Society for Military History 2021 Annual Meeting
87th Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History
“Turning the Tide: Revolutionary Moments in Military History”
May 20-23, 2021, Norfolk, Virginia
Hosted by the Joint Advanced Warfighting School, National Defense University
Friday, May 21st, 2021
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: Granby ABC
Hybrid
Event 1A. Social Deviancy or Psychological Casualty?: Mental Illness, Gender, Race, and Legality in World War II
"Ceasing to be of Value": Flying Fatigue and Social Deviancy in the Second World War
Presenter
Jorden Pitt, Texas Christian University
"Wasted Negro Manpower": Race, the Mental Qualification Test, and the Induction of African American Men into the Army during World War II
Presenter
Douglas Bristol, Jr., University of Southern Mississippi
Psychopaths in Uniform: Murder, Punishment, and Social Deviancy on the World War II Home Front
Presenter
John Kinder, Oklahoma State University
Chair and Commentator
David Kieran, Washington & Jefferson College
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: Granby D
Hybrid
Event 1B. Learning from War, from the 19th to the 20th Centuries
Chair and Commentator
John M Curatola, US Army, School of Advanced Military Studies
The Great Work, Unfortunately, Is a Just a Fragment': Publishing Clausewitz's Posthumous Works
Presenter
Vanya Bellinger, Air University/eSchool of Graduate PME
Western Military Institutions: Professionalization as Revolution
Presenter
Matthew Muehlbauer, US Army, School of Advanced Military Studies
Building the United States' Role in the World: Power, Compromise, and Revolutionary Thinking at the U.S. Navy's 1945 Teachers Conference on 'The Foundations of National Power'
Presenter
Sean Case, Boston University, American & New England Studies Program
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: Granby E
Hybrid
Event 1C. Germany and the East in World War II
Chair and Commentator
Michael Geheran, United States Military Academy
Remorseless Accounting: An Analysis of Army Group Center's Officer Losses During the First Three Months of Operation Barbarossa
Presenter
Robert Kirchubel, Purdue University
The enemy must be attacked today, not tomorrow' The Polish Communist Resistance in the Second World War
Presenter
Keith Hann, University of Calgary
Revolutions in views on the German Military Opposition, 1939-44
Presenter
Matthew Olex-Szczytowski, None
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: Energy
Hybrid
Event 1D. New Perspectives on the Intersection of Military and Environmental History
Chair and Commentator
Jamie L.H. Goodall, US Army Center for Military History
Foodways and Agroecologies in Mexico during the Mexican American War
Presenter
Nicole Mottier, Stetson University
Exposed to the Elements: Civil War Prisoners' Encounters with the Weather
Presenter
Cameron Boutin, University of Kentucky
How to finish with Armageddon? The history and consequences of industrial-scale, old-ammunition destruction in the interwar period on the western front
Presenter
Daniel Hube, BRGM
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: Fusion
Hybrid
Event 1E. Young Scholars #1
Chair and Commentator
Sarah Purcell, Grinnell College
The Gribeauval System
Presenter
Angst in Argonne: How the Meuse-Argonne Offensive Served as a Singular Catalyst for Modernization of the U.S. Army
Presenter
Duncan Nobles, Washington State University
Task Force Tripoli: Modern-Day Maneuver Warfare in Action
Presenter
Damien O'Connell, Brute Krulak Center, US Marine Corps University
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: Main Salon A
Fully-remote
Event 1G. Wartime Massacres Reexamined: Murderous Behavior, Conscientious Refusal and the Interpretation of Vague Orders
Room for Interpretation, Murderous and Benign: The Case of Kafr Qasim
Presenter
Danny Orbach, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Operation Mole: A Military (Self) Deception Plan as a Catalyst for Massacre
Presenter
Yagil Henkin, IDF Command and Staff College
Commentator
Yuma Totani, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Decency in Wartime
Cathal Nolan, Boston University
Chair
Ben Shephard, Glasgow Caledonian University
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: Main Salon B
Hybrid
Event 1H. Evolving Legal Boundaries with the U.S. Military
Chair and Commentator
Heather Perry, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Contracts, Corruption, and a Court-Martial: The Case of Lieutenant Colonel Joshua B. Brant and its Influence on the Antebellum Army's Quartermaster Department
Presenter
John Wendt, Texas A&M University
The History of Legal Challenges to Bans on Transgender Military Personnel'
Presenter
Natalie Shibley, Wesleyan University
A #MeToo Revolution: Personal Histories and Narratives of Gender and Misconduct by Female Military Leaders
Presenter
Stephanie Erwin, US Army War College
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: Main Salon C
Hybrid
Event 1J. New Perspectives on Leadership and Command
Chair and Commentator
Randy Mullis, US Army, Command and General Staff College
Khalid ibn Al-Walid's Military Career
Presenter
Hüseyin Gökalp, Selcuk University Faculty of Islamic Studies, Islamic History Department
Malplaquet: Breaking the model of French Disunity of command'
Presenter
Steven Beckman, United States Military Academy
The Mask of Colonel Robin Olds
Presenter
Richard Johnson, University of Michigan - Dearborn
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: MacArthur Memorial
In-person
Event 1K. Revolutionary Foundations: The Building of National Capabilities for Industrial War
Negotiated Settlement: The Council of Defense System and State Mobilization for the First World War
Presenter
Nathan Finney, Duke University
The Paid Volunteer: The Legislative Battle for Federally Funding the National Guard
Presenter
Miranda Summers Lowe, National Guard Bureau
Revolutionizing the Total Force: The Joint Multi-Component Maneuvers of 1903
Presenter
Jonathan Bratten, Maine National Guard
Chair
Michael Neiberg, US Army War College
Commentator
Amanda Nagel, US Army, School of Advanced Military Studies
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: Granby ABC
Hybrid
Event 2A. A Decade About Something: American Society, Warfare, and Grand Strategy in the 1990s
No Controlling Congressional Authority? Congress, Kosovo, and War Powerlessness
Presenter
Jeffrey Crean, Tyler Junior College, Department of History
"A Fight for the Army's Very Soul and Future": Debates over Gender-Integrated Training in the 1990s US Army
Presenter
David Fitzgerald, University College Cork
Rethinking the narrative of strategic wandering in the 1990s
Presenter
Jacqueline Whitt, US Army War College
Chair
Lisa Mundey, University of St. Thomas
Commentator
William Donnelly, US Army Center of Military History
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: Granby D
Hybrid
Event 2B. Building the Foundation for Modern Navies-Naval Technology in Hampton Roads, Virginia During the American Civil War
Independent of Natural Forces: A Reinterpretation of the Battle of Hampton Roads
Presenter
Gordon Calhoun, Naval History and Heritage Command
The Evolution of U.S. Navy Artillery in Response to Ironclads
Presenter
Michael Galloway, Naval History and Heritage Command
Salvaging the War - 19th Century Marine Salvage in Hampton Roads
Presenter
Anna Holloway, Naval History and Heritage Command
Chair and Commentator
Timothy Heck, US Marine Corps History Division
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: Granby E
Hybrid
Event 2C. Military Occupations during World War II
Organizer
Vojin Majstorovic, University of North Texas
