DRAFT AGENDA – McMULLEN NHS 2017 Session 1 (0930-1120) Session 1 (Sampson G14) Antebellum & Civil War Naval Affairs Session 1 (Classroom 1) Chair: Sylvia Jordan, U.S. Naval The Wooden Walls: Britain and the Invasion Threat, 1793-1805 “A Crisis of Identity” Chair: John Hattendorf, U.S. Naval War College Roger Bailey, University of Maryland

“You are in the Now! The Union Navy and “The Quota Acts: The of Naval Service Contrabands in the Mississippi Valley, 1861-1865” and the Threat of French Invasion” Barbara Brooks Tomblin, Independent J. Ross Dancy, Sam Houston State Scholar University “The U.S. Naval Observatory: Preserving “Splintering the Wooden Wall: French Invasion Scientific and Technological Excellence in Attempts, 1796-1797” Changing Times” James Davey, University of Exeter, UK Jeffery Matsuura, Independent Scholar “Ireland and the Invasion Threat, 1803-1804” Comment: Mary DeCredico, U.S. Evan Wilson, Yale University Comment: John Hattendorf, U.S. Naval War Session 1 (Classroom 4) College Evolution in the Great War Era: Fresh Perspectives on Anglo-American Naval Strategy, Diplomacy, and Education Session 1 (Classroom 2) Chair: John Beeler, University of Alabama Ancient Greek Naval History

Chair: Kelcy Sagstetter, U.S. Naval Academy “Sharing the Trident?: The Development of British and American Maritime Diplomacy, 1913- 1922” “A Salty and Bitter Neighbor: Plato v. the Sea” Louis Halewood, Merton College, Amir Meital, Sapir Academic College, Israel University of Oxford “The Success of the Navy-Focused Allied “Lessons Learned: Royal Naval Air Service Anti- Defensive Campaign of Greece, 480-479 BCE” Submarine Warfare 1917-1918, the Naval Staff August Immel, U.S. Marine Corps Air Division and the Defeat of the U-Boats” Comment: Kelcy Sagstetter, U.S. Naval Academy Alexander Howlett, King’s College, London “Charting a New Course: The Knox-King-Pye Board and Naval Professional Education, 1919- 1923” David Kohnen, U.S. Naval War College Comment: John Beeler, University of Alabama

DRAFT AGENDA – McMULLEN NHS 2017 Session 1 (Classroom 5) Session 1 (Classroom 7) The Great War Approaches Naval Leadership in the Age of Sail Chair: Chris Rentfrow, U.S. Naval Academy Chair: Brian de Toy, Essential History Expeditions

“To Build a Fleet: The Development of Battle “Leadership in the Age of Revolution: Fleet Tactics and Composition in Britain and the Louis Thomas Villaret-Joyeuse” United States, 1898-1914” Kenneth Johnson, Air Command and Staff Christopher Buckey, Independent Scholar College “Preparation for War: How Ready was the U.S. “CinC: The Leadership and Legacy of Vice- Navy in 1917?” Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, RN” Joseph Kirschbaum, U.S. Government Samantha Cavell, Southeastern Louisiana Accountability Office University “Embracing Foreign Entanglements: Woodrow “Commodore David Porter: A Study in Naval Wilson, John Pershing, William Sims” Leadership” Nathan Wells, Quincy College Cori Convertito Ferrar, Key West Art and Historical Society Comment: Chris Rentfrow, U.S. Naval Academy Comment: Brian de Toy, Essential History Expeditions Session 1 (Classroom 6) Rediscovering and Commemorating USS Indianapolis: The U.S. Navy’s Efforts to Make a Usable Past from Tragedy Chair: Regina Akers, NHHC

“Revisiting USS Indianapolis and New Information about Her Loss” Richard Hulver, NHHC “Filling a Historical Gap: Researching and Writing the Official History of LST-779” Christopher Havern, NHHC “Editing Naval Documents: A Case Study of the USS Indianapolis Project” Peter Luebke, NHHC Comment: Regina Akers, NHHC

