we are honored to have the chief of staff of the united states army james mcconville with us today. general i've been lucky to know you for a number of years and hosted you before at brookings and as you prepare to complete your tour as chief of staff it is a privilege to be able to host youou yet again and i don't think of it as a farewell visit but really an opportunity to honor and thank you for your service and maybe i could ask everybody else to join me in a round of applause, please, thank you. [applause] so say we're going talk with the general up here a bit. but first with melanie with questions and you to round out hour and first i would like to say a couple of more words about this distinguish soldier amazing career he's been in uniform for 42 years. actually -- 46 if you count all four years at west point grew up in quincy, massachusetts. near another young man and promising future american named joe dun ford someone you may have heard of pretty amazing group of individualing following in footsteps of john adams and john quincy adams from that same small town in the bosto

president of the united states of america authorized by acts of congress, march 3, 1863, has awarded in the name of congress the medal of honor to captain paris d davis, united states armyconspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his own life above and beyond the call of duty. captain paris d davis commander detachment three to anyone for special forces group, distinguished himself by acts of gallantry above and beyond the call of duty well serving as an advisor to the 883rd regal fourth company, army of the republic of vietnam during combat operations against an armed enemy in the vicinity of the republic of vietnam on june 17th through 18th, 1965. they accompanied the vietnamese vietnamese 883 regional fourth company on its first combat mission, a daring nighttime raid against a viet cong regional headquarters housing a superior enemy force. captain davis's advice police -- advice and leadership allowed the company to gain the tactical advantage allowing it to surprise the unsuspecting enemy force and kill approximately 100 enemy soldiers. while returning from the successful rate, the regional fourth cup he was ambushed and sustained several casualties. cap

the department of defense, the and general staff college or the combined arms center of the united states army. lieutenant colonel nikki dean has 21 years of active duty army service, including multiple tours to iraq and afghanistan by trade. she is an army helicopter pilot, but currently for her second time is an army doctor and writer. originally, she is from buffalo, new york and is very emotionally conflicted. every time the chiefs and bills play each other, she has been stationed around the united states in germany and as well as in korea, which in her own words was super, super fun. she has multiple degrees and studies, both history as well as museum studies. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming to the stage. lieutenant colonel nikki dean. so thank you all for the extremely warm welcome. i will say it's a bit it's a bit daunting to be standing on this side of the podium as opposed to sitting out in the audiences where i usually am for this incredible institution, as james said, my name is nikki, and tonight i would like to talk with you about something that is incredibly imp

biden: this is managed by the united states army and tells the story of the tribal nations who livedhere and the members of the armed forces who trained in those lands. it is also a place of incredible beauty. and right now as winter gives way to spring, mexican gold poppies are bursting into bloom. what i wanted to do was have all of this on a video behind me. because when you see it it is breathtaking. transforming desert plains and hills in a sea of vibrant yellow and orange, framed in the rugged mountains of the blue sky. the people of el paso have fought to protect this for 50 years. their work has finally paid off. [applause] pres. biden: now we will create access to outdoors for communities and parks, and we are going to create spaces that are harder and harder to find. importantly, it will be preserved for future generations. the third thing we are doing today, i'm issuing a presidential memorandum directing the secretary of commerce to immediately consider designated 777,000 square miles of the pacific ocean southwest of hawaii as a new national marine sanctuary. [applause]

mcconville: people are the greatest asset that -- of the united states army and i am talking about soldiersnd i am talking about civilians and families and our soldiers. when i take a look at the people in the army, i think we have the best leadership coming into the army. these are combat proven veterans. as far as leadership goes, over 20 years of combat, i think we are in great shape. retention is at a historical height and people who stay -- come to the army are staying. recruiting is a challenge and we did not have a good year last year and we are at a full-court press to inspire young men and women. you mentioned different people saying different things. i will stay out of that. the military -- we are nonpartisan. we are a political and we need to do that and when we talk to young people, one of the things we found, there are a lot of challenges after covid with young people who want to serve to meet the standard. we made a boot camp for boot camp. we are finding pretty good results, 95% of young men and women who come to our future soldier prep course make it through and go on to ini

