June 2007
MADRID CONFERENCE
foreword
The USCMH is affiliated with
the International Commission
of Military History and takes
part in its projects and
programs, including
contributions to its publication
program (mainly the
International Bibliography of
Military History) and
participating in the annual
international meetings.
in this issue
International Congress info
1-3
Nominees for election
3-4
International news
5-7
Military History news
around the US
8-10
Members News & Obituaries 10-11
Officers & Trustees
11
New Members
11
USCMH Newsletter / June 2007
Welcome to Cape Town, South Africa and the
33rd International Congress of Military History
Dr. Thean Potgieter, Secretary-general, South African Military History
Commission
“THE BALL IS NOW IN OUR COURT!” This year, from 12 - 17 August,
it will be South Africa’s turn to host the prestigious congress of the
International Commission of Military History (ICMH) in Cape Town. We
expect delegates from more than 30 countries will participate in the
congress. Among the delegates will be military officers, distinguished
military historians, professors of military science, and military archivists.
Participants will come from the armed forces, universities and military
academies, research institutes, non-governmental international
organizations, and the international diplomatic community.
The examination of conflict and war and its interaction with society are
crucial for understanding and managing the security environment. The
Congress theme is “Regions, Regional Organizations and Military Power.”
Academic sessions will include presentations on regional organizations,
military power and military intervention, regional security and peace
operations, regional alliances, regional and multi-national forces, threats
to regional security as well as regional conflicts and international
coalitions. In addition three special panels will explore the themes of
international support for liberation struggles, the international reaction to
the crisis in Rwanda, and recent literature pertaining to the study of war
and conflict.
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It is befitting that scholars, military officers, and participants should discuss these themes in Africa. We
expect substantial South African and African participation in the 2007 Congress. The African voice should be
heard on podiums such as these, and Africa must take its rightful position in the international community.
For all ICMH Congress participants a number of receptions, tours, and visits to national sites will complement
the academic program. Congress delegates and their accompanying persons will, amongst other visits, go to
Robben Island, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Point, Simon’s Town, Stellenbosch and a wine estate. A full program
has been organized for the accompanying persons and it includes visits to Cape Town museums, the
Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, a Cape Township, the West Coast Fossil Park, and the beautiful West Coast
National Park. Cape Town is one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
The three previous ICMH Congresses took place in Morocco (Rabat), Spain (Madrid) and Germany
(Potsdam). In 2008 the ICMH Congress will be held in Trieste, Italy. The 2007 ICMH Congress in Cape Town
is the first time that the international meeting of military historians will be held in sub-Sahara Africa. It is
therefore an honour for South Africa to host the congress. The South African Military History Commission
(SAMHC), the ICMH’s regional chapter, was established in 2004 by the Chief of the South African National
Defense Forces. Major General L.S. Mollo serves as president. The 2007 congress is organized by the South
African Military History Commission and the Faculty of Military Science, Military Academy, University of
Stellenbosch. As such it represents cooperation between Stellenbosch University and the Department of
Defense. The congress will take place at the BOE-Nedbank Conference Facility at the Cape Town Waterfront.
The congress hotels are the Table Bay, Commodore and Victoria and Alfred. Luxury self-catering apartments,
as well as more basic accommodation, are also available.
The 2007 ICMH Congress in Cape Town is seen as part of the build-up for South Africa hosting the
2010 Soccer World Cup. In the light of the great interest in the international world cup matches that will be
staged across South Africa, much emphasis has been placed on the capability of the nation and the city to host
this international congress of military history in 2007. When the 2006 ICMH Congress in Potsdam concluded,
the German National Commission presented Major General Mollo with a genuine World Cup football as a
symbolic gesture. “THE BALL IS NOW IN OUR COURT!”