DRAFT AGENDA – McMULLEN NHS 2017 Session 2 (1320-1510) Session 2 (Sampson G14) Diverse Aspects of U.S. Naval Strategy, 1890- Session 2 (Classroom 1) 1937 Sailors, Thinkers, and Statesmen: British Chair: Michael T. McMaster, U.S. Naval War Maritime Power in the Age of Empire, 1750-1914 College, Monterey Program Chair: Benjamin Armstrong, U.S. Naval Academy “Taming the Titans: America’s Strategy to Counter Britain, Germany, and Japan, 1890- “Strategy and Law” 1921” Anna Brinkman, University of Warwick, Kenneth J. Hagan, U.S. Naval Academy, UK Emeritus “The Reality of Practice: British ‘grand strategy’ “Evacuating Wartime : The U.S. Navy’s 1880-1905” Relief Operations for Overseas American David Morgan-Owen, King’s College Travelers, 1914-1917” London Branden Little, Weber State University “Sir Julian elaborates his strange theory: Spencer “The American Response to the Sinking of the Wilkinson’s Denunciation of Corbett’s Principles USS Panay, December 1937” of Maritime Strategy” Douglas Peifer, U.S. Air War College Paul Ramsey, University of Calgary Comment: Craig Symonds, U.S. Naval Academy, Comment: Andrew Lambert, King’s College Emeritus London

Session 2 (Classroom 4) Session 2 (Classroom 2) Wooden Ships and Iron Men: The Human Roman Naval History Factor in Mid-19th Century Naval Operations Chair: Brannon Wheeler, U.S. Naval Academy Chair: Anna Gibson Holloway, National Park Service “Julius Caesar’s Use of Naval Assets, 49-45 BC” Ilke Syvanne, University of Haifa, Israel “Derangement of Our Motive Power: The Troublesome Special Service Cruise of the U.S. “D-Day in the Red Sea: Kaleb’s Invasion of the Steam Frigate Merrimack” Kingdom of Himyar” Stephen Kinnaman, Independent Scholar Jorit Wintjes, Julius-Maximilians- Universität, Wurzberg “Leadership Makes the Difference at Mobile Bay” Comment: Brannon Wheeler, U.S. Naval Academy Christopher Kolakowski, The MacArthur Memorial

“Leadership and Discipline on All the Oceans: The Cruise of the CSS Shenandoah” Dwight Hughes, Independent Scholar

Comment: Anna Gibson Holloway, National Park Service DRAFT AGENDA – McMULLEN NHS 2017

Session 2 (Classroom 5) Session 2 (Classroom 7) Ashore and in the Air, World War I and the U.S. Naval Officers’ Careers in the Nineteenth Interwar Years and Twentieth Centuries Chair: Lori Bogle, U.S. Naval Academy Chair: Jeffrey Seiken, U.S. Center of Military History

“The U.S. Navy and the Origins of Strategic Bombing” “No Hope of Promotion: Careers of Forward Officers in the U.S. Navy during the Antebellum Larry Burke, National Air and Space Era” Museum Michael J. Crawford, Naval History and “What Sort of Men are They? Marines, Belleau Heritage Command Wood, and the Test of American Manhood” “ Richard H. Leigh: The Indispensable Mark Folse, University of Alabama Man” “A Naval Service: Basic Education in the Chris Martin, Naval History and Heritage Marine Corps 1823-1941” Command Jennifer L. Mazza, Marine Corps University “An Institutional Asset: Admiral Harry E. Yarnell Comment: Lori Bogle, U.S. Naval Academy and the Rise of American Naval Power” Frank Blazich, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Session 2 (Classroom 6) Comment: Jeffrey Seiken, U.S. Army Center of Diverse Elements of World War II and the Military History Pacific

Chair: Matthew Dziennik, U.S. Naval Academy

“Here are your ships, Uncle Sam: Shipbuilding in the Pacific Northwest during WWII” Katherine Macica, Loyola University Chicago “A Notorious Undertaking? Admiral Harry Yarnell and the 1945 Naval Aviation Survey” Ryan Wadle, Air Command and Staff College “The Dawn of Joint and Combined Air Warfare: Henderson Field and the Cactus ” Robert Poling, King’s College London Comment: Robert Love, U.S. Naval Academy

DRAFT AGENDA – McMULLEN NHS 2017 Session 3 (1530-1720) “Honor on the High Seas: Dueling in the Antebellum Navy”

