Harmon Memorial Lectures in Military History

Die Harmon Memorial Lectures i​n Military History (auch: Harmon Memorial Lecture Series) s​ind eine renommierte Vorlesungsreihe z​ur Förderung v​on Militärgeschichte a​m Department o​f History d​er United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) i​n Colorado Springs, Colorado. Namensgeber i​st Lieutenant General Hubert R. Harmon, d​em ersten Superintendenten d​er Hochschule. Sie findet – m​it wenigen Ausnahmen – s​eit 1959 mindestens einmal jährlich statt. Führende Militärhistoriker[1] werden d​urch ein international besetztes Gremium v​on Historikern u​nd der Universitätsverwaltung ausgesucht. Erster Lecturer w​ar der US-amerikanische Historiker Wesley F. Craven.

Lecturer
  • 1959: Wesley F. Craven: Why Military History
  • 1960: T. Harry Williams: The Military Leadership of the North and the South
  • 1961: Louis Morton: Pacific Command: A Study in Interservice Relations
  • 1962: William R. Emerson: Operation POINTBLANK: A Tale of Bombers and Fighters
  • 1963: Frank E. Vandiver: John J. Pershing and the Anatomy of Leadership
  • 1964: Maurice Matloff: Mr. Roosevelt's Three Wars: FDR as War Leader
  • 1965: Gordon A. Craig: Problems of Coalition Warfare: The Military Alliance Against Napoleon, 1813–1814
  • 1966: Peter Paret: Innovation and Reform in Warfare
  • 1967: Michael Howard: Strategy and Policy in Twentieth-Century Warfare
  • 1968: Forrest C. Pogue: George C. Marshall: Global Commander
  • 1969: Elting E. Morison: The War of Ideas: The United States Navy, 1870–1890
  • 1970: Theodore Ropp: The Historical Development of Contemporary Strategy / Sir John Winthrop Hackett Junior: The Military in the Service of the State
  • 1971: Martin Blumenson: The Many Faces of George S. Patton, Jr.
  • 1972: Russell F. Weigley: The End of Militarism
  • 1973: Irving Brinton Holley: An Enduring Challenge: The Problem of Air Force Doctrine
  • 1974: John W. Shy: The American Revolution Today
  • 1975: Edward M. Coffman: The Young Officer in the Old Army
  • 1976: Robert M. Utley: The Contribution of the Frontier to the American Military Tradition
  • 1977: Philip A. Crowi: The Strategist's Short Catechism: Six Questions Without Answers
  • 1978: Noel F. Parrish: The Influence of Air Power upon Historians
  • 1980: Richard A. Preston: Perspectives in the History of Military Education and Professionalism / Iriye Akira: Western Perceptions and Asian Realities
  • 1981: D. Clayton James: Command Crisis: MacArthur and the Korean War
  • 1982: John M. Blum: United Against: American Culture and Society During World War II
  • 1984: Don Higginbotham: George Washington and George Marshall: Some Reflections on the American Military Tradition / Harold C. Deutsch: Military Planning and National Policy: German Overtures to Two World Wars
  • 1985: Steven T. Ross: Napoleon and Maneuver Warfare
  • 1986: John L. H. Keep: Soldiering in Tsarist Russia
  • 1987: David MacIsaac: Leadership in the Old Air Force: A Postgraduate Assignment
  • 1988: Sir Harry Hinsley: The Intelligence Revolution: A Historical Perspective
  • 1989: Richard Overy: Air Power, Armies, and the War in the West, 1940
  • 1990: George C. Herring: 'Cold Blood': LBJ's Conduct of Limited War in Vietnam
  • 1991: Joyce C. Lebra: Postwar Perspectives on the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere (verstarb bevor er die Vorlesung halten konnte)
  • 1992: John Edward Wilz: United States Policy Vis-a-vis Korea, 1850–1950
  • 1994: David Kahn: Codebreaking and the Battle of the Atlantic / William Hardy McNeill: The Structure of Military-Technical Transformation
  • 1995: Gerhard Ludwig Weinberg: The Place of World War II in History
  • 1996: Dave R. Palmer: Shaping Junior Officer Values In The Twentieth Century: A Foundation For A Comparative Perspective
  • 1997: Stephen L. McFarland: Battles Not Fought: The Creation of an Independent Air Force
  • 1998: Warren F. Kimball: Fighting with Allies': The Hand-Care and Feeding of the Anglo-American Special Relationship
  • 1999: Richard H. Kohn: Threats to Civilian Control of the Military in the United States Today: An Historical Perspective
  • 2000: Robert C. Doyle: Making Experience Count: American POW Narratives from the Colonial Wars to Vietnam
  • 2001: John F. Guilmartin, Jr.: The Aircraft that Decided World War II: Aeronautical Engineering and Grand Strategy, 1933–1945, The American Dimension
  • 2002: Victor Davis Hanson: The West at War and Burdens of the Past
  • 2003: Tom D. Crouch: Wright Brothers: Pattern for American Air and Space Power--Innovation and Legacy of Ingenuity of the WINGED CRUSADE
  • 2004: Shannon E. French: The Code of the Warrior: The Values and Ideals of Warrior Cultures Throughout History
  • 2005: Dennis Showalter: Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century
  • 2006: Roger D. Launius: National Security, Space, and the Course of Recent U.S. History
  • 2007: Mark Clodfelter: Matching Mountains and Fulfilling Missions: One Graduate's Assessment of USAFA's True Value
  • 2009: Robert A. Doughty: France and the Armistice of 1918
  • 2010: Phillip S. Meilinger: Hubert R. Harmon and the Air Force Academy: The Man and the Issues / Holger H. Herwig: The Daemon of Geopolitics: Karl Haushofer, Rudolf Hess, and Adolf Hitler
  • 2012: Grant T. Hammond: On The Making of History: John Boyd and American Security
  • 2013: Rick Atkinson: Eisenhower Rising: The Ascent of an Uncommon Man
  • 2014: Andrew Bacevich: Reflections on the Professional Military Ethic / Gregory J. W. Urwin: Abandoned to the Arts & Arms of the Enemy: Placing the 1781 Virginia Campaign in its Racial and Political Context

Literatur
  • Harry R. Borowski: The Harmon Memorial Lectures in Military History, 1959–1987: A Collection of the First Thirty Harmon Lectures Given at the United States Air Force Academy (= Special Studies). Mit einem Vorwort von Winfield W. Scott. Office of Air Force History, United States Air Force, Washington, D.C. 1988, ISBN 0-912799-58-7.

Einzelnachweise
  1. John E. Jessup: A Guide to the Study and Use of Military History. U.S. Center of Military History, 1979, ISBN 0-16-072360-4, S. 405.
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