New York Military Affairs Symposium

The 41st Anniversary of this organization
1981-2022

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

The full NYMAS Schedule for the Fall, 2022
Date	Topic	Speaker	Speaker's affiliation
Sept. 9	Rome: An Empire	Greg Woolf	U.C.L.A.
Sept. 16	A Great and Rising Nation: Naval Exploration in the Early U.S. Republic	Michael A. Verney	Drury University
Sept. 21 *Wednesday* *7 pm*	Victory at Sea: *Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II*	Paul Kennedy	Yale University
Sept. 30	Mastering the Art of Command: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and Victory in the Pacific	Trent Hone	Independent scholar
Oct. 7	An Invincible Beast: Understanding the Hellenistic Pike-Phalanx at War	Christopher Matthew	Australian Catholic University
Oct. 13 Thursday 3 pm	*The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway*	Steve McGregor	Wake Forest University
Oct. 21	War in Ukraine	Robert Hamilton	U.S. Army War College
Oct. 28	The War that made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra and Octavian at the Battle of Actium	Barry Strauss	Cornell University
Nov. 4	Firepower: How Weapons Shaped Warfare	Paul Lockhart	Wright State
Nov. 11 *Friday 2 pm*	Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-speaking Peoples since 1500	Peter Wilson	Oxford University
Nov. 18	Wings of Gold: The Story of the First Women Naval Aviators	Beverly Weintraub	Journalist and independent scholar
Dec. 2	Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay	Craig Symonds	U.S. Naval War College
Dec. 9	Mystery of the Mandates: Truk, the Imperial Navy, and the United States	John Prados	Author
December 16 7pm	The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: WeakPower, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower	Michael Mandelbaum	The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

missing:

Winter-Spring 2020

Fall 2020

Winter-Spring 2021

Fall 2021

Winter-Spring 2022

NYMAS Calendar Fall, 2019 Fridays 7 pm to 8:45 pm
Date	Topic	Speaker	Affiliation
Sept 6	How Men Thought, Fought and Survived in Civil War Armies / 3 Union Soldiers in the Overland Campaign	Peter Carmichael	Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College
Sept 20	Violence and Sex: An Uncensored History of War	Eugenia Kiesling	U.S. Military Academy at West Point
Oct 4	War and Peace: FDR’s Final Odyssey \|D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945	Nigel Hamilton	University of Massachusetts, Boston
Oct 18	Obama, Trump, and the American Military: A Tale of Differences and Similarities	Richard H. Kohn	Professor Emeritus of History and Peace, War, and Defense University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Nov 1	The Allure of Battle: How Wars Are Won and Lost	Cathal J. Nolan	Boston University
Nov 15	Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State	Karen J. Greenberg	Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School
Dec 6	Why Pearl Harbor? Behind Japan’s Planning	Theodore F. Cook, Jr.	William Paterson University of New Jersey / NYMAS Board

Winter-Spring, 2019 Fridays 7 pm to 8:45 pm
Date	Topic	Speaker	Affiliation	Date set w/speaker?	Sponsor/ Contact
Jan 4	Prisoners of War: Conceptions, Organizations and Lessons Learned in the British Government, 1914-1922	CPT Devon Collins	U.S. Military Academy at West Point		JT
Jan 18	The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam	Max Boot	Council on Foreign Relations	yes	RR, Benn Steil
Feb 1	The Kardashian Generals: Celebrity and Power in Contemporary Civil-Military Relations	Christopher Ankersen	Center for Global Affairs, New York University	yes	RR
Feb 15	1850-1865 US Foreign Policy, Logistics & Gunpowder	MAJ David Lambert	U.S. Military Academy at West Point	yes	RR, SW
Feb 22	The Realist Case for Eliminating Nuclear Weapons	Ward Wilson	Senior Fellow, Federation of American Scientists	yes	RR
Mar 1	On the Crest of Fear: the V-2s, the Battle of the Bulge, and the Closing Months of the Second World War	Tami Davis Biddle	U.S. Army War College	yes	RR
Mar 15	George Plante: Artist and Propagandist at War	Kathleen Williams	US Naval Academy Distinguished Professor in the Chair of Naval Heritage / NYMAS ExDir Emerita	yes	RR
Mar 29	Why the New Cold War Is More Dangerous Than the One We Survived	Stephen F. Cohen	The Nation New York University Princeton University	yes	RR, RM
Apr 12	*The Grosse* Importance of Kleine Krieg: Logistics, Operations, and "Little War" in the late 17th Century Low Countries**	John Stapleton	U.S. Military Academy at West Point	yes	RR, SE
Apr 26	War by Numbers: Understanding Conventional Combat	Christopher Lawrence	The Dupuy Institute	yes	JT
May 3	Reckless: Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam	Robert K. Brigham	Vassar College	yes	RR, ?
May 10	SMH May 9-12, 2019, in Columbus, Ohio
May 24	Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam -or- Tet 1968	Lien-Hang T. Nguyen	Columbia University	yes	RR, AS
June 7	Advocating Overlord: The D-Day Strategy and the Atomic Bomb	Philip J. Padgett	Author	yes	RR, AN Review
June 14	Change from the Trenches: Innovation in Technology and Tactics from the Ranks of the British Army during the First World War	Andrea Siotto	Temple University	yes	JT

Fall, 2018 NYMAS Calendar Fridays 7 pm to 8:45 pm
Date	Topic	Speaker	Affiliation
Sept 7	The American Civil War in the History of Warfare	Ethan Rafuse	U.S. Military Academy at West Point/ U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Sept 14	Marie von Clausewitz: The Woman Behind the Making of On War	Vanya Eftimova Bellinger	U.S. Army War College
Sept 21	Constructing a Legend: Irish ‘Wild Geese’ in Louis XIV’s Army 1689-1714	Pádraig Lenihan	National University of Ireland/ Galway
Sept 28	Forty-Seven Days: How Pershing's Warriors Came of Age to Defeat the German Army in World War I	Mitchell Yockelson	Chief Historian, The United States World War One Centennial Commission
Oct 5	Trouble at Home: War Weariness, American Strategy, and the Meaning of Victory in the Pacific War	Marc Gallicchio	Villanova University
Oct 12-13 Friday: 7-9 pm Saturday: 1-5 pm	Friday-Saturday 2-Day Conference - Wargaming - Producers and Moderators - Albert Nofi & Jerry Trombella, NYMAS Board Participants: Al Nofi, Mark Herman, Jim Dunnigan, Peter Perla
Oct 19	Withdrawal: Reassessing America's Final Years in Vietnam	Gregory A. Daddis	Chapman University Orange, Calif
Oct 26	Legion versus Phalanx: The Six Battles that Decided the Fate of the Ancient World	Myke Cole	Author, NYPD
Nov 2	Veterans and Electoral Politics	Jeremy Teigen	Ramapo College
Nov 9	World War I New York: A Guide to the City’s Enduring Ties to the Great War	Kevin C. Fitzpatrick	Author
Nov 16	Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of WWII	James Holland	Author / BBC presenter/ Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Nov 30	The Cold World They Made: The Strategic Legacy of Roberta and Albert Wohlstetter	Ron Robin	NYU / The University of Haifa, Israel

