and marines agreed and the army upheld it to the letter that they would tell no family. about a friendly fire casualty and until they could tell all of them in a synchronized matter that was intended to set up the press conference the next day so it was decreed that always fell five pm would be the time that thirty five casualty officers would show up on the doorsteps of thirty five next of kin and tell them that their loved ones had been killed by american forces and no one was to be told before that even if there was categorical evidence months before as there as there was in many cases the army held a formal press conference on aug twelfth at five pm announcing that thirty five of the one hundred forty eight american servicemen and women who died on the battlefield in the gulf war were killed and advertently by their comrades for many families like the family of captain lance fielder the army's public relations strategy left them disconcerted douglas fielder everyone called him lance he was a combat engineer. the basic facts are that his truck broke down he was waitin

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the army and marines agreed and the army up held it to the letter that they would tell no family. about a friendly fire casualty and until they could tell all of them in a synchronized matter that was intended to set up a press conference the next day so it was decreed that always twelve five pm would be the time that thirty five casualty officers would show up on the doorsteps of thirty five next of kin and tell them that their loved ones had been killed by american forces and no one was to be told before that even if there was categorical evidence months before as there as there was in many cases. the army held a formal press conference on aug twelfth at five pm announcing that thirty five of the one hundred forty eight american servicemen and women who died on the battlefield in the gulf war were killed and it vertically by their comrades for many families like the family of captain lance fielder the army's public relations strategy left them disconcerted douglas fielder everyone called him lance he was a combat engineer. the basic facts are that his truck broke down he was wai

the greek army, the athenian army was greatly outnumbered by the invading persian army. very large persian army. some estimate, the persian army outnumbered five to one for 10 to one. nav battle, a large persian navy, very small brief navy. that's pretty terrifying when you're outnumbered three to one, florida one, five to one. the greeks used the battle of solomon. it gives a sense of greece from save your wives, children can a city. they say the common cause of all demands his valor. most people die to protect loved ones. when the athenians heard that, save your children, state or country. they were ready to fight to the death. i think that battle cry has been used by every government since then. not word for word, but the essence of the battle cry. so how many wars have there been any human history? thousands maybe? thousands perhaps? do you know when all for rotisserie, there has never been a single war. there's never been a single war or they are fighting for money or gold or oil. never before have been for you are told the population now. so what do national leader

very small greek army, very large persian army. by some estimates, the persian army outnumbered the attenyang army five to one or ten to one. if you look ten years later, a naval battle, a very large persian navy, a very small greek navy. so that's pretty terrifying when you're outnumbered three to one, four to one, five to one. so this was the battle cry the greeks used at the battle, it went advance you sons of greece from oppression save your wives, save your children, save your country. this day the common cause of all demands fur valor. most people will die to protect their loved ones. so when the athenians heard that, save your children, save your country, this day the common cause of all demands europe valor, they were ready to fight to the death. and i think that battle cry has been used by every government since then. not word for word, but the essence of that battle cry. so how many wars have there been in human history? thousands maybe? thousands perhaps? but do you know this all of world history, all the military histor

defeating lee's army they dealt the death blow they insisted that only that the union army victory emanated from a superior virtues loss of the black troops in particular exemplify that virtue. most important, african-american soldiers interpretation of surrender inscribed a civil rights message into the magnanimous terms of the surrender, emphasizing the promise of appomattox, black veterans depicted three people and black soldiers in particular as agents of national healing. williams' 1888 history of the negro troops and the war of the rebellion praised black soldiers for treating the vanquished confederate with quiet dignity in christian humility. he rode after the confederate army had been controlled the negro troops cheerfully divided their rations with the late in the me and welcome them at their campfires had a conscious effort as purposeful as grant's own act of clemency to lead to break the cycle of violence. the emphasis on restoration in the trade that true spirit. they invested with very different meaning. for lee and his followers the radical republicans were the arch betrayers

me early start calling you know the army was shot he said shot him calling us commanders the moisture. state did you know just. confirm anything. like in february i get the autopsy. and it describes all jesse's injury. and under circumstances such as friendly fire that's first we heard currently fire like nine months after i ask they have just hit good soldier people why. how could they make the mistake of not telling us it was shot not no one is a war at all until i read everything over and seen that the weapons were never collected and i knew they. were properly. in hopes of satisfying peggy's questions investigators held a powerpoint briefing for the family the presentation reiterated the army's position that the shots most likely came from the polish sector but that it remained inconclusive they did not mention that a ballistics test would have conclusively identified which weapon fired the fatal bullet during the same presentation the officers noted that the family had been informed that friendly fire was involved within days of the incident immediately peggy challenge the office

