Harmon Memorial Lectures in Military History
The Harmon Memorial Lectures in Military History (also: Harmon Memorial Lecture Series ) are a renowned series of lectures for the advancement of military history at the Department of History of the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) in Colorado Springs , Colorado . It is named after Lieutenant General Hubert R. Harmon , the university's first superintendent. With a few exceptions, it has taken place at least once a year since 1959. Leading military historians are selected by an international committee of historians and the university administration. The first lecturer was the American historian Wesley F. Craven .
Lecturer
- 1959: Wesley F. Craven : Why Military History
- 1960: T. Harry Williams : The Military Leadership of the North and the South
- 1961: Louis Morton : Pacific Command: A Study in Interservice Relations
- 1962: William R. Emerson : Operation POINTBLANK: A Tale of Bombers and Fighters
- 1963: Frank E. Vandiver : John J. Pershing and the Anatomy of Leadership
- 1964: Maurice Matloff : Mr. Roosevelt's Three Wars: FDR as War Leader
- 1965: Gordon A. Craig : Problems of Coalition Warfare: The Military Alliance Against Napoleon, 1813–1814
- 1966: Peter Paret : Innovation and Reform in Warfare
- 1967: Michael Howard : Strategy and Policy in Twentieth-Century Warfare
- 1968: Forrest C. Pogue : George C. Marshall: Global Commander
- 1969: Elting E. Morison : The War of Ideas: The United States Navy, 1870-1890
- 1970: Theodore Ropp : The Historical Development of Contemporary Strategy / Sir John Winthrop Hackett Junior : The Military in the Service of the State
- 1971: Martin Blumenson : The Many Faces of George S. Patton, Jr.
- 1972: Russell F. Weigley : The End of Militarism
- 1973: Irving Brinton Holley : An Enduring Challenge: The Problem of Air Force Doctrine
- 1974: John W. Shy : The American Revolution Today
- 1975: Edward M. Coffman : The Young Officer in the Old Army
- 1976: Robert M. Utley : The Contribution of the Frontier to the American Military Tradition
- 1977: Philip A. Crowi : The Strategist's Short Catechism: Six Questions Without Answers
- 1978: Noel F. Parrish : The Influence of Air Power upon Historians
- 1980: Richard A. Preston : Perspectives in the History of Military Education and Professionalism / Iriye Akira : Western Perceptions and Asian Realities
- 1981: D. Clayton James : Command Crisis: MacArthur and the Korean War
- 1982: John M. Blum : United Against: American Culture and Society During World War II
- 1984: Don Higginbotham : George Washington and George Marshall: Some Reflections on the American Military Tradition / Harold C. Deutsch : Military Planning and National Policy: German Overtures to Two World Wars
- 1985: Steven T. Ross : Napoleon and Maneuver Warfare
- 1986: John LH Keep : Soldiering in Tsarist Russia
- 1987: David MacIsaac : Leadership in the Old Air Force: A Postgraduate Assignment
- 1988: Sir Harry Hinsley : The Intelligence Revolution: A Historical Perspective
- 1989: Richard Overy : Air Power, Armies, and the War in the West, 1940
- 1990: George C. Herring : 'Cold Blood': LBJ's Conduct of Limited War in Vietnam
- 1991: Joyce C. Lebra : Postwar Perspectives on the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (died before he could give the lecture)
- 1992: John Edward Wilz : United States Policy Vis-a-vis Korea, 1850–1950
- 1994: David Kahn : Codebreaking and the Battle of the Atlantic / William Hardy McNeill : The Structure of Military-Technical Transformation
- 1995: Gerhard Ludwig Weinberg : The Place of World War II in History
- 1996: Dave R. Palmer : Shaping Junior Officer Values In The Twentieth Century: A Foundation For A Comparative Perspective
- 1997: Stephen L. McFarland : Battles Not Fought: The Creation of an Independent Air Force
- 1998: Warren F. Kimball : Fighting with Allies': The Hand-Care and Feeding of the Anglo-American Special Relationship
- 1999: Richard H. Kohn : Threats to Civilian Control of the Military in the United States Today: An Historical Perspective
- 2000: Robert C. Doyle : Making Experience Count: American POW Narratives from the Colonial Wars to Vietnam
- 2001: John F. Guilmartin, Jr .: The Aircraft that Decided World War II: Aeronautical Engineering and Grand Strategy, 1933-1945, The American Dimension
- 2002: Victor Davis Hanson : The West at War and Burdens of the Past
- 2003: Tom D. Crouch : Wright Brothers: Pattern for American Air and Space Power - Innovation and Legacy of Ingenuity of the WINGED CRUSADE
- 2004: Shannon E. French : The Code of the Warrior: The Values and Ideals of Warrior Cultures Throughout History
- 2005: Dennis Showalter : Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century
- 2006: Roger D. Launius : National Security, Space, and the Course of Recent US History
- 2007: Mark Clodfelter : Matching Mountains and Fulfilling Missions: One Graduate's Assessment of USAFA's True Value
- 2009: Robert A. Doughty : France and the Armistice of 1918
- 2010: Phillip S. Meilinger : Hubert R. Harmon and the Air Force Academy: The Man and the Issues / Holger H. Herwig : The Daemon of Geopolitics: Karl Haushofer, Rudolf Hess, and Adolf Hitler
- 2012: Grant T. Hammond : On The Making of History: John Boyd and American Security
- 2013: Rick Atkinson : Eisenhower Rising: The Ascent of an Uncommon Man
- 2014: Andrew Bacevich : Reflections on the Professional Military Ethic / Gregory JW Urwin : Abandoned to the Arts & Arms of the Enemy: Placing the 1781 Virginia Campaign in its Racial and Political Context
literature
- Harry R. Borowski: The Harmon Memorial Lectures in Military History, 1959–1987: A Collection of the First Thirty Harmon Lectures Given at the United States Air Force Academy (= Special Studies ). With a foreword by Winfield W. Scott . Office of Air Force History, United States Air Force, Washington, DC 1988, ISBN 0-912799-58-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ John E. Jessup : A Guide to the Study and Use of Military History . US Center of Military History, 1979, ISBN 0-16-072360-4 , p. 405.