SMH 2004 Schedule

What’s On Our Minds: Critical Problems in Military History

 

 

Thursday, 20 May 2004

 

Registration and Welcome Receptions, 5:00-7:00
Student Reception, 5:00-6:00

General Reception, 6:00-7:30

 

SMH Council  Meeting and Dinner

 

 

Friday, 21 May 2004

 

Registration and General Meeting, 8:00-9:00

 

Address, 9:15-10:00: John Lynn, "Where is the Western Way of War?"

 

 

SESSION A: 10:15-12:15
1

Military Education Policy

Chair: Thomas Mahnken, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies/U.S. Naval War College

"The United States Navy and the Genesis of Maritime Education, 1874-1914"
Jennifer L. Speelman, the Citadel, Military College of South Carolina

"Between Bureaucracy and Democracy: World War II Army Education Policy and Programming"
Christopher P. Loss, University of Virginia

"Teaching Revolutions to Conservative People: The Use of Military History, Theory, Doctrine and Practice in the Education of Senior United States Military Officers"
Peter J. Schifferle, U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies

Commentary: Colonel Alan C. Cate, U.S. Army War College

2

Race, Religion, and Honor: Thoughts on the Average Soldiers in the Mexican-American War

Chair and Commentator: Samuel Watson, U.S. Military Academy, West Point

" 'The haughty Dons and their deluded serfs': The Experiences of Indiana Volunteers in the Mexican-American War"
Tyler V. Johnson, Purdue University

"[I]t . . . could not have been avoided without national disgrace": Honor, the South, and the Mexican War"
Gregory S. Hospodor, Delta State University

3

Military Medicine

Chair: Gary Weir, U.S. Navy Naval Historical Center

"Competition for Authority, Resources and Rank: The United States Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, 1842-1848"
Harold D. Langley, Emeritus Curator of Naval History, Smithsonian Institution

"Healing the Wounds: The Revolution in Veterans' Medical Care, 1945-1947,"
Michael D. Gambone, Kutztown University

Commentator: Dale Smith, U.S. Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

4

Other Battles: Discussion on John Lynn's A History of Combat and Culture

Chair: Kelly Devries, Loyola College

"Is Culture Sufficient to Define Pre-Modern Warfare?"
Kelly Devries, Loyola College

"Combat and Culture at the Edge of Empire:
Lance Blyth, Northern Arizona University

"Securing the Victory: Civil Affairs and Cultural Concepts of War"
Patrick Jennings, U.S. Army Special Operations Command

Commentator: Ricardo Herrera, Mount Union College

5

Low Intensity Conflict

Chair: David W. Hogan, U.S. Army Center of Military History

"The Controversy over the United States Army's Conduct of Counterinsurgency Warfare against the Moros, 1903-1913"
Charles Byler, Carroll College

"Top Secret War: Special Operations in Low-Intensity Conflict"
Charles D. Melson, Chief Historian, U.S. Marine Corps History and Museums

"Overextended: the Lesson of the American Military Involvement in Somalia, 1992-1994"
Daniel L. Haulman, U.S. Air Force Historical Agency

Commentator: Ronald Spiller, Edinboro University

6

Off the Beaten Path: An Archivists' and Researchers' Guide to Underused Resources in American Naval and Military History (Roundtable)

Chair: Donald F. Bittner, U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College

Alex Daverede, III, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

Robert Glass, U.S. National Archives Records Administration

Adrian Lewis, University of North Texas

 

 

Awards Luncheon 12:30-1:45

 

 

SESSION B:  2:00-4:00

1
Professional Military Education, History and the Study of Strategy: Service Perspectives (Roundtable)

Chair: Alexander S. Cochran, U.S. Army War College

George W. Baer, U.S. Naval War College

Grant T. Hammond, U.S. Air Force Air War College

Benjamin F. Cooling, U.S. National Defense University

Roger J. Spiller, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College

2

Poseidon's Leaders: Procuring Officers for the Royal Navy, Royal Marines, and Royal Naval Division in the Early 20th Century

