NYMAS WORKING DRAFT CALENDAR

Suggested topics and speakers
without scheduled dates
as of Thursday October 30, 2014 12:38 PM

Suggested topics and speakers without scheduled dates
	Topic	Speaker	Affiliation	Sponsor/ Contact

	Grant and Pemberton at Champion Hill in 1863 Grant’s decision to move south after the Battle of the Wilderness and Lee’s subsequent movement to Spotsylvania	Daniel Franke	U.S. Military Academy at West Point	RR
	The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler	David L. Roll	Author	RR, RM
	The Siege of Fort Erie in 1814	Samuel Watson	U.S. Military Academy at West Point	RR
	Ukraine and Crimea	Serhii Plokhy	Harvard University	RM
	The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy,	Adam Tooze	Yale University	RR, MF
	D-Day Deception Ops / WWII black, undercover / Kursk	Mary Katherine Barbier	Mississippi State	RC
	The Way of the Knife The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth	Mark Mazzetti	NY Times	RR
	The Irish Brigade / Civil War Dairies	Susannah Ural	University of Southern Mississippi	RC
	Women in the Vietnam War	Heather Stur	University of Southern Mississippi	RC
(Accepted, Fall, 2014 Conference)	Prussian operations in Germany and France during 1813-14 or Napoleonic Wars	Michael V. Leggiere Leggiere@unt.edu	University of North Texas	RC, RM
	Quicksand: America's Pursuit of Power in the Middle East Franco-Prussian War Austro-Prussian War Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792-1914	Dr. Geoffrey Wawro Director, at wawro@unt.edu	Director of The Military History Center at the University of North Texas	RC, RM
	Conquering the American Wilderness: European Warfare in the Colonial Northeast / Piracy and Atlantic History	Guy Chet	University of North Texas	RC
	Lee in the Shadow of Washington / A Texas Reign of Terror: Anti-Unionist Violence in North Texas	Richard McCaslin(Dept. Chair)	University of North Texas	RC
	ARVN: Vietnam’s Forgotten Army / Boys of '67	Andy Wiest	University of North Texas	RC
Fri/Sat Conference?	In the Wake of Iraq and Afghanistan...	Paul Rieckhoff Brandon Friedman Loree K. Sutton, M.D, Kayla Williams others	Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America VetVoice NYU Verbatim Lecture Management	RR
	. . Spring '14 -- The Summer of 1914 Fall '14 -- Something Else WW I Spring '15 -- The Fall of Napoleon and the Restructuring of Europe (it's Waterloo + 200) Fall '15 -- Wars of Unification			AN
Fri/Sat Conference? Fall, 2014	Mid-19th Century Wars of Unification:-- Italy, Germany, Japan (and the American War Between the States)	Al Nofi Ted Cook, Mark Ravena	NYMAS, Paterson University Emory University	TC, AN
	Enlightened Absolutism in the Habsburg Monarchy (1740-1792) and/or The Seven Years War	Frank Szabo	University of Alberta	RM
	Verdun	Paul Jankowski	Brandeis	RM
	Vietnam: Finding the Dragon Lady	Monique Brinson Demery	Author	RM
	The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined	Steven Pinker	Harvard University	RR
	Cold War Mandarin: Ngo Dinh Diem and the Origins of the Vietnam War, 1950- 1963 -or- The Universe Unraveling: American Foreign Policy in Cold War Laos	Seth Jacobs	Boston College	RM
	Lost Victories: The Military Genius of Stonewall Jackson (2004) How America Got It Right: The U.S. March to Military and Political Supremacy (2006)	Bevin Alexander	Longwood University	RR
	*Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings*	Craig L. Symonds	United States Naval Academy at Annapolis	RR
	Plutopia: Nuclear Families in Atomic Cities and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters	Kate Brown	University of Maryland, Baltimore County	RR
	Pacific Blitzkrieg: World War II in the Central Pacific	LTC Sharon Lacey	US Army Center for Military History	RR
	U.S. Marines in the Banana Wars	Aaron O'Connell	United States Naval Academy at Annapolis	RR
	Benedict Arnold in the Company of Heroes	Arthur Lefkowitz	Independent Researcher	RR
	NYC in the War of 1812	Kathleen Huslar	The New School	RR
	Deserter: the Last Untold Story of the Second World War Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation	Charles Glass	at charlesglassbooks @gmail.com	RR
