the afghan army didn't fight. they chose not to fight in the first surge, obama's first surgeon 2009. like kandahar the americans are not using the afghan army. they are using the afghan border police. basically a warlord with 500 guys. into those of six in a kandahar, the canadians rely on [inaudible] , and he was so brutal he returned much of the population to join the television. we are in the same or more today where is the afghan army we paid for, billions of dollars and they're supposed to be 200,000 of them and they didn't show up to read and americans are blowing up houses, totally destroying the fabric of life, all to fight not al qaeda, the taliban. if we are in afghanistan to the feet of a destroyer, the serbs, dismantle, disturb, whatever they say, al qaeda, then we did that in 2002 and we won the war. we are fighting the taliban, an indigenous movement that might be fundamentalist, we might not like the way they treat women, but it isn't different than see to the theory local movement. historically, g

they had the american military and the iraqi army and the body army. they had numbers to defeat the sunnis. in 2006 or even earlier the americans came to the realization three years too late that the occupation was the problem. the american commander began to describe the american occupation as a problem and our presence is creating antibodies. that was certainly true when the main struggle in iraq, we had resistance groups fighting the americans. by 2006 or even 2005 it wasn't just anti-american but the main circle was a civil war. the americans were always a couple years too late in their realization what was going on. in 2006 they began to pull out. you wouldn't see them anymore. it was occupied but not by any particular security force but what i talked about, people in weird uniforms. melissas at checkpoints and sunni muslims in city neighborhoods or she at neighborhood and warlords. it felt like somalia. americans are pulling out and their motto, the police and the army, we will stand down. the problem was the iraqi police and iraqi army were part

after the army we always said free the army or fun travel and adventure but it really meant the army. here was a way that i could combine my profession my acting with my desire to end the war it just seemed like a perfect fit. this show that we bring to these bases is not trying to tell the people on the bases anything that they don't know we are coming in response to what is probably the most powerful movement going on in this country the movement of the man inside the military and women who are beginning to understand how they're being used and what the nature of american foreign policy is and we come there because they have asked us to come there because for the last year we have read in the newspapers from vietnam from from west germany from okinawa from the philippines and from what we want is entertainment we want people to speak to how we feel and the majority of us don't know why we're going over there that we don't know why we're being shot up we don't know why our bodies are being killed we don't know why we're killing those people. i'm sorry. you will be. washed. all day li

in the summer 2006, the army and collaboration with the iraqi army totally cleansed the sunnis. it was like bosnia. thousands of people in congress while the americans were watching. in western baghdad there was an iraqi colonel who used to go into people's homes, sunni homes, arrest the husbands at random and forced the women took with them in order for the release of the house and i do want to make it sound like only she is are being brutal here. she has had american superiority. they had the american military and the iraqi police, the iraqi army and the main shia militia. they had the numbers to defeat the sunnis. and the summer 2006, even earlier, the americans finally came to the realization three years too late that the occupation was the problem. so the american commander begin to describe the american occupation as a problem and our presence is creating antibodies. that was certainly true when the main struggle in iraq was an anti-occupation we had groups fighting the americans. by 2006, even 2005, the main struggle in iraq wasn't just the anti-american one. it was now a

the army has got to be the army, and the army has got to train on and be ready to fight our country's fights. you've still got a mission to do. you can't do it with this guy. he came from society. he needs to go back to society. >> narrator: in all, 15 out of 42 soldiers from third platoon left the army after a single iraq tour. four were kicked out for failing drug tests. one was sent to prison for driving while drunk and fleeing the scene of an accident. five were medically discharged. five left the army because their service had ended. as the platoon geared up for its second iraq tour, kenny eastridge was now one of its most experienced soldiers, but he was getting drunk every night. >> you just feel like everybody's against you. if they weren't there with you, then they're your enemy. and if you don't know them, they're your enemy and they're out to get you. everybody is. >> narrator: as the battalion prepared to head back to iraq in fall 2006, eastridge was arrested for assault after pointing a gun at his girlfriend's head in a drunken argument. it looked like his war was over. m

the army, i think if the egyptian army thought that mubarak's continue presidency damaged their cause, and that is particularly significant in relationship to aid packages from the united states, and i think they may do as the army in tunisia did to their president, and say listen, it's time to go. >> warner: have the protest errs been reacting differently to the army as to the police where they have been attacking police vehicles,. >> there has been a real mixture of reaction. i have seen scenes of protestors pelting armoured vehicles with missiles as they passed. but in other parts of the city we have seen a row of army trucks moving in. and they're being mobbed and unwelcomed by the people-- and welcomed. the army is more popular here than they absolutely hated police and security forces who have been making themselves even more unpopular as every day protestors continued here. >> warner: now before president mubarak spoke what were the opposition's plans or protestors' plans for tomorrow? >> i'm not sure they were thinking beyond today, to be honest with you, margaret. this was th

