Event Highlights

• Examined evidence for and against a Japanese midget-submarine attack at Pearl Harbor

• Included a roundtable on whether there was a fifth midget-submarine attack

• Offered a workshop on using models to assess naval battles

• Featured book and wargame signings

• Included USS Midway walkabouts

Topics Included

• The Pearl Harbor attack and Japanese midget submarines

• Assessing the battles of Trafalgar, Midway, and Guadalcanal

• The Russian cruiser Askold

• ServRon 10 at Ulithi

• The Spanish Civil War at sea

• Soviet and Chinese naval challenges to American supremacy

• World War II naval narratives and the New Georgia Campaign

• The 10th Fleet and the evolution of antisubmarine warfare

• The Battle of Dogger Bank

• The U.S. Marine Corps in the Gilded Age

• U.S. Atlantic Fleet operations before Pearl Harbor

• Alfred Thayer Mahan and his influence

Distinguished Speakers

• John Rodgaard, naval historian and author

• Alan D. Zimm, retired Navy commander and author of The Attack on Pearl Harbor 

• Dave Miller, independent researcher writing about the destruction of USS Arizona 

• Terry McKearney, operations research specialist

• Stephen McLaughlin, author of Russian and Soviet Battleships

• Evan Mawdsley, author of The War for the Seas and Supremacy at Sea

• Vincent O’Hara, naval historian and author

• Trent Hone, Chair of Strategic Studies at Marine Corps University

• Hal M. Friedman, historian and professor of modern history

• …and other distinguished historians, authors, and naval experts.