Winter-Spring, 2018 NYMAS Calendar Fridays 7 pm to 8:45 pm
Date	Topic	Speaker	Affiliation
Jan 5	U-Boat Assault on America: Why the US was Unprepared for War in the Atlantic	Ken Brown	Naval Institute Press
Jan 19	Afghanistan: Britain's Imperial Misadventures	Jules Stewart	Author
Feb 2	The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War	Benn Steil	Council on Foreign Relations
Feb 16	Capturing War: Veterans and Fiction	MAJ Ben Griffin	U.S. Military Academy at West Point
Mar 2	Elvis's Army: Cold War GIs and the Atomic Battlefield	Brian McAllister Linn	Texas A&M University
Mar 16	Attu: Creating Japan's 'Death before Surrender' Ideology	Theodore F. Cook, Jr.	William Paterson University of New Jersey / NYMAS Board
Mar 23	In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power	Alfred W. McCoy	University of Wisconsin
Apr 6	Combat Reflections: Afghanistan	CPT Antonio Salinas	U.S. Military Academy at West Point
Apr 20	The Great War at Sea, 1914-18	Stanley Carpenter	U.S. Naval War College
May 4	The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA's Heart of Darkness	John Prados	National Security Archive
May 18	The Suicide of Greece: The Saga of the Peloponnesian Wars	Mark Herman	Historian
Jun 1	What Russia Can Teach Us about War	Reina Pennington	Norwich University
Jun 15	Merging Competing Militaries After Civil Wars	Roy Licklider	Rutgers University / Saltzman Institute for War and Peace Studies, Columbia University

Fall, 2017 NYMAS Calendar Fridays 7 pm to 8:45 pm
Date	Topic	Speaker	Affiliation
Sept. 8	Titan: The Art of British Power in the Age of Revolution and Napoleon	William R. Nester	St. John's University
Sept. 15	City of Sedition: The History of New York City during the Civil War	John Strausbaugh	Author
Sept. 22	US Army WW2 Procurement: Why the Sherman Tank Was What It Was	Nicholas Moran	Historian
Oct. 6-7	2-Day Conference - New Perspectives on the American Civil War Moderator - Dr. Christiane Warren, Hudson County Comm. College Civil War Generals McClellan and Lee: The first two years of the War Dr. Gregory Edwards SUNY/ Empire State College Grant Under Fire: An Exposé of Generalship & Character in the American Civil War Joseph Rose, author
Oct. 13	No Friends but the Mountains: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands	Judith Matloff	Columbia Graduate School of Journalism
Oct. 20	The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World	Scott J. Shapiro	Yale Law School
Oct. 27	The Army before and after Andrew Jackson	Samuel Watson	U.S. Military Academy at West Point
Nov. 3	Intelligence: Why Can't We Do Better?	Robert Jervis	Columbia University
Nov. 10	Isolated but Idolized: How Civilian Veneration of the U.S. Military Undermines Innovation	Lionel Beehner	U.S. Military Academy at West Point Defense and Strategic Studies Department
Nov. 17	Sacrificed In Vain - The History And Fate of Nationalist China's Elite 74th Corps 1937-1949	Edward Chen	NYMAS
Dec. 1	Clausewitz and War in the 21st Century	CPT Mike Kiser	U.S. Military Academy at West Point

Winter-Spring, 2017
Fridays 7 pm to 8:45 pm
Date Topic Speaker Affiliation
January 6 Grounded: The Case for Abolishing the United States Air Force Robert Farley University of Kentucky
January 20 Storm over Leyte: Intelligence at Leyte Gulf John Prados National Security Archive
February 3 The Battle of Campaldino, 1289: The Battle that Made Dante Kelly DeVries Loyola University Maryland
February 17 Julius Caesar's Art of War: A Graphic Portfolio of Battlefields and Tactics in the Commentarii de Bello Gallico CPT Antonio Salinas U.S. Military Academy
at West Point
March 3 Beyond the Band of Brothers: the US Military and the Myth that Women Can’t Fight Megan MacKenzie University of Sydney
March 17 World War I in the
Forgotten Austro-Hungarian Empire John Fahey U.S. Military Academy
at West Point

April 7 Maps and War: An Introduction Jeremy Black MBE, University of Exeter
April 21 The Indian Air Force in
the 1971 Bangladesh War Samir Chopra &
Jagan Pillarisetti Brooklyn College
May 5 GPS: American Invention, Global Impact Richard D. Easton & Eric F. Frazier Authors
May 19 Operation Beowulf, October 1941 Richard DiNardo US Marine Corps Command and Staff College
June 2 Commander in Chief: FDR's Battle with Churchill, 1943 (FDR at War) Nigel Hamilton University of Massachusetts Boston
June 16
1932: The Year China Could Have Stopped the Second World War from ever Happening: Modern Lessons from a Failed State
Ching Wah Chin NYMAS

Fall, 2016 NYMAS Calendar Fridays 7 pm to 8:45 pm
Date	Topic	Speaker	Affiliation
Sept 9	The Ottoman Endgame: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908 - 1923	Sean McMeekin	Bard College
Sept 16	Mission Failure: America and the World in the Post-Cold War Era	Michael Mandelbaum	The Johns Hopkins University, Council on Foreign Relations
Sept 23	Drone: Remote Control Warfare	Hugh Gusterson	Anthropologist at George Washington University
Sept 30	British Diplomacy in Spain and Portugal during the Napoleonic Wars	LTC Frederick Black	U.S. Military Academy at West Point
Oct 7	Advance to Kill: Allied Deception Efforts and the Struggle for the Gothic Line, Italy September 1944	Lee Windsor	Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society, University of New Brunswick
Oct 14	How the Nazis Used Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Rhetoric for their Own Purposes	Randall Bytwerk	Calvin College
Oct 21	The Path to WW I	Michael S. Neiberg	United States Army War College
Oct 28	1777: Tipping Point at Saratoga	Dean Snow	Pennsylvania State University
Nov 4	War Without Victory: Athens, Sparta, and the Battle for Greece	Jennifer Roberts	CUNY Graduate Center
Nov 11	The Great War and Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising	Paul V. Walsh	NYMAS
Nov 18	The Russo-Japanese War and Forging the Japanese Soldier	Theodore F. Cook, Jr.	William Paterson University of New Jersey / NYMAS Board