In Garden Bavaria: American Strategies of Rule during the Postwar Food Crisis, 1945-1949
Presenter
Douglas Bell, Texas A&M University
Soviet Occupational Apparatus in the Balkans and Central Europe, 1944-1945
Presenter
Vojin Majstorovic, University of North Texas
Chair and Commentator
Adrian Lewis, University of Kansas
The Occupation of Warsaw and the German War Effort
Presenter
Jadwiga Biskupska, Sam Houston State University
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: Energy
Hybrid
Event 2D. Reinterpretations of the European Theater of Operations
Chair and Commentator
Mike Morris, USMC School of Advanced Warfighting
The Business of Living: Following the Nurses of the 128th Evacuation Hospital
Presenter
Jessica Waszak, First Division Museum
Life on the Line: Reevaluating 10th Mountain Division Patrol Actions in the Northern Italian Apennines, January to February 1945
Presenter
Carson Teuscher, Ohio State University
Relying on the WACs: The Women's Army Corps in the European Theater of Operations During the Second World War
Presenter
Brittany Huner, University of North Texas
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: Fusion
Hybrid
Event 2E. Young Scholars #2
Chair and Commentator
James Slaughter, Norwich University
An American Identity: Why the Potawatomi chose to fight for the Union Army in the Civil War
Presenter
Curtis Keltner, Texas A&M University-Central Texas
Liberating Allies: Italian-American Internment during the Second World War
Presenter
William Kaiser, West Chester University
Desegregation Through Entertainment: Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific as an Instrument of Military Policy
Presenter
Leana Sottile, Chapman University
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: Main Salon A
Hybrid
Event 2G. When Warriors Write for Children
Commentator
Kathleen Broome Williams, Holy Names University
"I Feel Like I'm Being Drafted": World War II and the Origins of Charlie Brown's Melancholy and Success
Presenter
Blake Ball, Huntingdon College
Roald Dahl: Pilot; Spy; Children's Author
Presenter
Katherine Reist, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown
Chair
Hal Friedman, Henry Ford College
Ian Fleming - Children's Writer
Presenter
JWR Gardner, Independent Scholar
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: Main Salon B
Hybrid
Event 2H. Beasts on the Battlefield: Animals in War Through the Civil War to World War II
Organizer
Hannah E. Palsa, Kansas State University
"The Prisoner and the Tramp: Dogs as Predators and Prey in American Civil War POWs' Narratives"
Presenter
Angela Riotto, Army University Press
The Emergence of the Army Veterinary Corps: Keeping the War Horse Fighting during the First World War
Presenter
Hanna Lipsey, University of South Florida
Chair and Commentator
Christopher Carey, Army University Press
Recruiting for the Dogs: Dogs for Defense and the Writers' War Board
Presenter
Hannah Palsa, Kansas State University
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: Main Salon C
Hybrid
Event 2J. Manpower Policy and Reform during the Napoleonic Wars and their Aftermath
The Strange Case of Cornet Battier: Horse Guards, the 10th Hussars, and the Regimental System
Presenter
Luke A. L. Reynolds, Hunter College, CUNY
Where have all the admirals gone? Napoleon's Search for Naval Leadership during the Trafalgar Campaign, 1804-5
Presenter
Kenneth Johnson, Air University
Chair and Commentator
Evan Wilson, US Naval War College
The Point of Greatest Strain: British Naval Manpower Policy at the End of the Napoleonic Wars
Presenter
J. Ross Dancy, US Naval War College
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Hybrid
Event 2K. New Perspectives on the Anglo-American Naval Relationship, 1898-1945
Commentator
Ryan Wadle, US Air Force, Air University
Chair
Trent Hone, Excella Consulting
"Inventors and Innovators: The Forgotten Anglo-American Success Story in the Amphibious Invasions of German-Occupied Europe"
Presenter
Frank Blazich, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
Anglo-American Naval Relations and American Naval Politics Prior to US Entrance in WW I and its affect on British Naval Planning, Strategy and Affairs, 1898-1917
Presenter
David Hirsch, Independent Scholar
Learning from the British: The U.S. Navy and Anti-Aircraft Improvements, 1940-1942
Presenter
Corbin Williamson, US Air Force, Air War College
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Afternoon Session 1
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Afternoon Session 1
Room: Granby ABC
Hybrid
Event 3A. Ethos of War: Cultural Forces and the Transformation of American Warfighting, 1945-2007
Atypical Cohesion: Combined Action Platoon Personnel in the Vietnam War
Presenter
Cavender S. Sutton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chair
Eric Burke, Army University Press
Commentator
Nathan Finney, Duke University
Creative Destruction: The US Army's preparation for post-conflict operations in the Philippines in the Second World War
Presenter
Rebecca Beard, The Ohio State University
How the Airborne Mafia Turned the Paratrooper into a Strategic Asset
Presenter
Robert Williams, The Ohio State University
Cultural Training as Force Multiplier during Operation Iraqi Freedom
Presenter
Marjorie Galelli, University of Kansas
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Afternoon Session 1
Room: Granby D
Hybrid
Event 3B. Scientists, Nukes, and Space-Based Spooks: Technological Change and the Evolution of Eisenhower's New Look at Home and Abroad
"Some good, hard thinking": Science Advisers and Eisenhower's Post-Sputnik Defense Policy.
Presenter
Richard Damms, Mississippi State University-Meridian
Chair
Lisa Beckenbaugh, US Air Force, Air Command and Staff College
Commentator
Melvin Deaile, US Air Force, School of Advanced Nuclear Deterrence Studies
Expanding the Nuclear Revolution: The Problem of Proliferation in the New Look Era
Presenter
Gates Brown, US Army, Command and General Staff College
Space Sentries and the New Military Frontier
Presenter
Sean Kalic, US Army, Command and General Staff College
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Afternoon Session 1
Room: Granby E
Hybrid
Event 3C. The U.S. in Vietnam
Chair and Commentator
Ed Marolda, Naval History and Heritage Command (retired)
MAT in a Mad War: Mobile Advisory Teams and the U.S. Army's Advisory Effort in the Vietnam War
Presenter
Uyen Nguyen, Texas Tech University
Winning the People: Personal Response, the Marine Corps, and Vietnam
Presenter
Ross Phillips, Texas A&M University
Turning the Tide of War: `Getting Off Their Ditty Boxes' Operation `Starlite' and an Entirely New War in Vietnam, August `8-20 1965
Presenter
Leo Daugherty III, US Army Cadet Command and Fort Knox, KY
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Afternoon Session 1
Room: Energy
Hybrid
Event 3D. History Beyond the Archives
Discussant
Chris Juergens, History Colorado
Discussant
Emily Carley, Witness to War Foundation
Discussant
Matthew Keagle, Fort Ticonderoga
Discussant
Cyrus Moore, Baltimore Community Museum
Discussant
Justin Simundson, US Air Force Academy
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Afternoon Session 1
Room: Fusion
In-person
Event 3E. Young Scholars #4
Chair and Commentator
Alexander Mikaberidze, Louisiana State University Shreveport
Spain's Irregular War in British Strategic Planning During the Peninsular War, 1808-1814
Presenter
Kendall Witt, The Citadel Graduate College
Put A Twist on 'Em: Military Masculinity in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War
Presenter
Connor Clancy, North Carolina State University
'The Great Struggle for Freedom,' Cuban Expatriates and the Development of Revolutionary Rhetoric in the Late-Nineteenth Century.