the army and marines agreed and the army up held it to the letter that they would tell no family. about a friendly fire casualty and until they could tell all of them in a synchronized matter that was intended to set up the press conference the next day so it was decreed that always felt five pm would be the time that thirty five casualty officers would show up on the doorsteps of thirty five next of kin and tell them that their loved ones had been killed by american forces and no one was to be told before that even if there was categorical evidence months before as there as there was in many cases. the army held a formal press conference on aug twelfth at five pm announcing that thirty five of the one hundred forty eight american servicemen and women who died on the battlefield in the gulf war were killed and it vertically by their comrades for many families like the family of captain lance fielder the army's public relations strategy left them disconcerted douglas fielder everyone called him lance he was a combat engineer. the basic facts are that his truck broke down he was wai

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

army records alone for the second world war with 17,000 tons. like all great events in american history, world war ii is bottomless. there are wonderful things still to discover. so for example, i found that the national archives in college park about 15 miles from here, a document that revealed thinking about, how are you going to get onto the beaches at the normandie if you know the beaches are going to be heavily defended. how are you going to get ashore by air, by parachute or bake later. someone or posed how about taking a time out under the english channel? and so there was a study done at the officers who reported back to the handset can do this. it will take 15,000 miners a year to excavate 50,000 tons of spoil, but we can do that. but they couldn't finance, what they could never forget out is when the first minor popped out an entire german seventh army was waiting. there was a whole collection of these problems and they had their own acronym. can't wait, problems of the invasion of northwest europe. there was anxiety, for example, the

army tried to get it going.overs made it more difficult. >> brian: navy pushed them are around to create the nice 12-game streak and you look at the alignment for navy, the smallest 281, the largest for army 257. >> tim: two hours from now the heisman trophy will be awarded. the six finalists stopped by our studios earlier. here is a sampling of what they had to say. >> brian: why are redshirt frem having so much success? >> because we don't carry about the upperclassmen, we just come out ballin'. [laughing] >> we come out ballin'. that's what we've got to do. i was blessed with the situation i'm in, i'm at florida state with kevin beverage mib, rashard green, i'm blessed, i know i'm in a better predicament than johnny was last year. >> spencer: what advice would you give jameis if he won the heisman trophy? >> me and jameis had a talk at dinner and i told him no matter what continue to be yourself, continue to be hungry and don't let this change you, if you are to go on and be a winner and be the second freshma

the army-navy game. i spent the day outside the stadium in the stands and on the sidelines. i will bring you binds snapshots of the game's rich traditions. first, the second installment of "wounded, the battle back home" produced in part by the wounded warrior project. highlighted in this episode, retired iraq war vet angie peacock. after normal medications and programs didn't work for extreme post traumatic stress disorder she turned to alternative therapy one normally prescribed to the blind. here now, angie's story. ♪ >>> you know we talk about a decade of service and a lifetime of commitment. you look back and, wow, ten years already. it's the future we have to look forward to. we know there is no end to this. there are still korean vets korld war 2 and vietnam vets that 40 60 years later need assistance. this generation won't be different. they committed their lives to our freedoms and our way of life and security. how can we not turn around and say we are going to be there for you and for your issu

army black hawk. was configured these two blackhawks were configured slightly different that day normally a black hawk or the p. have little wing lights on the side and sponsons and on this particular day the blackhawks were going about one hundred miles to the town of erbil inside deep inside northern iraq and so they attached external fuel tank still blackhawks and these little wings and that changed the shape. what shapes what we see every day it's largely shaped by our expectations. by what we want to see what we expect to see and also then the ultimate you know sort of the physical stimulus that actually enters or i so it was a very ambiguous stimulus the speed the distance and everything camouflaged in a very strong set of expectations the visual identification has happened the intersection of a strong set of expectations possibly a little desire to maybe see an enemy aircraft and a very ambiguous stimulus that actually came in the eyes of what we do as humans we fill in the blanks. and then fin