Laura June Davis, Southern Utah University Session 3 (Classroom 1) “An Un-American Execution: Outrage, American The , Policy, and the Public Sphere, Identity, and Public Response to the Affair of the 1865-1918 USS Somers”” Chair: John Mitcham, Duquesne University Margaret Stack, University of Connecticut

“Palmetto : The Jefferson Davis and “Selling the Royal Navy to the American Public: Outfitting Warships within 1861 Confederate British Propaganda to the U.S. During the Great Charleston” War” Charles Wexler, Rowan University Rebecca Matzke, Ripon College Comment: Matt Semple, U.S. Naval Academy “This Mad and Monstrous Proposal: The Liberal Party and the 1889 Naval Defence Act” Session 3 (Classroom 4) Peter Keeling, University of Kent, UK Naval War on the Periphery: New Topics in the “From Gladstone to Fisher: the Rhetoric and Naval History of World War I Substance of Liberal Naval Reform, 1865-1910” Chair: David Kohnen, U.S. Naval War College John Beeler, University of Alabama

Comment: John Mitcham, Duquesne University “The American Navy and World War I-Era

Ireland” Session 3 (Classroom 2) Sidney M. Cheser, Naval History and South American Naval History Heritage Command Chair: Sylvia Jordan, U.S. Naval Academy “The Day China Captured the U.S. Asiatic Fleet” Dennis Conrad, Naval History and Heritage Command “Naval Operations during the Peru-Colombia Border Conflict of 1932-1933” “Defending the Fatherland Abroad: German Naval Efforts in the Pacific during World War I” John Rodriguez Asti, Peruvian Navy Matthew A. Yokell, Naval History and “Revisiting the Maritime Campaign in the War of Heritage Command the Pacific” Comment: Edward G. Lengel, White House Carlos Donoso Rojas, Universidad San Historical Association Sebastián

Comment: Sharika Crawford, U.S. Naval Academy

Session 3 (Sampson G14)

Shipboard Conflict in Mid-19th Century America

Chair: Mary DeCredico, U.S. Naval Academy

DRAFT AGENDA – McMULLEN NHS 2017 Session 3 (Classroom 5) Session 3 (Classroom 7) Hearts and Minds in Difficult Times: Marine Naval Personnel in War, 1897-1945 Counterinsurgency Operations of the Last 100 Chair: Randy Papadopoulos, Department of the Years Navy Chair: Nathan Packard, Marine Corps University

“A Marine in the Sudan, 1897-1899: Captain “Beating Around the Bush: Marine Frederick Hobbs, RMLI, in the Campaign against Counterinsurgency Efforts in the Dominican the Mahdi” Republic” Donald F. Bittner, Marine Corps Command Breanne Robertson, Marine Corps History and Staff College, Emeritus Division “The Friend and Advisor of All on Board: The “U.S. Marine Advisors and the Vietnamese Role of the Royal Naval Chaplain in the First Marines, 1972” World War” Charles Melson, Marine Corps History Linda Parker, Independent Scholar Division “Painting for Victory: A British Artist’s Anglo- “Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan: The American Propaganda War” MARSOC Mission” Kathleen Broome Williams, Holy Names Frank Kalesnik, U.S. Special Operations University Command Comment: William A. Taylor, Angelo State Comment: Nathan Packard, Marine Corps University University

Session 3 (Classroom 6)

Undersea Warfare in World War II

Chair: Marcus Jones, U.S. Naval Academy

“USS Mayo (DD-422) in the , 1940-1942” David Isby, Independent Scholar “Miracles of Improvisation: USS Canopus and the Defense of Manila Bay, 1941-1942” Jeffrey Schultz, Luzerne County Community College

“The Submarine at Rest Produced No Results: American Submarine Performance in the Pacific Basin, 1941-1945” Robert Dienesch, University of Windsor Comment: Pending Invitation DRAFT AGENDA – McMULLEN NHS 2017 Session 4 (0800-0950) Session 4 (Sampson G14) Research from the Chief of Naval Operations Essay Contest Session 4 (Classroom 1) Chair: John Freymann, U.S. Naval Academy Britain and the Age of Sail