Presenter
Michael Santana, Kansas State University
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Afternoon Session 1
Room: Main Salon A
In-person
Event 3G. Race and the U.S. Civil War
Chair and Commentator
Adam Givens, National WWII Museum
Nefarious and Inhuman Traffic' : US Naval Officers, Public Discourse, and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Presenter
Roger Bailey, University of Maryland, College Park
No Safety for Union Men: The Norfolk Race Riot of 1866 and Military Occupation in Virginia
Presenter
Brianna Kirk, University of Virginia
Public Perceptions of Military Emancipation in the U.S. Civil War
Presenter
Louisa Koebrich, United States Military Academy
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Afternoon Session 1
Room: Main Salon B
Event 3H. Military Involvement in Rebuilding Nations: The Evolution of Policy by Other Means for the United States and Canada
Journey from Shame to the Coming of Age of Military Professionalism: The Hard Lessons of Canada's Peacekeeping Mission to Somalia (December 1992 - May 1993)
Presenter
Rachel Lea Lea Heide, Canada's Department of National Defence
Anatomy of an HADR Mission: Haiti 2010
Presenter
John "Jay" Boyd, 81st Wildcats Association (Historian)
Counterinsurgency and Chickens, Reconstruction and Rabbits: The Theory and Practice of Agribusiness Development Teams in Operation Enduring Freedom-Afghanistan
Presenter
Harold "Allen" Skinner, USA Soldier Support Institute, Command Historian
Chair and Commentator
Stephen Harlan, Command Historian, 99th Readiness Division, US Army Reserve
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Afternoon Session 1
Room: Main Salon C
In-person
Event 3J. Historically-Minded, Forward-Looking: Using History to Solve Tomorrow's Problems
Chair
Francis Castellano USN, Joint Advanced Warfighting School
Agile Combat Employment: How Early 20th Century Marines John Lejeune and Earl Ellis Will Enable the 21st Century Air Force
Presenter
Bradley C. Baker USAF, Joint Advanced Warfighting School
The Unambiguous Nature of Strategic Ambiguity in the Taiwan Strait: Inviting Miscalculation or Maximizing Diplomatic Flexibility?
Presenter
Michael J. Sullivan USAF, Joint Advanced Warfighting School
When Pericles Met Goujian: Forestalling the Star-Crossed Future of Ancient Greek and Chinese "Traps"
Presenter
Keith W. Benedict USA, Joint Advanced Warfighting School
Commentator
Player to be Named Later
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Afternoon Session 1
Room: MacArthur Memorial
In-person
Event 3K. What's This Book Learnin' Got To Do With War?: Military History in ROTC
Organizer
Jonathan A. Beall, University of North Georgia
Discussant
Adrian Lewis, University of Kansas
Discussant
Kyle Sinisi, The Citadel
Discussant
Steven Sodergren, Norwich University
Discussant
Jonathan A. Beall, University of North Georgia
Chair and Moderator
Samuel Watson, United States Military Academy
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Afternoon Session 2
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Afternoon Session 2
Room: Granby ABC
Hybrid
Event 4A. Turning Tides: The Historical Contributions and Legacy of Geoffrey Megargee
Organizer
Russell A. Hart, Hawaii Pacific University
Discussant
Allan Millett, University of New Orleans
Discussant
Reina Pennington, Norwich University
Discussant
Jennie Kiesling, United States Military Academy
Discussant
Randy Papadopoulos, Department of the Navy Secretariat
Discussant
Robert Bateman, US Army (ret.)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Afternoon Session 2
Room: Energy
Hybrid
Event 4D. World War One as an Avenue for Social Change
"The Supreme Test of British Womanhood": Women in the Army during the First World War
Presenter
Kaitlyn Nicole Ross, Texas A&M University
They'll Be Mighty Proud in Dixie of Their Old Black Joe
Presenter
John Lewis, Texas A&M University
War and Rebellion as a policy towards Irish independence
Presenter
Neil Richardson, Maynooth University
Commentator
Bradford Wineman, US Marine Corps Command and Staff College
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Afternoon Session 2
Room: Fusion
Hybrid
Event 4E. Drones, Nukes, and "Guerillas": Reciprocity in American Technical Revolutions
Atomic Efficacy and Weapons System Evaluation Report #1
Presenter
John Curatola, US Army, School of Advanced Military Studies
Remote Warfare: A New Architecture of Airpower
Presenter
Timothy Schultz, US Naval War College
Guerillas in the Pentagon: The Roots of the Reform Movemenbts Failed Revolution
Presenter
Michael Hankins, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Chair and Commentator
Janet Valentine, US Army, Command and General Staff College
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Afternoon Session 2
Room: Main Salon A
Hybrid
Event 4G. Innovative Teaching: Utilizing Social Media, Digital Media, and Historic Sites in the Military History Classroom
Discussant
Sarah Myers, Messiah University
Discussant
James Sandy, University of Texas at Arlington
Discussant
David Siry, United States Military Academy
Moderator
Amy Rutenberg, Iowa State University
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Afternoon Session 2
Room: Main Salon B
Hybrid
Event 4H. On Land and at Sea: Early-Modern British Military and Naval Policy, Practice, and Other Means, 1750-1815.
Chair
Ricardo A. Herrera, US Army, School of Advanced Military Studies
"'We must… Use Every Stratagem to Reduce them': Military Policy, Epidemic Disease, and the Targeting of Native American Agricultural Resources, in the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes Region, 1750-1815"
Presenter
Matthew Ward, University of Dundee
The Duke of York and Innovation in the late eighteenth-century British Army: The formalisation of informal learning networks
Presenter
Huw Davies, King's College London
Pragmatism, the British Navy, and the Policy of Transnational Recruitment in the Long Eighteenth Century
Presenter
Sara Caputo, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge
Commentator
Holly Mayer, Duquesne University
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Afternoon Session 2
Room: Main Salon C
In-person
Event 4J. Information & Space Operations: Back to the Future?