Winter-Spring, 2016 Fridays 7 pm to 8:45 pm
Date	Topic	Speaker	Affiliation
Jan 8	The Crisis in Syria	Christopher Kozak	Institute for the Study of War
Jan 22	WWII Naval Shipbuilding	Thomas Heinrich	Baruch College
Feb 5	Ronald Reagan, Tom Clancy, and the Transformation of National Security	CPT Ben Griffin	U.S. Military Academy at West Point
Feb 19	The Army’s Orphans: The United States Army Replacement System in the European Campaign, 1944-1945	Eric Klinek	Temple University
Mar 4	The Demon of Geopolitics: Karl Haushofer, Rudolf Hess and Adolf Hitler	Holger Herwig	University of Calgary
Mar 18	Rule Britannia: Rise of the Maritime Empires	Stanley Carpenter	The Naval War College
Apr 1	The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming's Novels to the Big Screen	Jeremy Black	MBE, University of Exeter
Apr 8	Stalin and the Winter War with Finland 1939-1940	Stephen Kotkin	Princeton University
Apr 29-30 Friday 7-9 pm Saturday 1-5 pm	NYMAS Spring 2016 2-Day Conference Produced & moderated by Robert Miller Espionage: from Cold War to Asymmetric Conflict Joseph Fitsanakis specializes in intelligence and national security with an emphasis on international espionage. He has taught and written extensively on intelligence policy and practice, intelligence history, communications interception, cyber espionage, and transnational criminal networks. His writings have been translated into several languages and referenced in media outlets including The Washington Post, BBC, ABC, NPR, Newsweek, The Guardian, Le Monde Diplomatique, and Wired. Before joining Coastal Carolina University, Dr. Fitsanakis built the Security and Intelligence Studies program at King University, where he also directed the King Institute for Security and Intelligence Studies. At Coastal, he teaches courses on national security, intelligence communications, intelligence analysis, intelligence operations, and espionage during the Cold War, among other subjects. Dr. Fitsanakis is also deputy director of the European Intelligence Academy and senior editor at intelNews.org, an ACI-indexed scholarly blog that is cataloged through the United States Library of Congress. _____________________________ Mark Kramer is Director of Cold War Studies at Harvard University and a Senior Fellow of Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Originally trained in mathematics, he went on to study international relations as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and was also an Academy Fellow in Harvard's Academy of International and Area Studies. He has published many books and articles. His latest books are Imposing, Maintaining, and Tearing Open the Iron Curtain: The Cold War and East‐Central Europe, 1945‐1990 (2013), Reassessing History on Two Continents (2013), Der Kreml und die Wende 1989 (2014), and Der Kreml und die Wiedervereinigung (2015), and he is also the editor of a three‐volume collection, The Fate of Communist Regimes, 1989‐1991, to be published in late 2016. ___________________________ __ Mark Mazzetti is a correspondent for The New York Times, where he has covered national security from the newspaper's Washington bureau since April 2006. In 2009, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the intensifying violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan and Washington's response. The previous year, he was a Pulitzer finalist for revelations about the C.I.A.'s detention and interrogation program. He is the author of The Way of the Knife (Penguin 2013) a bestselling account of the CIA's covert action forces. Since the Sept. 11 attacks, he has made several reporting trips to Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa. Mazzetti received a 2011 Polk Award (with colleague Dexter Filkins) for coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan, and was the recipient of the 2006 Gerald R Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on National Defense.
May 13	Honor, Country, and Sex: The Motivational System of Napoleon's Armies	Michael J. Hughes	Iona College
May 27	Fascist Italian Intervention in the Spanish Civil War	Brian Sullivan	First NYMAS President and former Senior Research Professor at National Defense University
Jun 10	Reconsidering the American Way of War: US Military Practice from the Revolution to Afghanistan	Colonel Antulio J. Echevarria II (Ret.)	US Army War College Quarterly
Jun 24	Appomattox: Victory, Defeat and Freedom at the End of the Civil War	Elizabeth Varon	University of Virginia

Fall, 2015 Calendar Fridays 7 pm to 8:45 pm
Date	Topic	Speaker	Affiliation
Sept 11	The Future of the Past: Military History in the Digital Era	Clifford J. Rogers	Senior Editor of The West Point History of Warfare / U.S. Military Academy at West Point
Sept 18	"Broken Sword": The Growth, Decline and Recovery of Nationalist China's Armored Force, 1930-1950	Edward Chen	NYMAS
Sept 25	Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi War Economy	Adam Tooze	Director, The European Institute, Columbia University
Oct 2	Law, Science, Liberalism and the American Way of Warfare: The Quest for Humanity in Conflict	Michael John Williams	Director, International Relations Program, New York University
Oct 9	The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War	Don H. Doyle	University of South Carolina
Oct 16-17 Friday 7-9 pm Saturday 1-5 pm	Please note date change NYMAS Spring 2015 2-Day Conference Produced & moderated by Robert Miller Sally Paine, Nigel Hamilton, Mark Stoler (on George C. Marshall), Jason McDonald
Oct 23	Ashley’s War: The Untold Story of a Team of Women Soldiers on the Special Ops Battlefield	Gayle Tzemach Lemmon	Council on Foreign Relations
Oct 30	Ways of War: American Military History from the Colonial Era to the 21st Century	Matthew S. Muehlbauer, David J. Ulbrich	Manhattan College, Rogers State University
Nov 6	The Battle of Britain through Japanese Eyes: Attachés on the Ground in London and the Continent	Theodore F. Cook, Jr.	William Paterson University of New Jersey / NYMAS Board
Nov 13	*The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide*	Gary J. Bass	Princeton University
Nov 20	The Second Sino-Japanese War: China as a World Power	Ching Wah Chin	NYMAS Board

Winter-Spring, 2015 Calendar Fridays 7 pm to 8:45 pm
Date	Topic	Speaker	Affiliation
Jan 16	Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire	Joshua A. Sanborn	Lafayette College
Jan 30	They Fought for Each Other: the Tale of the Hardest Hit Unit in Iraq	Kelly Kennedy	Journalist
Feb 13	FBI Counterespionage during World War II	Ray Batvinis	George Washington University
Feb 27	The Invasion of Serbia, 1915	Richard DiNardo	US Marine Corps Command and Staff College / NYMAS
Mar 13	Grant and Lee in the 1864 Overland Campaign	Daniel Franke	U.S. Military Academy at West Point
Mar 27-28	NYMAS Spring 2015 2-Day Conference Produced & moderated by Al Nofi & Robert Miller David Kaiser, author of No End Save Victory: How FDR Led the Nation into War Mark Perry, author of The Most Dangerous Man in America: The Making of Douglas MacArthur David L. Roll, author of The Hopkins Touch
Apr 10	Why Did the Allies Win WWII?	Jeremy Black	MBE, University of Exeter
Apr 17	*Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings*	Craig L. Symonds	Professor Emeritus, U.S. Naval Academy
Apr 24	The Development of Infantries in the Late Middle Ages and in the Early Renaissance	Albert Winkler	Brigham Young University
May 8	Stab in the Back: The Italian-French Alpine Campaign, June 1940	Brian Sullivan	Former NYMAS President and Research Professor at National Defense University
May 22	Pacific Blitzkrieg: World War II in the Central Pacific	LTC Sharon Lacey	US Army Center for Military History
Jun 12	Waterloo	Michael V. Leggiere	University of North Texas

