now, another problem is that mcclellan, having this army, this large army under his control, mcclellan is a wonderful strategic thinker. he's a very tactical -- or mediocre tactical and operational commander, and that's part of the problem with him making all this work. so, would mcclellan's plan have worked? it's a fair question to ask. i think it would have, but there are a couple problems. first, raising an army of 237,000 men. but this is not beyond the union's capacity. february of 1862, mcclellan has 220,000 men under his control, so they're virtually at that number. executed by someone with a talent for implementation, i think mcclellan's plan could have led to an earlier victory for the union. the problem is, again, the execution. what grant does in 1864 is not incredibly different from what mcclellan's arguing in 1861. now, okay, so, if it's such a great plan, why doesn't it work? in march 1862, just as mcclellan's plan starts to bear fruit, lincoln relieves him from being general in chief, and then he did this when mcclellan goes to the peninsula in virginia to fight his camp

trophies to the union army as he put it. many of these white officers and comrades share the conviction that the role in the last battle had indecisive. the cauvery recounted the scene for his mother and sisters in a letter. the morning of the night came to the cauvery was being pushed back rapidly towards the station. the boys were fine, scores of them. over the hill a dark column was spied coming down the road to quicktime. what a relief from the office spent. the colored race of those men so long as they brought relief to espey saw courage and determination in the polls like faces. moreover, african-american troops understood themselves to be an army of liberation whose defeat of flavors that nailed the coffin the coffin of slavery itself. abundant evidence exists that slaves sought appomattox is a freedom day. it was the very moment of emancipation, the moment the fact to the lincoln's proclamation had long since been passed. virginia saves for the first year the tidings of the surrender of thought on this against a defe

the yankee army seemed endless and encompassing. lee's farewell address had layers of meaning and deep tangled roots. for white southerners the reference overwhelming numbers and resources was a code. in context of proslavery ideology in the confederate create numbers conjured up a northern army of mercenaries and hireling seduced into service and having no real stake in the fight. resources conjured up images of factories and cities in which an exploited underclass turned out the material for at the behest of rapacious capitalists. secessionists have seen the burgeoning wealth and the population of the north as an indictment of northern society of this social instability and obsession with the bottom line. addresses referenced the answer past courage and fortitude of the confederate troops who is part and parcel of that same indictment of the north defenders of the southern way of life made a statement of the claim that southern men accustomed to mastery and rural place were made of sterner staff in northern slaves. lee was well aw

the german army was beaten. but part of the trouble is, that brilliant war correspondent allen morehead wrote about germany in 1945. he said he found in germany no great sense of guilt but a huge sense of defeat because the country had been flattened, most live by bombing. that was not true in 1918. this was part of the trouble. germany was almost unscarred, untorch touched by the war. i'm not a here making the argument they should have flat 'ed germany but it made a difference in german attitude it was hard to believe they suffered total defeat in the war when -- in 19 45, kid yourself how you will, they knew they'd lost. i think one more. over there. earlier question, you -- [inaudible] -- apprehension about the rise of -- [inaudible] [inaudible question] >> the only country in which i think one can say fairly confidently, because the evidence is there, that a good many german army officers and some conservative politicians did put it on record that they thought that they could push back the socialist tied. ge

by 1945, how big is the army? the army alone is 8.4 million. there were 16 million in uniform in a country of 130 million. you can see it's a 40 four-fold increase in the size of our army in five years basically. >> host: rick atkinson is the author of the liberation trilogm and here's the latest. it just came out in may. the guns of last light, a rick atkinson as always we appreciate your time. up next on booktv "after words" with guest vincent bzdek. the presidential historian explores rose

