Full Events Schedule
View our scheduled events, past and present, spanning over 25 years
Winter-Spring 2025 Schedule
Date
Topic
Speaker
Affiliation
Location
Friday, Jan 10th
7PM EST
Winston Churchill and the Transformation of Conflict
David C. Isby
Historian, defense and foreign policy analyst, game designer, author of "Fighting in Normandy: The German Army from D-Day to Villers-Bocage, The Luftwaffe and the War at Sea 1939-45: As Seen by Officers of the Kriegsmarine and Luftwaffe," and other works.
Friday, Jan. 24th
7PM EST
The Vietnam War
Geoffrey Wawro
University Distinguished Research Professor and Founding Director of the Military History Center at the University of North Texas.
Friday, Feb. 14th
7PM EST
Marine Corps Professional Military Education (PME): From Its Foundation in 1920 to the
21st Century
Donald F. Bittner
Professor Emeritus of Military History at the United States Marine Corps Command and Staff College, author of "Curriculum Evolution: Marine Corps Command and Staff College, 1920-1988" and other works.
Friday, Feb. 28th
7pm EST
Hannibal's Mules: The Logistical Limitations of Hannibal's Army and the Battle of Cannae,
216 BC
John Shean
Professor at CUNY, author of "Soldiering for God: Christianity and the Roman Army."
Friday, Mar. 14th
7pm EST
Analyzing and Wargaming Potential Alternative Technologies at the Battle of Gettysburg
Sean Barnett
Engineer and defense analyst, author of "Battle of Gettysburg: The Impact of Alternative Technologies on Civil War History, An Experiment in Tactical Wargaming with Platforms Enabled by
Artificial Intelligence", and other works.
Friday, Mar. 28th
7PM EST
The Hungarian Campaign of 1527-28: Politics and Strategy in the High Renaissance
Cole Snedeker
U.S. Air Force, holds an honors in history from Yale University, worked at the National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey and with InfoAge Science Center & History Museums, author of a published peer-reviewed paper on North Korean diplomatic history, and plans
to pursue a PhD in military history.
Friday, Apr. 11th
7PM EST
Chinese Amphibious Doctrine
Christopher D. Yung
Author of "Gators of Neptune: Naval Amphibious Planning for the Normandy Invasion," and "The Chinese Navy: Expanding Capabilities, Evolving Roles."
Friday, May 9th
7PM EST
The American War against Terrorism
Aaron B. O’Connell
Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas-Austin and Director of Research for the Clements Center for National Security, author of "Underdogs: The Making of the Modern Marine Corps," and editor of "Our Latest Longest War: Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan." Currently working on a book on the Global War on Terror.
Friday, Apr. 25th
7PM EST
The Mythology of Nuclear Weapons: A Realist Reappraisal
Ward Hayes Wilson
Leading expert on nuclear weapons policy, and executive director of RealistRevol, who has written for Parameters, Joint Force Quarterly, and Revue de Défense Nationale, and spoken at the Pentagon, the U.S. State Department, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, the Naval War College, the Sorbonne, Kings College London, Nagasaki University and others.
Fall 2024 NYMAS Schedule
Date
Topic
Speaker
Affiliation
Location
Monday, Sept. 16th
7PM EST
The World that Wasn't:
Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century
Benn Steil
Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Author of The World That Wasn't: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century, The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War, and others.
Friday, Sept. 27th
7PM EST
Myths & Secrets of Waterloo
Dana Lombardy
Military historian and Wargamnig Hall of Fame game designer, former editor of Armchair General, publisher of Napoleon Journal, and author of, among others, The Camp at Dresden 1812-1813 and the forthcoming Napoleon’s Last Army
LaGuardia C.CCUNY
Monday, Oct. 7th
7PM EST
The 2024 Election Disinformation Cycle: Will AGI or Recycled Campaign Tropes Shape the US Election?
Alexis Crews &
Micheal Williams
Alexis Crews
The Council on Foreign Relations
Michael Williams
Syracuse University
Friday, Oct. 25th
7pm EST
Battle of the Borderlands, 1919-1920: Russia, Poland, and Ukraine
Steve Zaloga
Author of Warsaw 1920: The War for the Eastern Borderlands, The Devil's Garden: Rommel's Desperate Defense of Omaha Beach on D-Day, and others
Monday, Nov. 4th
7pm EST
History and Theory in Strategic Studies, War Studies, and Professional Military Education
Cliff Rogers
Chair of the West Point History Dept. in Ancient and Medieval Warfare
Friday, Nov. 15th,
7PM EST
The Battle of Adrianople, August 9, “A.D. 378,”
Richard Van Nort
CCNY (Ret’d), member, Columbia University Seminar on Law and Politics and the Armor and Arms Club of New York.
Fall 2024 NYMAS Schedule
Date
Topic
Speaker
Affiliation
Location
Monday, Nov 1
7PM EST
The World that Wasn't:
Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century
Benn Steil
Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations, Author of The World That Wasn't: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century, The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War, and others.
Friday, Sept. 27th
7PM EST
Myths & Secrets of Waterloo
Dana Lombardy
Military historian and Wargamnig Hall of Fame game designer, former editor of Armchair General, publisher of Napoleon Journal, and author of, among others, The Camp at Dresden 1812-1813 and the forthcoming Napoleon’s Last Army
LaGuardia C.CCUNY
Monday, Oct. 7th
7PM EST
The 2024 Election Disinformation Cycle: Will AGI or Recycled Campaign Tropes Shape the US Election?
Alexis Crews &
Micheal Williams
Alexis Crews
The Council on Foreign Relations
Michael Williams
Syracuse University
Friday, Oct. 25th
7pm EST
Battle of the Borderlands, 1919-1920: Russia, Poland, and Ukraine
Steve Zaloga
Author of Warsaw 1920: The War for the Eastern Borderlands, The Devil's Garden: Rommel's Desperate Defense of Omaha Beach on D-Day, and others
Monday, Nov. 4th
7pm EST
History and Theory in Strategic Studies, War Studies, and Professional Military Education
Cliff Rogers
Chair of the West Point History Dept. in Ancient and Medieval Warfare
Friday, Nov. 15th,
7PM EST
The Battle of Adrianople, August 9, “A.D. 378,”
Richard Van Nort
CCNY (Ret’d), member, Columbia University Seminar on Law and Politics and the Armor and Arms Club of New York.
Monday, Dec. 2nd,
7PM EST
The Battle for Attu, 1943
Theodore Cook
William Paterson University, co-author of Japan at War: An Oral History and Sacred War: Inside the Japanese Experience,
1937–1945