The 42nd Anniversary of this organization
1981-2023

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

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Gregory McNiff is 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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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

"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

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

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

Winter & Spring, 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
January 6, 2023	NYMAS Spring 2023 Schedule (conrmed) YMAS Spring 2023 Schedule (conrmed) Armada: The Spanish Enterprise and England's Deliverance in 1588	Geoffrey Parker	Ohio State University
January 14, 2023 Saturday 3:00 PM ET	Blood and Ruins: The Last Imperial War, 1931-1945	Richard Overy	University of Exeter
January 20, 2023	Debate:  Did Rome Have a Grand Strategy?	James Lacey, Ph.D., Horner Chair of War Studies, Professor of Strategic Studies and Political Economy at Marine Corps War College  & Michael Taylor Assistant Professor. History, University of Albany & with special guest Edward Luttwak
January 27, 2023	Heavy Metal: The Hard Days and Nights of the Shipyard Workers Who Build America's Supercarriers	Mike Fabey	Independent Scholar
February 4, 2023 Saturday 1PM ET	D'Erlon's Attack at Waterloo	Andrew Field	Waterloo author and independent military historian
February 10, 2023	The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution	Benjamin L. Carp	Daniel M. Lyons Associate Professor of American History at Brooklyn College	The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution
February 17, 2023	War of Supply: World War II Allied Logistics in the Mediterranean	David Dworak	Deputy Provost, US Army War College	War of Supply: World War II Allied Logistics in the Mediterranean
February 24, 2023	Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft	Peter Westwick	University of Southern California and director of the Aerospace History Project at the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West	Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
March 3, 2023	History of Battle: Understanding Conflict from Hastings to Helmand	Drs Graeme Callister / Rachel Whitbread	York St John University	History of Battle: Understanding Conflict from Hastings to Helmand
March 10, 2023	Parker Hitt: The Father of American Military Cryptology	Betsy Rohaly Smoot	Intelligence historian, former NSA	Parker Hitt: The Father of American Military Cryptology
March 17, 2023 Friday, 1:00 PM ET	Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921	Antony Beevor	Independent Scholar	Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921
March 24, 2023	The Battle of Crecy	Michael Livingston	The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina	The Battle of Crecy
April 1, 2023 Saturday, 1:00 PM ET	Command: The Politics of Military Operation	Sir Lawrence Freedman	King's College London	Command: The Politics of Military Operation
April 14, 2023	Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War	Ian Ona Johnson	Notre Dame University	Faustian Bargain: The Soviet-German Partnership and the Origins of the Second World War
April 21, 2023	The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East	Nic Morton	Nottingham Trent University	The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East
April 29, 2023 Saturday 1:00 PM ET	Conquering the Ocean: The Roman Invasion of Britain	Richard Hingley	University of Durham	Conquering the Ocean: The Roman Invasion of Britain
May 6, 2023 Saturday 1:00 PM ET	Original Sin: Power, Technology, and War in Outer Space	Bleddyn Bowen	University of Leicester	Original Sin: Power, Technology, and War in Outer Space
May 12, 2023	Armies, Plagues, and Politics: Explaining the Rise and Fall of the Assyrian Empire	Eckart Frahm	Yale University	Armies, Plagues, and Politics: Explaining the Rise and Fall of the Assyrian Empire
May 19, 2023	The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution,	Kevin Weddle	US Army War College (Winner: 2021 Gilder-Lehrman Prize for Military History)	The Compleat Victory: Saratoga and the American Revolution
May 26, 2023	General Grant and the Verdict of History: Memoir, Memory, and the Civil War	Frank Varney	Independent Scholar	General Grant and the Verdict of History: Memoir, Memory, and the Civil War
On-line Fridays at 7pm unless otherwise noted

NYMAS remembers our long time friend  and frequent speaker John Prados Dr. John Prados 1951 - 2022 Author of nearly thirty books in National Security and Military History,  along with many articles and papers. Winner of The Arthur Goodzeit Book Award of The New York Military Affairs Symposium in 1995 for Combined Fleet Decoded Prados was a senior fellow with the National Security Archive, where he led its Intelligence Documentation Project and its Vietnam Project.[   On November 29, 2022, noted historian, war-game designer, and author, John Prados, died at 71.    John was an early member of NYMAS, and his many presentations before our members were always interesting and informative, on the history of intelligence and military operations, particularly during the Second World War, the Vietnam War, and the Cold War.  At the time of his death, he was preparing for what would have been about his 30th presentation for NYMAS. During his long career John wrote nearly a score of outstanding books.  His 1995 book Combined Fleet Decoded received the NYMAS Arthur Goodzeit Award and named was the Notable Naval Book of the Year by the U.S. Naval Institute. John was also wargame designer of note, producing over three dozen notable wargames, and received the first very first Charles S. Roberts Award for best professional wargame in 1974, for his innovative Third Reich, which was followed by three more awards for best game.  John a founding member of the National Security Archive which has worked to declassify important documents to through more light of American Foreign and National Security Policy. On a personal note, I first met John around 1972, when I was on the staff of Strategy & Tactics and he was at Columbia and working on a game for us.  That November the magazine featured his first published game, Year of the Rat, one of the first games on the Vietnam War.  Not long after, with another friend we formed The Morningside Game Project (we all lived on the Upper West Side!), and produced several games which were issued by West End Games.  John was a hard worker, a diligent researcher, an excellent writer and gamer designer, and good friend    --A. A. Nofi