army african-american troops have dealt a death blow to all that army stood for, including favorite old. they insisted not only the union armies at jury emanated from superior virtue of the black troops in particular exemplified by virtue. most important, african-american soldiers interpretations of the surrender of described the civil rights message into the mud animist terms of the sprecher, emphasizing the promise of appomattox, depicted the free people and black soldiers in particular as agents of national healing. the williams 1880 history of the troops in the war of the rebellion praised like soldiers for treating the confederates with quiet dignity and christian humility. those were his words. hero, after the confederate army had been paroled, the troops cheerfully and cordially divided rations of the late enemy and welcomed them at their campfires of march 2 st. petersburg. forgiveness is expressed in the attacks rebel soldiers who freely mingled with the plakon verse. as a spectacle of magnanimity never before witnessed. lien sought, african-american magnanimity at appomattox i

scenario disease had kept many soldiers out of the army. but that is action was soon in the army still drafting by 1944. most of them syphilitic. how could they do that quiet penicillin. that extraordinary discovery by british scientists in the 1920s had been converted into an extraordinary project by the americans and the british soy substance made originally by the graham was soon made by the kilogram and eventually by the time. why these extreme measures to fill the ranks? it was because of the crying need for soldiers, especially infantrymen and the initially rifleman. even in a country of 100 dirty million, we were running out. the braves did run out. the war remained ergo and voracious to the very end. in april, 1945, the last full month of the war in europe, also 11,000 americans altars were killed in action in europe. but nearly as many as died in june 1944, the month of invasion. it was awful, virtually to the last gunshot. so desperate was the american army for infantrymen at the high command to connection absolutely unthinkable j

the social welfare office and the army. the police - tried going around, but they just keep on passing us around, "go to this place, it might be there." when we go there it's a different thing. >> this is where the missing and dead were reported to the tacloban government. it is also where government employees are registering their attendance to work. they are trying to discover what happened to her mother's residence. >> i haven't been yet. i don't know where to search first. >> the staff admit there's no central system in place to match the missing with the families seeking them. >> right now we don't have. maybe some other day. >> the tacloban city deposit told us anybody looking for a missing relative will be better served trying the department of social welfare, the development and national agency. the office sent us to a distribution point where there's a comprehensive list of missing and the dead that can be cross referreded. >> we find no list exists. another priority continues to be recovery and disposal of bodies.

the total army, the active army, the army national guard and the u.s. army reserves remains heavily in operations overseas as well as at home. as we sit here today, more than 70,000 u.s. army soldiers are deployed to contingency operations with nearly 50,000 soldiers in afghanistan alone. additionally there are more than 87,000 soldiers stationed across the globe in nearly 120 countries. during my more than 37 years of service, the u.s. army has deployed soldiers and fought more than 10 conflicts including afghanistan, the longest war in our nation's history. no one desires peace more than the soldier who has lived through war. but it is our duty as soldiers to prepare for it. as chief of staff, it's my responsibility to man, train and equip the force to provide america with the best army possible. as a member of the joint chiefs of staff, it's my responsibilit advice to ensure the army is capable of meeting our national security needs. if congress does not act to mitigate the speed and reductions of the budget control act with sequestration, the army w

the yankee army seemed endless and income are seen.illy's farewell address had layers of meaning and deep tangled roots. for white southerners, the reference to overwhelming numbers and resource this is a sort of code in the context of proslavery ideology of the creed members conjured up a northern army of mercenaries, seducer coerced into service and having no real taken the fight. resources conjured up images of northern factories and cities in which it exploited underclass is turned material support at the behest of rapacious capitalists. succession is sensing the burgeoning love the population of the north doesn't type of northern society, and social instability and obsession at the bottom line. the addresses reference to the courage and fortitude of the confederate troops as part of parcel of the same in dayton and of the north. defenders of the southern way of life had made a staple of the claim that southern men accustomed to mastery over always her readers are nursed at the northern. lee was well aware of this ideological freig