Chair: James Davey, University of Exeter, UK “First Place Winner – Professional Historian”

“Second Place Winner – Professional Historian” “Of Arms and the Navy: The Phillipe and ’s 14th Century RMA” “First Place Winner – Non-Professional Historian” Daniel Franke, William & Mary “Second Place Winner – Non-Professional “The Westminster Model Navy: Defining the Historian” Royal Navy, 1660-1749” Comment: C.C. Felker, Society for Military History Sam McLean, King’s College London

“Spanish Use of Sea Power, 1732-1748: What if You Can’t Beat the British?” Session 4 (Classroom 4) Albert Parker, Independent Researcher World War I in European Waters Comment: James Davey, University of Exeter, UK Chair: Mark Belson, U.S. Naval Academy

Session 4 (Classroom 2) “The Imperial German Navy in the Baltic Sea, 1914-1918” Hydrography, Nautical Science, and Naval Education in Spanish America Heiko Harold, Elbasan University, Albania Chair: Daniel Masterson, U.S. Naval Academy “The Grand Fleet Battle Orders” Simon Harley, The Dreadnought Project “Francisco Vidal Gormaz and the Chilean Naval “The Maritime Origins of the Italian Crisis of Hydrographical Office: Its Creation and Role” 1917” Fernando Wilson, Adolfo Ibáñez, Viña del Fabio De Ninno, University of Siena Mar, Chile Comment: Keith Bird, Kentucky Community and “The Role of Nineteenth-Century in Technical College System Improving Nautical Knowledge of the Pacific

Coast of Costa Rica and Central America” Jorge León Sáenz, Universidad de Costa Rica “The Peruvian Naval War College” Michel Laguerre, Marina de Guerra del Perú Comment: Sharika Crawford, U.S. Naval Academy

DRAFT AGENDA – McMULLEN NHS 2017 Session 4 (Classroom 5) “The Baltic and German Federal Navy from 1975- 1995” Power from the Sea: Marine Amphibious Warfare in the 20th Century Christian Jentzsch, Bundeswehr Center for Military History Chair: Charles Neimeyer, Marine Corps History Division Comment: Peter Haynes, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments “Amphibious Juggernaut: How the Landing Ship, Tank and Landing Vehicle, Tracked evolved into the most powerful amphibious assault system of Session 4 (Classroom 7) WWII” One Hundred Years of Innovation at Dahlgren Douglas Nash, Marine Corps History Division Chair: Larry Burke, National Air and Space Museum “To Advantage by Sea: Marine Corps Special Landing Force Operations During the Vietnam War, 1965-1969” “The Norden Bombsight and the U.S. Naval Edward Nevgloski, Marine Corps University Proving Ground” “The Amphibious Strategic Reserve during the Robert V. Gates, Naval Surface Warfare Gulf War” Center Paul Westermeyer, Marine Corps History “Hidden History of the VT Fuze and the U.S. Division Naval Proving Ground” Comment: Charles Neimeyer, Marine Corps Peter Kolakowski, Dahlgren Heritage History Division Foundation “Software Technology Innovations in the U.S. Navy” Session 4 (Classroom 6) Alan Dean, Naval Surface Warfare Center Back Yard, Lifeline or Thorn in the Flesh? The Comment: Larry Burke, National Air and Space Baltic Sea and the Northern Flank in Peace, Museum Conflict, and Wars Chair: Randy Papadopoulos, Department of the Navy

“The Imperial German Navy Fighting in its Own Backyard: The Baltic Sea 1914-1918”

Heiko Herold, Independent Historian

“From Show of Force to Naval Presence, and Back Again: The U.S. Navy in the Baltic” Sebastian Bruns, University of Kiel “Shifting Priorities Along the Northern Flank: European Naval Strategy in the Post-Cold War Era”

Jeremy Stöhs, University of Kiel DRAFT AGENDA – McMULLEN NHS 2017 Session 5 (1000-1150) Session 5 (Classroom 3) Penetrating the Labyrinth: Finding the Path to Official Records Access at the Navy Archives Session 5 (Classroom 1) Chair: Randy Papadopoulos, Department of the Influence and the Royal Navy Navy Chair: Nicholas Lambert, U.S. Naval Academy

