Received this and thought I would post it for anyone who is interested, not sure what is needed to attend, membership, a desire for lengthy academic discussion, a desire to see Virginia.... [BECforces] Commonwealth-Related panels at 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society for Military History Society for Military History 2012 Annual Meeting Program 11-13 May in Crystal City, VA Society for Military Historians 2012 Conference | Just another WordPress site http://smh2012.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/SMH-2012-Program-4-2.pdf Uphill Both Ways: The Politics of Canadian Strategy in the Second World War Chair: John MacFarlane, Canadian Forces, National Defence Headquarters Canada and the Struggle to Understand Grand Strategy, 1939-1945 David J. Bercuson, University of Calgary Canadian Military Strategy and Civil-Military Relations, 1939-1941: A Case Study in Strategic Dialogue Paul D. Dickson, Canadian Department of National Defence Coming Unhinged? The Consequences of Canadian Operational, Strategic and Political Incongruity, 1943 Christine E. Leppard, University of Calgary Comment: Galen R. Perras, University of Ottawa When All Roads led to Athens: The Machinations and Motivations behind Italian, British, and German Involvement in the Greek Campaign, 1940-1941 Chair: Frederick Schneid, High Point University Britain and the Dominions Craig Stockings, University of New South Wales Comment: Jeffrey Grey, University of New South Wales Neutrality, but for the British L.B. Wilson III, University of Southern Mississippi South Atlantic Shams: The Stratagems and Psychological Operations in the Falklands War Mark Mills, Norwich University The Gallieni-Lyautey Method—the Political Role in Theory and in Practice Mike Finch, Pembroke College, University of Oxford “Butcher and Bolt”? Callwell and the Politics of Victorian Small Wars” Daniel Whittingham, Kings College “Now I am Really King of Kabul”: Lord Roberts, Occupation and the Problem of Military Authority Rob Johnson, University of Oxford Comment: Ian F.W. Beckett, University of Kent “A Heavy Burden”? Post-war Experiences of Disfigured Great War Veterans of Britain and Dominions Kerry Neale, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defense Force Academy Lord George Germain and the British Conduct of the Revolutionary War Andrew O’Shaughnessy, University of Virginia The British Commandants of New York City and the Formation of Occupation Policy during the American War of Independence, 1776-1783 John Roche, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Canada in the Great War Chair: Nikolas Gardner, Royal Military College of Canada Mentoring the Canadian Corps: Imperial Officers and the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918 Douglas E. Delaney, Royal Military College of Canada Returning Fire: Re-examining the Canadian Military Response during the Anti-Conscription Riots in Quebec City, March-April 1918 Serge Durflinger, University of Ottawa Ally Sloper’s Cavalry: Mechanical Transport Drivers in the Canadian Army Service Corps, 1914-18 Andrew Iarocci, University of Western Ontario Comment: Nikolas Gardner The Sub-Roman Iron Swords of Ireland: Roman-Irish or Irish-Roman Swords? David Beougher, U.S. Military Academy Canadian Military Thinking during the Early Cold War Chair: Randall Wakelam, Royal Military College of Canada Arguing the Unthinkable: Ideas and Debates on Atomic Warfare in the Canadian Army Journal, 1947-1965 Andrew B. Godefroy, Canadian Army Directorate of Land Concepts and Designs Canadian Trenchards, Douhets, Mitchells or Wardens? Early Cold War RCAF Thinking and Writing on Air Power and Doctrine Richard Goette, Royal Military College of Canada and Canadian Forces College Comment: Howard Coombs, Royal Military College of Canada and Commander, 33 Canadian Brigade Group British Experiences of Irregular Warfare, 1919-1960 (Papers Pre- circulated) Chair: Robert Johnson, University of Oxford “Police Murder Produces Reprisals”: The Rhetoric of Extralegal Punishment in the War against Irish Independence, 1920-21 David Leeson, Laurentian University Lessons Learned by SOE from the Irish War of Independence Aaron Linderman, Texas A&M University The Haganah and SOE: Allies and