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not the first to try and befriend the pakistani army. and the other joint chiefs who is duly mentioned in my book. and that was under president eisenhower. and, again, there was the same phenomenon going repeatedly meeting with the pakistani leader and building relations. and admiral mullen, in all sincerity, worked very hard. 26 meetings with anybody is a lot of meetings. and he thought that general haqqani, who was a pakistani army chief, was really committed to eliminating terrorism. and he just wanted to find that tipping point to where general that haqqani's desire to eliminate terrorists and his desire to maintain military balance with india, he could find that tipping point where instead of india, pakistan's military would start focusing more on terrorism as the problem. >> are you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> bill bryson examines numerous events from the summer of 1927 that placed the united states on the world stage. from the first solo, nonstop fright across the atlantic by charles lend burg to pre

i'm the ugandan army is beefing up its troops on congolese border. it could bring in china cooperation and the operations there into question and went. and step three if you pointed out there's been a huge toll on people who've lost their lives will be displaced by the conviction about five million and this is tina. a revealing a series of stories that you've done because it's that the conflict that has no white screen on top of the headlines but what was the co ordination like between the un and the congolese army. why when it was quite tight actually an audience after quite a history a period where it wasn't there was a lot of hot rumors were rife with rumors that are placed at the congolese army was on a disciplined a lot of drinking a lot of writing on and they need the cooperation between the two sides was a tight what we witnessed on the grounds where the top commanders always at the front top commanders of the special brigade of the congolese army of the un force is always coordinating i'm checking in. i'll tweak their communications with the

so, the idea is that there are two opposing armies -- one, the haddarian army, and the other one is thedarian army, and they've been in conflict for a long time. the point of having two separate armies is the way that we can show simulations with prisoners of war and humanitarian workers and indiscriminate weapons. >> can i join in? >> absolutely! >> so i joined the group haddarians, and we got ready for the things to begin, which they did, with a bang. >> everyone up! let's go! let's go! stand up! get up! >> so, the first simulation that we do is called "prisoners of war," and what we do is we sort of surprise the students. they're not anticipating it. we take away their rights to food and water and the ability to contact their family members, we make them do push-ups and sit-ups, and we run them around, and they have to repeat a song. >> 10 jumping jacks. let's go. repeat after me. first came the soldiers. >> all: first came the soldiers. >> then came the sailors. >> all: then came the sailors. >> jumping jacks. let's go. then came the prisoners of war. >> all: then came the prisoners

army headquarters here.open for them. the yellow shirts, the protestors have an alliance with the thai army, and are allowed in. the main purpose they came in here to deliver a letter to the secretary general of the army simply asking one question, are you with us or are you with it is prime minute at her's government. they stayed in here for about an hour, being asked to leave, politely by the secretary general of the army. they came here, did what they wanted to. in front of the sufficient embass, they want to hand over a letter, as well, and also party hairs, they are going to be amassing out. they're not going to be spending much time here anymore, not going to be spending time here. the army official has asked them to leave. they are doing so, but staplinging in other parts of the city today. >> reporting from bangkok. the crash of a high speed ferry off hong kong today injured 85. the hydrofoil was traveling from hong kong to macak. 107 passengers and 10 crew members were aboard. no one has been report

morrissey has since been held in a secret place by the army accused of inciting violence and killing demonstrators. john a cctv us secretary of state shaun perry has paid an unannounced visit to egypt on that trip cayenne as the us it looks to me and recently strained relations between the two countries. white house partially suspended ministry i study of the cia and the visit also comes on the eve of the trial of mohammed will see. cctv kim's film and takes out the story in the first cabinet level visit by us officials since the ouster of president muhammad morrissey in july secretary of state john kerry met with members of the interim egyptian government in cairo. united states believes the us egypt partnership is going to be strongest. when agent is represented by an inclusive democratically elected civilian government based on rule of law. fundamental freedoms. and then open and competitive economy. jerry downplayed last month's decision by the us to withhold a shipment of some military hardware in financial aid in protest of the interim government's crackdown on the muslim broth

