New York Military Affairs Symposium

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SSMAC Club in New York (2011)

The New York Military Affairs Symposium (NYMAS) is an independent, non-profit organization based in New York City ( 34th Street , Manhattan ) dedicated to the preservation and promotion of military history . The current president is David Gordon .

The approximately 120 members include scientists, the military and interested civilians. NYMAS was founded in the 1970s by various students from the City University of New York , Columbia University, and New York University . The US state of New York officially recognized it as a non-profit organization in 1982.

NYMAS awards u. a. The Arthur Goodzeit Book Award for the best new releases in military history. Meetings are held regularly at the SSMAC Club in Manhattan. Close relationships exist with the Society for Military History (SMH).

NYMAS offers Audio Podcasts ( C-SPAN ) of the Friday Evening Talks, featuring military historians / writers such as Adrian Goldsworthy , Sir Max Hastings , Sean McMeekin , Clifford J. Rogers and Steven Zaloga .

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The Arthur Goodzeit Book Award

The The Arthur Good Time Book Award was awarded in 1991 and is Arthur Good time , former editor of NYMAS newsletter named. It is awarded annually for extraordinary military-historical work:

  • 1991: Edward S. Miller : War Plan Orange: The US Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945
  • 1992: James S. Corum : The Roots of Blitzkrieg: Hans von Seekt and German Military Reform
  • 1993: Jeffry D. Wert : General James Longstreet: The Confederacy's Most Controversial Soldier
  • 1994: Michael D. Doubler : Closing with the Enemy: How GIs Fought the War in Europe, 1944–1945
  • 1995: John Prados : Combined Fleet Decoded: The Secret History of American Intelligence and the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II
  • 1996: David M. Glantz , Jonathan House : When Titans Clash: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler
  • 1997: HR McMaster : Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam
  • 1998: Paddy Griffith : The Art of War of Revolutionary France, 1789–1802
  • 1999: Richard B. Frank : Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire
  • 2000: David French : Raising Churchill's Army The British Army and the War Against Germany, 1939–45
  • 2001: Bernard Bachrach : Early Carolingian warfare: prelude to empire
  • 2002: Donald Vandergriff : The path to victory: America's army and the revolution in human affairs
  • 2003: William H. Bartsch : December 8, 1941: MacArthur's Pearl Harbor
  • 2004: Jeremy Black : Rethinking military history
  • 2005: Robert A. Doughty : Pyrrhic Victory: French Strategy and Operations in the Great War
  • 2006: Catherine Merridale : Ivan's war: life and death in the Red Army, 1939–1945
  • 2007: Harold R. Winton : Corps commanders of the Bulge: Six American Generals and Victory in the Ardennes (with a foreword by Dennis Showalter )
  • 2008: Peter Mansoor : Baghdad at Sunrise: A Brigade Commanders' War in Iraq
  • 2009: DM Giangreco : Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945–1947
  • 2010: Thomas Weber : Hitler's first war: Adolf Hitler, the men of the List Regiment, and the First World War
  • 2011: John Gordon : Fighting for MacArthur: the Navy and Marine Corps' desperate defense of the Philippines
  • 2012: Robert M. Citino : The Wehrmacht retreats: fighting a lost war, 1943
  • 2013: Pierre Asselin : Hanoi's Road to the Vietnam War, 1954–1965
  • 2014: Hans Ehlert , Michael Epkenhans , Gerhard P. Groß : The Schlieffen Plan: International Perspectives on the German Strategy for World War I (translation by David T. Zabecki )
  • 2015: Sean McMeekin : The Ottoman Endgame: War Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908–1923

In addition, the Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies has been presented since 2002 and a Special Award since 2009 (winners: David M. Glantz (2009), Rick Atkinson (2013) and Cambridge University Press (2014)).

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