of the british army. but it's not the british army. but just like what happened with tiffany's manuscript, the manuscript for jarvis is a journal was found in a trashcan and published in 1907. in 1907, we didn't want to think of the revolution as anything but the revolution. and we couldn't use the term civil war because we had had a north-south real civil war only a generation before. so the whole term civil war kind of goes away, and so does the idea of tories. well anyway, jarvis goes to war. he fights and battles all the way from new jersey down to georgia and florida. he kills americans, and writes about it. well, when the war ends, he's been in a tory regiment, and have seen plenty of battle for seven years. he comes back to denver -- danbury, connecticut, wearing his green loyalist uniform. the loyalists frequently when they got outfitted by whoever recruited them wore green uniforms to distance themselves from the red coats. so he walks into danbury, and expects he's going to marry amelia. and the

when i was an officer of the army the army prior to september eleventh. the deaths of thousands of people civilians the terrorist attacks that's not something you can forget i felt very sad when it all happened. time that my national guard unit would be mobilized and we would be sent into the field to fight or to carry out a real mission. since there had been so many victims it seems to me that if the situation was handled properly if there was a thorough investigation identify the people responsible for the attacks then a mission to find. bring them to justice and all of this seemed a good cause. at the time i still thought that being in the army and serving you know. could be done for valid reasons and could produce good results you know the employee i want. to. write the voted. off on a military installation good. move it back it. could. leave it back but in fact backwards. move it. back. and. take. it. at first we didn't have a well defined mission. we stayed to add one baghdad international airport for four or five days. then we went to an iraqi air

it is how he taught the arab army to fight, and he used it to bring a bigger and better-equipped army and to undermine a large and powerful empire. he himself described attempts to put down such a ger rell la force as, quote, like eating soup with a knife, messy and slow. and the tactics of our enemies today are exactly those which lawrence devised 94 years ago. lawrence brought the arabs victory, but he did not bring them what he had fought for, a single unitary arab state stretching from the mediterranean to the persian gulf with damascus as its capital. raised to the heights of fame by his achievements, he was at the same time crippled by his sense of failure. he went on to try and secure the arabs' independence at the peace conference after war. he became their spokesman in britain lobbying at the very highest levels including the king and prime minister david lloyd george. eventually turning himself into a diplomat, he joined the colonial office at the personal request of winston churchill and played a major role in the creation of jordan and iraq. indeed, the frontiers of the mi

army. i have no ties anywhere and that i don't want to know them i felt like a stranger everywhere i went. so when i came here to this country. i figured i should try to fit into north american society. the heart of this country. for me joining the army was a way of becoming a member of a fraternity. from another country i already had clearly defined political views. anyone who comes to another country. especially in this country which is the jewish homeland supposed to be a place for everyone. to be a part of israeli society. everyone else. has . to everything. that's how i became a volunteer paratrooper. the best. i had been accepted at the military school i felt like the proudest man on earth with my cadets uniform. at the end of the first. two years later graduated from the. well the rank of artillery officer. i was successful as a soldier i did my job and i was promoted i received several medals. and marks of recognition things were going very well. in the military i was proud to be an

he commands the six army group. he's on the same level as omar bradley's commanding group and differs is to the south, that seventh army and with the french army invaded southern france. they come up their own folly and swing through the mountains, captor strasbourg and go on into the southwest germany. he is very capable, he is a very good tactician, but second only to eisenhower in his deft touch with allies. he doesn't speak french, they are not all that easy to get along with. [laughter] and he is dealing with a prima donna whose the french commander and differs is really good at it and that is a critical part of his job. so, my intent is that, you know, to bring some of these guys back from the dead. and who hopefully make them breathe and walk across the room again in a way that allows the 21st century audience leadership to push it. >> what about today's leadership? e ruth day tremendous book about petraeus and 101st, and you say and you're talking 2004 and in 2007i would commend to people on our web site bec

the army is a very different situation. the army is not deployed in the cities. the soldiers are on bases, pretty much in the deserts, on the outskirts of cairo, and they're highly respected. so today all of the violence was directed at the riot police and other forces associated with the interior ministry. when the army moved in, the egyptian protesters stepped back. they didn't want to fight the army. they still don't want to fight the army. and that, so far, has been what's holding the city together and keeping what little calm there is that remains right now. >> i've also seen the protesters let civilian traffic go by there. their quarrel is not with their fellow citizens. i've seen the army surround and protect the central museum there that houses the great antiquities of egypt. >> reporter: that was a scene earlier today. first egyptians, just demonstrators and people who live in the area formed a human chain around the museum. there had been some reports of looting in downtown. they didn't want anyone to go in and steal these priceless antiquities. then th

