Feb 11 The Lies of Iuka: the Origin of the Grant-Rosecrans Feud Frank Varney Cornell University
Feb 18 From "Bolt-On" to Built-In: The Evolution
of the Dedicated Attack Helicopter from the 1950s up to
the RAH-66A and AH-1Z Kingcobra Tom Wisker NYMAS / WBAI
Feb 25 Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment That's Killing Our Soldiers--And Why GI's Are Only The First Victims Gary Matsumoto Author:/ investigative journalist
March 4 The 'Water Cure' in U.S. Army Courts-Martial, 1898-1902 Louise Barnett Rutgers University
March 11 Himmler and SS Thinking in the Context of Operation Barbarossa André Mineau University of Quebec
March 18 OSS Ops in Greece and the beginnings of the Greek Civil War, 1944-47 James A. Poulos Fairfield University
April 1 Prison Camps in the American Civil War Captain Clay Mountcastle USMA
April 8 The Amazon Century: Women and War in Eleventh-Century Italy Valerie Eads NYMAS
April 15 Counterinsurgency in Iraq Jim Dingeman and others
April 16
(Sat.) Spring All-day Conference
Approaches to Counterinsurgency
Moderator: Richard DiNardo
The Portuguese Experience in Africa Dr. John P. Cann
The British Experience in Iraq during the Arab Revolt Dr. Mark H. Jacobsen
Lunch
The Evolution of American Counterinsurgency Doctrine Dr. Wray R. Johnson
The Phoenix Program in Vietnam Dr. Mark Moyar
US Marine Corps Command and Staff College
April 22 Rajah Brooke and the Conquest of Sarawak Major Mike McDermott USMA
April 29 Whose Side Were They On? Indian Auxiliaries
in the Black Hawk War Captain John Hall USMA
May 6 A Vital Link: American Corps Command in the Battle of the Bulge Hal Winton Air University’s School of Advanced Air and Space Studies
May 13 Sources and Historians: How We Try to Reconstruct the Past Don Bittner US Marine Corps Command and Staff College
May 20 The Battle of Putot-en-Bessin: Blunting the Counterattack
against the Canadians, June 8, 1944 Michael Jankowitz Writer / NYMAS
May 27 The Fear Factor: A History of the Impact of Fear
on Military Effectiveness Major Greg Daddis USMA
June 3 Allied Air Supply and the Warsaw Rising, August 1944 Pieter Moeller Southwestern Univ., South Africa
June 10 Not Yet Scheduled
June 17 Not Yet Scheduled
June 24 1919: The Year that Ought to Live in Infamy Frank Radford NYMAS
Updated Saturday, January 08, 2005– Bob Rowen rrowen@nymas.org

NYMAS talks are free and open to the public. They are held on Friday evenings at the City University of New York Graduate Center, at 365 Fifth Avenue between 34th and 35th Streets from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. These Friday lectures are usually held on the 6th floor in Room 6-495, but confirmation of the room number should be obtained from the guard at the street-level entrance. These talks are sponsored by the New York Military Affairs Symposium in conjunction with CUNY's Conference on History and Politics, Dr. George D. Schwab, Director. NYMAS is associated with the Society for Military History, Region 2.
Topics and speakers may be subject to change without notice. A current updated schedule is always available at the web address provided below (following the contact information).

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