Chair: Kathleen Broome Williams, Bronx Community College and City University of New York Graduate Center

"The Selborne Scheme and the Royal Marines: Officer Procurement Disaster for Britain's 'Soldiers of the Sea', 1913-1914"
Donald F. Bittner, U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College

"The Executive Officer Corps of the Royal Navy and the Fisher Reforms"
Robert L. Davison, Memorial University of Newfoundland

"Recruiting Officers for the Royal Naval Division"
Christopher L. W. Page, Naval Historical Branch (Royal Navy)

Commentator: Jock Gardner, Naval Historical Branch (Royal Navy)

3

Economics and War

Chair: David Syrett, Queens College, City University of New York

"System, Technology, and Uniform Production at the Confederate Ordnance Department"
Steven G. Collins, St Louis Community College at Meramec

"Machinery at War: Britain and American Industry, 1914-1917"
Robert Southwick, Independent Scholar

"The Military Environment: Three Case Studies of the Environmental Implications of American Military Actions in Peace and War"
Lisa Brady, Boise State University

Commentator: Alex Roland, Duke University

4

Britons on the Continent: Reflections on the Use of Expeditionary Forces in Early Modern Europe

Chair: Sari Hornstein, Independent Scholar

"A Crisis of Strategy? Geography, logistics and war in the early modern Low Countries, 1688-1712
John M. Stapleton, Ohio State University

"British Strategy and Military Thought in Early Histories of the Wars of 1689-1715"
Mark H. Danley, University of Southern Mississippi

"The Portuguese Campaign of 1762: The British Expeditionary Force and the Experience of Coalition Warfare"
Patrick J. Speelman, College of Charleston

Commentator: Jamel M. Ostwald, George Mason University

5

Problems of Occupation: American and Germans in the Early Postwar

Chair: Helmut Trotnow, Alliierten Museum

"Training for D-Day: The Central Intelligence Agency, the United States Army, and the Bund Deutscher Jugend, 1950-52"
Deborah Kisatsky, Assumption College

"Victors and Vanquished: Americans as Occupiers in Berlin, 1945-49"
William Stivers, U.S. Army Center of Military History

"From Crusade to Hazard: The Denazification of the United States Enclave Bremen"
Bianka J. Adams, U. S. Army Center of Military History

Commentator: Rebecca Boehling, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

6

Diaries and the Writing of Military History in the 20th Century

Chair & Commentator: Stanley J. Adamiak, University of Central Oklahoma

"Farm Junk and Baling Wire: The Great Depression and the Roots of American Field Improvisation during the Second World War"
Robert Wettemann, Jr., McMurry University

"Aleutian Allusions: A Study of Canada's Participation in Aleutian Operations as Viewed Through the Diaries of Prime Minister W. L. M . King"
Galen Roger Perras, University of Ottawa

"Life and Death in 'The Unholy Land': The Distinct Experiences of British Empire Soldiers in Palestine, Winter 1917-1918"
Edward C. Woodfin, Blinn College


 

 

SESSION C: 4:15-6:15

1

The Efficacy of It All? Military History's Role in Domestic and International Professional Military Officers Education

Chair-Moderator: Theodore Wilson, University of Kansas

"Not Your Father's Army: Generational Perspectives on Military Education at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College"
Michael D. Stewart, Contractor Cubic Applications

"Infiltrating Cultural Lines: American Military History and the Turkish Military Officer"
Walter E. Kretchik, Western Illinois University

"The Limitations of History: History and Air Command and Staff College Curriculum"
Tony R. Mullis, U.S. Air Force Command and Staff College

2

The Problem of Officers

Chair: Robert Berlin, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College

"Picking Senior Artillery Officers in the British Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918: 'promote the junior ones'"
Sanders Marble, Independent Scholar