All national commission members and accompanying persons who are interested in participating in the
2007 Cape Town ICMH Congress can gain more information from the website, www.cihm.ac.za or e-mail
specific questions to the staff at:
cihm2007@ma2.sun.ac.za, cihm@ma2.sun.ac.za, or thean@ma2.sun.ac.za
U.S. Commission sends delegation to ICMH Congress in Cape Town
Pat Harahan, Secretary-general
USCMH President John Lynn and ICMH Vice-president Allan Millett will lead the U.S. Commission’s
delegation to Cape Town in August. Due to the distance and expense, the U.S. delegation to the meeting in
South Africa will not be a large as past congresses. Nevertheless the group of hearty travelers has volunteered
to go to the Cape of Good Hope and nearby local pubs for the sake of the larger organization.
The U.S. Commission will be represented at the ICMH Congress in Cape Town by members presenting
three papers. Ambassador David Rawson will speak on: “Contesting for Peace: Peace Keepers and the
Rwandan Peace Process, 1990-1994.” William P. Alberque and Pat Harahan will present a joint paper, entitled:
“Africa’s Deadly Harvest: The Cold War Proxy Arsenals of Small Arms and Light Weapons and their Use in
Sub-Sahara Africa, 1989-2006.” Willard C. Frank will give a paper on “The Nylon Agreement of 1937:
Mediterranean Security and the Coming of the Second World War.”
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Nominees for USCMH Officers in 2007 Elections
The USCMH Nominating Committee, composed of Dean Allard, Chair, Robin Higham, and Joe
Guilmartin, has recommended the following slate of officers for 2007-2009. The information below
contains a brief biography of each nominee. Later this summer, all USCMH members will be sent a
ballot for the election.
President: Hans S. Pawlisch
Hans Pawlisch earned a doctorate in history at King’s College, the University of London and taught at
Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and American Military
University. As a military historian with the Department of Defense, he has served as the command historian
for the United States Central Command and since 1993, as chief, Joint Operational History Branch in the Office
of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He has written numerous classified annual histories and studies
concerning military operations in the Middle East and Africa. Professionally, he has been active with the
American Historical Association and the U.S. Commission. Currently, Hans is the commission’s vice president,
having previously served as treasurer. He is active in the Irish Legal History Society and the Military History
Society of Ireland.
Vice President (one person will be elected) James K. Hogue, Kenneth McDonald
Jim Hogue graduated from West Point, received a US Army commission, and served with a variety of combat
units in Europe in the 1980s. Following graduate school at Ohio State and Princeton, he is now an associate
professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. From 1998-1999, he was a post-doctoral
fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs seminar on “Civil Wars and their
Resolutions.” In 2006, he published Uncivil War: Five New Orleans Street Battles and the Rise and
Fall of Radical Reconstruction. Currently, he is the USCMH’s representative to the ICMH Bibliographic
Committee. He has attended and presented papers at several ICMH Congresses.
Ken McDonald. Before he served as CIA’s Chief Historian, 1981-1995, Ken was a professor of history and
international affairs at the George Washington University and held the Nimitz and King Chairs at the US Naval
War College. For the US Commission he has served as a trustee and nominating committee member, raised
money for and contributed a chapter to its 1990 Revue Internationale d’Histoire Militaire, and participated in
several recent ICMH international congresses. His latest publications (as co-author) are Did Intelligence
Matter in the Cold War? (2006) and US Intelligence Community Reform Studies since 1947
(2003). After graduating from Yale he served four years as an infantry officer in the US Marine Corps before
earning BLitt and DPhil degrees from Oxford.
Trustees: (four will be elected) Bianka J. Adams, Jeffrey J. Clarke, Willard C. Frank, Jr., Diane
Gordon, John F. Guilmartin, Jr., Joseph P. Harahan, Ann Von Luttichau, Edward J. Marolda
Bianka Adams is an historian at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Before joining the agency, she
served as an historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History. The author of forthcoming book, The
Denazification of Bremen, Germany, 1945-1947 (2008), she has published articles dealing with
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U.S. Army in World War II and the U.S. military government in postwar Germany and Austria. Dr. Adams
presented a paper at the recent ICMH Congress in Potsdam, Germany.