president of the united states of america authorized by act of congress, march 3rd, 1863 has awarded in the name of congress the medal of honor to captain paris d. davis, united states army and beyond the call of duty. captain paris davis, commander detachment 5th special forces group airborne, distinguished himself by acts of ga lance try above and beyond the call of duty while serve as an adviser to the regional force company. army of the republic of vietnam during combat operations against an armed enemy, republic of vietnam on june 17th through 18th, 1965. captain davis and three other special forces accompanied the 883rd regional force company on uts first combat mission. a daring raid against a regional headquarters housing a superior enemy force. it allowed the company to gain the tactical advantage allowing it to surprise the enemy force and kill approximately 100 enemy soldiers. while returning from the raid, the company was ambushed and sustained several casualties. captain davis exposed himself to the hostile shall arms fire to rally the disorganized company. it's artillery and small arms fire enabling other elements of the company to reach his position. altho

area of ​​persons in the united states of america, in particular, this publication, the specialized dean's news in the united states, published this conversation well, the army united states of america, which is directly responsible for training , and here we can say from a positive point of view that if earlier we had a certain, let's say , expectation for the long term of receiving these tanks, in particular, we could even about a year or six months ago, it was said that these tanks still need to be manufactured, modernized , etc., but now a representative of the us army says that the process is underway, but he cannot give any, let's say, details about of this process and but i still hope that this process should be harmonized with the supply of other weapons that we receive as part of the material aid from the united states and it is quite logical that these tanks should arrive together with the m2 bradley bmp and can also be used together with this machine, because they are precisely intended for interaction on the battlefield, and therefore such an assumption can be quite logical . therefore, i still have some optimism, and in view of the fact that suc

president of the united states of america, authorized by act of congress, march 3th, 1863 has awarded in the name of congress the medal of honor to captain paris, d. davis, united states army for conspicuous gallantry of above and beyond of the call of duty. captain paris d. davis, special forces group, airborne, first special forces distinguished himself by acts of gallantry, above and beyond of the call of duty while serving as an adviser to the 883 regional force company, army of the republic of vietnam, during combat operations against an armed enemy, republic of vietnam on june 17th, 1965. captain davis and three other u.s. special forces advisers accompanied the vietnamese on its first combat mission, a daring raid against the viet ccong ccong force. while returning m the success raid, the regional force company was ambushed and sustained several casualties. captain davis consistently exposed himself to the hostile arms and rally the in experienced and disorganized company. he expertly directed both artillery and small arms fire enabling elements of the company to reach his position. although wounded in the leg, he aided inside the gevacuation of other men and wounde

armies masha's beyond rhine. hear the roar river last major barrier before the rhine is in force by infantry armored elements of the united states ninth army, a phase of what berliners called the greatest of west front offensive. the battle scarred german town of linick is cleaned up. and here your neck still more german soldiers dead and alive. help swell the enemy's casualty. now far past 1 million on the western front. and amid shambles of silence and emptiness the german people are learning what warfare means and. supreme commander eisenhower are with the ninth army's commanding general, inspects positions near and forces lined up for the smash across the rhine to dusseldorf and beyond. as a security, civilians are assembled for questioning. but they are few compared to the mounting toll of captured german soldiers. at the american troops approach the rhine they freed thousands of russian and polish prisoners forced into labor battalions by the nazis now and and captivity and new allied friend. this concentration camp guarded by electrified wire deep trenches and many posts gives mute testimony to the horror that once reigne

moscow , he believes that the united states will not withstand the confrontation with the strange brix regarding the potential involvement in hostilities, the united states armyhe raven, is not ready for real battles. we would lose the war just because of the economy almost every product is made in china where do we get our medicines china india and other brix countries who goes there russia if we become participants in the war should not forget how weak our armed forces have become. whose standards are reduced to the limit bleak prospects for the kiev regime. apparently understood in the white house , hill's journalists point to the biden administration's unwillingness to support kiev's plans to seize crimea, despite constant claims that ukraine will be provided with so much assistance. as long as it takes, analysts explain washington's vague answers by the fact that the united states is trying to use its position on the russian peninsula as an argument for influence on moscow in future negotiations. in addition, washington does not want or cannot supply the heavy weapons that would be required for the crimean operation , the version of washington's artifici

