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Symposium History

For more than two decades, the Norwich Military Writers’ Symposium has brought well over 100 military writers, historians, journalists and biographers to campus, giving NU residential and online students the opportunity to meet some of the most prominent military writers and historians of our time, and to gain a better understanding of the world through their eyes. 

THE SYMPOSIUM: 26 YEARS OF PROGRAM HISTORY

2022Robots Rising: Arming Artificial Intelligence
2021Global Conflict or Cooperation? Evolving Arctic Security
2020Weaponizing Water: Ancient Tactic, New Implications
2019Warfare In The 21st Century: Future Battlegrounds
2018Won The War, Lost The Peace: The U.S. Legacy in Iraq
2017Won The War, Lost The Peace: The Centennial Legacy of World War One
2016Going to War: The Cost to Families, Communities, And Nation
2015Cyberwarfare and Privacy: How Do We Keep the Balance Between the Rights of Citizens and the Security of the Nation?
2014After The Wars: What Have We Learned from Iraq and Afghanistan and What Is the Future Role of the United States and Our Military?
2013Coming Home: The Hopes, Fears and Challenges of Veterans Returning from War
2012Afghanistan and America’s Endless War On Terrorism
2011An Uncertain Future in Afghanistan: Assessing The Conflict Ten Years On
2010America at the Crossroads
2009Chaos & Conflict
2008The New Battlefield
2007Civilians in The Path of War
2006Final Offensive: The Battle of the Bulge, National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
2006Ways of War
2005The Rules of War
2005Turning Point - 36 Days On Iwo Jima, National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
2004Writing for War in the 21st Century, National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
2004The New Face of War
2004D-Day & Normandy: Then and Now, National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
2003Uncommon Valor: Ethical Lessons in Military Literature
2003Journalists at War, National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
2002Raging War: Understanding The 21st Century Enemy
2002The Military and the Media, National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
2001The American Way of War
2001Ethics, Issues and Policy, National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
2000The World at War
1999The American Way of War, National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
1999Info Wars: The Next Battlefield
1998The Role of Intelligence Operations Today and Tomorrow, National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
1998Ethics in Military Literature and Film
1997Military Fiction in America: The Craft and Its Influence
1996Fact and Fiction in 20th Century Military History

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