Chair
Jody Owens USAF, Joint Advanced Warfighting School
Messing with their Minds: Maskirovaka's Cognitive Effects in Crimea and Donbas
Presenter
Miroslav Hofirek Army of the Czech Republic, Joint Advanced Warfighting School
Big Help or Big Brother: Understanding the Legal Parameters of Domestic Military Operations in the Information Environment
Presenter
Ben Hartman USN, Joint Advanced Warfighting School
Corbett, Mahan, Douhet? Old Theories for a New Model of Space Superiority
Presenter
Ramsey Horn USSF, Joint Advanced Warfighting School
Commentator
Daniel Krebs, US Army War College
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Afternoon Session 2
Room: MacArthur Memorial
Hybrid
Event 4K. Technological Change and Unintended Consequences in the 20th Century
Chair and Commentator
Gordon Calhoun, Naval History and Heritage Command
An Early Revolution - Not. The Royal Air Force's War against the Royal Navy
Presenter
Alan Zimm, Independent
A History of Deception: The Evolution of Information Warfare
Presenter
Meghan Fitzpatrick, Defence Research & Development Canada
PEACE PEARL: An Ephemeral History of Sino-U.S. Military Cooperation
Presenter
Thomas Jamison, Naval Postgraduate School
Saturday, May 22nd, 2021
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: Granby ABC
In-person
Event 5A. Edward M. Coffman's 'The Long Shadow of The Soldier and the State:' A 30-Year Perspective
Pruning the Deadwood: Self-Policing and Professionalism in the US Army Officer Corps, 1890-1960
Presenter
Brian McAllister Linn, Texas A&M University
Self-Policing and Professionalism in the Army Officer Corps 1890-1960: The Military Justice Experience
Presenter
Fred Borch, US Army, Judge Advocate General's Corps
Union Rules: The Enduring Myth of Huntingtonian Self-Regulation in the U.S. Army
Presenter
J. P. Clark, US Army
Chair
Gary Solis, Retired
Commentator
Gian Gentile, RAND
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: Granby D
Hybrid
Event 5B. Policy by Other Means: Contesting German and American Narratives of Military Operations and Doctrine
Losers Write History: The Curious German Influence upon the Historical Interpretation of the 1943 Sicilian Campaign
Presenter
Gregory Hospodor, US Army, Command and General Staff College
Chair
David Cotter, US Army, Command and General Staff College
Fake News, German Communiques, and Great War Historiography: The Real German Experience at the Battle of St Mihiel, 1918
Presenter
Mark Grotelueschen, US Air Force Academy
Doctrine and Dissent: The West German Left and the US Army, 1975-85
Presenter
Adam Seipp, Texas A&M University
Commentator
Nicholas Murray, US Naval War College
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: Granby E
Hybrid
Event 5C. All Things to Everyone: Paramilitary Police in Peace and War
Chair
Jacob Stoil, US Army, School of Advanced Military Studies
"Bobby" Vs. "Oozle": The Palestine Police Force during the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-1939
Presenter
Shlomi Chetrit, Israel National Police Heritage Center
Keeping the 'Corridor' open - The Israel Police Special Platoons and The MALAB (1950-1953)
Presenter
Ori Kossovsy, Israel Police History Unit
Frontier Security by Committee: The Texas Rangers in the American Civil War
Presenter
James Tindle, Robins Air Force Base
Commentator
Annette Amerman, DoD POW/MIA Accounting Agency
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: Energy
Hybrid
Event 5D. Exhibiting Military History in Museums: Problems and Constraints
Organizer
Laurence M. Burke II, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Exhibiting Modern War
Presenter
Paul Morando, National Museum of the United States Army
Re-envisioning Military History at the National Air and Space Museum
Presenter
Laurence Burke II, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Commentator
Jennifer Marland, Office of the Curator of Models, NSWC Carderock
Chair
Frank Blazich, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
The Ten Thousand-Day War at Sea: US Navy in Vietnam, 1950-1975
Presenter
Joseph Judge, Museum Muse LLC
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: Fusion
Hybrid
Event 5E. Young Scholars #5
Chair and Commentator
Rhonda Smith-Daugherty, Alice Lloyd College
A Navy's Purpose
Presenter
Houston Crudele, Weber State University
TEHE's seduction: Embodiment and production of US empire in the 1953 Iran coup d'état (tentative title)
Presenter
Olivia Popp, Stanford University
Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial General: An Analysis of the Reputation of General James Longstreet
Presenter
Yvonne Reeves, Georgia State University
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: Momentum
Unknown at this time
Event 5F. The Use of Military Forces to Enhance Peace and Stability
Chair and Commentator
John Farquhar, US Air Force Academy
The Suez crisis and the deployment of the first Blue Helmets, from to an emergency solution to a quasi-permanent military modus operandi
Presenter
Enrico Magnani, United Nations
Nation-building in Somalia during Operation Restore Hope: Mission Creep? Or simply the nature of the game?
Presenter
Jonathan Carroll, Texas A&M University
Waning Moments in History: Is it the end of an era for non-proliferation inspection treaties?
Presenter
Mary Bell, National Defense University
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: Main Salon A
In-person
Event 5G. Beyond Douhet and Fuller: Lesser Known Developments in the Interwar Period
"French Air Power Innovations in Colonial Operations during the Interwar Period."
Presenter
James F. Slaughter III, Norwich University
"The Setting of the Black-Yellow-Red Sun: The Story of the Interwar Belgian Air Force."