they're celebrating that the army came, and the army is basically not doing anything.ice completely withdrew from the area i can see here. >> having said that, what role will the army now play in this crisis, do you think? >> that is the interesting thing, because nobody knows who sent the army exactly. was it ill mubar, or was it a decision from the army against mubarak? i think the dynamic is interesting, because it does not look like it is the army with mubarak. because what i can see right now looks like demonstrators standing on the armored vehicles with the army and celebrating. so it does not look like this army is out in order to secure the regime. it just came out in order to push the police away. we're just trying to figure out who is in charge right now in this country. >> tell us more about communications. they seem to be all but shut down there in egypt, which is an unprecedented move. >> since midnight last night, we have no internet. since this morning, we have no telephone. the idea of the whole thing was to prevent people from coming out, but that obvi

we have just seen shots of the army president. how important is it that the army has said, at least in cairo, that it will not use force against demonstrators? >> it is a reflection of the relationship that has developed throughout the last few days between the demonstrators and the army. it seems very, very difficult now for the army to face anything else but to say that he will not touch those. an institution in egypt. it is loved by all of the egyptians, because of the way they think of the army as the rest of the country in the 1973 war, and it is the only institution that did not do any harm, persecution, lack of dignity, but mistreatment. it is highly regarded as an institution, and the statement that has been issued today, a guarantee that they can actually go further in numbers, and that will be ok. >> what about this call for 1 million people to take to the streets tomorrow? do you expect a very big turnout in alexandria? >> the number today was massive. we have to remember that there are two things that make alexandria o

so is the army.g this part of the world, like so many people, i have wondered how change, if ever, would come here? would it be by revolution or evolution? and what as we asked before, what would it look like? at the very least, now it seems tipping point has been reached. at the very least, fear, generations of fear have been shaken off. the people have raised their voices for freedom. when this uprising started on tuesday, president obama was delivering his state of the union address. extolling america as having been founded on the strength of an idea. now the people here say they too, are grabbing that idea of democracy, self-representation in government, and economic opportunity. it was here in cairo that obama came to speak to the muslim world. it was his first interview he gave to an arab television station. he said the united states could no longer afford to have yet another generation of muslim youth who see the united states as the enemy. the people here want democracy. they say they have ex

will the army side with them? and there's also word tonight in the ancient land over the history, the artifacts, some reportedly already ruined. guards posted outside museums. the pyramids have been closed as the protests rage on. alex leads up off tonight. good evening. >> reporter: tonight, buildings on fire in cairo as a nationwide curfew is once again defied. earlier today, a police station in suez was torched. looters broke into buildings in cairo. they also broke into the world-famous egypt museum, breaking precious artifacts and reportedly tearing the heads off ancient mummies. citizens moved in to protect the museum, forming a human chain around it. >> we are sending a message to all the people, and all over the world that the egyptian people protect the egyptian treasures. >> reporter: the death toll jumps. in cairo, the body of a man killed today was carried through the crowd, but these scenes are in stark contrast to other images from around the capital. the anti-government protests are the calmest we h

i mean, the army on the west coast or the west -- the eighth army, they actually ran from the chinese. they didn't put up hardly any defense. they ran all the way back to seoul. and the marines were left up there by themselves. and we were getting out, we've got to fight our way. and somebody says retreat. there's no retreat. you can't retreat through more divisions behind you. there was less troops going up to the river than there was coming back. and they were there, their set purpose as their leader had said to annihilate the marines. because they knew be they could annihilate the marines, then they could defeat the army. and the marines put up that battle and decimated their army. their whole army was out of action until april the following year before they even came, you know, into play again. and had we not put up this stand, they could have just swung around and defeated the army at seoul. and there would be no more south korea. because what would stop 'em? we had nothing. any other questions? >> yep, another question. yeah, mr. danielson. >> yes. of. >> with 3-5. you were a ve

army. they buy uniforms for this army.hey outfitted themselves in uniforms that look similar to u.s. army uniforms. they simply thought that the eagle on the cap for a dragon in the eagle on the button for a dragon. other than that, it looks like u.s. army soldiers. well, the emperor of china died in 1908 and homer leaves a training scheme came to the attention of the public. there were some investigations. his next effort involved a conspiracy with dr. yung wing, the person in the middle. one of the most distinguished chinese in america at the time. the first graduate of yale university from china sponsored numerous chinese coming to america for education. united states. he believed in reform. sourly put together a red dragon conspiracy, conspiracy with the lys, several other chinese and american business run to launch a revolution to carve out two provinces in southern china to make their own republic. kwon sung and kwon see provinces. they approached american businessman for funding and finance. too risky a proposal. we