"Losing Faith: The Dechristianization of the German Naval Officer Corps 1918-1945, and Attendant Historiographical Challenges"
Eric Rust, Baylor University

Commentator: Christopher McKee, Grinnell College


3

Weapons of Mass Destruction: Lessons from the U.S. and Iraqi Experiences

Chair: Colonel (U.S.A.F.) William S. Huggins, U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College

"Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction: Perceptions, Plans, and Realities"
Michael Eisenstadt, Washington Institute for Near East Policy

"Why did Iraq Want Nuclear Weapons?"
Norman Cigar, U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College

"Iraq's Experience with Chemical and Biological Weapons"
Amatzia Baram, University of Haifa

Commentator: Kamal A. Beyoghlow, U.S. Marine Corps
Command and Staff College

4

Threat and Response in China: External Security and the Martial Establishment

Chair and Commentator: Peter Kracht, editorial Director, Praeger

"No Time for Artillery: Bayan's Swift Riparian Campaign, 1274-76"
David A. Wright, University of Calgary

"Pre-emptive and Punitive Strikes: China's Campaigns of Aggression"
Ralph D. Sawyer, Independent Scholar

"Lurking Fears: Strategic Concerns of the Later Ming Empire, ca. 1550-1650"
Kenneth M. Swope, Marist College

"The Assassin's Mace: Historical Nature and Contemporary Implications"
Jason Bruzdzinski, MITRE Corporation

5

World War II Prison Camps and American Policy

Chair: Stacy Reaves, Oklahoma State University

"From Rehabilitation to Repatriation: Spring in Dachau, 1945"
Henry Struak, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

"Kriegies vs. Unions: The Fight Over Prisoner of War Labor During World War II"
Paul Springer, Texas A&M University

"What, No Swimming Pool?: 'Coddling' and the German Prisoner of War"
Gregory Kupsky, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Commentator: Jay Lockenour, Temple University


6

Military History and Museums

Chair: Allan R. Millett, Ohio State University

Richard H. Zeitlin, Wisconsin Veterans Museums

John Votaw, First Division Museum and First Division Foundation

Gordon H. (Nick) Mueller, National D-Day Museum

Commentator: Gregory J. W. Urwin, Temple University

 

 

 

Saturday, 22 May 2004

 

SESSION D: 8:30-10:30

1

Theory, History, and the Military Profession

Chair: Lieutenant General Paul K. Van Riper, U.S. Marine Corps (retired)

"An Imperfect Jewel: Military Theory and the Military Professional"
Harold Winton, U.S. Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies

"Proving Anything or Its Opposite: Military History and the Military Profession," Antulio J. Echevarria, II, U.S. Army Strategic Studies Institute

"History, Theory, Doctrine, and Naval Command"
Andrew Gordon, Joint Services Command and Staff College (U.K.)

"Airpower History and Professional Education in the U.S. Air Force"
David R. Mets, U.S. Air Force School of Advanced Air and Space Studies

Commentator: Dennis E. Showalter, Colorado College

2

The Agency and Influence of the Union Soldier in the Civil War

Chair: Ethan S. Rafuse, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College

"The Lesser Evil: Union Soldiers' Adaptation to Combat Conditions in the Petersburg Campaign of 1864-5"
Steven E. Sodergren, University of Kansas

"Deadlock and Determination: Soldier Sentiment during the Army of the Potomac's 1863 Overland Campaign"
Christopher S. Stowe, University of Toledo

"'We Spoil All the Gardens We Can Find': A Union Soldiers Journey through the Occupied South"
Derek W. Frisby, University of Alabama

"Reactions to Total War: Changing Perspectives of Acceptable Behaviors during the Invasion of South Carolina, 1865"
Heidi A. Weber, Kent State University

Commentator: Perry D. Jamieson, U.S. Air Force Historical Research Agency


3

Naval Technological Innovation

Chair: Michael Coles, Independent Scholar

"The Inventive Mind of Percy Scott"
James Godwin, University of Delaware

"In Search of a Solution: United States Navy Torpedo Data Computers, 1933-1938"
Terry Lindell, Inventory Technology Systems, Inc.