“Mapping the Labyrinth: Federal Law, Executive “The Value of Books to Navies: The Case of the Orders, and Agency Directives that Affect Public Royal Navy and its Libraries, 1660-1945” Access to Navy Historical Records” G.H. Bennet, Plymouth University, UK Greg Martin, NHHC “The Declaration of London: Did the Admiralty “OPNAV 100 History Case Study” Know What it Was Doing?” Curtis Utz, NHHC Alan Anderson, King’s College, London “Ship Acquisition in the 60s and 70s History Case “The Influence of the U.S. Navy on the End of the Study” British Admiralty” Justin Eldridge, NHHC James Smith, King’s College, London Comment: Tim Wolters, Iowa State University Comment: Nicholas Lambert, U.S. Naval Academy Session 5 (Classroom 4) Session 5 (Classroom 2) U.S. Coast Guard Operations in World War I European Navies in the New World and Beyond Chair: Heather Farley, U.S. Coast Guard Chair: Jorge Ortiz-Sotelo, Asociación de Historia, Historian’s Office Maritima y Naval Iberoamericana, Perú

“’Plan One, Acknowledge’: Coast Guard Combat “The Iberian Advantage: Advances and Operations in World War I” Inventions in the Mechanics and Techniques of Bill Thiesen, U.S. Coast Guard Historian’s Maritime Exploration that Led to the Encounter Office and the Making of the Atlantic World” “The Halifax Explosion and World War I Port Lawrence Clayton, University of Alabama Security Operations” “New Light on the Discovery of California” Beth Crumley, U.S. Coast Guard Historian’s Pedro Dermit, Asociación de Historia Office Maritima y Naval Iberoamericana, Spain “Legacy of Courage: The Coast Guard Cutter “The Rise and Fall of the Bourbon Armada, 1744- Tampa in World War I” 1805: From to Trafalgar” Arlyn Davidson and Nora Chidlow, U.S. Larrie D. Ferreiro, George Mason Coast Guard Historian’s Office University Comment: Heather Farley, U.S. Coast Guard Comment: Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix, Service Historian’s Office Historique de la Defense, France

DRAFT AGENDA – McMULLEN NHS 2017 Session 5 (Classroom 5) Session 5 (Classroom 7) The RN & USN in the 19th Century U.S. Navy and New Technologies: Steam Power to Torpedoes Chair: Gene Smith, Texas Christian University Chair: Kevin Boyce, U.S. Naval Academy

“The Royal Navy, Imperialism, and Britain as a World Power, 1861-1897” “To Steam or Not to Steam: U.S. Naval Officers’ Initial Forays into Steam-Powered Vessels” James Fargher, King’s College, London John Laurence Busch, Independent “Implementation of Technology by the Royal Historian Navy, 1860-1891” “Power Politics: Congress, the Navy, and Steam Ryan Menke, , U.S. Naval Navigation Technology” Academy Alicia Maggard, Brown University “Naval Warfare on the Fringes: Lesser Known Naval Engagements in the Age of Sail” “Evolution of the Pacific Coast Squadron” Denis Ringle, Independent Scholar Joe Overton, Jr., Naval Undersea Warfare Comment: Jason Smith, Southern Connecticut State Center Division University Comment: Pending Invitation

Session 5 (Classroom 6) Framing Naval Strategy Chair: Peter Haynes, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

“J.C. Wylie & The U.S. Navy’s First ‘Strategic Enterprise’” Nicholas Prime, King’s College London “Norwegian Seapower: Sea Control within a Global Maritime Legal Framework” Timothy Choi, Yale University “From Blue to Brown and Green: Understanding U.S. Naval Change in the Post Cold War Era” Alexander Salt, University of Calgary Comment: Peter Swartz, Center for Naval Analysis