Updated Friday, December 09, 2022 02:27 PM– Bob Rowen rrowen@nymas.org

Fall, 2014 Calendar
Fridays 7 pm to 8:45 pm

Date

Topic

Speaker

Affiliation

Sept 5

Westmoreland's War: Reassessing American Strategy in Vietnam

Colonel Gregory Daddis

U.S. Military Academy at West Point

Sept 12

Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America

Howard Blum

Author

Sept 19

Seriously Not All Right: Five Wars in Ten Years

Ron Capps

Veterans Writing Project

Oct 10

Drones

Gary Kern

Author

Oct 17-18

NYMAS 2-day Fall Conference
Produced and moderated by Robert Miller

Topic	Speaker / panelist	Author of
British Warmaking: Lost Opportunities, 1914-15	Norman Friedman	Fighting the Great War at Sea: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology
Verdun	Paul Jankowsky	Verdun: The Longest Battle of the Great War
The French Army	Edward M. Strauss	Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918
Austria-Hungary	Geoffrey Wawro	A Mad Catastrophe
German War Plans	Terrence Zuber	The Real German War Plan: 1904-14

Oct 24

American Grand Strategy in the Mediterranean during WWII

Andrew Buchanan

University of Vermont

Nov 7

An Examination of British Cryptography during the Second World War

Aki Snyder

Scholar

Nov 14

Clausewitz: His Life and Work

Donald Stoker

U.S. Naval War College

Nov 21

Napoleon

Andrew Roberts

Author

Winter-Spring, 2014 Tentative Working Draft Dates Fridays 7 pm to 8:45 pm
Date	Topic	Speaker	Affiliation
Jan 3	The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order	Benn Steil	The Council on Foreign Relations
Jan 17	Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War	Jeffrey T. Sammons	New York University
Jan 31	July 1914: Countdown to War	Sean McMeekin	Koç University, Turkey
Feb 14	Decisive Battle in China: The Huai-Hai Campaign and the Reshaping of East Asia, 1948-49 (65 years ago)	Edward Chen	NYMAS
Feb 28	The Wehrmacht Retreats: Fighting a Lost War, 1943	Robert M. Citino	The US Army War College
Mar 14	Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army	Kayla Williams	Author
Mar 28	Compassion after War: Major General Allen and the Rhineland Occupation	Major Russell W. Vanderlugt	United States Military Academy at West Point
Apr 11-12 Friday: 7-9pm Saturday: 1-5 pm	NYMAS Spring, 2014 2 day event Spring 2014: "When Europe Went to War: Recent Interpretations of the Outbreak of the Great War" -- with Richard DiNardo coordinating Friday, April 11, 7-9 pm: Richard L. DiNardo, Changes (and Non Changes) in scholarship since the 50th anniversary of the war Robert Bulko, Imagining War: Popular Attitudes Towards War on the Eve of World War I David Gordon, How Domestic Politics Pushed the Central Powers into War Saturday, April 12, 1-5 pm: Edward J. Erickson, Turkey’s Decision for War, 1914 Ted Cook, Japan’s German War, 1914 Ann Louise Antonoff, British and American Naval Policy on the Eve of 1914
Apr 25	The Russian Fish with "Caviar": the 1945 TICOM Intelligence Operation	Randy Rezabek	Author
May 9	The Murder of OSS Major William Holohan in Italy 1944	William Corvo	Independent Historian
May 23	Operation Anthropoid: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich	William Schuber	Fairleigh Dickinson University
June 6	The Devil's Garden: Rommel's Desperate Defense of Omaha Beach on D-Day	Steven Zaloga	Author / former NYMAS Boardmember
June 20	Nomonhan 1939: The Red Army's Victory that Shaped World War II	Stuart D. Goldman	National Council for Eurasian and East European Research

Fall, 2013 Fridays 7 pm to 8:45 pm
Date	Topic	Speaker	Affiliation
Note experimental weekly dates this season only
Sept. 20	How U.S. Economists Won World War II	Jim Lacy	Professor of Strategic Studies, Marine Corps War College
Sept. 27	Fear and Loathing in Tatary: 19th Century Russian Struggles in their Borderlands	Major Daniel Horst	US Military Academy at West Point
Oct. 4	The Enigma Code	Dave Perry	The National Security Agency
Oct. 11	Rightists in the French Resistance	Valerie Deacon	NYU
Oct. 18	The Last Days of Stonewall Jackson	Chris Mackowski	St. Bonaventure University
Oct. 25	Is There a Right Way to Lead a War? The Puzzle of Wartime Presidential Leadership from Abraham Lincoln to Obama	Andrew J. Polsky	Hunter College, CUNY Graduate Center
Nov. 1	The Discovery of the WW2 Submarine the R12	Christine Dennison, Tim Taylor	The Explorers Club
Nov. 8-9 Friday: 7-9pm Saturday: 1-5 pm	NYMAS Fall Conference Vietnam 1963: Revision and Reassessment Moderator: Robert Miller --Executive Director of NYMAS, Enigma Books Edward Miller, Dartmouth College Fredrik Logevall, Cornell University Col. Gian Gentile, US Military Academy at West Point Pierre Asselin, Hawai’i Pacific University
Nov. 15	Debating a Military Academy - Politics and the Military during the 1790s	Major Andrew Forney	US Military Academy at West Point
Nov. 22	Castro's Secrets: Cuban Intelligence, the CIA, and the assassination of JFK	Brian Latell	former CIA National Intelligence Officer for Latin America

Winter-Spring, 2013
Working Draft Dates
Fridays 7 pm to 8:45 pm

Topic

Speaker

Affiliation

Jan. 4

Islands of Destiny: The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun

John Prados

Author / National Security Archive

Jan. 18

Blitzkrieg Rules at Caporetto, 1917, in France in May, 1940, and in North Africa, 1941

Guy Cavallaro

World War One Historical Association

Feb. 1

Embers of War: the Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam

Fredrik Logevall

Cornell University

Feb. 15

Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Timothy Snyder

Yale University

Mar. 1

Pirate Alley: Commanding Task Force 151 Off Somalia

Rear Admiral Terry McKnight

US Navy, retired

Mar. 8

The Measure of a Man:
My Father, the Marine Corps, and Saipan

Kathleen Williams

NYMAS Board, Executive Director Emeritus

Mar. 15

Fighting for MacArthur : the Navy and Marine Corps’ Desperate Defense of the Philippines

John Gordon

Rand Corporation, Author

March 22
(7-9 pm)

AND

March 23
(Sat. 1-5 pm)

NYMAS Spring Friday/Saturday Event
Wars and Rumors of Wars: 1898-1914
Moderator / Producer: Dr. Albert A. Nofi

Lessons from America’s ‘Small Wars’, 1898-1914	Dr. Albert A. Nofi	Author, NYMAS Board
The British Army and the Lessons of the Boer War	Dan David	NYMAS Board & Head, NYMAS Book Award Committee
Lessons of the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905	Prof. Theodore F. Cook, Jr.	William Paterson University of New Jersey / NYMAS Board
Lessons Learned by the Ottoman Army from the Balkan Wars	Prof. Edward Erickson	Command and Staff College, Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia.
The Italo-Ottoman War, 1911-1912	Prof. Brian R. Sullivan	Former NYMAS President and Research Professor at National Defense University
The Price of Victory: The Invasion and Conquest of Serbia, 1915	Prof. Richard L. DiNardo	Command and Staff College, Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia.