"Innovation and Experimentation in the United States Navy: The UPTIDE Antisubmarine Warfare Experiments, 1969-1972"
Robert G. Angevine, Science Applications International Corporation

Commentator: Lawrence Sondhaus, University of Indianapolis

 

4

Armies of Empire

Chair: Michael Ramsay, Kansas State University, Manhattan

"Europe Through Indian Eyes: Indian Soldiers Encounter France and Britain, 1914-1918"
David Omissi, University of Hull

"Indian Soldiers and the Relief of Kut-al-Amara, January-May 1916"
Nikolas Gardner, University of Salford

"The Lebanese Army and the First Arab-Israeli War, 1948-1949"
Matthew Hughes, University of Salford

Commentator: Raymond Callahan, University of Delaware
 
5

The Turning Point of the Vietnam War: A Reassessment of the Tet Offensive After 35 Years

Chair: James Reckner, Texas Tech University

"The Greatest Victory of a Forgotten Nation: The South Vietnamese Army and the Struggle for Hue in the Tet Offensive"
Andrew Wiest, University of Southern Mississippi

"The Tet Offensive: A Historical Anomaly"
Don Oberdorfer, Nitze School of International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University

"Was Tet Unique? Insights from the Theory of Surprise"
James J. Wirtz, U.S. Naval Postgraduate School

Commentator: Brigadier General Charles F. Brower, Virginia Military Institute
 
6

Lessons Learned: Experiences and Advice for New PH.D.s in Military History

Chair: Carol A. Reardon, Pennsylvania State University

"New Scholars, New Jobs: Dual Careers in Academia"
Susannah U. Bruce, Sam Houston State University

"Job Market Challenges"
Mary Kathryn Barbier, Mississippi State University

"Opportunities Alongside the Classroom: Experiences of a Military Historian in the Early 21st Century"
Sarandis Papadopoulos, U.S. Navy Naval History Center

"Balancing Teaching and Research: Advice for New Professors"
Jonathan D. Sarris, North Carolina Wesleyan College
 

 

 

 

Lunch Break and Special Discussion Groups, 10:45-12:30
1

Military History and Television Documentaries

Chair: Arthur Eckstein, University of Maryland

"Manufactured Controversy--One Historian's Personal View of the Trend in Modern TV and Radio Documentaries"
Sebastian Cox, Head of Air Historical Branch, UK Ministry of Defence

"Jutland: New Insight into Documentary Film-Making"
Lawrence Burr, Independent Scholar


2

Adapting Clausewitz to the New World Security Environment

Christopher Bassford, U.S. National War College

Antulio J. Echevarria, II, U.S. Army Strategic Studies Institute

Jon Sumida, University of Maryland, College Park

3

Institutional Economics and Strategy

Chair: Gordon Rudd, U.S. Marine Corps University

"Strategy in an Era of Failing States: Perspectives of an Institutional Economist"
Clifford F. Zinnes, Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector (IRIS), University of Maryland, College Park

4

Transformation

Chair: Martin Gordon, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

"Understanding Change: Thoughts on the Process of Military Innovation"
Colonel Bryon Greenwald, U.S. Army

"Defense Transformations Viewed from the Interwar Period"
Mark Mandeles, J. de Bloch Group

5

Civil-Military Relations Roundtable
 
Chair: David J. Fitzpatrick, Washtenaw Community College,
Ann Arbor, Michigan
 
Richard H. Kohn, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
 
Mark A. Stoler, University of Vermont, Burlington
 
General (ret.) Robert Sennewald, U.S. Army
 
General (ret.) Larry C. Welsh, U.S. Air Force
 
6

The World War Two Studies Association, an organization devoted to the study of that
conflict, will host a discussion of its activities. All are welcome to attend.
 