Presenter
Jonathan Epstein, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
"…it's later than you think." -- Bureau Chief George E. Leach, and the Modernization of the National Guard during the 1930s
Presenter
Johannes Allert, Rogers State Suniversity
Chair
Joseph Fitzharris, University of St. Thomas
Commentator
Jessica Anderson-Colon, Norwich University
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: Main Salon B
Fully-remote
Event 5H. War Crimes in the 20th Century
Chair and Commentator
Steven B. Davis, US Air Force, Air University
'Crimes Without Punishment': The Nuremberg War Criminals and American Occupation Policy
Presenter
Robert Hutchinson, Air University, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies
The Girl in the Photograph: The U.S. Army's Investigation of a Suspected War Crime in Occupied Germany, 1945-47
Presenter
Kevin Ruffner, U.S. Government (Retired)
My Lai as a Revolution in Soldiers' War Crimes Allegations
Presenter
Chris Levesque, University of West Florida
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: Main Salon C
Hybrid
Event 5J. New Perspectives on the American Revolution
Chair and Commentator
Stanley Carpenter, US Naval War College (emeritus)
Sibi Totique (for himself and for all): The Birth of Benedict Arnold's Treason
Presenter
Gerald Krieger, National Defense University
Benedict Arnold's June 1775 Crown Point Association at the Turn of the Tide from Political to Military Revolution
Presenter
Timothy Leech PhD, Mary Baker Eddy Library
Clearing The Land: A Critical Re-Examination of the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign of 1779
Presenter
Matthew Zembo, Hudson Valley Community College
Travis Bowman, Ne wYork State Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: MacArthur Memorial
Hybrid
Event 5K. The Tyranny of the Environment and Geography on Logistics
Chair and Commentator
C.C. Felker, United States Navy, retired
The Real Tug of War: New York Harbor, Railroad Gridlock, and the Severe Winter Weather of 1917-1918
Presenter
Gerard Fitzgerald, Department of History and Art History, George Mason University
Handling the Exodus: The Challenge of Mass Evacuation in Early-Cold War West German Civil Defense Planning
Presenter
Nicholas Steneck, Wesleyan College
Guadalcanal: The Tide of Logisitcs
Presenter
Jobie Turner, United States Air Force
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: Granby ABC
In-person
Event 6A. War Stories: Capturing and Telling the Story of the Transformation of the National Guard During the War on Terror
Discussant
Andrew Wiest, University of Southern Mississippi
War Stories: Capturing and Telling the Story of the Transformation of the National Guard During the War on Terror
Presenter
Discussant
Paul Lyon, US National Guard
War Stories: Capturing and Telling the Story of the Transformation of the National Guard During the War on Terror
Presenter
Discussant
Kevin Greene, University of Southern Mississippi
Commentator
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: Granby D
Hybrid
Event 6B. From Informal Labor to Formal Policy: Women and Policymaking in the 20th Century U.S. Military
"The War Was In the Barracks": Black Wacs, Protest, and Response from the Women's Army Corps, 1971
Presenter
Margaret B. Montgomery, University of Alabama
The Marine Corps' Integration of Women During the Great War, 1918-1919
Presenter
Mark Folse, US Army Center of Military History
From Teal-Blue Dresses to 'Married to the Corps': Miltiary Wives' Informal Labor in Formal Policymaking, 1973-2003
Presenter
John Worsencroft, Louisiana Tech University
Chair
Kara Vuic, Texas Christian University
Commentator
Amy Rutenberg, Iowa State University
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: Granby E
Hybrid
Event 6C. Revolutionary Concepts in Masculinity, Femininity, Sexuality, and Power
"An Age of Intolerance: The U.S. Navy Engages in the Lavender Scare"
Presenter
Heather M. M. Haley, Auburn University
"Ancient Roman Naval Rams as Objects of Phallic Power"
Presenter
Stephen DeCasien, Texas A&M University
"'She was sure she was in Hell': Reconstructing Gender and Trauma in the History of the First World War"
Presenter
Bridget Keown, University of Pittsburgh
"Desert Queen and the White Mouse: How the Successes of British Women Spies in WWI Paved the wat for Female Agency in WWII"
Presenter
Danielle Wirsansky, Jacksonville University
Chair
John M. Curatola, US Army, School of Advanced Military Studies
Commentator
Janet Valentine, US Army, Command and General Staff College
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: Energy
Hybrid
Event 6D. What Sort of Wave? New Work on Explaining Roman Military Success
"The Hydra Beats Herakles: Reconstructing the Battle of Beneventum and the End of the Pyrrhic War"
Presenter
Paul Johstono, US Air Force, Air Command and Staff College
The Problem of "Professionalism": The Roman Army in the Late Republic (133-31 BC)
Presenter
Michael Taylor, University of Albany
Lie to Me: Deception as Military Management Strategy in the Roman Republic
Presenter
Dominic Machado, College of the Holy Cross
The Cutting Edge: The Adoption and Impact of Mail Body Armor in the Roman Republic
Presenter
Bret Devereaux, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Chair
Kelly DeVries, Loyola University
Commentator
Lee L. Brice, Western Illinois University
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: Fusion
Unknown at this time
Event 6E. Young Scholars #6
Chair and Commentator
John Farquhar, US Air Force Academy
Crisis Averted: How the Nixon Administration Prevented War During the Cienfuegos Crisis of 1970
Presenter
Michael Thompson
The President vs. the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Nixon and Civil-Military Relations, 1953-1972
Presenter
Mark Schell
Eschatological Elements in the Siege of Jerusalem in 1099
Presenter
Paul Aitchison
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: Momentum
Hybrid
Event 6F. Policy by Other Means: Intelligence, Deception, and the Normandy Invasion
Good Wartime Policy? Double Agents, a Deception Plan, and an Invasion
Presenter
Mary Kathryn Barbier, Mississippi State University
Chair
Elizabeth Coble, US Army, Command and General Staff College
Mrs. Garbo & D-Day: Agent Dependents, Secrecy & Operational Success
Presenter
Claire Hubbard-Hall, Bishop Grosseteste University
Balancing Theatres: Wartime Imperatives and Political Interests
Presenter
Christina Goulter, King's College London
Commentator
Kristina Young, National Intelligence University
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: Main Salon A
Hybrid
Event 6G. African-Americans and the U.S. Military in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Chair and Commentator
Lon Strauss, US Marine Corps Command and Staff College
Last Ride: African American Cavalrymen in World War II
Presenter
Alexander Bielakowski, University of Houston-Downtown
COMPARING AND CONTRASTING TWO WHITE LEADERS OF THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN: COLONELS NOEL PARRISH AND ROBERT SELWAY
Presenter
Daniel Haulman, Air Force Historical Research Agency (ret.)