yasser's army in the field, but what happens after appomattox is not going to revive hopes. they dicier appomattox. if the effective end of the civil war and a great achievement to end the war. this notion, a narrative about a gentleman's agreement exists from the very start. even some of these editors like really who were arguing about the terms, there's an air error self-congratulation about the idea of america has ended a civil war in a way no country has ever done so before. it is an asserted in american exceptionalism, how remarkable we are able to underwater without massive execution in reprisals or want. across the spectrum to self-congratulation among people in the next breath will argue about the terms meant. so my argument here is not the novelty clearly on a billboard. i don't think one has to sort of throw up the old billboard so much as remember the surrender was controversial. 700,000 men have for us those eyes. the road to true reconciliation was a very, very difficult one. i think to appreciate the meaning of the surrender for those who lived at this time, we

likewise -- >> they were an army of rapists. >> they were an army of rapists. >> and some senator the other day in america said when a woman is raped, she switches off the procreational mechanism. [laughter] he might like to know that there were a million births in those rapes. >> yes, indeed. not just the soviets were not the only ones who were guilty. when -- because of the japanese occupation of countries in southeast asia such as the dutch east indies, malaya and so on, the asians in those countries, the roque population -- local population certainly didn't want to go to the status quo afte whereas the disturb -- the dutch and the british did have preillusions. now, the nationalists in these countries had often in burma collaborated with the japanese quite understandably because they saw that as their chance to liberate themselves from their european colonial masters. but after the war in europe, these nationalists were depicted as collaborators; collaborators with fascism. so who was sent -- and north africa and algeria. so who was sent there as soldiers to put down the anti-colo

procedures for training and mentoring the national army for a final handover. afghanistan is still a dangerous place. just this week, a roadside bomb killed two children in the south and six policemen were found dead after being abducted by the taliban. the pentagon says more than $8,000,000,000 in assistance is in jeopardy if an agreement is not signed soon. >> joining us now to discuss the latest twist in the afghanistan story are ali akmed alagi, the interior minister from 2003 to 2005. david sedny, former deputy assistant minister of defense and former u.s. ambassador thomas pickering. thank you for joining me. david, let me start with you. we will talk later in the program about the afghan interests as this year unfolds. what's the united states' interest? what are the specifics thbottom country is looking for as it proceeds to extricate itself from afghanistan? >> our number 1 bottom line after 2014 and in 2001 when we went in was terrorism. al-qaeda still exists. the threat of a resurgent al-qaeda is something we can't accept. so we need to make sure tha

and this is one reason why there is friction always with the big army or the conventional army, because they look at this special forces sucking away so many of their senior sergeants and many of their talented senior sergeants. and they say your gain is my loss. so i think it's quite understandable that there's some inherent friction there. but because of the growth -- now, i told you about the expansion to 33,000 overall -- the growth has meant the age has dropped. and they did, in order to expand the ranks of the special operations forces, today began taking in what they call -- they began taking in what they call direct accession or initial accession green berets who could apply right off the street. they would be sent to basic training, and then they would come into the special forces training. so they did not have that infantry background or that army background. and that dropped the age. they decided after the first couple of years to restrict the numbers that way, because you just can't have these teams out there without sufficient experience. and i mentioned that there were som

ch the opposition free syrian army says the rebels will not attend a peace conference in geneva in january. it says there will be no ceasefire during the talks. thousands of pro european protesters demonstrate against ukraine this is jailed opposition leader yulia to recycle goes on a hunger strike in solidarity. at present one thousand soldiers to the central african republic a six month mission is going and maybe to support the african peacekeeping mission there. firstly this hour the head of the free syrian army says it will boycott the upcoming peace talks in geneva. opposition general citing injuries said the fsa will not abide by a ceasefire and continue its fight to topple syrian president. charlotte's up through out the geneva to cricket in january. justin someone is covering this story for us now from the re tested. the surprise was his decision to boycott the talks here's brian lately the sodas and snacks and games especially on a couple of areas. so to move on to that going into the sauce. it was in some sort of momentum and the rebels need to sort of momentum to try to get thos

