Announcements and Events
WORKSHOP
NATO Mountain Warfare Center of Excellence (MW COE) Lessons Learned Workshop, 2-5 Dec 2024, Slovenia
The NATO Mountain Warfare Centre of Excellence (MW COE) in Slovenia will host a Lessons Learned Workshop, dedicated to the topic of Current and Future Security Threats, December 2-5, 2024. The workshop's concept involves presenting case studies of recent and ongoing light/mountain infantry-oriented operations and conflicts (such as Ukraine and Gaza). In its second part, a diverse group of military personnel will come together to share their experiences and insights regarding possible development of threats from different perspectives and domains (cyber /air / land).
This workshop will serve as a platform for participants to learn from each other's experiences and develop innovative approaches to address future threats, particularly in mountainous environments. Also, this event will support the NATO MW COE Multi-Domain Operations Concept research phase.
If you are working on a study of recent light or mountain infantry operations and are interested in participating, please contact LTC Petr KRIZ, CZE (A), NATO Mountain Warfare COE Lessons Learned Branch, petr.kriz@mwcoe.org.
CALL FOR WRITERS
The Edwin Mellen Press
We are looking to increase our current pool of authors at The Edwin Mellen Press in the discipline of Military related studies. We are a non-subsidy academic publisher of scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences. Our sole criterion for publication is that a manuscript makes a contribution to scholarship. We publish monographs, critical editions, collections, translations, revisionist studies, constructive essays, bibliographies, dictionaries, reference guides and dissertations.
Mellen Press has published over 10,000 works in numerous disciplines, including military subjects of a scholarly nature. We publish 300 scholarly works a year. We offer recognition awards (for superior scholarship), royalties, authors maintain copyright, peer reviews and we have a world wide distribution network of libraries and direct sales. For submissions we are looking for scholarly works on a wide variety of Military issues and topics.
Please tell us about your work by emailing us at editor@mellenpress.com. Including your phone number will also be helpful. We will get back to you in 7 business days or less. For more information, please contact:
Edwin. Mellen Press
Philip Viverito/ Editor/Direct
editor@mellenpress.com
www.mellpress.com
SEEKING TRANSCRIBERS
Project CHECO: The Air Force Experience in Vietnam" (https://airforcehistory.net) seeks to textually digitize a semi-curated collection of documents held at the Air Force archive. It also supports research into the correlation between demographics and crowdsourcing effectiveness.
The Air Force created Project CHECO (Contemporary Historical Examination of Current Operations) in 1962 to analyze issues of immediate concern to various echelons of the service. Over the course of fifteen years, authors completed more than 250 reports on topics that included special operations, conventional air operations, rules of engagement, training, air base defense, and many others. Arguably, the Project CHECO reports represent the single-most comprehensive collection of Air Force-produced documents detailing its activities in the Vietnam War. The vast majority of these have been declassified and approved for public release, and only the publicly-available studies are being used for this project.
For the volunteer, this is a trifecta of opportunities: A chance to learn about U.S. Air Force history in Southeast Asia from the perspective of the service itself; contribute to digital history through the textual digitization of a portion of the USAF archive (similar to efforts by NARA, LOC, and the Smithsonian); and, last but not least, help me gather data for my dissertation!
The process is simple:
1. Fill out a demographic form (individual identities will not be associated with performance)
2. Review some directions for the site.
3. Correct or transcribe a document from the Air Force archive.
4. Take a survey.
THAT'S IT! If you have any questions, please contact me at dabyrd4@gmail.com. Thanks, Dave
SUBMISSIONS SOUGHT
Joint Force Quarterly seeks history submissions for its “Recall” Section
Joint Force Quarterly, published by the National Defense University Press, is looking for articles of 2,500 - 5,000 words or less for its Recall section. Recall focuses on historical issues often of contemporary relevance to the joint force. JFQ is the Chairman's joint military and security studies journal designed to inform and educate national security professionals on joint and integrated operations; whole of government contributions to national security policy and strategy; homeland security; and developments in training and joint military education to better equip America's military and security apparatus to meet tomorrow's challenges while protecting freedom today. Instructions for submission of articles is at: http://ndupress.ndu.edu/SubmitaManuscript.aspx. Any questions can be sent to JFQ1@ndu.edu.