Jeffery Clarke is director of the U.S. Army Center for Military History. He received his MA and PhD in
history from Duke University, served as a combat historian in Vietnam, and has been a research and
writing historian at the U.S. Army's Center of Military History (CMH) since 1971. Dr. Clarke became the
chief historian in 1991, and the center’s director in 2006. He has also been a member of the US
Commission on Military History since its inception, serving as a trustee, and attending many ICMH
Congresses.
Willard Frank retired as a professor of history at Old Dominion University in 2005. The author of many
articles and an edited book, Soviet Doctrine from Lenin to Gorbachev, he has continued teaching as
an adjunct professor at the U.S. Naval War College. For the US Commission, Dr. Frank was instrumental in
organizing and conducting the US-sponsored 2003 ICMH Congress in Norfolk. He has participated in
several ICMH Congresses and has served as a US Commission Trustee (2005-2007).
Diane Gordon is an adjunct associate professor of history at the University of Maryland University
College. She holds the doctorate in classics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Gordon was the
first woman to lead a discussion at the Military Classics Seminar, which the USCMH now cosponsors. She
has published book reviews in Classical Journal and Classical World. As a USCMH member, she has
participated in the last five international colloquia of the International Commission on Military History.
Joe Guilmartin is a professor of history at Ohio State University. Following graduation from US Air Force
Academy he had a distinguished career flying rescue helicopters in Southeast Asia, then serving on the USAF
faculty, and throughout his career in articles and books, shaping air doctrine and concepts. He has written
extensively on military and naval history and the theory of war, including Gunpowder and Galleys (1974,
2003). Historical Chronology of the Space Shuttle, and with John Mauer, a 5-volume series America
in Vietnam. With the USCHM, he has attended and presented paper at ICMH Congresses, served as a
trustee, and been a member of numerous committees.
Pat Harahan is a senior historian with the Department of Defense. The author of several histories of
arms control treaties and nuclear weapons development, he is currently writing a history of the U.S. postCold War cooperative programs to reduce nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons in Russia, Ukraine,
Kazakhstan, and Belarus. For the US Commission, he served as vice president (1999-2002), trustee (‘03‘06), and secretary-general (’06-present).
Ann von Luttichau is a lawyer in Washington, DC with a long association with the U.S. Commission. She
has served as the commission’s attorney since 1985; a trustee in the 1990s; chair of the by-laws revision
committee 1996-1997; a member and chair of the nominating committee 1998-1999; treasurer,
membership director and assistant to the secretary-general from 1980 - 1992; assistant organizer and
archivist for the 1975 and 1982 ICMH Congresses in the U.S.; and a participant at 14 ICMH congresses.
Ed Marolda is the Senior Historian and Chief, Histories and Archives Division, Naval Historical Center.
He has authored, coauthored, or edited nine books, including Shield and Sword: The United States
Navy and the Persian Gulf War; and recently The U.S. Navy in the Korean War. As an
international naval historian, he participated in meetings in Russia, Germany, Italy, Greece, United
Kingdom, France, Japan, and South Korea and ICMH congresses in Belgium, Norfolk, Romania, Morocco,
and Germany. For the US Commission, Ed has been an active member, serving as chair of the nominating
committee.
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International Military History News and Activities
News from the British Commission for Military History
Michael Orr, Secretary-general
The British Commission for Military History was founded in 1968 as an affiliate of the International
Commission for Military History, largely through the efforts of David Chandler and Christopher Duffy.
Beginning with a membership drawn from the Department of Military History at the Royal Military Academy
Sandhurst, the BCMH has expanded to a current strength of nearly 200 under the successive leadership of
David Chandler, Professor Brian Bond and Professor Richard Holmes. Members include those who work
professionally in the field of military history, for example as university teachers or museum staff, and others
who contribute actively to the development of military history in the UK, by writing and publishing or by
playing a role in the organization of relevant societies.