 

 

 

SESSION E: 12:45-2:45
1

Recent Ph.D. Panel

Chair: Kathleen Broome Williams, Bronx Community
College and City University of New York Graduate Center

"Poseidon's Tribute: Maritime Vulnerability, Industrial Mobilization, and the Allied Defeat of U-Boats, 1939-45"
Timothy Francis, U.S. Navy Historical Center

"The Quest for the Grail: The United States Air Force and the Search for the Ultimate Aerial Weapon"
Thomas Goetz, Guild Communications

"Back to the Future: The Evolution of the National Guard's Military Aspirations in the Last Hundred Years"
Major Les Melnyk, U.S. National Guard Bureau

Commentator: Ken Hamburger, Independent Scholar


2

The Citizen and the Army: Three Case Studies Defining Military Obligation

Chair: William M. Donnelly, U.S. Army Center of Military History

"Citizen-soldiers and the Communities They Serve: The French Revolutionary Model"
Dale L. Clifford, University of North Florida

"Liberal Ideology and Military Service: British Strategy and Military Reform, 1902-14"
M. A. Ramsay, Kansas State University

"An Army of One?: Recruitment and Changing' Perceptions of Military Obligation in the United States Since World War II"
Janet G. Valentine, Mississippi State University

Commentator: William T. Allison, Weber State University


3

U.S. Army Transformation Since World War II

Chair: Douglas Johnson, U.S. Army War College

"Tracks versus Wheels: the American Army Armored Reconnaissance Scout Vehicle Program, 1971-1975"
W. Blair Haworth, U.S. Army Center of Military History

"American Army Transformation in an Era of Jointness, 1987-97"
Mark Sherry, U.S. Army Center of Military History

"Institutionalizing American Army Transformation: The Shinseki Years"
Jeffery A. Charlston, U.S. Army Center of Military History

Commentator: John Guilmartin, Ohio State University

4

The American Revolution in the South: Problems and Perspectives

Chair: John Shy, University of Michigan

"'This Dangerous Fire': Nathaneal Greene, Thomas Jefferson and the Challenge of the Virginia Militia, 1780-1781"
John R. Maass, Ohio State University

"Old World Meets New: Franco-American Encounters in Virginia, 1781-1782"
Robert Selig, Independent Scholar

"Carolina's Civil War: Irregular Warfare in the Southern Campaigns of the American Revolution, 1780-1781"
Kristalyn Shefveland, DePaul University

Commentator: John W. Gordon, U.S. Marine Corps Command and Staff College

5

From the Outside In: Outsider Citizen-Soldiers, War, and Construction of America

Chair & Commentator: Nancy Gentile Ford, Bloomsburg University

"Images of Racial Pride: African Americans and West African Soldier Iconography in the First World War"
Jennifer Keene, University of the Redlands

"The Jewish War Veterans Organizations and the Shaping of the American National Identity in the Twentieth Century"
Kurt Piehler, University of Tennessee

"Up the Rough Side of the Mountain: Chaplain Robert B. Dokes in the Great War"

George White, Jr., University of Tennessee


6
The World at War: Understanding the Second World War

Chair: Ian Brown, Independent Scholar

"What I Thought I Knew, Wasn't": A reexamination of the effect of the American and German Army replacement policy on combat effectiveness during the European Campaign of 1944"
Robert Rush, U.S. Army Center for Military History

"A Campaign Won or a Campaign Lost? A Reassessment of the German Seventh Army in Normandy , June-August 1944"
Lieutenant Colonel Mark Reardon, U.S. Army Center of Military History

Commentator: Geoff Megargee, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum


 

 

 

SESSION F: 3:00-5:00
1

Learning About Battle in Peace and War: the British Experience 1936-1960

Chair: Sebastian Cox, Air Historical Branch (R.A.F.)