there army committed systematic massacres of all 6,400 civilians about which later.few historians argue that britain could have stayed neutral in 1914 and prospered mightily by doing so. but the dominating instincts of germany's leader would scarcely have been moderated. it would almost certainly have been the consequence of british neutrality. kaiser's regime did not go to war with a grand plan for world domination. but its leaders quickly identified massive rewards as their price for granting an armistice to the allied. on the ninth of september, 1914, when berlin saw victory limning, germany's chancellor drafted a shopping list. france was to surrender its entire armada deposits, the frontier region of belfort, a coastal strip which was to be resettled by german veterans, the western slopes of the rose mountains, a strategic fortress that would be demolished, and huge cash preparations page. elsewhere luxembourg would be annexed outright. belgium and holland transformed into battle states, russia's borders vastly shrunken. a vast colonial empire would be created i

instead they gave this comment: the army will never discharge soldiers. whether assigned to a unit or to a warrior care environment. >> the army is on record saying that they will downsize the military by 80,000 if not even more and they're also on the record as saying 40% of the downsizing will be accomplished through administrative separations. so what we're seeing is part of their policy. >> similar cases have been reported at combat bases across the country from hawaii to texas to north carolina, and not just in the army. andrew long grew up muntin -- hunting with his sister brandy. he was knocked unconscious when his hum vee ran over an ied and on return to the u.s. was diagnosed with ptsd and tbi. >> i felt as though my service over there was probably some of my best moments of my career. just how productive and how vital everybody's are service was. >> he was award he the purple heart and airman of the year but privately his life was falling apart. >> i was drinking pretty heavily and i knew there were things going on that could probably be looked

instead, these issues fall under army regulation ar-60-20 whose broad exern is army command policy. this title is more than symbol iefnlg the army treats good race relations as a means to readiness and combat effectiveness, not as and he in itself. this is the foundation for the army's way of overcoming race. racial concerns are broadened into a general leadership responsibility and commanders are held accountable for race relations on their watch." once again, the emphasis is on commanders, not specialized legal procedures that bypass. my best judgment is that we will make the most progress addressing the issue of seismual abuse by -- of sexual abuse by involving and holding commanders accountable not by excluding them from a critical aspect of military leave. under the leadership of senator leaf inned and senator inhofe, the armed services committee made significant changes to provisions regarding sexual abuse i in the military. senators mccaskill, ayotte and fisher will make additional changes in their proposed amendment that will further strengthen our commitment and our ability

. >> gerald jenson joined the army at 34. older than the average recruit. he was called to duty in 9/11 and deployed in 2006. he was at driver of a commander. he was an exemplary soldier. in the fall of 2007, jenson's patrol was attacked. an explosive ripped through his humm vi, blowing off part of his vase. he managed to drive away, saving his commander, before being shot in the arm and back. it brought him a purple heart. >> you can see the stitching. it goes all the way around. this was two months after that. surgery. >> doctors rebuilt his jaw with tit anium. after two years and 16 surgeries jenson volunteered for a second combat tour - this time in afghanistan. he was assigned to a remote outpost that faced daily attacks from the taliban. soldiers called it "barely alive", six months into his tour, jenson fell and rebroke his jaw. doctors did their best to patch him up a second time. >> they redid all the tit tainium, extending it all the way forward to here. >> half his face was permanently numb and he had no teeth. are you beginning to think it's tim

they were never accepted to the confederate army. after the general occupation new orleans in april 1862, 10% of those louisiana men joined the union army becoming the first, second, and third louisiana native guards. later having the distinction of being the first three units officially mustard in to the union army. four month later another unofficial regular men of organized. consistenting primarily of slaves of arkansas and missouri. their performance in the missouri helped dispel the notion that black were unable or unwilling to fight. later it would become the fourth official black regular min. another composed of slaves the first south carolina was raised by generally david hunter. later to be come the fifth official black regular min. these five formerly unofficial make a third category of black civil war soldiers. the summer of 1862, arrive with lincoln adamantly refusing a black man in the regular army. even though the black abolitionists frederick douglass continued pleading with the president. douglas and other leaders vie

