Die Harmon Memorial Lectures in Military History (auch: Harmon Memorial Lecture Series) sind eine renommierte Vorlesungsreihe zur Förderung von Militärgeschichte am Department of History der United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Namensgeber ist Lieutenant General Hubert R. Harmon, dem ersten Superintendenten der Hochschule. Sie findet – mit wenigen Ausnahmen – seit 1959 mindestens einmal jährlich statt. Führende MilitärhistorikerJohn 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. werden durch ein international besetztes Gremium von Historikern und der Universitätsverwaltung ausgesucht. Erster Lecturer war der US-amerikanische Historiker Wesley Frank Craven.
Lecturer 1959: Wesley Frank 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.
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