	A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism	Daniel Byman	Georgetown University, The Brookings Institute	RM
	The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy and King	Walter Borneman	Colorado?	RM
	How I Discovered the Greatest Spy of World War II and Other Stories of Intelligence and Code	David Kahn	Author	RR
	Bolivar the Liberator	Marie Arana		RM
Mar-Jun 2014
	War of Resistance Continued - The Taierzhuang/Xuzhou Campaigns, January-May 1938 (75 years ago)	Ed Chen	NYMAS	RR
	The Argentine–Brazilian War 1825-28	Paul V. Walsh	Author	RR
	How Baseball Linked the United States and Japan in Peace and War	Prof. Sayuri Guthrie-Shimizu	Michigan State University	RR
	The Battle of Britain through Japanese Eyes: Attaches on the Ground in London and the Continent	Ted Cook	NYMAS, Wm. Paterson University	RR
	Napoleonic Battle Tactics	Alexander Stavropoulos	NYMAS	RR
	Operation Anthropoid: The Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich	William Schuber	Fairleigh Dickinson University	RR
2014?	Military Executions in Stonewall Jackson's Command	Peter Carmichael	The Civil War Institute of Gettysburg College	RR, check CWFMNY
	My Fault: Mussolini as I Knew Him by Margherita Sarfatti	Brian Sullivan	Former NYMAS President and Research Professor at National Defense University	RM
	A Disease in the Public Mind: A New Understanding of the Civil War	Thomas Fleming	Author	RR
	Hitler's Plans for World Domination: Nazi Architecture and Ultimate War Aims	Jochen Thies	Author	RR
	Forts in 17th -18th centuries	Victoria Sanger	Columbia University	RM, RR
	The Army before and after Andrew Jackson	Samuel Watson	U.S. Military Academy at West Point	RR
	Pro-Union Sentiment in the South For God and Their Countries: Two Catholic Bishops during the Civil War	Jim Morgan	Loudoun County (Va.) Civil War Round Table.	RR, co-ordinate CWFMNY? $$?
	Gallipoli: Reinterpretations from the Other Side of the Hill	Edward Erickson	Marine Corps Command & Staff College	RR, RD
	Battleground New York City: Countering Spies, Saboteurs, and Terrorists since 1861	Thomas A. Reppetto	Author	RR
	The Marne, 1914: The Opening of World War I and the Battle That Changed the World	Holger Herwig	University of Calgary	DD, RD
	The US Armed Forces in Post-Armistice Korea	Michael F. Davino	The Second Indianhead Division Association	RR
	Film & Photography of Hiroshima and Nagasaki	Jason McDonald	NYMAS	RR
	Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World War	Jean-Louis Cohen	Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.	AW
	War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning /or/ What Every Person Should Know About War	Chris Hedges	The Nation Institute	RR
	The Real Pappy Boyington and the Black Sheep Squadron	Bruce Gamble	Author	RR
	The Defense Center of Excellence for Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injury	Brigadier General Loree K. Sutton, M.D (Ret.)	NYU	RR
	The Yalta Papers	Josh Botts	Historian at the U.S. Department of State	RR
	US Strategy in the Mediterranean in WWII (May, January or December)	Andy Buchanan	University of Vermont	RR
	The Indian Air Force in the 1971 Bangladesh War	Samir Chopra	Brooklyn College	RR
	Railways in Vietnam in the Wake of WWII	David Gordon	CUNY Grad Center	RR, DG
	Scorched Earth: Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam	Fred A. Wilcox	Ithaca College.	RR
	Last Man in Spandau	Thomas Lipscomb	Annenberg Center for the Digital Future	RR,
	Jackson's Valley Campaign	Major Paul Belmont	United States Military Academy at West Point	SW, RR
	The Warrior Ethos	Stephen Pressfield	Author	RR
	Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath	Michael and Elizabeth M. Norman	NYU	RR, Jason McDonald
	Spies in the Continental Capital: Espionage Across Pennsylvania During the American Revolution	John A. Nagy	Author, President of the American Revolution Round Table of Philadelphia	RR
	French Strategic Bombing in WW1	Steve Suddaby	WW1 Historical Association	Jeff Milman
	The European and North African origins of the rifle musket (Minié) and its effects on military tactics prior to and during the Civil War. see email	Brent Nosworthy	Author	Louis G.
