The Department of History, United
States Air Force Academy, is the point of contact for the
Superintendent's oldest
and most prestigious lecture series at the United States
Air Force Academy. The purpose is twofold: to promote a
greater knowledge of military history in the United
States and abroad, and to stimulate a lifelong
interest among cadets in their
professional subject.
Each year a committee of
internationally known historians and Academy
representatives select an outstanding military historian, or a first-rate scholar
from a closely related field, who is invited to present
a lecture on a subject of his or her
choice within broadly construed field of military
history. In keeping
with the purpose of the series, the
lecture is published and distributed to leading scholars
and libraries throughout the
world.
These lectures are known collectively
as the "Harmon Memorial Lectures in Military History,"
in memory of the accomplishments
of the late Lieutenant General Hubert R. Harmon, the
first Superintendent of the Academy. General Harmon's lifelong personal interest in
military history makes it particularly appropriate
that he be honored in this way.
Number One:
"Why Military History"
by W. Frank Craven
1959
Number Two:
"The Military Leadership of the North and the South"
by T. Harry Williams
1960
Number Three:
"Pacific Command: A Study in Interservice Relations"
by Louis Morton
1961
Number Four:
"Operation POINTBLANK: A Tale of Bombers and Fighters"
by William R. Emerson
1962
Number Five:
"John J. Pershing and the Anatomy of Leadership"
by Frank E. Vandiver
1963
Number Six:
"Mr. Roosevelt's Three Wars: FDR as War Leader"
by Maurice Matloff
1964
Number Seven:
"Problems of Coalition Warfare: The Military Alliance
Against Napoleon, 1813 - 1814"
by Gordon A. Craig
1965
Number Eight:
"Innovation and Reform in Warfare"
by Peter Paret
1966
Number Nine:
"Strategy and Policy in Twentieth-Century Warfare"
by Michael Howard
1967
Number Ten:
"George C. Marshall: Global Commander"
by Forrest C. Pogue
1968
Number Eleven:
"The War of Ideas: The United States Navy, 1870-1890"
by Elting E. Morison
1969
Number Twelve:
"The Historical Development of Contemporary Strategy"
by Theodore Ropp
1970
Number Thirteen:
"The Military in the Service of the State"
by General Sir John Winthrop Hackett
1970
Number Fourteen:
"The Many Faces of George S. Patton, Jr."
by Martin Blumenson
1971
Number Fifteen:
"The End of Militarism"
by Russell E. Weigley
1972
Number Sixteen:
"An Enduring Challenge: The Problem of Air Force
Doctrine"
by I. B. Holley, Jr.
1973
Number Seventeen:
"The American Revolution Today"
by John W. Shy
1974
Number Eighteen:
"The Young Officer in the Old Army"
by Edward M. Coffman
1975
Number Ninteen:
"The Contribution of the Frontier to the American
Military Tradition"
by Robert M. Utley
1976
Number Twenty:
"The Strategist's Short Catechism: Six Questions Without
Answers"
by Philip A. Crowi
1977
Number Twenty-One:
"The Influence of Air Power upon Historians"
by Noel F. Parrish
1978
Number Twenty-Two:
"Perspectives in the History of Military Education and
Professionalism"
by Richard A. Preston
1980
Number Twenty-Three:
"Western Perceptions and Asian Realities"
by Akira Iriye
1980
Number Twenty-Four:
"Command Crisis: MacArthur and the Korean War,"
by D. Clayton James
1981
Number Twenty-Five:
"United Against: American Culture and Society During
World War II"
by John M. Blum
1982
Number Twenty-Six:
"George Washington and George Marshall: Some Reflections
on the American Military Tradition"
by Don Higginbotham
1984
Numbers Twenty-Seven:
"Military Planning and National Policy: German Overtures
to Two World Wars"
by Harold C. Deutsch
1984
Number Twenty-Eight:
"Napoleon and Maneuver Warfare"
by Steven T. Ross
1985
Number Twenty-Nine:
"Soldiering in Tsarist Russia"
by John L. H. Keep
1986
Number Thirty:
"Leadership in the Old Air Force: A Postgraduate
Assignment"
by David MacIsaac
1987
Number Thirty-One:
"The Intelligence Revolution: A Historical Perspective"
by Sir Harry Hinsley
1988
Number Thirty-Two:
"Air Power, Armies, and the War in the West, 1940"
by R. J. Overy
1989
Number Thirty-Three:
"'Cold Blood': LBJ's Conduct of Limited War in Vietnam"
by George C. Herring
1990
Number Thirty-Four: "Postwar
Perspectives on the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity
Sphere"
by Joyce C. Lebra (who passed away
before the lecture)
1991
Number Thirty-Five:
"United States Policy Vis-a-vis Korea, 1850-1950"
by John Edward Wilz
1992
Number Thirty-Six:
"Codebreaking and the Battle of the Atlantic"
by David Kahn
1994
Number Thirty-Seven:
"The Structure of Military-Technical Transformation"
by William H. McNeill
1994
Number Thirty-Eight:
"The Place of World War II in History"
by Gerhard L. Weinberg
1995
Number Thirty-Nine:
"Shaping Junior Officer Values In The Twentieth Century: A Foundation For A Comparative Perspective"
by Dave R. Palmer
1996
Number Forty:
"Battles Not Fought: The Creation of an Independent Air
Force"
by Stephen L. McFarland
1997
Number Forty-One:
"Fighting with Allies': The Hand-Care and Feeding of
the Anglo-American Special Relationship"
by Warren F. Kimball
1998
Number Forty-Two:
"Threats to Civilian Control of the Military in the
United States Today: An Historical Perspective"
by Richard H. Kohn
1999
Number Forty-Three:
"Making Experience Count: American POW Narratives from
the Colonial Wars to Vietnam"
by Robert C. Doyle
2000
Number Forty-Four:
"The
Aircraft that Decided World War II: Aeronautical
Engineering and Grand Strategy, 1933-1945, The American
Dimension"
by John F. Guilmartin, Jr.
2001
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