The Commission’s main activity is the organization of a number of conferences each year, usually one
weekend and two one-day conferences. Conferences themes sometimes relate to particular campaigns or
military historical anniversaries, but more generally pursue a topic across several periods and types of warfare,
encouraging the interchange of ideas between specialists. In addition the Commission organizes an annual
battlefield tour.
All these activities are open to members and their guests. A newsletter, Mars & Clio, is sent to
members three times a year in which conference papers are published, together with book reviews, conference
announcements, short articles and commission news. The Commission has been responsible for three
commercial publications in the last decade. These books were collections of essays dealing with the First and
Second World Wars. In May 2007 the BCMH launched a website primarily for communication among the
membership but also offering a selection of the commission’s conference papers, news of forthcoming
conferences, courses, publications & news of interest to the general public. It is our intention to develop it as
the commission’s public face as a service to the members of the British public who have an interest in military
history without pursuing it at the professional or semi-professional level expected of Commission members.
ICMH members are cordially invited to visit the website www.bcmh.org.uk/.
ICMH members are also welcome to attend the Commission’s conferences. The dates and themes of the
2007 Summer and Autumn Conferences are:
Summer Conference: “Powering War - Logistics and Operations”, 20-22 July, 2007, Queens’ College,
Cambridge.
Autumn Conference: “The Commemoration of War in the 21st Century” 17 November, 2007, The Gurkha
Museum, Winchester
For details, please contact the British Commission for Military History, Secretary General, Mr Michael Orr, at
secgen.bcmh@ntlworld.com
Netherlands Institute of Military History and the Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt
held conference on “Warfare in the Central Sector, 1948-1968”
Jan Hoffenaar, President, The Netherlands Commission of Military History
On 22 and 23 March 2007, military historians from Russia, the United States and Eastern and Western
Europe convened to discuss the operational plans during the Cold War. The conference was an initiative by the
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Netherlands Institute of Military History (NIMH) and the Militärgeschichtliches Forschungsamt (MGFA) in
Potsdam. It took place in Münster, location of the Netherlands Defense Forces’ Zentrum für NiederlandeStudienthe 1 (GE/NL) Corps Headquarters. This command supported the conference. The conference focused
on the plans for the Central Sector in Europe in the fifties and sixties. For this time-period, the archives are
accessible and it was a time when both sides were armed to the hilt and facing each other along the Iron
Curtain.
Prof. Lawrence S. Kaplan, the American ‘Grand Old Man’ of Cold War historical research, opened the
conference with an overview of the most important international developments during the period. Kaplan
explained that it was very noticeable how strong the distrust between the two major powers (the United States
and the Soviet Union) had been from the beginning. Each action was seen as yet more evidence of the other’s
bad intentions, instigating a costly conventional and nuclear arms race.
It does not appear that the Soviet Union had offensive intentions. It did, however, have plans to attack
immediately (a strategic offensive) in the event of war and, from 1960 onward, to use nuclear weapons in the
context of the Warsaw Pact. This fact became clear from, among other things, the presentations by Colonel Dr
Victor A. Gavrilov (Chief, Division of Foreign Military History, Institute of Military History, Ministry of
Defence, Moscow) and Dr Matthias Uhl (Deutsches Historisches Institut, Moscow). When it became clear that
the Americans were not going to leave Europe, the Soviet Union concentrated on retaining its spheres of
influence in Eastern Europe. Soviet leaders’ recent memories, for example, the German invasion in 1941, had
made them very distrustful. If, according to Moscow, a war in the short-term became inevitable, then an
offensive strike with all available resources was the best defense. The most important military archives in
Moscow are, incidentally, still kept tightly sealed. What we do know of the operational plans stems from
analyses of various military exercises, which were dug up here and there from the archives of former member
states of the Warsaw Pact. A prime example of this is the ‘Troika’ war game of the Nationale Volksarmee of the
German Democratic Republic from 1967, which was analysed by Dr Torsten Diedrich of the MGFA.
