***FINAL*** AGENDA (Rev 11, 29 August) – McMULLEN NHS 2017 Thursday, 14 September 2017 “U.S. Marine Advisors and the Vietnamese Marines, 1972” Registration Charles Melson, Marine Corps History Division Hart Room, Mahan Hall (0700-1530) “Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan: The MARSOC Mission” Continental Breakfast/Refreshments Frank Kalesnik, U.S. Special Operations Command Hart Room, Mahan Hall (0700-1500) Comment: Nathan Packard, Marine Corps University Plenary Welcome Session (0800-0845) Auditorium, Mahan Hall Session 1C (SA G14) The Wooden Walls: Britain and the Invasion Session 1 (0900-1045) Threat, 1793-1805 (Supported by the 1805 Society) Session 1A (Room: SA111) Chair: John Hattendorf, U.S. Naval War College Antebellum & Civil War Naval Affairs “The Quota Acts: The Politics of Naval Service Chair: Sylvia Jordan, U.S. Naval Academy and the Threat of French Invasion” J. Ross Dancy, Sam Houston State “A Crisis of Identity” University Roger Bailey, University of Maryland “Splintering the Wooden Wall: French Invasion “You are in the Navy Now! The Union Navy and Attempts, 1796-1797” Contrabands in the Mississippi Valley, 1861-1865” James Davey, University of Exeter, UK Barbara Brooks Tomblin, Independent Scholar “Ireland and the Invasion Threat, 1803-1804” Evan Wilson, Yale University “The U.S. Naval Observatory: Preserving Scientific and Technological Excellence in Comment: John Hattendorf, U.S. Naval War Changing Times” College Jeffery Matsuura, Independent Scholar Session 1D (Room: SA106) Comment: Mary DeCredico, U.S. Naval Academy Evolution in the Great War Era: Fresh Session 1B (Room: SA113) Perspectives on Anglo-American Naval Strategy, Diplomacy, and Education Hearts and Minds in Difficult Times: Marine Chair: John Beeler, University of Alabama Counterinsurgency Operations of the Last 100 Years “Sharing the Trident?: The Development of Chair: Nathan Packard, Marine Corps University British and American Maritime Diplomacy, 1913- 1922” “Beating Around the Bush: Marine Louis Halewood, Merton College, Counterinsurgency Efforts in the Dominican University of Oxford Republic” Breanne Robertson, Marine Corps History Division 1 ***FINAL*** AGENDA (Rev 11, 29 August) – McMULLEN NHS 2017 “Lessons Learned: Royal Naval Air Service Anti- “Editing Naval Documents: A Case Study of the Submarine Warfare 1917-1918, the Naval Staff USS Indianapolis Project” Air Division and the Defeat of the U-Boats” Peter Luebke, NHHC Alexander Howlett, King’s College London Comment: Regina Akers, NHHC “Charting a New Course: The Knox-King-Pye Board and Naval Professional Education, 1919- 1923” Session 1G (Room: SA116) David Kohnen, U.S. Naval War College Naval Leadership in the Age of Sail Comment: John Beeler, University of Alabama Chair: Brian de Toy, Essential History Expeditions “Leadership in the Age of Revolution: Admiral Session 1E (Room: SA105) Louis Thomas Villaret-Joyeuse” Kenneth Johnson, Air Command and Staff The Great War Approaches College Chair: Chris Rentfrow, U.S. Naval Academy “CinC: The Leadership and Legacy of Vice- “To Build a Fleet: The Development of Battle Admiral Sir Alexander Cochrane, RN” Fleet Tactics and Composition in Britain and the Samantha Cavell, Southeastern Louisiana United States, 1898-1914” University Christopher Buckey, Independent Scholar “Commodore David Porter: A Study in Naval “Preparation for War: How Ready was the U.S. Leadership” Navy in 1917?” Cori Convertito, Key West Art and Joseph Kirschbaum, U.S. Government Historical Society Accountability Office Comment: Brian de Toy, Essential History “Embracing Foreign Entanglements: Woodrow Expeditions Wilson, John Pershing, William Sims” Nathan Wells, Quincy College Comment: Chris Rentfrow, U.S. Naval Academy Session 1F (Room: SA115) 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 2 ***FINAL*** AGENDA (Rev 11, 29 August) – McMULLEN NHS 2017 Session 2 (1100-1245) Session 2A (Room: SA111) Session 2C (SA G14) Sailors, Thinkers, and Statesmen: British Diverse Aspects of U.S. Naval Strategy, 1890- Maritime Power in the Age of Empire, 1750-1914 1937 Chair: Caitlin Gale, U.S. National Archives & (Supported by the Naval Order of the U.S.) Records Administration Chair: Michael T. McMaster, U.S. Naval War College, Monterey Program “Strategy and Law” Anna Brinkman, University of Warwick, “Taming the Titans: America’s Strategy to UK Counter Britain, Germany, and Japan, 1890- 1921” “The Reality of Practice: British ‘Grand Strategy’ Kenneth J. Hagan, U.S. Naval Academy, 1880-1905” Emeritus David Morgan-Owen, King’s College London “Evacuating Wartime Europe: The U.S. Navy’s Relief Operations for Overseas