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NYMAS Fall 2008
CALENDAR
as of
Saturday, October 04, 2008 02:00 PM
Schedule of Friday Evening Talks & the Fall Friday/Saturday Conference
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 | Date | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation | | Sept. 5 | Thieves of Baghdad: Rescuing Iraq's Stolen Antiquities during Operation Iraqi Freedom | Col. Matt Bogdanos | USMC Reserve | | Sept. 12 | The Roman Navy: Its Development from Oxymoron to Ruler of the Mediterranean | Mark Wilson | Brooklyn College | | Sept. 19 | Hitler's Gift to France | Robert Miller | Enigma Books | | Sept. 26 | Transformative Military Innovation: Why Only Some Military Organizations, Some of the Time? | Wayne A. Thornton | Harvard University | | Oct. 3 | Failed States, Revolution, and Democracy:
Progressive Rationales for Military Intervention, 1914 to 1918 | Jacob Kramer | Borough of Manhattan Community College / CUNY Graduate Center | | Oct. 10 | Yom Kippur | | | | Oct. 17 | The NYMAS Fall Conference
A History of U.S. Occupation Policy Friday, October 17, 2008
7 pm to 9 pm | INTRODUCTION:
Historiography of Occupation | Jim Dingeman | NYMAS / INN | Uncle Sam and the Banana Wars: The Long History of U.S. Military Occupations in Latin America | Kyle Longley | Snell Family Dean's Distinguished Professor, Professor of History, Arizona State
University | Saturday, October 18, 2008
10 am to 4 pm | A HISTORICAL REVIEW:
A Topology of the US
as an Occupier | Jim Dingeman | NYMAS / INN | The Surge-Narrative as
Matrix: Misreading the Surge
and the Atrophy of American Army Conventional Warfighting Capabilities | Colonel Gian Gentile | United States Military
Academy at West Point | Post-conflict Integration of
Militias in Iraq | Major James Smith | United States Military
Academy at West Point | Views from under the Jungle Canopy: The American Combat Soldier in Vietnam | Kyle Longley | Professor of History, Arizona State University | The Challenges of Counter-
insurgency on the Afghan/Pakistan Border | Major Thomas Spahr | United States Military
Academy at West Point | Reflections of an OIF Battalion Commander in Baghdad | Colonel Kevin Farrell | United States Military
Academy at West Point |
| Oct. 18
(Sat.) | | Oct. 24 | Nurses in the Crimean War | Moira Egan | CUNY Graduate Center | | Oct. 31 | The Use of Force to Prevent Nuclear Proliferation
| Tim Bakken
| Dept. of Law,
United States Military Academy at West Point | | Nov. 7 | The 14th USAAF in China, 1944-45 | Paul R. Martin | Independent scholar | | Nov. 14 | Scottish, Scots Irish, Irish, African Americans and Jews in the Battle of Baltimore, September 1814 | Christopher George | The War of 1812
Symposium | | Nov. 21 | The 2d Massachusetts in the American Civil War | Major Matt Hardman | United States Military Academy at West Point | | Nov. 28 | Thanksgiving | | Dec. 5 | U.S. Military Government in Mexico, 1847-1848 | Major Tom Spahr | United States Military Academy at West Point | | Dec. 12 | African American USMA Graduates in the Nineteenth Century | Major Jeremy James | United States Military Academy at West Point | | Dec. 19 | America's Captives: American POW Policy from the Revolution to the War on Terror | Paul Springer | United States Military Academy at West Point |
NYMAS Winter-Spring 2008
CALENDAR | Date | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation | | Jan 4 | Radical Designs: Pre-War USAAF Interceptor Projects | Tom Wisker | NYMAS / WBAI | | Jan 11 | The Greatest Battle: Stalin, Hitler, and the Desperate Struggle for Moscow that Changed the Course of World War II | Andrew Nagorski | Newsweek | | Jan 18 | Rarely Told Stories from May-June 1940 | Jonathan Epstein | NYMAS and John Jay College | | Jan 25 | The Soldier’s Experience of Battle in the Middle Ages | Cliff Rogers | United States Military Academy at West Point | | Feb 1 | The Gorlice-Tarnow Offensive, May 1915. | Richard DiNardo | US Marine Corps Command and Staff College / NYMAS | | Feb 8 | Daniel Harvey Hill and the
Shaping of Civil War Memory | Major Brit Erslev | United States Military Academy at West Point | | Feb 15 | Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 | Mark Moyar | Marine Corps University | | Feb 22 | The 2nd Massachusetts Infantry, 1861-1865: Who Fought and Why
Cancelled because of weather | Major Matt Hardman | United States Military Academy at West Point | | Feb 29 | Line in the Wilderness: The Adaptation of European Military Theory to British North America | Major Mark Olsen | United States Military Academy at West Point | | Mar 7 | Where Have All the Wars Gone? | Jim Dunnigan | Author | | Mar 14 | The Spring, 2008 NYMAS Friday Evening / All-day Saturday Conference The Emergence of Turkey as a Regional Power | Mar 15