OFF LIMITS: U.S. Army, Housing Discrimination and the D.C. Metro in the 1960s
Presenter
Titus Firmin, University of Kansas
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: Main Salon B
In-person
Event 6H. Turning Points in War
Chair and Commentator
Paul J. Springer, US Air Force, Air Command and Staff College
The Burning of the Second Temple in Jerusalem During the First Jewish-Roman War: An Analysis of the Military Consequences
Presenter
Kevin Malmquist, United States Military Academy
Kings, Generals and Money: The War of the Spanish Succession'
Presenter
Thomas Meagher, Georgia Southern University - Armstrong Campus
A Short History of a Long War: Uncovering the Phases & Turning Points in the 'War on Terror'
Presenter
Frank 'Scott' Douglas, US Naval War College
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: Main Salon C
Hybrid
Event 6J. The United States and the Southern Approaches in the 20th Century
Chair and Commentator
Elizabeth Casely, US Army Futures Command
Of Vital Strategic Importance:' The U.S Army War College Class of 1961 and the Panama Canal
Presenter
Jennifer Speelman, United States Merchant Marine Academy
Controlling Castro: J.C. Wylie and the Decision to Blockade Cuba
Presenter
Nicholas Prime, US Army War College
Twelve Days in October: Planning Operation Urgent Fury
Presenter
Alexander Howlett, Independent Scholar
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: MacArthur Memorial
Hybrid
Event 6K. The War in the Pacific
Chair and Commentator
John Kuehn, US Naval War College
The Primacy of the Pacific Theater in American Grand Strategy and War, 1933-1944
Presenter
Timothy (Ted) Lehmann, Excelsior College
Igniting the US-Japan War 1941
Presenter
Richard Frank, Independent Scholar
Luzon versus Formosa: A Decision Revisited'
Presenter
Peter Mansoor, The Ohio State University
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Afternoon Session 1
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Afternoon Session 1
Room: Granby ABC
In-person
Event 7A. From the Maw of Victory: JAWS/SAWS Roundtable on the Value of Civil War Staff Rides to 21st Century PME
Chair and Moderator
Gordon Rudd, USMC School of Advanced Warfighting
Discussant
Keith Dickson, Joint Advanced Warfighting School
Discussant
Student Number One, Joint Advanced Warfighting School
Discussant
Michael Morris, USMC School of Advanced Warfighting
Discussant
Joel Rea, USMC School of Advanced Warfighting
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Afternoon Session 1
Room: Granby D
Hybrid
Event 7B. Infiltrating Borders: Transnational Cases of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in the Twentieth Century
Counterrevolution by Other Means: The Fight to Contain South Yemen in the 1970s
Presenter
Carl Forsberg, Yale University
When Development Fails: Counterinsurgency as an Alternate Means of Foreign Policy
Presenter
Jason Heeg, Cambridge University
Historicizing 'Modern Warfare': Reassessing French Counterinsurgency in Algeria, 1954-1962
Presenter
Terrence Peterson, Florida International University
Accelerated Pacification and Decelerated Security: the ARVN, the PLAF, and the U.S. Army in Phú Yên Province, 1970
Presenter
Robert Thompson III, Army University Press
Chair and Commentator
Thomas Marks, National Defense University, College of International Security Affairs
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Afternoon Session 1
Room: Granby E
Hybrid
Event 7C. Quiet Revolutions
The Quiet Revolution: The Maritime Strategy and Modern Naval Power
Presenter
Robert Watts, National War College
Seditious Revolutionary or Renaissance Man? The Paradoxical life of Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire.
Presenter
Adam Oler, National War College
Operationalizing the Arctic Policy: The American Quest for Air Bases in Greenland, 1945-1955
Presenter
David Arnold, National War College
Peer Influences on the work of Alfred Thayer Mahan and Sir Julian S. Corbett: Intellectual Synergy, not Competition, in a Period of Revolutionary Change
Presenter
Jamie Orr, National War College
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Afternoon Session 1
Room: Energy
Hybrid
Event 7D. Military Occupation and Counter Insurgency During Conventional War
Beyond Collaboration and Resistance: Coalition Dynamics during Military Occupation in Palestine Mandate
Presenter
Jacob Stoil, US Army, School of Advanced Military Studies
Commentator
Mark Calhoun, US Army, School of Advanced Military Studies
The Finnish military occupation of East-Karelia in the Continuation War, 1941-1944
Presenter
Kristo Karvinen, University of Leeds
Chair
Marjorie Galelli, University of Kansas
Israeli Police in the 'Suez Crises' and the Rule of the Gaza Strip 1956-57
Presenter
Tal Misgav, Border Police History Division, Museum and Heritage Center
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Afternoon Session 1
Room: Fusion
Hybrid
Event 7E. Graduate Student Roundtable: "Back to School: What to Expect as a New Academic Hire"
Chair and Moderator
Jessica Sheets, US Army Heritage and Education Center
Discussant
Michael Stout, University of North Texas
Discussant
Allison Abra, University of Southern Mississippi
Discussant
Bobby Wintermute, Queens College, City University of New York
Discussant
Charles Thomas, US Air Force, Air Command and Staff College
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Afternoon Session 1
Room: Momentum
Hybrid
Event 7F. Military Forces and the Edge of Civil Disorder
Chair and Commentator
Tommy Jamison, Naval Postgraduate School
The Pierce Administration and Posse Comitatus in Territorial Kansas: The 1st Cavalry's Perspective
Presenter
Tony Mullis, US Army, Command and General Staff College
The Cuban Revolution: A Revolutionary Moment in Military History
Presenter
Michael Kegerreis, East Carolina University
Civil War in the French Union: Colonial Paramilitaries and Transnational Decolonization, 1945-1962
Presenter
Nathan Grau, Harvard University
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Afternoon Session 1
Room: Main Salon A
Hybrid
Event 7G. Inflection Points During the 2003-2011 Iraq War
Organizer
Frank Sobchak (Ret.), The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Chair and Commentator
Conrad Crane, US Army Heritage and Education Center
The Development and Failure of the Transition Strategy in Iraq 2004-2006
Presenter
Frank Sobchak, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
THE EXPANSION OF THE SUNNI AWAKENING: IRAQ, 2006-2007
Presenter
James Powell, US Army War College
The Iraq War, 2003-2004: Invasion to Insurgency
Presenter
Jeanne Godfroy, United States Military Academy
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Afternoon Session 1
Room: Main Salon B
Hybrid
Event 7H. Service and Servitude: Army Policy and the Many Faces of the Civilizing Mission
"The Garments of Civilization": Military Discipline and the Ft. Marion Prison, 1875-1878
Presenter
Denis Alfin, United States Military Academy and University of Wisconsin
War on Women: the U.S. Army and Seminole Women in the Second Seminole War, 1835-1842
Presenter
Justine Meberg, United States Military Academy and Columbia University
"Slaves as Servants": The Origins of Slavery within the United States Army
Presenter
Yoav Hamdani, Columbia University
Chair
Samuel Watson, United States Military Academy
Commentator
Kevin Adams, Kent State University
Diplomacy or Atrocity: Ending Seminole Removal from Florida, 1835-1842
Presenter
Jacob Hagstrom, The Citadel
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Afternoon Session 1
Room: Main Salon C
Hybrid
Event 7J. The Normandy Assault and Beyond
Chair and Commentator
Robert Hutchinson, Air University, School of Advanced Air Power Studies
Omaha Beach and Beyond: A VR Battle Simulation
Presenter
Sorin Adam Matei & Matthew Konkoly, Purdue University, FORCES initiative
Put the Throttle Down': Leading First Canadian Army on the Run Through France
Presenter
Victoria Sotvedt, University of Calgary
Huffmeier's Last Hurrah: Okkupationspolitik, Hunger Winter and the Granville Raid, 1945
Presenter
Jeff Schultz, Luzerne County Community College
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM: Afternoon Session 1
Room: MacArthur Memorial
Hybrid
Event 7K. The Soldier and the Law: U.S. Soldiers and Legal Limitations in World War II
"You Can Take it With You": American GIs and Their War Trophies from World War II
Presenter
Tyler Bamford, The National WWII Museum
"The Circumstances Here are Not Ordinary": Rape and U.S. Military Law in World War II Europe
Presenter
Ruth Lawlor, Queen's College, University of Cambridge
An Inconsequential Revolution: Humanitarian Law, Superior Orders, and War Crimes in the U.S. Army, 1943-1945
Presenter
Benjamin Schneider, US Naval War College
Chair
Michael Neiberg, US Army War College
Commentator
John Mitcham, Duquesne University
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Afternoon Session 2
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Afternoon Session 2
Room: Granby ABC
Hybrid
Event 8A. Topics in German Military History in honor of Dennis Showalter and Geoff Megargee
A Transitory Phenomenon: German Commanders and Chiefs of Staff, 1866-1918
Presenter
Richard DiNardo, US Marine Corps Command and Staff College
Chair
Mary Kathryn Barbier, Mississippi State University
"We Shalt Not Go Quietly into the Night:" National Socialist Germany's "Endkampf" Strategy and Operations in the Closing Weeks of the Second World War.