Apr. 5

Spy Sites of New York City

Bob Wallace

Former Director of the CIA's Office of Technical Service

April 19

Joe Rochefort's War:
The Odyssey of the Codebreaker
Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway

Elliot Carlson

Author

May 3

From Belleau Wood to Guadalcanal: Thomas Holcomb and the Making of the Modern Marine Corps

David Ulbrich

Historian, U.S. Army Engineer School

May 17

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

Clifford Rogers

U.S. Military Academy at West Point

May 24

Roman Warfare

Adrian Goldsworthy

Historian and Author

May 31

Allied Master Strategists: The Combined Chiefs of Staff in World War II

David Rigby

Author

June 14

The End of War?

John Horgan

Author

Fall, 2012 Fridays 7 pm to 8:45 pm
	Topic	Speaker	Affiliation
Sept. 7	New York at War	Steven H. Jaffe	Independent Historian and Curator
Sept. 21	Meade at Gettysburg	Col. Kevin Farrell	United States Military Academy at West Point
Oct. 5	Saudi Arabia: Thinking about Nuclear Weapons	Norman Cigar	Marine Corps University
Oct. 19 (plus 1 to 5 pm on Sat. Oct 20)	NYMAS Fall Friday/Saturday Event Cyber Warfare
Nov. 2	Joe Rochefort's War: The Odyssey of the Codebreaker Who Outwitted Yamamoto at Midway (moved to April, 2013)	Elliot Carlson	Author
Nov 16	Mussolini Warlord: Failed Dreams of Empire 1940-1943	H. James Burgwyn	Author
Nov 30	Verdun in Korea: the UN's Operation Showdown against the Chinese at Triangle Hill	Ed Chen	NYMAS Board / Scholar

Winter-Spring 2012

Date

Topic

Speaker

Affiliation

Jan 6

America at War:
A Magazine History

Steve Lomazow

Author

Jan 20

Writing the Official British Military History of World War I: Memoirs and Biographies

Daniel David

NYMAS Board/ NYMAS Book Awards Committee

Feb 3

Intervening in Revolution: Woodrow Wilson in Mexico

Major Luke Frank

United States Military Academy at West Point

Feb 17

Flamethrower Tanks and Doctrine in WWII Technology

Major John P. Ringquist

United States Military Academy at West Point

March 2

Not Servants of Justice: The Malmedy Massacre Trial and Its Aftermath

Steven P. Remy

Brooklyn College/ CUNY Graduate Center

March 16

Asst. Secretary of the Navy Gustavus Fox in the Civil War Navy

Ari Hoogenboom

Brooklyn College/ CUNY Graduate Center

March 30
(7 to 8:45 pm)

The War of 1812
in New York and Beyond
A 3-day NYMAS Event

Friday evening, March 30
7 to 8:45 pm
Soldiers Sailors Club
General Introduction Al Nofi Author / NYMAS Board of Directors

U.S. National Security Policy During the Decade Before the War of 1812 Samuel Watson United States Military Academy at West Point

Q&A Panelists and audience

Saturday, March 31
1 to 5 pm
Soldiers Sailors Club
British Strategy and Thinking, Military and Economic, About the Northeastern Theater James Werbaneth American Military University

Governor Tompkins’ War Prof. Harvey Strum Sage College of Albany

Threat and Response: New York City’s Harbor Defenses During the War of 1812 Richard Cox Director, Harbor Defense Museum

Privateers and Profits Michael Rutstein Author, Fame: The Salem Privateer (2002)

Q&A Panelists and audience

Sunday, April 1
1-5 pm
Note: this session will be held at Sam's Place Restaurant, 39th St. near Lexington Ave., upstairs
Talk by the author of The Final Invasion: Plattsburgh, the War of 1812’s Most Decisive Battle Col. Dave Fitz-Enz, USA (Ret.) Author

Panelists’ Roundtable – “Why Care About the ‘War of 1812’?”

Q&A Panelists and audienc

March 31 (Sat.
1-5 pm)

Apr 13

Fragging: Why U.S. Soldiers Assaulted Their Officers in Vietnam

George Lepre

Author

Apr 27

Western Warfare in the Age of the Crusades, 1000-1300

John France

United States Military Academy at West Point

May 11

Collecting War Art

Dave H. Williams

Author/Collector

May 25

Vichy, the Nazis and Mafia Collaborators in Provence 1942-1944

Isaac Levendel

Author

June 8

Musahi: Major Problems in 'The Most Peaceful Valley in Afghanistan"

Martin Scott Catino

American Military University

June 22

The Rise and Fall of the Tankette, 1925-1940: A Forgotten Chapter in the Evolution of Armored Warfare

Paul V. Walsh

Author

Fall 2011

Date

Topic

Speaker

Affiliation

Sept. 9

Romeo Spy: The Rise and Fall of a KGB Operative

Emil Draitser

Hunter College

Sept 23

Normandy Crucible: The Allied Breakout and The Battle of the Falaise Pocket

John Prados

Senior Research Fellow at The National Security Archive

Sept 30

Theoretical Origins of the Battleship Navy

Douglas Haugen

Wagner College

October 14

The Chinese Civil War at 100: Unfinished Business?

Edward Chen

Scholar, NYMAS

Oct 28
Friday
(7:00-8:45pm)

Civil Warriors:
Ordinary Americans
and the Great National Crisis
1860-1865

Oct 29
Saturday(1-5 pm)

Nov 4

West Pointers in the Frontier West

Major Ryan L. Shaw

United States Military Academy
at West Point

Nov 18

The Secret to Mussolini's Success: The Role of Italian Military Intelligence in War and Peace, 1922-1940

Brian Sullivan

Former NYMAS President and Research Professor at National Defense University

Dec 2

On the 70th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor:
The Hawaii Battle: Pearl Harbor through Japanese Eyes

Theodore F. Cook, Jr.

