairs Symposium in conjunction with CUNY's Conference on History and Politics, Dr. George D. Schwab, Director. NYMAS is associated with the Society for Military History, Region 2. Check for the latest updates: On the web at NYMAS.ORG
Fall, 2002 Calendar
Schedule of Friday Evening Talks & the Fall Saturday Conference Date | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation | Sept. 6 | The Battle of Algiers Revisited | Robert Miller | Enigma Books | Sept. 13 | Bad Medicine at Buffalo Creek | Wayne Sarf | NYMAS | Sept. 20 | Good Bombing: The Image of Precision Bombing in World War II in Three American Feature Films | Frank Wetta | Ocean County College | Sept. 27 | Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Military | Bryan Mark Rigg | American Military University | Oct. 4 | Finland in World War II: Separate War, Separate Peace | Eugene Feit | NYMAS | Oct. 11 | Intelligence in Support of Humanitarian Operations | Lt. Col. David Rababy | USMC | Oct. 18 | Conflicting Missions: Havana , Washington , and Africa , 1959-1976. | Piero Gleijeses | Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies | Oct. 25 | Another Such Victory:
President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953 | Arnold A. Offner | Lafayette College | Nov. 1-2
Fri./Sat. | Friday evening: "The Soviet-German War, 1941-1945: Myths and Realities" Saturday daytime: " Leningrad : Four Years of Struggle" | David Glantz | US Army (Ret.),
Author | Nov. 8 | Iraq – title to be determined | Jim Dingeman
Richard Jupa,
Derk Kinnane | | Friday
Nov. 15 | Roundtable and All-Day Conference
Celluloid Wars: American Feature Films and the Experience of War Friday Evening Roundtable – The Experience of Combat in American Films
_________________________________________ Saturday All-Day Conference – Film screening: “A Walk in the Sun”
Comments and discussion:
Frank Wetta, Ocean County College
Lawrence Suid, Independent Scholar
Martin Novelli | Saturday Nov 16
| Nov. 22 | Pope v. Lee: The Second Manassas Campaign | Ethan Rafuse | USMA | Dec. 6 | The Battle of Fredericksburg | George Rable | University of Alabama | Dec. 13 | Confederate War Minerals: The Niter and Mining Bureau
| Major Michael E. Lynch
| US Army | Dec. 20 | Frank Capra's "Why We Fight: Prelude to War" Screening & discussion | Robert Rowen | NYMAS |
Talks are held, except as noted, on Friday evenings at the City University of New York Graduate Center, at 365 Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets in midtown Manhattan from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. These Friday lectures are usually held on the 6th floor in Room 6-495, but confirmation of the room number should be obtained from the guard at the street-level entrance. NYMAS talks at the CUNY Graduate Center are sponsored by the New York Military Affairs Symposium in conjunction with CUNY's Conference on History and Politics, Dr. George D. Schwab, Director. NYMAS is associated with the Society for Military History, Region 2. Check for the latest updates: On the web at NYMAS.ORG Updated Oct. 27, 2002 |