2018 SMH Annual Meeting Call for Papers Young Scholars CFP & Submission Portal Conference Program Hotel Information & Reservations Conference Registration Keynote Address K-12 Teacher-Scholars Day Community Day Passes Co-Sponsors Submission Portal Book Exhibit Things To Do Places To Eat All Things Bourbon Getting Around Downtown Louisville Contacts Conference Program 85th Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History Landscapes of War and Peace April 5 - 8, 2018, Louisville, Kentucky All Thu Fri Sat Sun Reset Enter presenter name or session title Search Thursday, April 5th, 2018 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Room: Ballroom A Book Exhibit Setup 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM Room: Willis Chinese Military History Society Meeting David A. Graff (Meeting Organizer), Kansas State University 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM Room: Nunn SMH Executive Board Lunch & Meeting 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM Room: Meeting/Conference Registration, 2nd Floor, Suite Tower Conference Registration 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Room: Frazier History Museum - 829 W. Main St., Louisville, KY 40202 Opening Reception (Open to registered conference attendees; Buses leaves hotel front door every 10 min between 5:30pm-6:10pm; returns from the Frazier at 7:45pm, 8:15, 8:45, 9:00; 9:15) 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Room: Segell Award Winners Dinner (Invitation Only) Friday, April 6th, 2018 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM Room: Sampson Journal of Military History - Editorial Breakfast (Invitation Only) 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Room: Meeting/Conference Registration, 2nd Floor, Suite Tower Conference Registration 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Room: Ballroom A Book Exhibit 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Room: Breathitt Learn and Adapt: Defeating the Submarine Menace in the Battle of the Atlantic, 1940-1943 Frank Blazich, National Museum of American History Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Red Epaulets and Real Bombs: Civil Air Patrol Coastal Patrol Operations, 1942-1943 Corbin Williamson, Air War College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: U.S. Navy Observers and the 1942 German Submarine Campaign off North America Richard Hammond, King's College London Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Inter and Intra-Theatre Learning and British Coastal Air Power during the Second World War Ryan Peeks, Naval History and Heritage Command Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Room: Brown Learning Across Peace and War in the United States Navy of the Early 20th Century Trent C. Hone, Independent Scholar Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Exploring the Options: The Development of U.S. Navy Tactical Doctrine, 1913-1923 Hal M. Friedman, Henry Ford College Participant Role: Commentator Kevin Delamer, Naval War College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Resilience of Mahan: Educating Fleet Leaders Randy Papadopoulos, Department of the Navy Participant Role: Chair Laurence M. Burke, National Air and Space Museum Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Starting Over: U.S. Naval Aviation after the First World War Room: Carroll Ford The Staff Ride: Learning from the Landscapes of War Michael F. Morris, Texas A&M University Participant Role: Moderator Timothy M. Cullen, Air University Participant Role: Discussant Brian D. Koehr, Naval War College Participant Role: Discussant Eric R. Price, Army University Participant Role: Discussant Wayne A. Sinclair, Marine Corps University Participant Role: Discussant Grace Kim, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies Participant Role: Discussant Room: Stopher To Honor Their Service and Sacrifice: Federally-Sponsored Commemoration Efforts and the American Veteran Sarah A. Barksdale, Department of Defense Participant Role: Discussant Andrew Ringlee, Department of Defense Participant Role: Discussant James Wright, Dartmouth College Participant Role: Chair and Moderator Eric Marr, American Battle Monuments Commission Participant Role: Discussant Room: Coe Negotiating and Observing War Mark Calhoun, Command and General Staff College Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Ian Ona Johnson, Yale University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Army of Peace: The Plan to Arm the United Nations and the Origins of NATO Jacopo Pili, University of Leeds Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Britain and Germany in the Reports of Fascist Era Italian Military Attachés Sarah C. Melville, Clarkson University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Starting Wars in the Ancient Near East Room: Combs Chandler Ancient Strategy in the Near East: From Alexander to Heraclius Everett L. Wheeler, Duke