New York Military Affairs Symposium - Overview

Overview

Since incorporation, NYMAS has hosted more than a thousand guests, including scholars working in many diverse disciplines, as well as journalists, graduate students, active and former military personnel, museum curators, peace activists, novelists, diplomats, political leaders, documentarians, and many more. Many guests have been well-established scholars or specialists in their fields, such as Sir Michael Howard, Gerhard Weinberg, Gary Sick, Geoffrey P. Megargee, Peter Paret, David Glantz, Morris Rossabi,, Sir John Keegan, Thomas Fleming, Sir Jeremy Black, Gunther E. Rothenberg, Ellen Schrecker, Sir Max Hastings, David Kahn, Susan Shwartz, Kevin Baker, and Christopher Duffy. Most, however, have been younger scholars, a number of whom have subsequently attained some measure of fame, such as James S. Corum, Ross Hassig, David Petraeus, Peter R. Mansoor, and Arden Bucholz, to note but a few.

NYMAS currently presents approximately twenty to twenty-five lectures each academic year. These are given by scholars, journalists, diplomats, active and retired military personnel, and knowledgeable lay folk represent viewpoints all across the political spectrum. In addition, NYMAS usually holds two day-and-a-half conferences each year, bringing together scholars, veterans, diplomats, and others, to explore a particular topic in some depth, and occasionally holds special events.