the largest comprising almost 50% is the army special forces. the army also has through the affairs which used to be called psychological operations that's now been renamed military support operations. terrible acronym. everyone thinks it is a japanese soup. there are aviators and they are army and air force aviators and the newest component of the special operations community is the marines of the marine special operations command. and they actually have been out there. there's a chapter in my book on the navy seals doing this partner activity because a lot of them they are very proud of their public image of the direct action but they have been doing in partnering mission. i was very interested in the repeat business in afghanistan where they were for the two years i was following the effo effort, and if these are two of the toughest areas in terms of the terrain i would hear many of them joking they picked the area becausthatarea because it was t. it was given to them, but there is an amazing picture in the book that shows some of the train a

>>> up next on a second look, the liberation army. they assassinated the superintendent of schools, kidnapped -- what happened today the revolutionaries and how police captured some of them decades after their deadly terrorist rampage. it's all straight ahead tonight on a second look. hello everyone i'm frank somerville. it was seven years ago that the sla gunned down oakland's first black school superintendent dr. marcus foster. in 2002, ktvu's rita williams had this look back at the shooting and the group behind it. >> sit, sit, sit. good doggy. >> reporter: you would never know it by looking at this man today but his body is still riddled with bullets. >> 23 entrance and exit wound. that was pretty much from a zig. >> reporter: it was november 1973 and blackburn was leaving thed administration building here with his mentor and friend superintendent dr. marcus foster. as they approached blackburn's car the shooting began. >> in my memory i have a freeze memory of him pitching forward on to this fuselage of bullets. >> reporter: he d

people in the democratic republic of congo are running for their lives as the army tries to finish off the rebels. one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies is fined $2.2 billion for marketing unapproved drugs. >> and headed for the red planet - the latest attempt to search for life on mars. >> the united nations says the humanitarian situation inside syria has considerably worsened in the past few months. the number of people in syria needing help has exceeded 9 million, more than six are displaced and 2 million has fled the country. the u.n. expects it to be above 3 million by the end of this year. joining us on the phone from geneva is the united nations office lens from the coordination of humanitarian affairs. in the past three months we have seen 3.8 million extra people needing help, it is an enormous jump. why is that? >> it is an enormous jump, numbers are staggering. we are 9.3 million in syria are estimated to be in need of humanitarian aid. 6.5 million are internally displaced. this high figure is an incemental displacement which has happened over the past month.

if you remember this story, this is army master sergeant t.j. griffin in a compilation that i'm doing something knee the gun. >> so put your other hand away from the the gun. >> the army sergeant was hiking with his 15-year-old son and he was carrying an ar-15 rifle to protect he is body. but a passer-by called police. eventually the officers took away his weapon. this ultimate live resulted in the arrest of sergeant grish only. he was initially charged. his trial justnded and he was convicted of finding an without asking to. >> what are you doing in. >> we're hiking. >> we're hiking. >> some reason you have this? >> no, doesn't disarm me, man. >> i'm not touching the gun. >> all right, i'm putting this on tape. >> i'm surprised how the officer walks to him and. >> it got a little weird really quickly. >> we have army master sergeant c.j. grissom see a gripe "right this minute." do you think the jury misunderstood anything? >> no, they understand everybody perfectly. the charge given to the narrow about to they were, i fudged the gun when i was

mexico at the moment than a year ago the french army declared that the downstream by them. when ready to take on the so sianz we then got to see what's become of the region. defrost controlled the house of may to the full four years whether or not. on sat. oh wait i'll try them and often what did i would like us. he tried to make it for thirty minutes. everything's under control. it's up to and so we can be sure we can achieve speak to them and they told us to talk to the same spot checks. sixty eight french troops most of my spicing is the taliban. this is wrong mission accomplished. or an exercise in futility. later that morning we joined ahmed units from the two zero one four. trained by the french is considered one of the best in the country. its mission is to defend the ski routes used by nature corn boys on their way to kabul. six the french were told that on a bus attacks has to do chemo this village. i live. this year. while. with me. today the us to know me just note that the ton about it on to the money in the spinach frontline troops situ with the period. the goa