American “Sir Julian Elaborates His Strange Theory: Travelers, 1914-1917” Spenser Wilkinson’s Denunciation of Corbett’s Branden Little, Weber State University Principles of Maritime Strategy” Paul Ramsey, University of Calgary “The American Response to the Sinking of the USS Panay, December 1937” Comment: Andrew Lambert, King’s College Douglas Peifer, U.S. Air War College London Comment: Craig Symonds, U.S. Naval Academy, Session 2B (Room: SA113) Emeritus Naval History in the Ancient World Session 2D (Room: SA106) Chair: Kelcy Sagstetter, U.S. Naval Academy Wooden Ships and Iron Men: The Human “The Success of the Navy-Focused Allied Factor in Mid-19th Century Naval Operations Defensive Campaign of Greece, 480-479 BCE” Chair: Anna Gibson Holloway, SEARCH Inc. August Immel, U.S. Marine Corps “Derangement in Our Motive Power: The “Julius Caesar’s Use of Naval Assets, 49-45 BC” Troublesome Special Service Cruise of the U.S. Ilke Syvanne, University of Haifa, Israel Steam Frigate Merrimack” Stephen Kinnaman, Independent Scholar “D-Day in the Red Sea: Kaleb’s Invasion of the Kingdom of Himyar” “Leadership Makes the Difference at Mobile Bay” Jorit Wintjes, Julius-Maximilians- Christopher Kolakowski, The MacArthur Universität, Wurzberg Memorial Comment: Brannon Wheeler, U.S. Naval Academy “Leadership and Discipline on All the Oceans: The Cruise of the CSS Shenandoah” Dwight Hughes, Independent Scholar Comment: Anna Gibson Holloway, SEARCH Inc 3 ***FINAL*** AGENDA (Rev 11, 29 August) – McMULLEN NHS 2017 Session 2G (Room: SA116) Session 2E (Room: SA105) U.S. Naval Officers’ Careers in the Nineteenth In the Air and Ashore, World War I and the and Twentieth Centuries Interwar Years Chair: Jeffrey Seiken, U.S. Army Center of Chair: Benjamin Armstrong, U.S. Naval Academy Military History “The U.S. Navy and the Origins of Strategic “No Hope of Promotion: Careers of Forward Bombing” Officers in the U.S. Navy during the Antebellum Larry Burke, National Air and Space Era” Museum Michael J. Crawford, Naval History and Heritage Command “A Naval Service: Basic Officer Education in the Marine Corps 1823-1941” “Captain Richard H. Leigh: The Indispensable Jennifer L. Mazzara, Marine Corps Man” University Chris Martin, Naval History and Heritage Command Comment: Jonathan Chavanne, U.S. Naval Academy “An Institutional Asset: Admiral Harry E. Yarnell and the Rise of American Naval Power” Session 2F (Room: SA115) Frank Blazich, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Diverse Elements of World War II and the Pacific Comment: Jeffrey Seiken, U.S. Army Center of Chair: Matthew Dziennik, U.S. Naval Academy Military History “Here Are Your Ships, Uncle Sam: Shipbuilding in the Pacific Northwest During WWII” Katherine Macica, Loyola University McMullen Luncheon (1300-1430) Chicago Join us for lunch and remarks from Chief of Naval “A Notorious Undertaking? Admiral Harry Operations Admiral John Richardson and the Yarnell and the 1945 Naval Aviation Survey” presentation of the awards for the inaugural CNO’s Ryan Wadle, Air Command and Staff Naval History Essay Contest. (Previous registration College required.) “The Dawn of Joint and Combined Air Warfare: Location: Bo Coppage Room, Alumni Hall Henderson Field and the Cactus Air Force” Robert Poling, King’s College London Comment: Robert Love, U.S. Naval Academy 4 ***FINAL*** AGENDA (Rev 11, 29 August) – McMULLEN NHS 2017 Session 3 (1500-1650) Session 3C (SA113) Session 3A (Room: SA111) Shipboard Conflict in Mid-19th Century America The Royal Navy, Policy, and the Public Sphere, Chair: Mary DeCredico, U.S. Naval Academy 1865-1918 Chair: John Mitcham, Duquesne University “Honor on the High Seas: Dueling in the Antebellum Navy” “Selling the Royal Navy to the American Public: Laura June Davis, Southern Utah University British Propaganda to the U.S. During the Great War” “An Un-American Execution: Outrage, American Rebecca Matzke, Ripon College Identity, and Public Response to the Affair of the USS Somers”” “This Mad and Monstrous Proposal: The Liberal Margaret Stack, University of Connecticut Party and the 1889 Naval Defence Act” Peter Keeling, University of Kent, UK “Palmetto Privateer: The Jefferson Davis and Outfitting Warships within 1861 Confederate “From Gladstone to Fisher: the Rhetoric and Charleston” Substance of Liberal Naval Reform, 1865-1910” Charles Wexler, Rowan University John Beeler, University of Alabama Comment: Matt Semple, U.S. Naval Academy Comment: John Mitcham, Duquesne University Session 3D (Room: SA106) Session 3B (Room: SA G14) Naval War on the Periphery: New Topics in the South American Naval History Naval History of World War I Chair: Daniel