The New York Military Affairs Symposium hosts Why Pearl Harbor?  Behind Japan’s Planning on December 6, at 7pm. Led by Theodore F. Cook, Jr., from William Paterson University of New Jersey / NYMAS Board. 

NYMAS talks are free and open to the public. NYMAS is supported in part by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities.

The New York Military Affairs Symposium hosts Rogue Justice: The Making of the Security State on November 15, at 7pm. Led by Karen J. Greenberg, Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School. 

NYMAS talks are free and open to the public. NYMAS is supported in part by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities.

The New York Military Affairs Symposium hosts The Allure of Battle: How Wars Are Won and Lost on November 1, at 7pm. Led by Cathal J. Nolan, from Boston University. 

NYMAS talks are free and open to the public. NYMAS is supported in part by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities.

The New York Military Affairs Symposium hosts Obama, Trump, and the American Military: A Tale of Differences and Similarities on October 18, at 7pm. Led by Richard H. Kohn, Professor Emeritus of History and Peace, War, and Defense University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

NYMAS talks are free and open to the public. NYMAS is supported in part by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities.

The New York Military Affairs Symposium hosts War and Peace: FDR’s Final Odyssey | D-Day to Yalta, 1943-1945 on October 4, at 7pm. Led by Nigel Hamilton, from University of Massachusetts, Boston. 

NYMAS talks are free and open to the public. NYMAS is supported in part by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities.

The New York Military Affairs Symposium hosts Violence and Sex: An Uncensored History of War on September 20, at 7pm. Led by Eugenia Kiesling, U.S. Military Academy at West Point. 

NYMAS talks are free and open to the public. NYMAS is supported in part by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities.

The New York Military Affairs Symposium hosts How Men Thought, Fought and Survived in Civil War Armies / 3 Union Soldiers in the Overland Campaign on September 6, at 7pm. Led by Peter Carmichael, Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College. 

NYMAS talks are free and open to the public. NYMAS is supported in part by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities.

Heroic Food wants to engage the Hudson Valley community in a Meet & Greet mixer on October 25 from 7-9pm. 

Since the United States’ military draft ended in 1973, the call of national service has fallen on a more concentrated group of Americans. Today the all-volunteer force is comprised of less than 1 percent of the total U.S. population — an often-overlooked class of citizens that has carried the burden of fighting the nation’s war on terror for nearly two decades. Is the present system fair? How would a return to mandatory conscription affect the country’s opinion of America’s involvement abroad? In the wake of all combat-arms jobs opening to women, should they also be required to register with the Selective Service? On the 18th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, historians, academics and journalists will come together to discuss all these issues and more. 

Lauren Katzenberg, the editor of The Times’s At War channel, will moderate a conversation on October 7, 7pm, with C. J. Chivers, Pulitzer Prize-winning Times journalist and Marine veteran; Elizabeth D. Samet, a historian, author and professor of English at the United States Military Academy; and Dennis Laich, a retired Army major general and the executive director of the All-Volunteer Force Forum.

Get tickets here. Veterans receive a discount with code NYT. 

Track the event and discussion on Facebook.

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