the army on the west coast coast, the eighth army actually ran from the chinese. they did not put -- put up hardly any fight and ran back to seoul in the marines were left by themselves. and then we have to fight our way and somebody says retreat. you cannot retreat through more divisions behind you there was less -- less troops going to the dollar sign river than those coming back. this that purpose as their leader said to annihilate the marines because they knew if they could annihilate the marines, then they could defeat the army. the marines put up the fight until april of the following year then it came into play again and have not put up the danica swung around and there would be no more south korea. what would stop them? we had nothing. any other questions? >> mr. daniel said. you were a veteran of the chosin reservoir. thank you for coming. >> one of the special things about marines, when somebody does something better you try to keep up with them. at the chosen reservoir they disobeyed the order and said to emetine -- marine general said drop everything a

in his work as an army historian in army center, is working a an. and so there we are.but here we are 10 years later with additional research. >> what made his, "the valour of ignorance" to is a pretty good thinking? >> there's nothing else like it to compare to. unless you want to read a book in progressive modern american military officer, you are thirsting for professional education. you are thirsting to read things that can help challenge you in your craft. this is it. i mean, it wasn't written by an american military officer. that's the catch. homer lea did his homework or he got on you and he went all over the mounds in southern california, look at the photography. you look at the topography of how you would launch an invasion. he looked at the land. the u.s. army today, we all know, look at the land. they love homer lea. >> i want to thank you all very much if that concludes, this concludes my remarks. if you have any questions or comments, get in touch with me at a later date. [applause] >> this event was part of the u.s. army meeting. for more information visit

that means an army of 180,004 a country of 7.5 million. too big and too expensive, say many. >> you are in the army now. at 8000 young swiss men began their military service this winter. their first task -- learning to shoot. how to fight a war in a country that has not fought a war in centuries. >> you get mentally and physically drained. add to march. mentally drained means to fulfill the job in a precise manner in a limited time. >> but that sounds more like a bonding exercise then an army. and a very expensive one, too. the problem for switzerland in the 21st century is the army costs $4.5 billion every year, and no one is sure what the target is anymore. least of all the new recruits. >> i am just here because i have to be. i do not see a war. we are just shooting around. >> i do not like the gun. if somebody tells me, oh, you have to shoot the head and body, i do not like it. that is a person. i would not shoot. i would never should a person. i would run and throw my gun away. >> conscription was once regarded by most swiss as untouc

the army says it's still investigating. but officials says a weapon had malfunctions while soldiers were attempting to fire on the palestinians. the incident followed weeks of increased tension along the border. john donathan reports. israeli soldier is being airlifted to the hospital. one dead and four injured. the army is still investigating exactly what happened. but now says the casualties came as result of friendly fire. the army says its forces had been attempted to fire upon the palestinian militants just upon the gaza border. instead they fired upon themselves possibly when a weapon malfunctioned. in recent weeks there have been increased tension in the area with israel carrying out regular air strikes. this incident will do nothing to reduce that tension. it is relatively rare for israeli soldiers to be killed on the gaza border. but in the past year, the united nations said over 70 palestinians have been killed by israeli action in gasa. one thai farm worker had been killed by rockets fired by palestinian mill ass

we inviting more problems by cutting the size of the army?well, first of all, over the past year and a half we have brought 120,000 soldiers out ofh iraq. over that same period of time, we have increased the number of soldiers in afghanistan by about half that number. and we will begin a process of conditions-based, gradualdit drawdowns in afghanistan beginning next, beginning this coming july. as i say, i think perspective here is important. first of all, the numbers thatof we're talking about are relatively small, and the army is still left significantly larger than it was four yearsanl ago. and, you know, we've had, we've had several increments in the increase in military and army strength partly to deal with the dwell time problem, partly to get rid of stop loss. in addition to the 65,000 increase in the army that i approved in 2007, i approved last year an additional 22,000. thats 22,000 was temporary, and the army itself acknowledged that that will begin coming out and, basically, be gone in 2013l so the army's planning for these things

cyber attacks from within the israeli army is struggling to. internet wise young soldiers post classified contacts and damaging pictures on social networking sites. and pouring billions down the drain as washington keeps up the cash flow for the afghan war experts say the money desperately needed at home is being wasted. with news from russia and around the world this is all in moscow. russian icebreakers hurrying to save a fleet of vessels stranded off the country's far east coast several ships have been locked in ice for days in the bay of second with some five hundred people on board and enough of a brings us now the latest. three vessels were stuck in the ice on thursday and after that there was the country's transport ministry has warned the sailors about the weather conditions in the area nonetheless another vessel still had it in the direction over the icy waters and was also stuck and that is why the ice breakers that were initially had things release the three stuck on thursday had to change their direction to the one stuck on monday a