(Sat.) | | Mar 21 | The War on Film | Roger Spiller | Combat Studies Institute | | Mar 28 | Kandahar Tour: The Royal Canadian Regiment in Afghanistan, 2007 | Lee Windsor
| Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society, University of New Brunswick | | Apr 4 | French Military Expertise and the U.S. Army, 1801-1830 | Major Mike Bonura | United States Military Academy at West Point | | Apr 11 | A Friday Evening / All-day Saturday Open Forum:
Military History and Current Events | Apr 12
(Sat.) | | Apr 18 | Rebellion in the Ranks: Mutinies of the American Revolution
| John A. Nagy | American Revolution Round Table of
Philadelphia /Author | | Apr 25 | The Failure of Interwar Baltic Collective Defense
| Eugene Feit | Executive Director of NYMAS | | Apr 25 | The British Commonwealth Campaign for Vichy Madagascar, 1942 cancelled | Paul Walsh | Author | | May 2 | The Influence of the Russo-Japanese War on U.S. Army Doctrine. | Major J.P. Clark | United States Military Academy at West Point | | May 9 | The Perils of Peace: America's Struggle for Survival After Yorktown | Thomas Fleming | Author | | May 16 | Gouverneur Kemble Warren: The Final Casualty of the Civil War | Frank Varney | William Paterson University of New Jersey | | May 23 | From Bucharest to the Baltic: German Air Operations on the Eastern Front 1916-1917 moved to Winter, 2009 | Richard DiNardo | US Marine Corps Command and Staff College / NYMAS | | May 30 | The Forgotten Cavalier, George Goring: The English Civil War
(1642 - 1646) | Florene
Memegalos | Hunter College | | June 6 | Omar Bradley's D-Day | John Prados | National Security Archive | | June 13 | How Lee Lost & Grant Won the Civil War | Ed H. Bonekemper, III | Author | | June 20 | Recruiting Churchill's Army - What Went Wrong? | Dan David | NYMAS |
NYMAS Fall 2007 CALENDAR
as of Saturday, October 04, 2008 02:00 PM
Schedule of Friday Evening Talks & the Fall Friday/Saturday Conference
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 Date | Topic | Speaker | Affiliation | Sept. 7 | American Interpretation of the 'Asian Military Mind': Jun, 1944 - Jan, 1945 | Frank Radford | NYMAS | Sept. 14 | The U.S. and the Colonial Wars: Indochina, Korea, Algeria, Vietnam, and Their Influence on the Two Wars in Iraq 1945-1963 | Robert Miller | Enigma Books | Sept. 21 | Scorching Iroquoia: The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign of 1779 as New York's Missing Link | Bob Spiegelman | Independent Scholar | Sept. 28 | Brutal Justice: Decimation and the Roman Legion | Mark Wilson | CUNY Graduate Center | Oct. 5 | Failures and Facades in Iraq:
A Soldier's Perspective | Paul Rieckhoff
| Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America | Oct. 12 | The Fall, 2007 NYMAS Friday Evening / All-day Saturday Conference
Topics and speakers to be announced Friday, October 12, 2007 7 to 9 pm | INTRODUCTION:
The Surge in Context | Jim Dingeman | NYMAS / INN | The Training, Preparation, and Readiness of the Iraqi Security Forces and Army | Lt. Col. Michael
Zacchea | US Marine Corps Reserve | Strategic Reset | Brian Katulis | Center for American Progress | Saturday, October 13, 2007 10am to 4 pm | What Went Wrong--in Iraq | Ervand Abrahamian | Department of History, Weissman School of Arts &Sciences, Baruch College | A Framework for Analyzing the Middle East and Islam | Lt. Col. Steven G. M. Biro | New York Guard,
an attorney formerly in the Persian Gulf States | Measuring the Success of the Surge | Lt. Col. Gian Gentile | USMA, formerly a tactical battalion commander in Baghdad in 2006. | Beyond Blackwater:
Contractors on the Battlefield | Raymond Kimball | Iraq and Afghanistan
Veterans of America | The Surge and the al-Anbar
Miracle: The Real Bottom Line | Wayne White | Former Head of US State
Department Intelligence, Iraq |
| Oct. 13
(Sat.) | Oct. 19 | Battle of Hondeschoote, 1793 | Alex Stavropoulos | CUNY Graduate Center | Oct. 26 | Military Discipline in the Greek World | Jennifer Roberts | CUNY Graduate Center | Nov. 2 | Frank Luke, Jr.: Maverick of the Skies. New Perspectives and Details of this WWI Ace's Life and Career | Blaine Pardoe | Author | Nov. 9 | The Madero Revolution
Mexico, 1910-1911 | Jim Dingeman | NYMAS / INN | Nov. 16 | The German Naval Mutiny and Revolution: November 1918 | Edmund Clingan | Queens Community College | Nov. 23 | No meeting | Nov. 30 | Was the Nineteenth-Century Army Isolated from American Society? | Samuel Watson
| United States Military Academy | Dec. 7 | Japan Under the Bombs: The Air War from Target Level | Theodore F. Cook, Jr. | William Paterson University of New Jersey | Dec. 14 | Command in the Continental Army | Major Jason "Dutch" Palmer | USMA | Dec. 21 | Al Qaeda's Doctrine for Waging an Insurgency | Norman Cigar | Marine Corps University |
Updated Saturday, October 04, 2008 02:00 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 | |
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