DRAFT AGENDA – McMULLEN NHS 2017 Session 6 (1330-1520) Session 6 (Sampson G14) Navies and the Shaping of East Asian History in the 20th Century Session 6 (Classroom 1) Chair: Miles Yu, U.S. Naval Academy Enduring Legacies: Perspectives on the Battle of the Virginia Capes and the Naval Campaign of the American War of Independence “The Battle of Yijiangshan: Lessons from the Chair: John Hattendorf, U.S. Naval War College PLA’s First Island Landing” Lauren Dickey, King’s College London “The Naval War of Independence in Global “Yuan’s Navy: Balancing Imperial Legacies and Perspective” Needs (1912-1916)” James Holmes, U.S. Naval War College Meiying Li, King’s College, London “Light Naval Forces on the Chesapeake” “Fighting from Beneath: Submarine Rearmament and Japan’s Cold War, 1955-1976” Jim McIntyre, U.S. Naval War College Alessio Patalano, King’s College, London “A Measure of Utmost Importance: The Battle of Virginia Capes from an Operational and Tactical Comment: Miles Yu, U.S. Naval Academy Perspective”

Stanley Carpenter, U.S. Naval War College Session 6 (Classroom 4) Comment: John Hattendorf, U.S. Naval War College Logistics and Transportation in the Great War Chair: Denis Conrad, Naval History and Heritage Command Session 6 (Classroom 2)

The Great War and the Naval Staff “Harvest for War: Coconuts, Gas Masks, and U.S. Chair: Jonathan Chavanne, U.S. Naval Academy Maritime Transportation Networks during World War I”

Gerard J. Fitzgerald, George Mason “Kriegspieling the Kriegsmarine: Wargaming in University the German Imperial Navy” “’We Didn’t Lose but One Horse and That was a Marcus Jones, U.S. Naval Academy Mule’: The American Sealift Effort during World “The Office of Naval Intelligence in Russia, 1917” War I” Kenneth C. Wenzer, Naval History and Salvatore R. Mercogliano, Campbell Heritage Command University “U.S. Navy Command Structure, Brest, France, “Military Cooperation Done Right: Getting the 1917: Search for a Line and Staff Balance” Army’s Expeditionary Force across the Atlantic in World War I” Manley Irwin, University of New Hampshire Gordon Calhoun, Naval History and Heritage Command Comment: Pending Invitation Comment: Denis Conrad, Naval History and Heritage Command

DRAFT AGENDA – McMULLEN NHS 2017

Session 6 (Classroom 5) Session 6 (Classroom 7) The Road to World War II The Royal Navy & the Dawn of the 19th Century Chair: Scott Mobley, U.S. Naval Academy Chair: Michael Jelinek, U.S. Naval Academy

“Red Sales: U.S. Negotiations to Sell Armaments “George Almy of Newport, RI: One of the to Stalin’s Navy, 1936-1939” Americans at Tralfalgar” Jeanie M. Welch, University of North Peter Hore, 1805 Club Carolina at Charlotte, Emeritus “ and Trade: Barbary and the British “Captain Van Aukem and the Research Protectorate of Malta, 1800-1813” Department of the Naval War College: Gaming, Caitlin Gale, U.S. National Archives & Experimentation, and Analysis the Decade before Records Administration Midway.” Jon Scott Logel, U.S. Naval War College “British Naval Officers in the Loyalist Press, 1793-1802.” “The Influence of the U.S. Naval War College on the Early Years of the Pacific Campaign” Ryan Mewett, University of Portsmouth,UK Lisabeth Hargraves, Sam Houston State Comment: Pending Invitation University Comment: Scott Mobley, U.S. Naval Academy

Session 6 (Classroom 6) Episodes of the Cold War Era Chair: Brian VanDeMark, U.S. Naval Academy

“An ‘Exacting’ and ‘Exasperating’ Operation: Multinational and Inter-Service Coordination during the 1951 Han River Estuary Demonstration” Steven Paget, University of Portsmouth, UK “Oversized Ambitions: The Development of the Imperial Iranian Navy in the 1970s”

Carl Forsberg, University of Texas, Austin

“Two Down, All Out: The U.S. Navy’s Lebanon Airstrike, 4 December 1983” Matthew Hurley, Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies

Comment: David Winkler, Naval Historical

Foundation DRAFT AGENDA – McMULLEN NHS 2017 Session 7 (1530-1720) Session 7 (Classroom 2) Weapons, Medicine, and Technology in Naval History Session 7 (Classroom 1) Chair: Greg Stern, U.S. Naval Academy Conflict and War in the Pacific