show was pulled minutes before going on the air after he mocked the public fervor for the egyptian army. his channel which stood shoulder to shoulder with yousef when the morsi government went with him wasn't willing do that. it suspended his broadcast. our starting point this week is cairo where the army holds power and the bulk of the egyptian media seem happy to march in step. the arrest ab picking word for histercal is hysteri used that word to describe mohammed morsi in his first court appearance. al basmati waton went off script saying morsi had a screaming fit. egyptian newspapers are popular. in a country he trees with a lit racy rate of 70%, television packs a punch and that's where the change has occurred. >> what they have done in terms of controlling media coverage is that they have shut down most islamist media outlets and the framing of the trial. t.v. was running on loop footage of some of the violence by pro-morsi protesters, a montage of duplicity and violence by the broth brotherhood. the entire establishment media is very much framed it as he is already guilty. >> the

today, we have the premier army.it is our responsibility to ensure we remain the premier army and premier joint force in the war -- in the world. thank you. >> thank you so much general. thank you for mentioning our civilian personnel. those are our shipmates. we appreciate you mentioning them. distinguished members, thank you for the opportunity to testify in the short and long-term effects of sequestration. this morning, i will address two main points. our budget situation and plan in the near and long-term impacts of sequestration. presence remains our mandate. we have to operate where it matters and we have to be ready when it matters. we have to be able to respond to contingencies with acceptable readiness. abilitydemonstrated our to do that with deployed forces. navy assets were on station within a few days, where needed. this ability to present -- to be president reassures our allies ourin shores -- ensures interests around the world are properly serve. the budget control act revised discretionary caps will --

they push through the gates of the army headquarters demanding help to tackle the government.ding over power, pakistan chief makes way for a new man, plus. ♪ with walmart today workers say they have nothing to sing about and they are going on strike. ♪ all parents want the best for their children, food, shelter, a good education. but the syrian war is robbing hundreds of thousands of children of their chance to learn, that is according to a new u.n. report. more than half of the 2.2 million registered syrian refugees are children. lebanon has almost 400,000 child refugees and a staggering 80% of them are not at school. jordan has taken almost 300,000 from syria and 56% of them are not at school. even in the country that has given them a new home syrian refugee children are not safe and vulnerable to exploitation and abuse because they have to work to provide for their families and missing out on an education and dana reports. >> reporter: she is 11 years old. she escaped the war in syria only to find herself facing a new danger in lebanon. her school is safe but like her many

he is the top person in the united states army. i want to make sure i don't misquote him. he said if we can do what we're trying to do with this amendment, in other words, back load some of this stuff, it would actually save money three or four years from now because if you start cutting right now across the board, as would be mandated by sequestering, then you are going to be cutting in areas where it's going to cost you more to come back and do that. so i think you will find most of the military is very anxious to do that. again, i'm not going to introduce this until we have a chance to talk to senator sessions and hopefully come up with something that will be sellable to this body. in addition to my concerns about sequestration, this bill contains several provisions that i find deeply problematic. in particular, i strongly oppose this section that would loosen restrictions on the transfer of detainees from guantanamo bay to the united states or to countries like yemen that remain vulnerable to al qaeda and its terrorist affiliates. i am going to ad lib here a little bit

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old the chief of the army and he stated he. he nominated the icc to a torrid pace. so it's not only is the party about whether or not they are the opposite. they'll crawl or against most more see the thing is something very deep and very beginning going to an end in infancy in sinai and the basic fact is that the majority or to use this as a course in a number of bed doing so well folks people even saying i felt i din ate it. by the egyptian state. they feel that they are not considered as true egyptians. they woke from a news people say because you aren't these radio stations jaw steel collaborate the is the new appointees writing bandages and for the moss side and stuck in the day that this is of cos with development issues. it should never forget the dignity they mention of the question so it's good goals beyond any political schism was today mamaw madonna and child how close is cooperation between israel and egypt when it comes to sign up. the tidbits of eight dollars and on the pitch though competent than the pivotal open it and then lost the few mom's visiting

