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

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Gregory McNiff was the new  Executive Director of NYMAS

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

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



Jerry Trombella became Executive Director of NYMAS in 2016

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

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

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

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



Korea, 1950-51
Table of Contents for
75 chapters!

The Changjin Journal

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

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In Memoriam

Robert Miller
1945-2016

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

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

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Robert Miller became Executive Director of NYMAS


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


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

David Gordon
History Department

CUNY Graduate Center

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

 




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

 

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

Air Force Combat Units of World War II

Complete 506 page work, keyword searchable

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


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


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A Brief Introduction to the Why We Fight series
 



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


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Complete slide presentation from
Nov. 22, 2002 talk:

 Pope v. Lee:
 The Second Manassas
Campaign      


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

 


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

by Dr. Daniel Kuehl of
National
Defense University  

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The Fall 2006 Conference

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

 

A NYMAS Fulltext Resource

The Battle
of the Boyne

Fulltext of the recent paper presented to NYMAS by
Roger Kennedy



Jessie James

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


The Union War against Confederate Guerrillas


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

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

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



A NYMAS Fulltext Resource

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


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



1916:
 The Year Germany Was Defeated

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

 

 


 

In Memoriam

Eugene Feit
1948-2010

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

                NEXT at NYMAS                 
December 15, 2023
 Friday     7:00 PM   ET
 

Black Snow:
Curtis LeMay,
the Firebombing of Tokyo,
 and the Road to the Atomic Bomb

James Scott
Independent Military Historian

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

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Fall, 2023

On-line Fridays at 7pm
unless otherwise noted

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

 

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

 
 
September 9, 2023
Saturday
1 pm ET

Marching, Fighting, Dying -
Life in Wellington's Army in the Peninusula

Gareth Glover

Independent Military Historian

September 23, 2023
Saturday
1 pm ET

Cuba Missile Crisis Max Hastings Independent Military Historian

October 6, 2023
7:00 PM
War-gaming Sebastian Bae Center for Security Studies, Georgetown University

October 20, 2023 7:00 PM The Economic Consequences of U.S. Mobilization for the Second World War  s Alexander Field Santa Clara University, Professor of Economics
November 3, 2023
7:00 PM
The New Cold Wars: Their Origins and Their Likely Trajectories  John Mearsheimer University of Chicago
November 17, 2023 7:00 PM Donna Reed and the American GI Mary Owen Independent historian
December 2, 2023 Saturday
1:00 PM
 
How To Fight A War  Mike Martin Department of War Studies at King’s College London  

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Friday, December 15, 2023 7:00 PM Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb  James Scott Independent Military Historian


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

A NYMAS Fulltext Resource

American Privateers
in
the War Of 1812


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