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Jerry Trombella new Executive Director of NYMAS

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

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

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

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

A Brief Introduction to the Why We Fight series
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource

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

Complete slide presentation from
Nov. 22, 2002 talk:
Pope v. Lee:
The Second Manassas Campaign

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

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

"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

Complete slide component from the Feb. 20, 2004 presentation

by Norman Friedman
Author / NYMAS
A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
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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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Friday evening talk
September 9, 2022
7 pm to 9 pm |

Woolf, Greg (2012). Rome: an empire's story. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199603084.
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Rome:
An Empire's Story
Greg Woolf
Ronald J. Mellor Distinguished Professor of Ancient History
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
Author of Rome: An Empire's Story
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The Upcoming Schedule for NYMAS
for the Fall, 2022
On-line on Fridays at 7pm unless otherwise noted
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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
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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
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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
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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 |
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NYMAS is associated with the Society for Military History, Region 2.
Unless otherwise noted, these talks are held on Friday evenings at
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Topics and speakers may be subject to change without notice. A current updated schedule is always available at this website (http//:nymas.org)
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Phone: 718-834-1414
Cell: 413-923-4559
NYMAS is devoted to increasing public
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of the interrelationship of war, society, and
culture through the presentation and
dissemination of diverse scholarly viewpoints.
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Updated July 23, 2022 01:31 AM
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NYMAS talks are free and open to the public.
NYMAS has been supported by grants from the
New York Council for the Humanities.
NYMAS is associated with the Society for Military History, Region 2.
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NYMAS papers of the last 26 years
by NYMAS WEBMASTER
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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
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Jim Quinn
Civil Warrior
Fredericksburg to Spotsylvania
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A NYMAS Fulltext Resource

"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
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in Adobe Reader

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Friday evening talk
January 6, 2012
7 pm to 8:45 pm
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On the Crest of Fear:
The V-2s, the Battle of the Bulge, and the Closing Months of the Second World War
recorded
March 1, 2019
1 hour and 47 mins

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Tami Davis Biddle
Photo: U.S. Army War College |
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Tower of Skulls:
A History of the Asia-Pacific War,
July 1937-May 1942
recorded Match 6, 2020
1 hour and 31 mins

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Richard B. Frank
Photo: Ching Wah Chin |
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The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War,
1945-1947
Special introduction by
Benn Steil of the Council on Foreign Relations
recorded January 10, 2020
1 hour and 43 mins

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Daniel Kurtz-Phelan
Photo: Ching Wah Chin |
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What Russia
Can Teach Us about War
Recorded Jun 1, 2018
1 hour and 35 mins

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Reina Pennington
Photo: Malcolm Arnold |
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Elvis's Army:
Cold War GIs
and the Atomic Battlefield
recorded March 2, 2018
1 hour and 31 mins

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Brian McAllister Linn
Photo: Texas A&M |
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The Great War and Ireland's 1916
Easter Rising
recorded November 11, 2016
1 hour and 41 mins

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Paul V. Walsh
Photo: Ching Wah Chin
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The Politics of James Bond:
From Fleming's Novels
to the Big Screen
recorded April 1, 2016
1 hour and 48 mins

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Jeremy Black MBE
Photo: http://www.jeremyblack.co.uk/
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An Examination of British Cryptography during the Second World War
recorded November 7, 2014
1 hr 30 min

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Aki Snyder
Photo: Ching Wah Chin |
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Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army
recorded March 14, 2014
1 hr 34 min

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Kayla Williams
Photo: Ching Wah Chin |
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The Devil's Garden:
Rommel's Desperate Defense of Omaha Beach on D-Day
recorded June 6, 2014
1 hr 38 min

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Steven Zaloga
Photo: Ching Wah Chin |
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The First Century of Gunpowder Artillery in Europe - Innovation and Effectiveness:
1326-1450
recorded May 17, 2013
1 hr 35 min

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Clifford J. Rogers
Photo: Ching Wah Chin |
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Roman Warfare
recorded May 24, 2013
1 hr 47 min

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Adrian Goldsworthy
Photo: Ching Wah Chin |
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Retribution:
The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
recorded May 2, 2008

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Max Hastings
Photo: Random House
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Bankrupting the Enemy:
The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan
Before Pearl Harbor
recorded April 12, 2008

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Edward S. Miller
Photo: Phil Gilson
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NYMAS presents Grant Check
to Soldiers Sailors Club
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Hazel Cathers, Executive Director of the The Soldiers’, Sailors’, Marines’, Coast Guard and Airmen’s Club of New York City receives a check from NYMAS boardmembers Allen Walberg (L) and Arnold Albert (R). The funds come from a grant provided by the New York Council for the Humanities to NYMAS for the Soldiers Sailors Club generously providing space for NYMAS' Friday evening talks. |
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Axis Sally
The American Voice of Nazi Germany
Author Richard Lucas' talk to NYMAS on May 20, 2011
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The Deceivers:
Allied Military Deception
Author & former Deputy Undersecretary of the Army Thaddeus Holt's
talk to NYMAS on Jun 4, 2004
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Mussolini:
The Secrets of His Death
Enigma Books' publisher Robert Miller's talk to NYMAS on Jan 28, 2005 |
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The 2012 NYMAS Book Award
The Arthur Goodzeit Award |
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