William Paterson University of New Jersey / NYMAS Board

NYMAS Winter-Spring 2011 CALENDAR
Date	at	Topic	Speaker	Affiliation
Jan 7	Soldiers Sailors Club Lexington & 37th	*FDR's Deadly Secret*	Steven Lomazow M.D	Author
Jan 21	Soldiers Sailors Club	'Virtually Useless': The Rise and Fall of the Safeguard Ballistic Missile Defense System	Major Joe Scott	United States Military Academy at West Point
Feb 4	Soldiers Sailors Club	Lenin, Germany and the War 1917-1918	Yuri Felshtinsky	Author
Feb 18	Soldiers Sailors Club	Egypt and the Middle East	Jim Dingeman	NYMAS/INN
Mar 4	Soldiers Sailors Club	Lost Eagles - The Origins of America's Search for its Missing Airmen	Blaine Pardoe	Author / Historian
Mar 18 (7-9 pm)	Soldiers Sailors Club	A Conference on the 100th Anniversary of Naval Aviation · Mar 18 - S&S, Film, Helldivers (1931) & round table · Mar 19 - S&S, 1:00-5:00, presentations, o Norman Friedman, author, “Evolution of the Aircraft Carrier Through 1942” o D. C. Isby, author, “British and American Naval Aviation in the Interwar Period Compared” o Wray Johnson, USMC Command & Staff College, “Marine Corps Aviation in Small Wars, 1915-1935.” o A.A. Nofi, NYMAS, “The Interwar Fleet Maneuvers in the Development of the Fast Carrier Task Force.” o Tom Wisker, NYMAS, “The Evolution of American Naval Aircraft, 1911-1941”
Mar 19 (Saturday) (1-5 pm)	Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum 12th Avenue and 46th St.
Apr 1	Soldiers Sailors Club	Feigned Neutrality: United States Involvement in the Iran-Iraq War	Major Greg Tomlin	United States Military Academy at West Point
Apr 8	Intrepid - Lutnick Theater	Seven Women Who Helped Change the Course of the Civil War	Kay Larson	US Coast Guard Auxiliary, NYMAS Board
Apr 15	Soldiers Sailors Club	The Military and the Monarchy -- The Case and Career of the Duke of Cambridge in an Age of Reform	Colonel Kevin Farrell	United States Military Academy at West Point
Apr 29	Soldiers Sailors Club	(for podcast, see: Kansans, Abolitionists and John Brown's Men) Abolitionist or Job Seeker: Gauging Abolitionist Officer Commitment in the Civil War West	Major John P. Ringquist	United States Military Academy at West Point
May 13	Soldiers Sailors Club	Atomic Spies: Just Who Stole the A-Bomb for Stalin?	Gary Kern	Specialist in Atomic Espionage History
May 20	Intrepid - Lutnick Theater	Axis Sally: The American Voice of Nazi Germany	Richard Lucas	Author
May 27	Soldiers Sailors Club	No Sure Victory: Measuring U.S. Army Effectiveness and Progress in the Vietnam War	Lt. Colonel Greg Daddis	United States Military Academy at West Point
June 10	Soldiers Sailors Club	The Police at War: 1917-1918 and 1941-45	Thomas Reppetto	formerly the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
June 17	Intrepid - Lutnick Theater	Researching World War II Iconic Photography Online	Jason McDonald	Author
June 24	Intrepid - Lutnick Theater	The Largest Aircraft Carrier Battle in History: The Marianas Turkey Shoot	David Sears	Author

Fall, 2010 Calendar
Friday evening talks (7 to 8:45)
and the Fall Saturday All-day Conference

Sept 10

Soldiers Sailors Club, Lex near 37th

The Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939

Jim Dingeman

NYMAS

Sept. 24

Soldiers Sailors Club, Lex near 37th

Now We Are Enemies: The Story of Bunker Hill

Tom Fleming

Author / Historian

Oct 8

Soldiers Sailors Club, Lex near 37th

Wedemeyer: The Man Who Planned D-Day

John J. McLaughlin

New Jersey WW2 Book Club

Oct 15

The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
12th Avenue and 46th St.

An Unmanned Sky? The Future of UAVs and UCAVs

Norman Friedman

Author

Oct 22

Soldiers Sailors Club, Lex near 37th

The Italian Brothers

Paolo Mastrolilli

Author

The Fall Saturday All-day Conference

Oct 30
(Saturday, 10 am-4 pm)

The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
12th Avenue and 46th St.

To the Gates of Stalingrad:

Col. David Glantz (ret.)

Author / Scholar

Nov 5

Soldiers Sailors Club, Lex near 37th

Did the Napoleonic Empire Pay for
Itself?

Alex Stavropoulos

Graduate Center/CUNY

Nov 19

Soldiers Sailors Club, Lex near 37th

The Chinese Civil War in Manchuria, 1945-48

Ed Chen

NYMAS Board / Scholar

Dec 3

Soldiers Sailors Club, Lex near 37th

The U.S. Army on the Eve of the Civil War

Samuel Watson

United States Military Academy at West Point

Dec 10

The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
12th Avenue and 46th St.

Japan's War Plans: Preparing for Armageddon

Theodore F. Cook, Jr.

William Paterson University of New Jersey / NYMAS Board

Winter-Spring 2010
22-Jan	Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen's Club, 283 Lexington Avenue between 36th & 37th Streets.	The Chiapas Insurgency	Bill Weinberg	Author, Journalist, WBAI
5-Feb	Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen's Club, 283 Lexington Avenue between 36th & 37th Streets.	The French Navy in the French Revolution	Professor Kenny Johnson	USMA, History Dept
19-Feb	Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen's Club, 283 Lexington Avenue between 36th & 37th Streets.	Puerto Rican Soldiers: America's Foreign Legionnaires	Miguel Hernandez	NYMAS, 69th Veterans Corps
5-Mar	Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen's Club, 283 Lexington Avenue between 36th & 37th Streets.	"Valley of Death" Dien Bien Phu	Ted Morgan	Pulitzer Prize Winner, Author with Random House
19-Mar	Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen's Club, 283 Lexington Avenue between 36th & 37th Streets.	(for podcast, see:Dreaming of Pax Aeronautica: Neoisolationist Promotion of Airpower, 1947-1953) Strategic Air Power and Isolationist Visions of American National Defense after WWII	Major Pete Rayls	USMA, History Dept
9-Apr	Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen's Club, 283 Lexington Avenue between 36th & 37th Streets.	Invisible Ink Spycraft of the American Revolution	John A Nagy	Author, President of the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia
16-Apr	CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave (34thSt),Segal Theater, Lobby Floor	The Next Generation Interviews the "Greatest" Generation	Students of the Gateway School discuss their interviews with WWII veterans	Co-sponsored by NYMAS and the CUNY Graduate Center History Dept.
7-May	Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen's Club, 283 Lexington Avenue between 36th & 37th Streets.	Pequot and King Philip's wars	Professor Matthew Muehlbauer & Major Jason Warren	USMA, History Dept
21-May	Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen's Club, 283 Lexington Avenue between 36th & 37th Streets.	Malfeasance in Blue: The Air Force Vs The Army	Tom Wisker	WBAI, NYMAS Director
4-Jun	Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen's Club, 283 Lexington Avenue between 36th & 37th Streets.	"Defeat and Triumph" Operation Dragoon, August 1944	Stephen Sussna	Author, Independent Scholar, Invasion Participant
18-Jun	Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen's Club, 283 Lexington Avenue between 36th & 37th Streets.	The Christianization of the Roman Army	John Shean	Professor, La Guardia Community College


NYMAS Fall 2009
DATE	TOPIC	LOCATION	SPEAKER	AFFILIATION
24-Sep	Okinawa Medevac	Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen club, NY	Tom Wisker	NYMAS Director, WBAI
2-Oct	Third Reich Secrets – Walter Schellenberg	Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen club, NY	Dr REINHARD DOERRIES	Professor of History, University of Erlangen, Germany
16-Oct	Battle of Pell's Point, NY, 1776	Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen club, NY	LTC FRANK LICAMELI US Army Retd.	West Point Faculty
6-Nov	CANCELLED	Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen club, NY	Prof. SAM WATSON	West Point Faculty
20-Nov	The Young Winston	Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen club, NY	MICHAEL McMENAMIN	Independent Scholar
4-Dec	Visions of a New War. Japan Dec 8, 1941	Soldiers, Sailors & Airmen club, NY	Prof. THEODORE COOK	NYMAS Director, Professor of History, William Paterson University, NJ
11-Dec	The New Jersey Built Fast Carriers: 1927-2009	Conference Room 801, 8th floor, 346 Broadway, NYC [entry at 108 Leonard St- ID required]	LAWRENCE BRENNAN, Esq., USNR	Attorney at Law, Naval Scholar