"Learning to Live with the Enemy: How Commonwealth Armies Assessed Their German, Italian, and Japanese Counterparts and Recalibrated Their Style of War, 1937-43"
John Ferris, University of Calgary

"What Lessons We Learn: Intelligence, the Royal Navy and Lessons in Air Power from the Spanish Civil War"
Greg Kennedy, Joint Services Command and Staff College (U.K.)

"Air Power in Counter-Insurgency Warfare: The Utility of the British Experience in Greece and Malaya"
Christina J. M. Goulter, Joint Services Command and Staff College (U.K.)

Commentator: Keith Neilson, Royal Military College of Canada


2

Ethnicity in the Military: American Civil War Case Studies

Chair: David S. Heidler, Colorado State University

"Franz Sigel and the Constructions of Ethnicity"
Stephen D. Engle, Florida Atlantic University

"Italians in the Confederacy"
David J. Coles, Longwood University

"Italian Americans and the Union in the American Civil War"
Frank Alduino, Anne Arundel Community College

Commentator: Jeanne T. Heidler, U. S. Air Force Academy

3

Forging the Trident: Naval Industrial Logistics in World War II

Chair: Mark Mandeles, J. de Bloch Group

"Dollars, Ships, Guns, and Planes: John Maynard Keynes and Stage II Naval Requirements for the War Against Japan"
Chris Madsen, Canadian Forces College

"Naval Industrial Logistics: Franklin D. Roosevelt Discovers Out-sourcing"
Manley Irwin, Emeritus Professor, University of New Hampshire

"The Rise and Fall of the Navy's Bureau of Supplies and Accounts"
Thomas C. Hone, Office of Force Transformation, Office of the Secretary of Defense

Commentator: Timothy Francis, U.S. Navy Naval Historical Center


4

War and Politics in the Napoleonic Era

Chair: Michael F. Pavkovic, Hawai'i Pacific University

"Bernadotte's March and North German Politics in 1805"
Frederick C. Schneid, High Point University

"'The Campaign Disposition', or 'General Yorck's Calling Card': The Politics of the Prussian Army duiring the Invasion of France, 1814"
Michael V. Leggiere

"The Archduke Carl, the Danubian War and the Politics of Defeat"
Lee W. Eysturlid, The Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Commentator: John H. Gill, U.S. National Defense University


5

Coalitions at War: The World War I Experience

Chair: Ian W. F. Beckett, U.S. Marine Corps University

"Haig and Foch-National and Supreme Commanders"
Elizabeth Greenhalgh, University of New South Wales

"Hamel Revisited: The American and British Coalition on the Western Front, 1918"
Mitch Yockelson, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

"'Our Noble American Allies': Clemenceau, the American Expeditionary Force, and the Transition to Peace, 1918-1919"
Robert Hanks, Nipissing University

Commentator: Jeffrey Grey, University of New South Wales


6

Air Power in the Cold War

Chair: Thomas Hughes, School of Advanced Airpower Studies

"Pre-Emptive War: Major General Orville A. Anderson and the Idea of the Pre-Emptive Nuclear Strike, 1947-1953"
Mark R. Grandstaff, U.S. Air War College and Brigham Young University

"A Winning Style: General O. P. Weyland and the Preservation of American Tactical Airpower, 1954-1959"
Paul D. Gelpi, Jr., Grambling State University

"A Mistaken Belief in Bunkers: West Germany, Civil Defense, and the Legacy of the Second World War"
Nichlas J. Steneck, Ohio State University

Commentator: Conrad Crane, U.S. Army Military History Institute


 

 

Banquet, 6:30-9:00
Banquet address: James Goldrick, "History, Historians, and Military Education: Reflections of a Naval Fellow Traveler"

 

 

Sunday, 23 May 2004

 

SESSION G: 9:15-11:15
1
Contemplating Future War

Chair: Edward Marolda, U.S. Navy Naval Historical Center

"World War I as a Revolution in Military Affairs"
Bradley J. Meyers, U.S. Marine Corps University