The NIMH historian Prof. Jan Hoffenaar analysed intelligence gathering in the Warsaw Pact. He
concluded that Soviet leaders in the Kremlin and in East Berlin knew full well that NATO had no offensive
intentions. They did, however, uphold the image of an offensive adversary. An aggressive NATO suited the
Marxist-Leninist world view. And, as already mentioned, historical experiences also gave reason to maintain
such an image of the enemy. In addition, the Federal Republic of Germany’s accession to NATO in 1955 was
less than reassuring to the Eastern bloc. Last but not least, the Kremlin needed this negative view of the enemy
in order to keep the Warsaw Pact intact.
Various contributions from historians from different NATO countries focused on the preparations for a
potential military confrontation. Dr Bruno Thoß (MGFA) provided a clear overview of the development of
NATO’s strategic and operational planning. Lieutenant Colonel Dr Helmut Hammerich (MGFA), Dr Simon
Marsh (Army Historical Branch, Ministry of Defence, London), Lieutenant Colonel Dr Jean-Michel
Sterkendries (Royal Military School, Brussels) and Jan Hoffenaar discussed the operational preparations of the
armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany, the United Kingdom, Belgium and the Netherlands
respectively. Each member state had its own specific interests, problems and solutions. The well-known British
intelligence specialist Prof. Richard J. Aldrich of the University of Nottingham gave the audience a glimpse of
the operational intelligence work on NATO’s side.
The contribution of Dr Donald C. Carter of the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington was
also interesting. He explained how differently the military commanders of the fifties (veterans of the Second
World War) and those of the sixties viewed nuclear weapons. The former found the use of these weapons,
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especially on the battlefield, to be self-explanatory while the latter, the generals of the sixties, saw the weapons
first and foremost as a political deterrent.
The enormous increase in the number of tactical nuclear weapons among the armed forces of both sides
led to far-reaching reorganisations within those same armed forces. Mobility, mechanisation, amouring and
smaller independent units were key terms. The NIMH historian Herman Roozenbeek illustrated clearly in his
presentation how logistic development on the NATO side lagged behind this development in armament. The
phased advance of the allied line of defense – from the Rhine-IJssel line via the Weser-Fulda line to the Elbe
River - was, incidentally, at least as important a reason for the logistic arrears. Prof. Dimitrij Filippovyck
(Head, Department of Military History, Academy of Military Science, Ministry of Defense, Moscow) held an
interesting presentation on the question of how operational logistics adapted to nuclear warfare over the years.
In closing the conference, Dr Gregory Pedlow (Chief Historical Office, Supreme Headquarters Allied
Powers Europe, Mons, Belgium) gave a well-balanced summary lecture. All in all, the conference was very
informative and contributed to enhancing our knowledge of the military aspects of the Cold War. The
contributions will be rewritten as articles and will be published collectively in book form next year.
The 2007 Bibliography of International Military History
Dimitry Queloz, editor (Switzerland)
Edition 28 of the Bibliography of International Military History (BIHM) contains 284 entries
and will be published in July. All being well, we will have the pleasure of presenting the bibliography to the
presidents of the national commissions in August, during the ICMH Congress in Cape Town. The thematic
essay in this edition has been realised by Professor Rudolf Jaun, of Zurich University and the Military Academy
of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ). This essay is an excellent complement to last year’s ICMH
Congress in Potsdam, as it addresses the same theme: Nation State, Nationalism and the Military.
It is the sad duty of the Bibliography Commission to inform you of the death of Colonel Jean Pariseau
and of Allan Pearsall. Colonel Pariseau of Canada was one of the founding members of the bibliography. Mr.
Pearsall was a member of our commission, and acted as correspondent for Great Britain until last year. The
Bibliography Commission is grateful for their efforts and involvement, and will cherish their memory.