Enemies Jacob Stoil, Worcester College, University of Oxford An Examination of the Influence of Mao Zedong on British Counterinsurgency Francis Grice, King’s College 74 Days Under the Argentine Flag: The Experiences of Occupation During the Falklands/Malvinas War Alejandro L. Corbacho, Universidad del CENA The Soldier’s Gaze: The First Anglo-Maratha War and Military Mentality in the British East India Company Christina C. Welsch, Princeton University The Whig Myth Realized: The Triumph of British Civil Society over the Army, 1819-1914 Ian D.T. Hopper, Brandeis University Allied Operational Art in the Hundred Days, 1918 Nick Lloyd, King's College London at the Joint Services Command College The Road from Kandahar: The Politics of Retention and Withdrawal in Afghanistan, 1880 Ian F.W. Beckett, University of Kent “We are Not Amused!” Military Desires, Royal Patronage and Political Necessity-the Intrigue Surrounding the Ending of the First Boer War of 1881 Stephen Manning, University of Exeter The Direction of the Whole of the Forces Available: The Disputed Spheres of Military and Civil Authority in the Eastern Cape (1879), Natal (1879) and Zululand (1888) John Laband, Wilfrid Laurier University Sacrificing Sir Hew: Hew Dalrymple’s Military Governorship of Gibraltar and the British Origins of the Peninsular War, 1806-08 Jason Musteen, United States Military Academy Economic Warfare, the Blockade and the First World War: The Anglo- American Dimension Chair: Dennis Showalter, Colorado College The Anglo-American Antagonism: The Implications of Economic Warfare, August to December 1914 Nicholas Lambert, University of Maryland Organizing the Americans: British Purchasing in the USA, 1914-17 Keith Neilson, Royal Military College of Canada Neutral America? The Textile Alliance, the Blockade and Anglo- American Strategic Relations 1914-1917 Greg Kennedy, King’s College London at the Joint Services Command and Staff College Comment: Dennis Showalter Afghanistan, Iraq and the Challenges for Modern British Counter- Insurgency Andrew Mumford, University of Nottingham Shafer Revisited: The Three Great Oughts of Winning the Hearts and Minds: Reconstructing the British and Dutch COIN Experience in Helmand and Uruzgan, 2006-2010 Mirjam Grandia, Netherlands Defense Academy 27 August 1979- A Day that Changed the War in Northern Ireland Beth Crumley, U.S. Marine Corps "Loyalty and Zeal": The use of the Catholic Irish Brigade in the British Service, 1794-1798 Ciaran McDonnell, National University of Ireland "A sorry tale of patriotic degeneration”: Military Service Pensions for Veterans of theIrish Revolution (1916-1923) Marie Coleman, Queen's University Belfast Politicals on the Frontier: The Evolution of British Governance of the North-West Frontier of India Through War and Peace, 1839-1939 Chair: Bruce Vandervort, Virginia Military Institute Britain’s Political Officers: Strategic Necessity and Strategic Liability, 1839-1849 Huw J. Davies, King’s College, London “Winning hearts and minds”: The Sandeman System and Frontier Governmentality B.D. Hopkins, The George Washington University The Political Department and the “Tribal Focus,” 1921-1939 Christian Tripodi, King's College, London Ascent of a Nation: The Politics of Canadian-American Defence Cooperation Chair: David Bercuson, University of Calgary George C. Marshall: Soldier, Diplomat, No Friend of Canada? Marshall and Canada in World War II Galen Perras, University of Ottawa A Very Practical Requirement: Under-Ice Operations in the Canadian Arctic, 1960-1986 Adam Lajeunesse, University of Calgary Independence Day? Britain, the USA and the Assertion of Canadian Nationhood, 1940-1941 Abraham Roof, University of Calgary British Counter-Insurgency in Ireland Chair: John Broom, Norwich University “Defending Ireland from the Irish”—The British Reaction to Transatlantic Fenianism, 1864-67 Jerome Devitt, The King's Hospital School Comment: John Broom
Wayne, what a great range of subjects! A bit too far from home for me, even if it is in a nice location.
Wayne, No sign of Terry Copp or Jack Granatstein? Cheers from the home of the 1967 Stanley Cup Champions.
Looks very interesting, but the distance is a bit great for me. Are you going to publish any of the papers? Mark