us army black hawk. was configured these two black hawks were configured slightly different that day normally a black hawk they have little wing lights on the side and sponsons in on this particular day the blackhawks are going about one hundred miles to the town of erbil inside deep inside northern iraq and so they attached external fuel tanks to the blackhawks and these little wings in that change the shape. what shapes what we see every day it's largely shaped by our expectations. by what we want to see what we expect to see and also then the ultimate you know sort of the physical stimulus that actually enters or i so it was a very ambiguous stimulus the speed the distance and everything camouflaged in a very strong set of expectations the visual identification has happened the intersection of a strong set of expectations possibly a little desire to maybe see an enemy aircraft and a very ambiguous stimulus that actually came in the eyes of what we do as humans we fill in the blanks. and then finally b

army black hawk. was configured these two blackhawks were configured slightly different that normally a black hawk they have little wing lights on the side and sponsons and on this particular day the blackhawks are going about one hundred miles to the town of erbil inside deep inside northern iraq and so they attached external fuel tanks to the blackhawks and these little wings and that change the shape. what shapes what we see every day it's largely shaped by our expectations. by what we want to see what we expect to see and also then the ultimate you know sort of the physical stimulus that actually enters or i so it was a very ambiguous stimulus speed the distance of everything camouflage and a very strong set of expectations the visual identification has happened the intersection of a strong set of expectations possibly a little desire to maybe see an enemy aircraft and a very ambiguous stimulus that actually came in the eyes of what we do as humans we fill in the blanks. and then finally both shoo

army black hawk. was configured these two blackhawks were configured slightly different that a normally a black hawk they have little wing lights on the side and sponsons and on this particular day the blackhawks were going about one hundred miles to the town of erbil inside deep inside northern iraq and so they attached extra fuel tanks to the blackhawks and these little wings and that changed the shape. what shapes what we see every day it's largely shaped by our expectations. by what we want to see what we expect to see and also then the ultimate you know sort of the physical stimulus that actually enters or i so it was a very ambiguous stimulus the speed the distance and everything camouflage in a very strong set of expectations the visual identification has happened the intersection of a strong set of expectations possibly a little desire to maybe see an enemy aircraft and a very ambiguous stimulus that actually came in the eyes of what we do as humans we fill in the blanks. and then finally both

the annual tradition army versus navy. got a complete wrap up in spor >>> now, game on with kristen berset. live from the wusa9 cadillac sports desk. >> it's the time honor tradition that gets a fall saturday all to itself. this afternoon was the 114th annual army, navy football game. all the pomp and circumstance never disappoints. dominated with 11 straight wins and today, they all had to deal with that snowy, rainy conditions up in philadelphia. second possession, army quarterback getting his first start, gets cracked by brendan clemens, loses the football and recover. very next play, quinton singleton on the quick opener. the fullback with 58 yards to the army four yard line. but navy would only be able to settle for a field goal. 10-0 right before the half. navy in the 2 minute drill. ties the ncaa record for most rushing td's by a qb in the season. and then reynolds does it again, that's number 28, so that's a new single season record for rushing touchdowns by a quarterback. navy wins their 12th in a row in a big way

she talked to the head of the army.eneral has been involved in talking between the opposing sides in recent days. it seems the protesters won't back down for long, though. the anti-government leader again took to the stage and claimed a partial victory. at the end of a confusing day, cleaners moved into the area around the prime minister's office. but the protesters are still on the street and the government are still in power. wayne haye, al jazeera, bangkok. >>> scott hideler has filed this update. >> the protester were here by the thousands, but for the first time police pulled back barricades and allowed protesters to go into the area. they allowed them to come into the compounds, something that the anti-government protest leader said he wanted so desperately to get into. he wanted to occupy those areas. they were allowed to go into the compounds but not the buildings themselves. the prime minister later said she wants the country to move forward, that she wants a solution that is peaceful and welcomed all sides to

army special or says. this is how che wound up, if even shaye guevera this icon of the revolution could be defeated and killed then i don't want to hear anybody suggest that it's impossible to defeat any group or insurgency. you can do it. you just have to have the right strategy. the question is what is the right strategy? there've been many approaches but essentially they come down to what i would call -- what is known today as population-centric counterinsurgency or hearts and minds. there was kind of a controlled experiment run by to the great nations of europe, britain and france in the 1950s to show which of these approaches is more successful because britain and france were each fighting counterinsurgency is an different colonies on different sides of the world. the french were fighting in algeria from 1954 to 1962. the british were fighting in malaya from 1948 to 1960s and they adopted very different methods of fighting with the french exemplifying the -- approach in the british applying the britis