"Operations Research and Military Contracting in the Washington, D.C. Region, 1945-1960"
Paul E. Ceruzzi, U.S. National Air & Space Museum

"Biomassive Retaliation: A Case Study in Inaccuracy"
John Terino, U.S. School of Advanced Air and Space Studies

Commentators: Peter Roman, Henry L. Stimson Center
Alan Capps, ANSER Institute for Homeland Security


2

The Human Dimension

Chair: Whitman Ridgeway, University of Maryland, College Park

"Situating Private Ryan: the American Civil War as Labor History"
Lawrence T. McDonnell, Independent Scholar

"Not a Gentleman's War: The Role of Junior Officers in the Vietnam War"
John R. Milam, University of Houston

"Human Effectiveness in America's Expeditionary Air Force, 1954-1968"
Michael Perry May, Kansas State University

Commentator: Jeffrey Clarke, U.S. Army Center of Military History


3

Intelligence for Airpower and National Strategy: Be Careful What You Ask For

Chair: Malcom Muir, Virginia Military Institute

"Rostow's Panacea: The OSS Enemy Objectives Unit, Economic Intelligence, and the Origins of Rolling Thunder"
Clayton D. Laurie, Staff Historian, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency History Staff

"Capabilities and Intentions: Overhead Reconnaissance and Soviet Military Analysis in the Central Intelligence Agency"
Donald P. Steury, Senior Historian, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency History Staff

"Intelligence for Air Power, 1944-1952"
Michael Warner, Deputy Chief Historian, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency History Staff

Commentator: James Marchio, U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency


4

Keystone Soldiers: The Experiences of Pennsylvania's Volunteer Soldiers during the American Civil War and Beyond

Chair: Carol A. Reardon, Pennsylvania State University

"'Injudicious Proceedings': Recruitment and Mobilization of Philadelphia Volunteers in 1861 and the Mutiny of the 2nd Pennsylvania Reserves"
Timothy J. Orr, Pennsylvania State University

"'Collisions with the People'" Military Enforcement of the Draft in the Mountains of Pennsylvania"
Robert M. Sandow, Lock Haven University

"The Lessons of War: St. Clair Mulholland the the 116th Pennyslvania"
Susannah U. Bruce, Sam Houston State University

Commentator: Randall M. Miller, Saint Joseph's University


5

New Interpretations of Selected Major Battles of World War I

Chair: Richard R. Muller, U.S. Air Command and Staff College

"The Role of French Colonial Troops in the Nivelle Offensive"
William Dean, U.S. Air Command and Staff College

"New Insights into the Battle of Gorlice-Tarnov: the 1915 Carpathian Winter War"
Graydon A. Tunstall, University of South Florida

"De-Mystifying the Battle Space: The Air Service's Contributions at St. Mihiel"
Lt. Col. Randy Mullis, U.S. Air Command and Staff College

Commentator: Dennis Showalter, Colorado College

 

6

Social Dimensions of Military History

Chair: Brian Linn, Texas A & M University

"Studying the Unspeakable-Researching Operations Against Child Soldiers in Sierra Leone"
Eugenia C. Kiesling, West Point

"Uniting Mars and Venus: Toward an Integration of Social History Research and Military Policy Analysis"
Anni P. Baker, Wheaton College

"Expanding the Circle: The Rise of Private Military Companies and their Impact on the Profession of Arms"
Captain Roberto Bran, U.S. Army [Military Advisor to Afghan National Army]

Commentator: Craig M. Cameron, Old Dominion University

 

 

SESSION H: 11:30-1:30

 

Plenary Session

Chair: James Goldrick, Australian Defence ForceAcademy
"Re-thinking Military History"
Jeremy Black, University of Exeter

"The Future of Military History"
Harold E. Selesky, University of Alabama

Commentator: Jon Sumida, University of Maryland, College Park and Audience

 

Reception, 1:30-3:00