NYMAS Winter-Spring 2009
CALENDAR
as of
Friday, December 09, 2022 02:27 PM
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, 2009

2-4
Six Months in Liberia

Jim Dingeman

Frank Radford

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
CALENDAR
as of
Friday, December 09, 2022 02:27 PM
Schedule of Friday Evening Talks & the Fall Friday/Saturday Conference
Click here to print the Fall 2008 NYMAS Schedule
in Adobe Reader format

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 Friday, December 09, 2022 02:27 PM
Schedule of Friday Evening Talks & the Fall Friday/Saturday Conference
Click here to print the Fall 2007 NYMAS Schedule
in Adobe Reader format

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 Friday, December 09, 2022 02:27 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	Major Mark Vertuli	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
as of Friday, December 09, 2022 02:27 PM
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

NYMAS Winter-Spring 2006
CALENDAR
as of Friday, December 09, 2022 02:27 PM
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 Friday, December 09, 2022 02:27:20 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:
here on the web at NYMAS.ORG

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
60^th 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 Friday, December 09, 2022 02:27:20 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 Friday, December 09, 2022 02:27 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

Winter-Spring, 2002 Calendar
Schedule of Friday Evening Talks & the Spring Saturday Conference

Date

Topic

Speaker

Affiliation

Jan 18

Operation Brunswick - Could it have ended the war by mid-'43?

Frank Radford

NYMAS

Jan 25

England's Greatest General

Cliff Rogers

USMA

Feb 1

Grant's Overland Campaign in 1864

Ethan Rafuse

USMA

Feb 8

Lee's Lieutenants: The Junior Officers of the Army of Northern Virginia

Capt. Charles Bowery

USMA

Feb 15

A famous frigate action outside NY harbor in 1793

Bill Casto

Texas Tech Univ.

Feb 22

Marx, Engels, and The Civil War

Andrew Buchanan

NYMAS

Mar 1

The West Point Bicentennial

Samuel Watson

USMA

Friday
March 8

Roundtable
What accounts for the recent American failure in intelligence collection, evaluation and effective response?
Co-sponsored by the Greater New York Chapter of The Historical Society

Michael Levine (click for bio)	WBAI
John Prados	Fellow at the International Center for Advanced Studies at New York University

Saturday
March 9

The NYMAS All-Day Saturday Conference
America and Global Terrorism
Commentator: George Phillips, NYMAS

A new kind of war?	Norman Friedman	Author / NYMAS
Islam: a kind of "modernization"	Derk Kinnane	Writer/Analyst, United Press International
Afghanistan : The Conflict & U.S. Policy Options	Dave Isby	Author

Mar 15

Popular Visions of World War III in '50s & '60s America

Bob Bulko

NYMAS

Mar 22

Presbyterian vs Anglican:
Implications for 300 years of war and politics

C. Kay Larson

NYMAS

Mar 29

The U.S. Army in WW II: Kent Roberts Greenfield and the creation of the "Green Book"

Jeff Grey

Marine Corps Command and Staff College

Apr 5

Przemysl and the Fight for Galicia, 1914-1915

Bruce Kamiat

NYMAS

Apr 12

U.S.-Brazilian Security Relations, 1935-1941

Major Steve Olejasz

USMA

Apr 19

After Clausewitz: German Military Theories before The Great War

Lt. Col. Antulio J Echevarria

US Army War College

Apr 26

My Lai and the International Criminal Court

Gary Solis

Marine Corps Historical Center.

May 3

"Emphatically the Black Man's President": New Light on Lincoln and Frederick Douglass

Michael Burlingame

Connecticut College, New London

May 10

France, 1940: The Uses of Defeat

David Gordon

NYMAS/ Bronx Community College

May 17

Terror on the Chesapeake: the War of 1812

Christopher T. George

Journal of the War of 1812
(per RR)

May 24

Gallipoli: From military disaster in 1915 to National Park in 2001

Don Bittner

USMC Command and Staff College

May 31

Civil War in Brazil, 1932: Conventional Warfare on Latin America

Paul V. Walsh

Delaware County Community College

June 7

Torpedo Bombers and Air Dropped Torpedoes of World War II

Dwight Cox

NYMAS

June 14

The First Anglo-Dutch War

Major Charles Brown

USMA

June 21

Taming the Chesapeake: the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1960-80

Christine Keiner

University of Oklahoma, Department of the History of Science

This draft updated January 21, 2002

NYMAS talks are free and open to the public. They 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 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. Support has also been provided by the CUNY students' CUMHDAS group and the CUNY Veterans Affairs Office. 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.

Executive Director: Dr. Kathleen B. Williams, 20 Alden Pl, Bronxville, N.Y., 10708 (914) 793-4928, KBBWilliam@aol.com
Check for the latest changes and updates: on the web at NYMAS.ORG

Schedule of Friday Evening Talks
& the Fall Saturday Conference
Fall, 2001

Date

Topic

Speaker

Affiliation

Sept 7

Anti-Semitic Politics in the U.S. Army, 1919-1948

Joseph Bendersky

Virginia Commonwealth University

Sept 14

Pursuit Ships before the P-1: U.S. Army Single-Engine Combat Aircraft in the Immediate Post-WW1 Period.

Tom Wisker

NYMAS &
WBAI / Pacifica Radio

Sept 21

Civil War Nuggets in the National Archives

Mike Musick

National Archives

Sept 28

A Roundtable on the Napoleonic Era

Maj. Steve Delvaux
Maj. Phil Cuccia
Maj. Paul Reese

USMA

Oct 5

Andrew Jackson and The Indian Wars

John Buchanan

Author

Oct 12

Fortification and Authority in Medieval Ireland

Capt. David Beougher

USMA

Oct 19

6-7pm NYMAS Business Meeting - Open to all members
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American Privateers in the War of 1812

Robert Rowen

NYMAS

Oct 26

After Clausewitz: German Military Theories before the Great War

Lt. Col. Antulio J Echevarria

US Army War College

Nov 2

Roundtable
Pearl Harbor Betrayed -
A Fresh Look

Commentators:
Dennis Showalter
Geoffrey Megargee

Michael Gannon

Distinguished Service Professor of History, University of Fl.

Saturday
Nov 3

Saturday All-Day Conference
Dennis Showalter, visiting prof., USMA - Commentator

The Autumn of 1941

Executing a Lost War: Imperial Japan's Pre-Pearl Harbor War Planning	Theodore F. Cook, Jr.	William Paterson University of NJ
1941 and Britain: A Good Year?	Loyd Lee	SUNY New Paltz
Germany at the Turning Point, Autumn 1941: the Failure of 'Barbarossa', the Decision for War against the United States, and the Acceleration of Mass Murder	Geoffrey Megargee	US Holocaust Museum

Nov 9

The Jewish Contribution in The Civil War

CWO 2 Michael Werner

311th Military History Detachment, Fort Totten

Nov 16

The Evolution of US Cavalry Organization and Doctrine

Maj. Chris Prigge

USMA

Nov 30

Winston Churchill and the Dardanelles

Chris Harmon

Quantico

Dec 7

Taranto: Europe's Pearl Harbor?