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army black hawk. was configured these two black hawks were configured slightly different that day normally a black hawk they have little wing lights on the side and sponsons and on this particular day the blackhawks were going about one hundred miles to the town of erbil inside deep inside northern iraq and so they attached extra fuel tanks to the blackhawks and these little wings and that changed the shape. what shapes what we see every day it's largely shaped by our expectations. by what we want to see what we expect to see and also then the ultimate you know sort of the physical stimulus that actually enters or i so it was a very ambiguous stimulus the speed the distance and everything camouflage and a very strong set of expectations the visual identification has happened the intersection of a strong set of expectations possibly a little desire to maybe see an enemy aircraft and a very ambiguous stimulus that actually came in the eyes of what we do as humans we fill in the blanks. and then finally

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a bomb exploded outside an army building. the egyptian army labelled it a terrorist attack. saudi arabia pledged $3 million. the lebanese military has grappled with sectarian violence stemming from the syrian civil war. france's president pledged support. >> what i know is france equipped the lebanese army for a while. and will readily answer solicitation why, because lebanon must remain united. integrity must be expected and guaranteed for all the reb niece. >> lebanon is rebuilding after its own 15-year civil war. a new report says the u.s. could lose its momentum in afghanistan after a troop drawdown, the national intelligence estimate says it could take three years for the taliban power to grow. the report says security conditions would likely worsen regardless of a u.s. presence. hitting a health care milestone days before insurance is set to kick in. thousands forced to flee as a dormant volcano roars to life. and fraz ep in the ocean, a russian ship stuck in the ice near australian antarctic division. -- near antarctica. valvel salvadorsan miguel >> a militia vowing v

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but the army is an institution i think. generally avoid such cover ups in. we make mistakes and i think any honest person in the army understands that we make mistakes and is willing to admit that we. call my to sit back and judge a man in the heat of combat. and i don't know what that's like you don't know what that's like. nobody who's never been in it doesn't really have any idea if you watch it on the movie or whatever it happens. unfortunately it happened to us. fire it issues oh do the same thing. illegal for justice justice for your son. are you looking for the truth. you know the the the simple things which don't seem like big things to ask for a start to deal with the world's largest army bureaucracy. hope that justice is done and where if we get justice maybe everybody who has suffered a little bit and then even know it gets a little justice maybe the little guy wins some day. where vick got. days a lot. and now don't know me and now. all bad. guys just. as we have a brother i used to have that don't know him now. doubt where. they are they are. wh

when army went to afghanistan and iraq, the big army, i'm not talking about special forces, the big armys not well prepared. i think we paid a heavy price for the fact we didn't have an army marine counterinsurgency until the end of twirks. they figured out what to do. they didn't have a manual. along the way, they have become perhaps the finest counter insurgety force the world has ever seen. what the young officers are able to do in the field is mind boggling. they are manipulating so many different -- they are good at doing this kind of stuff. so to a specific cultural concept. they understand in in the way they didn't at the beginning of the war. my concern is what happens out now we are out. i hear lot of people in the army saying thank goodness that's over with. we never want to do it again. let's get back to -- there's no red army anymore. we'll fight somebody like the red army if they kind enough to come out and let us wack them. well, i wish there were more leaders out there stupid as saddam hussein but i'm concern there had may not be. because, you know, saddam hussein was obli

obviously there were miners in the british army. and they would have tunneled under the german lines and then some of the larger ones were heard in england. this one blew the debris 4,000 feet into the air. so they went off and then there was silence. and of course the whistles blow and the british troops start going over the top and i shall an officer there with his browning service revolver and what sort of interesting about the first world war is that the not the high command but the junior officers like the lieutenant and the captains lead from the front and throughout the war and including of course the battle they had a high casualty rate than the average infantryman. and the officer class was generally from the has dhaka see basically very well-educated graduates of cambridge and oxford that came out of eden. the high command didn't have great confidence in the volunteer army. most of the troops were seeing the combat for the first time. so, they were told to line up outside of their own barbwire and move sort of napoleonic s