Presenter
Russell A. Hart, Hawaii Pacific University
Dennis Showalter and the Study of the First World War
Presenter
Michael Neiberg, US Army War College
Commentator
Robert Citino, National WWII Museum
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Afternoon Session 2
Room: Granby D
Hybrid
Event 8B. Policy by Other Means: Eisenhower's War Against War
Ike's Last War: Making War Safe for Society
Presenter
Jesse Faugstad, United States Military Academy
Chair
Jacqueline Whitt, US Army War College, Department of National Security and Strategy
Commentator
Samantha Taylor, US Army War College
Eisenhower and U.S. Grand Strategy
Presenter
Raymond Millen, US Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute
Unifying Strategy: Eisenhower and the 1958 Defense Reform Act
Presenter
L. Celeste Ward Gventer, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Afternoon Session 2
Room: Granby E
Hybrid
Event 8C. Mapping the War Dead: New Understandings of the WWII Battlespace
The Landscape of the Dead: Graves Registration in East Germany and the Cold War
Presenter
Robyn Rodriguez & Ryan Taira, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Underwater U.S. Army Air Force Losses in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea
Presenter
Katrina Bunyard, SNA International
Hiding in Plain Sight: Geospatial Analysis and the Missing Marines of the Battle of Tarawa
Presenter
Hannah Metheny & Anthony Hewitt, SNA International
Commentator
Wayne Lee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chair
Ty Seidule, Hamilton College
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Afternoon Session 2
Room: Energy
In-person
Event 8D. Narratives of Race, Gender, and Sexuality: The Forgotten US Military Experience during the Twentieth Century
Chair and Commentator
Anthony Carlson, US Army, School of Advanced Military Studies
Racial Policy by Other Means: The Promise of Equality, but the Segregated Reality of WWII Black Soldiers
Presenter
Bryon Greenwald, Joint Advanced Warfighting School
A Laboratory for Masculinity: Masculinity, Sexuality, and the World of Male Soldiers in WWII
Presenter
Thomas Bobal, SUNY Adirondack
Civil Rights and Jim Crow: Domestic Policy and the 1916 National Defense Act
Presenter
Amanda Nagel, US Army, School of Advanced Military Studies
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Afternoon Session 2
Room: Fusion
Hybrid
Event 8E. War and Memory
Chair and Commentator
Stephanie Hinnershitz, Independent Scholar
Breaking Lincoln's Promise: Revolutionary Memories of the War Dead
Presenter
Shannon Bontrager, Georgia Highlands College
The Other Sixteen and the Myth of Sgt. Alvin York
Presenter
James Gregory, University of Oklahoma
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Afternoon Session 2
Room: Momentum
In-person
Event 8F. The Shifting Edge of the Civilian Control of the Military
Chair and Commentator
Gordon Rudd, USMC School of Advanced Warfighting
Resisting Military Revolution: Veterans, the United States Army, and the Gilded Age Battle Over Civil War Memory
Presenter
Stanley Schwartz, Temple University
A Gradual Revolution: The Mexican Army Leaves the Political Arena
Presenter
Irving Levinson, University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley
POST CIVILIAN REVIEW OF TWO DIFFERENT MILITARY OPERATIONS BY DIFFENENT DEMOCRACIES
Presenter
Jay Forsyth, Central Washington University (professor emeritus)
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM: Afternoon Session 2
Room: MacArthur Memorial
Hybrid
Event 8K. Different Perspectives, Different Challenges: World War II U.S. Combat Operations in the CBI and Europe
Tale of Two Battalions: African Americans and Combat Effectiveness in the 761st Tank Battalion and the 827th Tank Destroyer Battalion in World War II
Presenter
Alexander M. Bielakowski, University of Houston-Downtown
Chair
Rae Bielakowski, Norwich University
Commentator
William Allison, Georgia Southern University
OSS Detachment 404 in South East Asia, 1943-45
Presenter
Kristina Young, National Intelligence University
Villiers Fossard: The U.S. 3rd Armored Division in a "Great War" Style Battle in 1944
Presenter
Duane Young, National Intelligence University
Sunday, May 23rd, 2021
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: Granby E
Fully-remote
Event 9C. "Blood Talk": Military Operations as Instruments of Policy in the Gray Zone between War and Peace
Organizer
Timothy C. Hemmis, Texas A&M University - Central Texas
Discussant
Timothy C. Hemmis, Texas A&M University - Central Texas
Discussant
Matthew Babcock, University of North Texas at Dallas
Discussant
Joshua Haynes, The University of Southern Mississippi
Discussant
Patrick Troester, Southern Methodist University
Discussant
Matthew Sparacio, Southeastern OK State University
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: Energy
Fully-remote
Event 9D. American Intelligence and European Communism: A Comparative Look at France, Italy, and Germany in the Early Cold War
U.S. Intelligence in Occupied Germany, 1945-1949
Presenter
Thomas Boghardt, US Army Center of Military History
Chair
Mark Stout, Johns Hopkins University
US Intelligence and France in the Early Cold War
Presenter
Susan McCall Perlman, National Intelligence University
The US covert effort in Italy, 1948-1958
Presenter
Francesco Cacciatore, Universita di Salerno
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: Fusion
Fully-remote
Event 9E. Warrior Hands, Feeding Hands: Military Personnel and Humanitarianism in the 20th Century
Organizer
Andrew Huebner, University of North Texas
Chair and Commentator
Rory McGovern, United States Military Academy
Humanitarian Influences on the 1919 Mission to Armenia.