Chair: Alessio Patalano, King’s College London “Torpedoes against Ironclads during the Russo- Turkish War, 1877-1878” “Lessons from the Yalu Fight” Dilara Dal, Istanbul University Andrew Blackley, Independent Scholar “U.S. Navy Medicine and the History of “The Dispatch of the Imperial Japanese Fleet to Pandemic Response” the Mediterranean, 1917” Kathleen Dagher, Marine Corps University Masashi Kurarni, Japanese Maritime Self “The Information Age: To Infinity and Beyond” Defense Force Peter Marland, Royal Navy (Ret.), David “Germany’s War in Asia, 1914-1919” Boslaugh, U.S. Navy (Ret.), and John Jan Asmussen, Polish Naval Academy Vardalas, Stevens Institute of Technology Comment: Greg Stern, U.S. Naval Academy Comment: Alessio Patalano, King’s College London Session 7 (Classroom 4) Past and Present: Maritime Security and Asia- Session 7 (Sampson G14) Pacific History Trial by Fire: Examining the Army 42nd Division Chair: Claude Berube, U.S. Naval Academy nd th and 2 Division, 4 Marine Brigade during Belleau Wood & Soissons, June-July 1918 “German and American Influences and the Chair: Charles Neimeyer, Marine Corps History Creation of China’s Modern Navy, 1919-1945” Division Miles Yu, U.S. Naval Academy

th th “For a New Historical Interpretation of China’s “Through the Wheat: The 20 Company 5 Maritime Defence” Marines at Belleau Wood, June 6 1918” Claudia Zanardi, Kings College London Kevin Seldon, Tarrant County College “The Roots of China’s Grey Zone Strategy at “Death in the Sugar Beet Fields: The Attack of the Sea” 4th Marine Brigade at Soissons, July 1918” Ong Weichong, Nanyang Technological J. Michael Miller, Marine Corps University University, Singapore nd “Rainbow on the Marne: The 42 Infantry “History of the Development of Private Maritime Division in the Champagne Defensive, July 1918” Security Companies” James Zobel, MacArthur Archives Helen Tung, University of Greenwich, UK Comment: Frank Blazich, National Museum of Comment: Joe Gagliano, U.S. Navy American History

DRAFT AGENDA – McMULLEN NHS 2017 Session 7 (Classroom 5) Session 7 (Classroom 7) Literature and Naval Affairs Hidden Aspects of Allied Naval Cooperation during the Early Cold War Chair: Michael Flynn, U.S. Naval Academy Chair: Richard Gimblett, Naval Command, Ottawa, Canada “Lord Byron Aboard Old Ironsides” Noah Comet, U.S. Naval Academy “A Re-Assessment of the Royal Canadian Navy’s Master Blockhead Goes to Sea: A Glimpse into the 1948 Northern Voyages into Hudson’s Bay and its Experiences of Midshipman Frederick Marryat” Impact on Allied Anti-Submarine Warfare” Marti Klein, California State University Isabel Campbell, Directorate of History and Fullerton Heritage, National Defence Headquarters, Canada “Who the Hell Cleared This?: The Reagan Administration and The Hunt for Red October” “The Alliance within the Alliance: CANUKUS Naval Standardization and NATO in the Early Benjamin Griffin, U.S. Cold War” Comment: Herb Gilliland, U.S. Naval Academy Corbin Williamson, Air War College “Into the New Cold War Frontier: American and Session 7 (Classroom 6) Canadian Naval Cooperation in the Arctic During the Early Cold War, 1946-1965” Naval Efforts in the Spanish-American Wars of Independence Jason Delaney, Directorate of History and Heritage, National Defence Headquarters, Chair: Lawrence Clayton, University of Alabama Canada Comment: Richard Gimblett, Naval Command, Ottawa, Canada “The Capture of the Spanish Navy Brig ‘Limeño,’ 1801” Jorge Ortiz-Sotelo, Asociación de Historia Maritima y Naval Iberoamericana, Peru “William Brown y el Temor a la Independencia” Sabrina Guerra, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador “The French Navy and Hispaniola, 1815-1825: Restoring Trade and Securing Compensations through Intimidation” Alexandre Sheldon-Duplaix, Service Historique de la Defense, France Comment: Larrie Ferreiro, George Mason University