The History Department of the Royal Military College of Canada is pleased to announce the convening of the 25th Military History Symposium on 20-21 March 2003. The theme for the 25th Symposium is Lessons Learned or Not Learned: Military Responses to Success and Failure

The organizers intend to have the symposium serve as a forum for military historians and scholars in the field of national security studies to share a selection of case studies of military learning, or of failure to learn, in order to understand better the challenges that modern democracies face in the rapidly evolving international environment of the present. The topic is not a new one, but new perspectives are constantly arising when historians examine different instances of military decision-making.

The RMC Military History Symposium brings together scholars and military practitioners from around the world to explore issues of both enduring and contemporary interest.

Programme Outline

Keynote: John Lynn, University of Illinois

Session 1: US Post Civil War Brian Holden Reid, King's College / University of London

Session 2: Post 1871 Germany - Arden Bucholz, State University of New York at Brockport

Session 3: Britain After the Boer War - Michael Ramsay, Kansas State University

Session 4: Canada after WW I - Jack English

Session 6: Russia after WW I - David Stone, Kansas State University

Session 7: USAF after WW II - Thomas Hughes, United States Air Force Air War College

Session 8: The RAF and the Gulf War Experience - Sebastian Ritchie, Air Historical Branch, UK Ministry of Defence

Dates: 20&21 March 2003

Costs: C$ 120.00 (C$ 95.00 if registered before 1 Feb 2003) C$ 60.00 Student rate