i think the army, all the opposition in the army happened in france in the summer of 1940. no one believed he could conquer france in the way he had proposed and he did it and it did look like a miracle. very sound and good people said just for a couple of weeks or so i thought well, he is a bit rough around the edges but look at this. in france the historical enemy. once the army came aboard that was the end of the opposition. >> and he got rid of generals very quickly who didn't go along with him. so there were indeed people in germany who opposed him in the 30s that the use of terror is very deft. and so it took more and more courage to oppose him openly and it became almost impossible. once he was in power and there were many people who didn't like what was going on but many chose inner immigration because i was the only way to survive. but i don't think it's anglo-american prejudice to say there was not -- there was not much in the way of real organized opposition. there was some. there were opposition groups here and there in the army. >> no, the people. when the assa

today in contrast, at least on the army side, you have said only 15% of army forces are acceptable, with 85% being below that, is that correct? >> that is correct, senator. >> today's situation is much worse. in the 1990s there was a response to that. the administration, president clinton's administration made a specific proposal and worked with everyone, including republicans in congress to get $25 billion allocated for readiness. will there be a specific administration proposal any time soon to this far greater challenge? >> i can't answer your question, senator. what i would say is it has to do as the chairman said earlier, the negotiations going on for the bunt deal. out of that we hope there will be something that comes back to the department of defense that allows us to deal with this three to four-year window we have of readiness challenges we have and get rid of this sequestration as everyone said here numerous times a horrible way to do business. >> i'm familiar with those negotiations. i don't think anything is being discussed currently that approaches a specific concrete respo

stored in the back and played wednesday the seventh of november yesterday sis bought the sun's new army chief. by the opposition is that it's quite appropriate link. it was intense. i know for all the details. the sun prime minister abbas to defect or that and get ready and should be the company's new army chief. the appointment assumes significance as not force has been considerable influence in the company which is being eyed up with the goal tries. she made a contingent of the keys to the default including him as the new chief of the fall fun of me. he looked into the physical modeling the whole video is set to be a friend of prime minister should the schools it an engine of the shot man who has been chosen as the new chair of the joint chief of staff committee. morehead so imagine the irony of the depicted director general of the country's main spy agency the isi the appointment of david a huge relief and smuggle suspenseful agenda spot but is guaranteed success the new army chief of the few charts been achieved if a monster dominion friday the digital crayon he is due to the dock.

the army, i mean, this was a show of force, but can the army really sustain itself? it does not match the militias in terms of manpower or firepower. >> you had a five-point plan, and i think the final point was to, basically, de-emphasize the militias and reintegrate militia members back into civilian life. >> right. >> and i gather that you put that fifth because it might be the hardest thing to do, and you could probably only do it if you did the other four steps first, i mean, is that -- do i read that right? >> it is the most difficult. i mean, this is an entrenched economic and social problem. the libyan government has developed a program to try to identify young men in the militias and to register them to get them into jobs and scholarships. but this program has fallen victim to political in-fighting, to lack of funding. but it's a good first step. and as i understand it, multiple u.s. agencies are supporting this effort to really get at the roots of this problem and to show these young men that, you know, you fought in the revolution, but now is the time to m

there's an army which is yet to be dealt with properly. people on the people who did the switch last year and are being rewarded and promote it. and the same time. ministerial portfolios his absence. like the menace of territorial administration and at the same time they're trying to. in the name of peace there for getting an early scene. former members of the rebellions former rebels and that nothing is happening on the very concrete level in terms of negotiations those people were released. maybe they need to be firsts for what has happened to me that justice will be the front of the scene right now is read out a reconciliation without the justice are read in the mood for it and even enforce the agreements that were put in place last week there was the start and that the prisoners on hand and self of the conference for the north has seized you know is was cold and in french his act in a perhaps. both are in order for the conference is for the march to be efficient i think that. on one hand. we need to look at. all the various people and