Norman Friedman

Author /
NYMAS

Dec 14

Eighteenth Century British Caribbean Amphibious Ops

Maj. Kristian Marks

USMA

Dec 21

Korea, Winter 1950-51: The Chosin Campaign

Colonel George A. Rasula (US Army-Ret.)

Vice Chair, Chosin Few Historical Committee

Schedule of Friday Evening Talks & the Spring Saturday Conference Winter-Spring, 2001
Date	Topic	Speaker	Affiliation
Jan 12	A Roundtable on the Second Intifadeh: The Middle East Crisis
Jan 19	Where Did Those Blue B-25s Come From? (Marine Medium Bombers: the PBJ-1 in USMC Service)	Tom Wisker	WBAI / NYMAS
Jan 26	The Road to Guilford Courthouse	John Buchanan	Author
Feb 2	Operation Cobra, 1944: Breakout in Normandy	Steven J. Zaloga	Author
Feb 9	Operations against Filibusters along the Texas Border	Samuel Watson	West Point
Feb 16	Operation Fortitude: Has Its Contribution to Victory in Normandy Been Overrated?	Kathy Barbier	Yale University
Feb 23	The Interwar Navy	Tom Hone	ICAF
March 2	Planning for D-Day	Russell Weigley	Temple University
March 9	Women Writers, National Socialism, and World War II	Georgette Fleischer	Columbia University
March 16	MacArthur's Amphibious Commander	Doug McKenna	USMCU
March 23	Napoleon’s Conscription System	Isser Woloch	Columbia University
March 30	A Friday Evening Roundtable on the U.S. Civil War
March 31 Saturday	NYMAS All-Day Spring Conference: New Interpretations of the U.S. Civil War
April 6	Australia's Vietnam War	Jeffery Grey	Marine Corps University
April 13	When Good Intentions Are Not Enough: American Diplomacy and the Arab-Israeli War, 1967	Major Diana Holland	West Point
April 20	Political Partisanship and Officer Professionalism: Comparing the Wilsonian and Clintonian	Col. Lance Betros	West Point
April 27	The Battle of France, 1940	Col. Robert Doughty	West Point
May 4	Rethinking the Second Seminole War: The Native American Perspective	Capt. Kevin Clark	West Point
May 11	"Staff Rides"	Don Bittner	USMCU
May 18	The Countess Strikes Back: Sorbara (2 July 1084)	Valerie Eads	CUNY / NYMAS
May 25	The French Army and the Dreyfus Affair	David Gordon	NYMAS / Bronx CC
June 1	Naval Operations in Vietnam	Frank Uhlig and Bob Reilly	Naval War College
June 8	The Reform of the Hapsburg Army	Daniel David	NYMAS
June 15	Please note that the June 15th talk has been cancelled. The Fall season begins on September 7th.
NYMAS talks are free and open to the public. They 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 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. Support has also been provided by the CUNY students' CUMHDAS group and the CUNY Veterans Affairs Office. NYMAS is associated with the Society for Military History (Region 2) Updated April 13, 2001

Fall, 2000
Preliminary Schedule of Friday Evening Talks
& the Fall Saturday Conference

Date

Lecture

Lecturer

Affiliation

Sept 8

Russia’s Wars in Chechnya

George Phillips

NYMAS

Sept 15

Borodino

Frank Radford

NYMAS

Sept 22

Researching Military History
on the Web

Robert Rowen

NYMAS

Sept 29

The Kinder, Gentler Military: Can America's Gender-Neutral Fighting Force Still Win Wars?

Stephanie Gutmann

Author

Oct 6

The Battle of Brooklyn: First Battle of the Revolution

John J. Gallagher

Author

Oct 13

Espionage in the American Revolution

Thomas Fleming

Author

Oct 20

Military Innovation between the Wars

Hal Winton

Marine Corps University, Quantico

Oct 27

The Expeditionary Aerospace Force

Lt. Col. J. R. Atkins, USAF

USMC Command & Staff College

Nov 3

Roundtable on The Gulf War

Nov 4 Saturday

Fall, 2000 All-Day NYMAS Conference
The Gulf War: from Ten Years After

The War We Left Behind - Iraq after the Gulf War	Andrew Cockburn	Journalist
Naval Forces in the Gulf War	Edward Marolda	Senior Historian at the Naval Historical Center
Army Operations in the Gulf War	Dr. Gordon Rudd	School of Advance Warfighting - Quantico, VA

Nov 10

McCarthyism and the Cold War

Ellen Schrecker

Yeshiva University

Nov 17

Maj. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton and the Air War with Japan

Dr. Roger Miller

US Air Force Historical Office

Dec 1

German and English Propaganda in World War I

Jonathan A. Epstein

CUNY Graduate Center /NYMAS

Dec 8

Contemporary Veterans Affairs

Michael Gold

Former Director: CUNY Veterans Affairs Office

Dec 15

China Crosses the Yalu

Jim Dingeman

NYMAS

Winter-Spring 2000
Schedule of Events

Date	Lecture	Lecturer	Affiliation
New Perspectives on the Korean War
Feb. 18	The U.S. Army in the 1950s	Jim Dunnigan	NYMAS
Feb. 19 (all-day Saturday)	Spring 2000 Conference: The Korean War: New Perspectives from the Other Side
	Stalin's Decision to Launch the Korean War (New Evidence from the Russian Archives)	Alexandre Mansourov	Brookings Institute
	Origins of the Korean War in the Context of the Cold War	Norman Friedman	Author, "The Fifty Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War

Feb. 25	The English Intelligence Service in the Seventeenth Century	Capt. Charles Brown	United States Military Academy
Mar. 3	Interwar U.S. Artillery Developments	Maj. Dave Shugart	United States Military Academy
Mar. 10	Terrorism Today	Chris Harmon	USMC
Mar. 24	Soviet & German Armies in the Spanish Civil War	Mary Habeck	Yale University
Mar. 31	The Revolutionary War In New York: The Battle Of Fort Washington, 1776	Frederick Cookinham	Century Walking Tours
Apr. 7	The Early Advisory Years in the Vietnam War	Maj. Dave Toczek	United States Military Academy
Apr. 14	American Indian Wars	Prof. Don Bittner	USMC Command & Staff College
May 5	Anzio 1944	Doug McKenna	USMC Command & Staff College
May 12	TBA	Prof. Sam Watson	United States Military Academy
May 19	U.S. Military Attaches in Central and South America	Major Rob Kirkland	United States Military Academy
June 9	The Battle of the Cherry Orchard, Poland, 1939	Chuck Raymond	Society for Military History
June 16	Police Action? Korea: June-July, 1950	Jim Dingeman	NYMAS

Updated February 12, 2000

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