New Volume in the International Review of Military History Series
The Turkish Commission of Military History, led by Lt. Gen. Eyüp Kaptan, has published the 87th
volume in the series, International Review of Military History (ISBN: 978-975-409-431-2). This
volume, entitled “Peace at Home, Peace in the World,” contains 19 articles and it presents an interesting
overview of Turkish military history and the relationship between armed forces and society. Topics include the
Turkish army in the Ottoman period, Armenia, Military Archives, Korea, Cyprus, and the philosophy and the
role of Kemal Atatürk. Two articles are dedicated to Ataturk as a soldier and statesman.
Note: The USCMH Secretary-general received ten (10) copies of this review. Any member who would like a copy,
send a request via e-mail to Pat Harahan, Secretary-general, at harahan@verizon.net.
Bulgarian Commission of Military History Announces an International Conference in
Sofia, Bulgaria, October 2007
Commemorating the 95th anniversary of the Balkan War of 1912-1913, the Bulgarian Commission of
Military History, in coordination with the Military History Research Section, G. S. Rakovski Defense and Staff
College, will organize in October 2007 in Sofia, Bulgaria, an international conference. The theme will be
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“Military Alliances and Coalitions in the 20th Century.” Working languages for the international conference are
English and Bulgarian. Participation fee for participants and for accompanying persons will be 50 Euros.
Foreign participants are kindly invited to present papers and communications, as well as to participate
in the discussions. Three main topics will be a matter of discussion:
The Balkan Wars 1912-1913
Military Alliances 20th century up to 1990
Military Coalitions 20th century after 1990.
For information contact Dr. Dimitre Minchev, President, Bulgarian Commission of Military History,
drminchev@yahoo.com
United States Military History News and Activities
U.S. Commission Hosts Military Classics Seminar
Randy Papadopoulos, USCMH Trustee
As a new initiative, for the next two years the USCMH is co-hosting the Washington DC-based Military
Classics Seminar. Founded in 1958, this seminar is a dinner-and-speaker series held on the third Tuesday of
the month at the Fort Myer Officers’ Club, in northern Virginia. Each of the Military Classics Seminars opens
with a reception at 5:30 pm, followed by dinner at 6:30 and book presentation at 7:30. The cost for the evening
is $28.00, including the dinner and gratuity. The final book seminar for the season will be on June 19th 2007:
Laurence Stallings, The Doughboys.
Speaker: Sanders Marble, Historian, Office of Medical History, U. S. Army
Society for Military History Meeting
Pat Harahan, USCMH Secretary-general
The Society for Military History (SMH) held its annual meeting in Frederick, Maryland from April 1922. The meeting was co-hosted with the US Army Heritage and Cultural Center and the Catoctin Center for
Regional Studies of the Frederick Community College. The conference theme “Crossroads of War” was
sufficiently broad to encompass dozens of panels. Since the Society of Military History is the largest and most
vigorous professional organization for military historians in the United States, many US Commission members
participate in this organization and its annual meetings. USCMH members who presented or commented on
papers or chaired panels at the meeting were: Hans Pawlisch, Bart Hacker, Margaret Vining, Sanders Marble,
Richard DiNardo, Kelly DeVries, Ed Marolda, Brit McCarley, Charles Melson, Don Bittner, Randy
Papadopoulos, Ed Coss, Joe Guilmartin and Geoff Megargee.
Dr. Ciro Pioletti, Secretary-general of the Italian Commission of Military History, won a Society of
Military History award for one of the best articles published in the Journal of Military History in 2006. Dr.
Pioletti’s article, “Prince Eugene of Savoy, the Toulon Expedition of 1707, and the English Historians --- A
Dissenting View”, was published in the October 2006 edition of the Journal of Military History.
The US Commission took the opportunity at the SMH meeting to display its new brochure and posters.
The display explained the international activities, publications, and programs of the commission.
US Naval History Center Workshop
On 12-14 June 2007, the Naval Historical Center hosted the tenth in its series of biennial naval history
workshops. These workshops foster the exchange of professional information and promote mutual support
among commands responsible for the Department of the Navy’s historical programs.