broadcast of the secretary of defense of the united states of america lloyd austin and general mark milli, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff of the united states army they are to tell about the results of the 10th ramstein, which took place online today what ukraine will get and you didn't talk about anything, what was agreed on the most important thing well, i will give some information on this matter, first of all, more than 150 leopard tanks were promised to be provided to ukraine by 9 states, the us secretary of defense lloyd's statement on this at the beginning of the meeting of the contact according to austin, the group on the defense of ukraine is talking about the formation of more than nine armored brigades and short-necked. the pentagon added the number of countries that transfer tanks and air defense equipment to ukraine continues to grow, the tenth meeting in the rammstein format is being played this time online. i want to say that it is important that 150 tanks is also a certain breakthrough. i don't know who to tell now. thank you for this. the ukrainian ministry of diplomacy is our partner. today to support ukraine because on the eve

in a 1962 defense department analysis of the weapon for use by the united states army, it said if the quote, excellent killing or stopping power. that same defense department report concluded a description of what happened when the ar-15, then called on him 16, was used in combat in vietnam at a distance of 50 yards. quote, one man was shot in the head. it looked like it exploded. a second man was hit in the chest. he is back was one big hole. that's because the bullet from an ar-15 creates an ever expanding cavity wound as it passes through the body. the entrance wound from an ar-15 is always much smaller than the exit wound. and every one of those terrified texas police officers who showed up and that elementary school knew that about the ar-15. in an interview one of those officers said, the way he was shooting, he was probably going to take all of us out. none of those officers were embarrassed by how afraid they were. and they should be. some of them are no doubt embarrassed by the failure to act despite their fear, but the fear itself is nothing to be ashamed of. there is no oth

a great broadcaster, you are a trial attorney in los angeles and a retired colonel for the united states army[applause] >> oh, please. in other words, you know what a adversary looks like? >> i identify the opponents and enemy. that is what the media is. i remember we are out in the middle of the desert. the sergeant goes, if we have any reporters around, can i shoot them? >> i always listen. >> you are not advocating? >> no, i would never advocate hunter the media for sports. one thing we have to understand, the media today is not the blue-collar guys out there hassling dudes with topcats. they were on the side with the top hats. they all come from the same colleges, the group in the connecticut suburbs and introduced themselves with pronouns. we have to understand how unimpressive these people are. they are not smart. i go nuts watching ukraine coverage. another ukrainian tank is destroyed. i am like, it is not a tank, it is armored personnel. it may not sound like a important distinction, but it is and it is important. they are two different things. they do not know anything. they are not

president of the united states of america, authorized by act of congress, march 3, 1863, has awarded in the name of congress the medal of honor to captain paris d. davis, united states armyk of his own life above and beyond the call of duty. commander, detachment a321, first special forces, distinguished himself above and beyond the call of duty while serving as an advisor to the 883rd company during combat operations against an armed enemy in the republic of vietnam on june 17 through 18, 1965. captain davis and three other u.s. special forces advisors accompanied the vietnamese regional force company on its first combat mission, a daring nighttime raid against a vietcong headquarters. he allowed the company to gain a tactical advantage, allowing it to surprise the unsuspecting force and kill approximately 100 enemy soldiers. while returning from the successful raid, the company was ambushed. captain davis consistently exposed himself to the hostile small arms fire to rally the inexperienced and disorganized company. he expertly directed both artillery and small arms fire, enabling other elements of the company to reach his position. although wounded in the leg, he aide

you can be anything you want to be in the united states army. in fact, you can be all you can be. >> the army has continued to downsize partly because the surges in iraq and afghanistan are over but also i know because of challenges with recruiting. just one last question on this topic. it is so central eric would you describe the current challenges with recruiting as nearing a crisis proportion, or do you feel that while there is some trouble come some fanatics and n shortfall that this can be largely explained by the covid read mac and largely addressed to things like your pre-boot camp boot camp? in other words, we get some problems but is not a crisis. or is this one of the worst periods in history of the all volunteer force in terms of its ability to maintain the kind of numbers we need?mb >> like i said we did have a good year last year. what that means is in three to five years if we don't retain or improve will have some challenges noncommissioned officers who are the backbone of our army. where i sit right now we're not in absolute cris