   
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	NEW 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 click here to listen	Tami Davis Biddle Photo: U.S. Army War College
	Tower of Skulls: A History of the Asia-Pacific War, July 1937-May 1942 recorded  Match 6, 2020 1 hour and 31 mins click here to listen	Richard B. Frank Photo: Ching Wah Chin
	The China Mission: George Marshall's Unfinished War, 1945-1947 Special introduction by Benn Steil of the Council on Foreign Relations / NYMAS Board  recorded  January 10, 2020 1 hour and 43 mins click here to listen	Daniel Kurtz-Phelan Photo: Ching Wah Chin

What Russia Can Teach Us  about War  Recorded  Jun 1, 2018 1 hour and 35 mins click here to listen

Reina Pennington Photo: Malcolm Arnold

	Elvis's Army: Cold War GIs and the Atomic Battlefield    recorded March 2, 2018 1 hour and 31 mins click here to listen	Brian McAllister Linn Photo: Texas A&M
	The Great War and Ireland's 1916 Easter Rising   recorded November 11, 2016 1 hour and 41 mins click here to listen	Paul V. Walsh Photo: Ching Wah Chin
	The Politics of James Bond: From Fleming's Novels to the Big Screen    recorded April 1, 2016 1 hour and 48 mins click here to listen	Jeremy Black MBE Photo:  http://www.jeremyblack.co.uk/
	An Examination of British Cryptography during the Second World War recorded November 7, 2014 1 hr 30 min click here to listen	Aki Snyder Photo: Ching Wah Chin
	Love My Rifle More Than You: Young and Female in the U.S. Army recorded March 14, 2014 1 hr 34 min click here to listen	Kayla Williams Photo: Ching Wah Chin
	The Devil's Garden: Rommel's Desperate Defense of Omaha Beach on D-Day recorded June 6, 2014 1 hr 38 min click here to listen	Steven Zaloga Photo: Ching Wah Chin
	The First Century of Gunpowder Artillery in Europe - Innovation and Effectiveness: 1326-1450 recorded May 17, 2013 1 hr 35 min click here to listen	Clifford J. Rogers Photo: Ching Wah Chin
	Roman Warfare recorded May 24, 2013 1 hr 47 min click here to listen	Adrian Goldsworthy Photo: Ching Wah Chin
Click here for many more podcasts including:
	Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 recorded May 2, 2008 click here to listen	Max Hastings Photo: Random House
	Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan Before Pearl Harbor recorded April 12, 2008 click here to listen	Edward S. Miller Photo: Phil Gilson

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NYMAS presents Grant Check to Soldiers Sailors Club

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.

NYMAS on
Dozens of of additional NYMAS events on C-SPAN HERE Vidcasts at C-SPAN | Audio Podcasts at nymas.org
Axis Sally The American Voice of Nazi Germany  Author Richard Lucas' talk to NYMAS on May 20, 2011
The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception Author & former Deputy Undersecretary of the Army Thaddeus Holt's talk to NYMAS on Jun 4, 2004
Mussolini: The Secrets of His Death Enigma Books' publisher Robert Miller's talk to NYMAS on Jan 28, 2005
Click above for the complete online video of each talk to NYMAS

 

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The 2012 NYMAS Book Award The Arthur Goodzeit Award
2012	The Wehrmacht retreats : fighting a lost war, 1943 by Robert M. Citino. (Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2012)
The 2012 Civil War Book Award The Eugene Feit Award  in Civil War Studies
2012	War on the waters : the Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 by James M. McPherson. (Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2012)

 

 

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Newsletters from NYMAS now online Dozens of book reviews in military history.  Al Nofi, editor. All Google & On-site searchable   No. 42 - Autumn 2007 No. 43 - Winter 2007-2008 No. 44 - Spring 2008: Annual Civil War Issue No. 45 - Winter 2008-2009 Paid-up NYMAS members get the latest editions Now in Adobe Reader format If you don't have Adobe Reader, click below: An updated NYMAS Guide to Military History on the Web:  World War I (extensive) <<click here; thanks to NYMAS member Bob Bulko     Tom Wisker, NYMAS Board member and host of Weaponry for almost 30 years Weaponry military and aviation technology, history, hardware, policy, news, reviews, and analysis, all interspersed with totally inappropriate music.  Since 1982 WBAI, 99.5 FM or online, on Wednesday morning (Tuesday night, if you stay up) from 1:00 to 2:00 am. Note: Tom's currently on medical leave Older Weaponry programs are now available for download or play at any time. It's on the wbai.org site at archive.wbai.org

The USAAF’s Other Very Heavy Bomber - the Consolidated B-32


Captioned visuals from Tom Wisker's February 24, 2006 talk

A NYMAS Fulltext Resource

The GI Offensive
in Europe
Fulltext of the talk given to NYMAS on April 25, 2006
 by Peter R. Mansoor, Colonel, U.S. Army

 

A NYMAS Fulltext Resource
Breaking Ranks:
 The History, Limitations, and Importance of American Active Duty Issue Advocacy

Billy Mitchell

Fulltext from the January 20, 2006 presentation by Raymond Kimball of the Iraq and Afghanistan
Veterans of America

The 2004 NYMAS
Book Award
The winner of the year's Arthur Goodzeit Book Award is:
Rethinking
Military History
Jeremy Black
New York, NY : Routledge, 2004, 272pp, 0415275342 (pbk.)
0415275334 (hardback)
For more information, click here

WHAT IS HISTORY?
HOW HISTORIANS WORK AND
THE SOURCES THEY USE
Complete slide component from the May 13, 2005 talk by
Don Bittner of the
US Marine Corps
Command and Staff College