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The theme of this year’s gathering, Naval History for the 21st Century, and the program committee
developed an agenda that included panels and workshops on the following topics: how the military uses
history; history in the field in Iraq; managing historical collections; the enlisted sailors and naval history;
challenges of managing records; military museums and exhibitions; marketing government histories; historical
coverage of natural disaster operations; small historian shops serving large commands; museum educational
programs and public outreach; establishing a naval museum; innovative approaches to records preservation;
and preserving the past through oral history. Participants will include serving naval personnel and professional
staff members from Navy, Marine Corps, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Coast Guard, Air Force, and Army historical,
museum, archival, training and educational, art and artifact, and curatorial organizations; from the National
Museum of American History, Library of Congress, and similar historically minded activities.
Air Force History Conference
The Air Force Historical Foundation announces a symposium that will be held on Tuesday-Wednesday,
October 16-17, 2007, at the Sheraton Crystal City Hotel in Arlington, Virginia. The theme for this biennial
symposium will be: “The Evolution of Air and Space Power: Know the Past – Shape the Future.”
The program committee welcomes proposals for presentations which may encompass leadership, technology,
doctrine, planning, operations, and roles and missions within any of three general themes:
1) War in the Shadows, including special operations, rescue missions, CSAR, and other low-intensity
operations or operations at the lower end of the spectrum of conflict,
3) Conventional War, including air superiority operations, counter-air operations, close air support,
airlift, and air-breathing ISR,
2) Space and Cyber War, including uses of space such as ISR, communications, and navigation;
For information on the program, venue, and registration see the Air Force Historical Foundation
website www.afhistoricalfoundation.org
Conference of Army Historians
The U.S. Army Center of Military History will hold its biennial Conference of Army Historians in the
Washington, D.C., area from August 7-9, 2007. This biennial conference has traditionally featured
presentations on joint and combined military history as well as papers presented by civilian historians from
government and academia. As such, the Center invites all U.S. Army historians, as well as members of the
academic and international communities, to attend and present papers on the 2007 conference theme of “The
U.S. Army and Irregular Warfare, 1775-2007.” The Center of Military History intends to publish and widely
distribute selected papers that reflect the best standards of academic research and writing. Further
information on the conference location will be forthcoming on the Center of Military History Website at
http://www.army.mil/cmh/CAH2007
Combat Studies Institute Symposium
The Combat Studies Institute, at Ft. Leavenworth, KS, will host a symposium entitled “Warfare in the
Age of Non-State Actors: Implications for the U.S. Army.” The symposium will include a mixture of
guest speakers, panel sessions, and general discussions. This conference will explore the impact of conflict
between nations and non-state combatants within a historical context. The conference will examine current
issues, dilemmas, problems, trends, and practices associated with conflict between constituted nations and
trans-national religious, ethnic, or criminal groups. The symposium will be held at the Frontier
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Conference Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, 11-13 September, 2007, and will include a mixture of
guest speakers, panel sessions, and general discussions. CSI invites presentation and panel proposals
for this symposium. For more, see the conference website at
http://usacac.army.mil/CAC/csi/CFP07.doc or contact CSI symposium planners at (913) 684-2138 or
-2139
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial
Historian Carl W. Reddel, Executive Director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial Commission reports that
the US Congress has approved a site for the memorial – a large square just south of the National Mall, on the
south side of the National Air and Space Museum. It is an outstanding site, one where special connections can
be made to the president and his administration. During Eisenhower’s Administration, the nation established
the National Air and Space Administration (NASA), the Department of Education, the Federal Aviation
Administration, and the National Interstate Highway System, administered by the Federal Transportation
Administration. President Eisenhower established the fundamental national security strategy for United States
for the Cold War. He signed the armistice that ended combat in the Korean War. Alaska and Hawaii achieved
statehood. In many ways, President Eisenhower established the modern national state for the United States,
one which continues down to contemporary times.