government and simply, you know, they think the more fish in france, i'm not for both in the united states army have to hope in the united states as well as i know millions of people in the east african nation of somalia, are considered at risk of starvation, jude devastating short to do the food. bullets clear, examine the causes of the classes in a later episode of africa now. yeah. on the outskirts of the capital city of somalia, mogadishu ad and internally displaced camp there under tens of thousands of people here many who found them all different kinds of the country. now people started coming here years ago, really because of drought because of famine. because if conflict in the areas at the situation has deteriorated a lot since the recent grain crisis began a year ago, funding the russia ukraine conflict, the country is relying and has been relying on the we can grain that it gets from russia, ukraine, and those supplies for the bit of part of the year have completely dried up. so you're looking at an, a famine that is going to kill millions of people. grain situation in its impact on

armies. as most of you know, the significance of those numbers, it's more casualties than the united states had experienced in war to that point. it's it's similar to the casualties that the army suffered at waterloo. napoleon's great loss to the of wellington years earlier. and as shelby foote makes the point, no could imagine that there were 1012 more. shiloh is yet to come. the cost the overall outside one more we're on the numbers over the course of the war for both sides it's about percent of the population we think about that 2% of the population today would be what, somewhere over two 6 million casualties. that's the numbers we're talking about for the united states. a whole in the civil war, 6 million casualties. it's just hard to comprehend at this point, sir last question here. yeah, i have a question. where we've been talking about the man makes the how much of the time makes the man in terms of grant where, we're talking about like the great who forges his way through but how much of it is that grant was representative of the north, but he was like a common man, a tradesman, a farme

you have shot the most gallant officer in the united states army. this is phil carney who lost his arm in the mexican war, fell to the right. armstrong custer, young lieutenant right out of west point. his first assignment was on the staff and phil carney instead of all the officers he ever served with, philip kearny was the strictest disciplinarian and most gallant hero president abraham lincoln. he was one that submitted carney's to become a brigadier general. this is in july of 1861, and a government official criticized, lincoln's choice and said to tell lincoln that carney not exactly a moral man. and lincoln said that may be, but i cannot say i do know that i have more boudoir now and war means and fight means kill. and i think mr. carney is our of man. that these gentlemen are carney's veterans. these are men members of the grand army republic photographs probably taken around 1926 in what became carney new jersey. now new jersey the first state to create a disabled soldier's home. the men were coming back from the war minus limbs and these me

i was in the united states army, oh, got rolla quarterly for 14 years. oh wow. that orders active in 6 years. oh, reserved for your fire or turns out it was all a lie, as sort of sob stories to get people to donate. the pentagon claims he was never deployed to any of those places and wasn't even as sergeant, but one of the us armies low which ranks bots about didn't stop him from getting access to a whole bunch of weapons and revealing his units precise location through one of his online videos, still, mr. vasquez had easy access to weapons including american rifles. where did they come from? i'm not exactly sure, mister vasquez said in a text message. the rifles he added were brand new out of the box and we have plenty. he also tweeted that he should not have to worry about international rules of war while in ukraine. grady williams ever it's hired engineer with no military experienced bots with a method ferryman conviction couldn't last long on the battlefield and will soon send back after it emerged that he had not even registered so right. but he was determi

extensive military experience , the newly elected president, a former infantry officer of the united states army, in his position, rice will be responsible for the strategic management of the university will closely cooperate with the ukrainian government and international organizations for the development of new partnerships in the field of education and of research, there is now very close cooperation between the united states of america and ukraine, and it will strengthen over the years . our university can make a serious contribution to the development and prosperity of ukraine, the plans of daniel rais are quite ambitious already in 5 years thousands of students, american partners are impressed by the abilities, ambitions and skills of our youth, the child pays off, the university team did an incredible job of attracting ukrainian talents to study, the best of the best are studying here, these are people who already work in large companies who have created their own businesses. when i look at ukrainian students, i understand that these are people who have achieved a lot in their lives. lect