	James Earl Rudder and the Attack on Pointe du Hoc	Thomas M. Hatfield	Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin	RR
	Changing Perceptions of the War of 1812	Harold W. Youmans	Co-Editor,Journal of the War of 1812	RR SW
	Major General Robert Ross and the Burning of Washington, 1814	Chris George	War 1812 Journal	RR
	Current military balance in Northeast Asia, with a specific look at the two Koreas	Jim Dingeman	NYMAS	RR
	Navy Medicine in Vietnam	Jan K. Herman	Historian of the Navy Medical Department, curator of the old U.S. Naval Observatory, and editor-in-chief of Navy Medicine	RR Steve L.
	The US Marine Corps Glider Program in WW2 (fill-in?)	Tom Wisker	NYMAS / WBAI	RR
	From TFX to TFX-2, with a Side Trip to the A-12A Avenger 2; OR, How the F-35 JSF Will Be a Debacle of Mammoth Proportions For All Concerned, Believe You Me (or for fill in)	Tom Wisker	NYMAS / WBAI	RR
	Ancient or Medieval Warfare	from John Shean		JS
	Adak, the Rescue of Alfa Foxtrot 586, 2003) or the second (Sailors In The Holy Land: The 1848 American Expedition To The Dead Sea and The Search For Sodom and Gomorrah , 2005).	A. Jampoler		RR
	Development of German ‘V-weapons’ in World War II; The history and development of PT boats	Philip J. Gioia	Presidio of San Francisco	RR
	The Royal Navy in the Mediterranean 1914-1918	Paul Halpern	Florida State University	DD
	Hanging Captain Gordon The Life and Trial of an American Slave Trader-or- Major Robert Rogers in The French And Indian Wars	Ron Soodalter	Abraham Lincoln Institute, Civil War Times magazine	Rob Gagnon?
	Top Secret America: A Look at the Military’s Joint Special Operations Command	Dana Priest	Washington Post	RR
	Chronicles of the Soviet Bear Bomber in the Cold War	Miguel Vargas-Caba	Author	RR, check TW
	The Real German War Plan in WW I	Terence Zuber	Author	DD
	Stalin's Man in Canada: Fred Rose and Soviet Espionage	David Levy	Author	RM
	Engineering Communism: How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley	Steven T. Usdin	The Weekly Standard	RM
	State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration.	James Risen	New York Times	RM
	The Brother: The Untold Story of the Rosenberg Case	Sam Roberts	New York Times	RM
	The Gothic Line, 1944-45	Robert Miller	Enigma Books	RM
	Project Azorian: The CIA and the Raising of K-129	Norman Polmar	Author, United States Naval Academy	RM
	The Battle of Midway	Craig Symonds	United States Naval Academy	RR, RM
	The Good Interrogation	Gary Kern	Author	RM

Winter-Spring, 2015 NYMAS Working Draft Calendar Fridays 7 pm to 8:45 pm
Date	Topic	Speaker	Affiliation	Date set w/speaker?	Sponsor/ Contact
Jan 16
Jan 30
Feb 13
Feb 27
Mar 13
Mar 27-28	NYMAS Spring 2015 2-Day Conference Produced & moderated by Al Nofi & Robert Miller
Apr 17
Apr 24
May 8
May 22	Pacific Blitzkrieg: World War II in the Central Pacific	LTC Sharon Lacey	US Army Center for Military History	confirmed	RR
Jun 12