The US Commission endorses the work of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission and awaits
announcement of plans for the actual memorial.
News and Information of Members
Geoffrey Megargee, treasurer, published a new book on the Nazi-Soviet war, War and Annihilation:
Combat and Genocide on the Eastern Front, 1941 (2006, 2007 paperback).
Ralph D. Sawyer, member, published a new book on unorthodox warfare, The Tao of Deception:
Unorthodox Warfare in Historic and Modern China. Basic Books, 2007.
Allan R. Millett, past president, is now the Ambrose Professor of American History and Director,
Eisenhower Center for American Studies, University of New Orleans. He serves and the Vice-president of the
International Commission of Military History. In May 2007, Professor Millett published, The Korean War:
The Essential Bibliography, Potomac Books.
Robin Higham, member, reports that there will be second edition of his coedited book of essays, Why Air
Forces Fail: The Anatomy of Defeat, University of Kentucky Press, 2006.
Brit McCarley, member, is now the Chief Historian of the US Army Training and Doctrine Command
(TRADOC) in Fort Monroe, Virginia.
Ed Coss, member, is an Assistant Professor of Military History at the US Army Command and General Staff
College.
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Obituaries
Brigadier General Edwin Simmons, past president, died in May. Director emeritus of Marine Corps
History and Museums, he served in the Marines for 53 years. As a Marine he fought on Guam during World
War II, participated in the Inchon Landing and the Chosin Reservoir campaigns in Korea, and served as a
commander in two tours in Vietnam. When he retired from active duty in 1971, Gen. Simmons became the
director of the Marine Corps History and Museums, leading that institution for 17 years. A prolific writer and
military historian, Gen. Simmons wrote books on the history of the U.S. Marine Corps, its wars and campaigns.
He also wrote more than 300 published articles. In 2001 he published a novel, Dog Company Six, a gripping
autobiographical story of Marines in the Korean War. A leader in the U.S. military history community, Gen.
Simmons supported the international activities of the US Commission as a member, as president, and for many
years as a trustee.
Benis M. Frank, member, died suddenly in March. Chief historian for the US Marine Corps from 1991-1997, he
severed in WWII and Korea and was active in editing and leading military history organizations. Ben started the
Marine Corps oral history section, recording the combat veteran’s experiences from WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
Among his published books were, A Brief History of the 3rd Marines; Okinawa: A Touchstone to
Victory, and the U.S. Marines in Lebanon, 1982-1984.
Current Officers and Trustees
Officers:
President: Dr. John A. Lynn, email johnlynn@uiuc.edu
Vice-President: Dr. Hans Pawlisch, email HansPawlisch@msn.com
Secretary-general: Dr. Pat Harahan, email pat.harahan@dtra.mil or harahan@verizon.net
Treasurer: Dr. Geoffrey Megargee, email gpmega@yahoo.com
Secretary: Janice E. McKenney, email janicee.mckenney@verizon.net
Newsletter Editor: Dr. Sanders Marble, email uscmh_newsletter@yahoo.com
Board of Trustees:
BG David Armstrong
BG (ret) John S. Brown
Dr. Will Frank
Dr. Barton Hacker
Janice E. McKenney
Dr. Geoffrey Megargee
Dr. Randy Papadopoulos
Willard Snyder
Representative to the ICMH Bibliography Committee
Dr. James K. Hogue, email jhogue@email.uncc.edu
Representative to the ICMH Archives Committee
Dr. Robin Higham, e-mail marolync@flinthills.com
Welcome New Members!
Martha Kinney
Lawrence T. McDonald
Edward Salo
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David Kirchner
Richard Gamez
Tom Devaney
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Interested in Joining the U.S. Commission on Military History?
We register new members on line. If interested, please go to the U.S. Commission’s website and complete the
membership information. The website is: www.uscmh.acdis.uiuc.edu
Or simply go to any major web search network and query: U. S. Commission on Military History.
Welcome!
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