University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Rome vs. Iran: Illusions and Realities in a Superpower Rivalry Fred Naiden, University of North Carolina Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The War Aims of Alexander the Great Paul Johstono, The Citadel Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Hellenistic Strategy, Limited Warfare, and the Rise of Rome John Hosler, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College Participant Role: Chair Alex Roland, Duke University Participant Role: Commentator Room: French Fighting with Allies: Anglo-American Overt and Covert Intervention in the Greater Middle East in the Early Cold War Mary Kathryn Barbier, Mississippi State University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Peaceful Cold War: Freya Stark, the Brotherhood of Freedom, and Cairo, 1945-1954 Richard Garlitz, University of Tennessee at Martin Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Point Four and the Mossadegh Government in Iran: A Reappraisal Richard V. Damms, Mississippi State University - Meridian Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: You are doing a Suez on me': Eisenhower, Macmillan, and the Conundrum of Anglo-American Military Cooperation in the Middle East after Suez Robert Thomas Davis II, Command and General Staff College Participant Role: Chair Dennis E. Showalter, Colorado College Participant Role: Commentator Room: Nunn Cultural Landscapes of War: Commemorating the First World War in Africa, America, and Australia Jennifer M. Zoebelein, Kansas State University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "A Band Stand for Potomac Park": The D.C. War Memorial and the Cultural Landscape of the National Mall Timothy Clarke, University of Waterloo Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "This Maniacal Insistence": The Mombasa Native War Memorial and Whiteness in Kenya, 1925-1931 William Allison, Georgia Southern University Participant Role: Commentator Roger Lee, Australian War Memorial Participant Role: Chair Steve Marti, Independent Scholar Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: "Suitable to the Climate of Australia": The Slouch Hat and the Environment in Australian Commemorations of the First World War Room: Segell Failed Military Leadership through the Ages: Nicias, Bedford Forrest and Lewis Hyde Brereton Christopher M. Rein, Army University Press Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: 'He is Nothing More Than a Good Raider': The Failed Military Career of Nathan Bedford Forrest John Jennings, U.S. Air Force Academy Participant Role: Commentator Jim Tucci, Air University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Nicias and the Failed Athenian Expedition to Sicily John Abbatiello, U.S. Air Force Academy Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Lewis Hyde Brereton: Controversial Airman Courtney Short, U.S. Army Forces Command Participant Role: Chair 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Coffee Break in the Grand Hall 10:15 AM - 12:30 PM Room: Filson Historical Society - 1310 S. 3rd St., Louisville, KY 40208 Tour: Filson Historical Society (Bus departs at 10.15am in front of hotel and returns at 12.30pm) 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Room: Breathitt Unfamiliar Ground? Displacement and Movement through Wartime Spaces John Curatola, Command and General Staff College Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Eugenie M. Buchan, Independent Historian Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: A Sudden Change of Location: Burma and the Flying Tigers June Mastan, University at Albany, SUNY Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The United States and Canada: Porous Spaces, Fluid Citizenship, and the First World War Gabriel Moss, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Roman Mountain Warfare: Environmental Perspectives on Imperial Control Room: Brown Insurgency, Decolonization, and Foreign Aid in Vietnam David Bath, University of Mississippi Participant Role: Chair and Commentator Martin G. Clemis, Valley Forge Military College Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Agrowar: Rice and Irregular Warfare in South Vietnam Xiaobing Li, University of Central Oklahoma Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Building Ho's Army: Chinese Military Assistance to North Vietnam Kevin Li, Yale University Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: Violent Entrepreneurship as Political Practice: Empowering the Binh Xuyen during the Decolonization of Vietnam Room: Carroll Ford The Sensory Landscapes of War Mary Louise Roberts, University of Wisconsin - Madison Participant Role: Presenter Participant's Paper Title: The Sensescape of the Second World War: How Infantrymen in the ETO Made Sense of the War Jennifer Keene, Chapman University Participant Role: Chair Lisa M. Mundey, University of St. Thomas Participant Role: Presenter Participant's