military experience of ukraine , the newly elected president, a former infantry officer of the united states army his position, rice will be responsible for strategic management the university will closely cooperate with the ukrainian government and international organizations for the development of new partnerships in the field of education and research . currently, there is a very close cooperation between the united states of america and ukraine, and it will strengthen over the years. ukraine showed itself in the war to be an incredibly strong and stable nation. victory in this war, it will be necessary to rebuild the country and high -level specialists will be in demand, and i am glad that our university can make a serious contribution to the development and the prosperity of ukraine, the plans of daniel rice are quite ambitious already in 5 years, the university that offers the standards of american education in ukraine should study seven and a half thousand students, the american partners are impressed by the abilities, ambitions and skills of our youth, the child pays off , the university

to his extensive military experience the president-elect, a former infantry officer of the united states armyresponsible for the strategic management of the university in his role as president, will work closely with the ukrainian government and international organizations to develop new partnerships in the field of education and research. over the years, ukraine has shown itself to be an incredibly strong and stable nation in the war. i am sure that after the victory in this war, it will be necessary to rebuild the country and high-level specialists will be in demand, and i am glad that our university can make a serious contribution to the development and prosperity of ukraine. the plans of daniel rais are already quite ambitious in 5 years. a university that offers the standard of american education in ukraine should study seven and a half thousand students. american partners are impressed with the abilities the ambitions and skills of our youth to pay for the child , the university team did an incredible job of attracting ukrainian talents to study , the best of the best are studying with

hiroshima and nagasaki after the nuclear bombings united states army environmental policy institute finalin 1994 on the human health implications of the us army's use of pooled damage munitions states that pooled damage toxicity reduction technology citation does not exist. cleaning up pooled damage munitions is extremely difficult. that is, when uranium infects a huge area of ​​black soil, they can turn into wastelands, in order to simply destroy agriculture immediately in several regions. they understand that this earth will not be under decontrol, since it will not be under control, it is really bitter. everything is fire. these territories will be withdrawn from e. the turnover from this will not be sown areas, among other things , the health of the population will be affected. this is all quite satisfactory. uh, the united states is fine with a decade of torment for civilians . what inhuman ends justify such means. be attentive to the purchase of tickets with such an appeal in the ministry of culture appealed to everyone to visit the theaters of the museum, exhibitions and concerts,

when donald trump took deployed in the public and fed the united states army would not go to war with iran for the sake of saudi arabia, but would be very pleased if they do it and they would support. so with these, if they take the product. so they continue the same with the israelis, they joined winter with the israelis and americans continue with up until now. and all the games failed. busy so i believe the so these found themselves with no other option but to resume the ties and follow suit after the you a co wait also send back their ambassadors. there are several months ago. so i believe now we can see iran as a when they're the chinese of course of are when inside the so these could also find themselves as the winning side if they move along the path correctly. the losing side admittedly, are the americans as well as the israeli saw off who have been acknowledging that this is a great loss to israeli foreign policy towards iran, as well as the region and also the american nel collins are complaining and saying that it's all the last for the united states. well essentially you b

in a statement by the european command of the united states army, the mq9 drone was conducting a routine operation in international airspace when two russian su-27 aircraft tried to intercept it. one of the aircraft hit the propeller of the drone from so the americans had to to sink this drone in the white house said that president joe biden was informed about this incident and just now the russian ministry of defense released its statement saying that this drone threatened the sleeping sea itself, this is their statement. in short, and so far there have been no comments from the ukrainian authorities , bbc diplomatic correspondent james landale is in kyiv and will explain the danger of such an incident. now the ukrainian authorities are investigating the case, so the information comes from american sources, they said somewhere at 7 o'clock local time, one of the american drones was on an emergency mission watching over the black sea when two russian su-27 military aircraft approached it and as described to an american, the careless and unprofessional manners of the usa say that one of t