Presenter
Rosanne Horswill, United States Military Academy
A Tammany Regiment in Moscow: The U.S. Military, the American Relief Administration, and the 1921 Russian Famine
Presenter
Andrew Huebner, University of North Texas
"The Legal Equivalent of Outer Space:" Guantanamo Bay's Role in Humanitarian Operations
Presenter
J. Overton, Independent
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: Momentum
Hybrid
Event 9F. Shifting Theaters in Antebellum American Wars
Naval Power on an Inland Sea: The United States Marine Corps and the Great Lakes Campaigns
Presenter
Paul W. Westermeyer, Marine Corps University
Commentator
Benjamin Armstrong, United States Naval Academy
Honor or Victory?: The Difficulties of 'Coalition' Warfare in the First Barbary War
Presenter
Abigail Mullen, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University
An American Soldier in Mexico: A View of Manifest Destiny from the Ranks
Presenter
Ricardo Herrera, US Army, School of Advanced Military Studies
Chair
Charles Neimeyer, Independent Scholar
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: Main Salon A
Event 9G. The Command of Health: Interconnectedness and Transformation in U.S. Military, Veteran, and Public Healthcare
With Apparent Victory In Their Grasp: The U.S. Military, Public Health, and National Security from 1950 to the Present
Presenter
Michael J. Doidge, Department of Defense (Contractor)
Five Words: The UH-1 Air Ambulance, Vietnam, and the Transformation of Military Medicine
Presenter
Donald Hall, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences
"A First-Class Medical Service": MG Paul Hawley's Transformation of Veterans Healthcare
Presenter
Heather Salazar, Ohio University
Chair and Commentator
Dale Smith, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: Main Salon B
Fully-remote
Event 9H. Policy by Other Means: Military Environments and Gendered Negotiation
Chair
William A. Taylor, Angelo State University
"Of Course…Wacs Really Aren't Soldiers": The Women's Army Corps' Battle for Legitimacy during World War II
Presenter
Sandra Bolzenius, Ohio State University
The Feminine Military Mystique: How the Women's Army Corps Became a Permanent Part of the U.S. Army
Presenter
Christine Cook, Wayne State University
Images of Women Marines and Gender (In)Equality in the Military: Examples from the Korean War
Presenter
Sarah Patterson, SNA International/Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Commentator
Charissa Threat, Chapman University
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Morning Session 1
Room: Main Salon C
Fully-remote
Event 9J. New Directions in British Naval Healthcare during the Long Eighteen Century
Neither logically necessary nor necessarily inevitable: contrasting views on permanent naval hospitals in England during the War against Spain.
Presenter
Matthew G. Neufeld FRHistS, University of Saskatchewan
Women's Labour, British Naval Hospital Ships, and a System of Medical Care, 1775-1815
Presenter
Erin Spinney, University of Lethbridge
'THE BOAST OF A GENEROUS NATION': TREATING INSANITY IN THE BRITISH NAVY IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Presenter
Catherine S. Beck, University of London
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: Granby E
Fully-remote
Event 10C. Young Scholars #3
Chair and Commentator
Matthew J. Olex, Independent Scholar
Military Traditions and Leadership Styles in the SS-Einsatzgruppen - Promoting Mass Killing in Nazi Occupied Soviet Union
Presenter
Maayan Armelin, Clark University
Mongol Military Legacy in Soviet Russia: Correcting Appropriation by the Military West
Presenter
Jose Hernandez, University of Chicago
Prospective of a conflict (1913-1923): Visions of the Spanish Military and Naval Attachés on War between Japan and the USA.
Presenter
Pedro Panera Martínez, Instituto Universitario General Gutiérrez Mellado
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: Energy
Fully-remote
Event 10D. Gender, Sexuality, and the Cultural Representation of Combatants in Twentieth-Century Warfare
The Body of Odette Sansom: Gender, Intimacy, and the Representation of British Women Spies during World War II and After
Presenter
Allison Abra, University of Southern Mississippi
Invisible Warriors: Deconstructing the social constructions of gender in the Twentieth- and Twenty-first-Century U.S. Military
Presenter
Kimberly Enderle, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Pulp Vietnam: War and Gender in Cold War Men's Adventure Magazines
Presenter
Greg Daddis, San Diego State University
Commentator
D'Ann Campbell, Culver-Stockton College
Chair
Charissa Threat, Chapman University
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: Fusion
Fully-remote
Event 10E. The Long War in Iraq: New Perspectives on the US Campaign in Iraq, 2004 - 2018
"Fight to the Elections:" The American Campaign in Iraq, July 2004 - December 2006
Presenter
Donald P. Wright, Army University Press
Back in Iraq: Operation INHERENT RESOLVE and the Conflict with ISIS, 2014-2018
Presenter
Mason Watson, US Army Center of Military History
Commentator
Kate Tietzen, US Army Center of Military History
Bridging the Gap between Policy and Operations: U.S. Strategic Communications during the Iraq Surge Campaign, 2007-2008
Presenter
Nicholas Schlosser, US Army Center of Military History
Chair
Shane Story, US Army Center of Military History
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: Momentum
Fully-remote
Event 10F. American's Revolutionary Moment: New Approaches to the Continental Army
Organizer
Craig Smith, US Army, School of Advanced Military Studies
Chair
David Preston, The Citadel
Discussant
SUSAN LONG, University of Delaware
Discussant
Benjamin Carp, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Discussant
Andrea Miles, University of Louisville
Discussant
Krysten Blackstone, University of Edinburgh
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: Main Salon A
Fully-remote
Event 10G. Military and Society in Early 20th Century America
Chair and Commentator
Rory McGovern, United States Military Academy
Mobilizing the Press: Preparing for War through Controlling the Media, 1916-1941
Presenter
Kendall Cosley, Texas A&M University
The Transformation of the Militia System into Federal Conscription in the United States
Presenter
Victoria Stewart, Northwest Florida State College
The Revolutionary Debates About Democracy, Militarism, and U.S. Military Policy during the 1914-1920 Preparedness Movement
Presenter
Alex Beckstrand, University of Connecticut
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: Main Salon B
Fully-remote
Event 10H. New Perspectives on War Economies and Defense Acquisition Policies in the 20th Century
Loosening Up: The Transformation of US Military Sensibilities about Contractor Profitability, 1950s-2010s
Presenter
Mark R Wilson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Supplying Allies: The Great War Origins of Global Economic Governance
Presenter
Rosella Cappella Zielinski, Boston University
Weapons Acquisition in the Post-Vietnam U.S. Army: The Case of the Division Air Defense Gun, 1977-1985
Presenter
Thomas Lassman, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Commentator
Eugene Gholz, Notre Dame University
Chair
Thomas McNaugher, Georgetown University
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM: Morning Session 2
Room: Main Salon C
Fully-remote
Event 10J. Blockades in History: The Evolution of the Blockade, 1846-1958
Organizer
Justin Quinn Olmstead, University of Central Oklahoma
The PLA and Chinese Blockade in the Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1958
Presenter
Xiaobing Li, University of Central Oklahoma
Great Britain, Blockades, and Neutral Rights: Royal Navy Operations during he Mexican-American War, 1846-8
Presenter
Stanley Adamiak, University of Central Oklahoma
Insuring Victory: British War Planning and War Risk Insurance, 1905-1918
Presenter
Justin Olmstead, University of Central Oklahoma
Chair
Salvatore Mercogliano, Campbell University
Commentator
Rebecca Matzke, Ripon College
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