hour fierce fighting is continuing in the syrian town of hadera on the outskirts of damascus as the army tries to push rebel forces from several districts and reports indicate mass execution of civilians carried out by al qaeda linked groups survivors have described the horrific scenes of people used as human shields archies arabic channel spoke to an eyewitness to the massacre . no. r t sources in the military say radical islamist fighters entered the town of address and massacred local civilians according to the latest figures at least eighty people were killed in the districts which the syrian army has now liberated entire families were killed other families were kidnapped and are being used as human shields in the battle against government forces. militants from job i don't know strike and the army of islam seize control of all the streets and cross roads very quickly this is became terrible they were killing the outrage and fear on of them to find our men came to the city they carried out the slow to the worst thing in their crime was when they shot people in the baker's old and the

border as well as clashes between the lebanese army. talk about spillover, it might theore accurate to describe area as something of a hinterland to the war. arabiaerday, saudi agreed to give lebanon millions of dollars in missing -- and military aid. how will this affect what you just described, this very complicated relation already? contacts,ted in some up until now -- to put it in some context, the total foreign military aid is $100 million. even if it is spread over some , this is still considerably larger. army -- armyanese is often seen as a unifying , you might have thought everybody there would be happy. the prime minister delegate has described it as giving him hope. if you think where the money is arabia openlyaudi supports the armed opposition in syria. if you talking about the semi- shia divide, they are at opposite ends of the spectrum. while many will greet this as an act of benevolence design to support and bolster the state, there is pressure from all sides. to look at itely with a strong dose of skepticism. >> adam, th

among them army captain. while serving in kandahar three years ago an improvised explosive device went off near him. with the help of his wife he's been able to rebuild his life. we have his story. >> this is u.s. army captain's regular workout. all done with three artificial limbs, an impressive feat for someone who nearly died three years ago. >> we were just being on the ground i was in a lot of pain and yelling for my medic. >> he was a platoon leader serving in afghanistan when a homemade bomb exploded nearby. he was air lifted out on a military helicopter and the blast took both of his legs and the lower part of his right arm. the army called his wife to tell her what happened. she was at his side when he woke up. >> he was on a breathing machine so he couldn't talk, but he could kind of wrinkle his eyebrows and wiggle his nose at phaoefplt i knew he was still himself. >> i can't imagine coming conscious really for the first time and trying to assess and deal with everything that had happened without he

program fierce fighting continues in the syrian town of hadera on the outskirts of damascus as the army tries to push rebel forces from several districts and our sources say al qaida ling groups have carried out mass executions and kidnappings in the town our colleagues from artie's arabic chalo spoke to an eyewitness. r t sources in the military say radical islamist fighters and toured the town of address and massacred local civilians according to the latest figures at least eighty people were killed in the districts which the syrian army has now liberated entire families were killed other families were kidnapped and are being used as human shields in the battle against government forces. that are out. militants from jabhat al nusra and the army of his lawyers seize control of all the streets and cross roads very quickly and not first took positions on the roof and how did they carried out the massacre the first report said twenty had been killed but today we're seeing it obviated figures it's a horrifying situation or a scene of murder atrocities and career r t sources in the military

the army, it's not clear what is happening. group of young men stormed the international tv. >> reporter: are you seeing soldiers on the streets? what are you actually seeing in terms of the security situation? >> yes, the large number at the tv at the moment and i am in the compound and i am told we can see soldiers moving around national tv but at the moment no no gunshots. >> reporter: in the capitol and thank you for that. up now saudi arabia is giving $3 million in military aid, the largest grant given to the forces and struggling to deal with the civil war and weak with armed internal groups including hezbollah. >> translator: this aims will support lebanon and religions and the army that is known for supporting national unity and provide it with all needy conditions to achieve the great national cause it was set up for. >> reporter: let's talk to joseph from beirut and he is a middle east analyst and $3 billion is a huge amount of money by anybody's standard and why are they doing this now and what is the thinking behind

government is the mists burning civilians in other news and using others as human shields all the army struggling to overthrow the extremists and get them out of the area says the horrific scenes did take place artie's arabic channel try to get a clearer picture of what's happened here. r t sources in the military say radical islamist fighters and toward the town of address and massacred local civilians according to the latest figures at least eighty people were killed in the districts which the syrian army has now liberated entire families were killed other families were kidnapped and are being used as human shields in the battle against government forces and men came to search our houses and demanded to see our documents he told us to step outside but he spoke and in foreign dialects they killed everyone at our draw money a police station and also the local hospital where my sister works she still lives on the because she didn't show up for work that day there are still about two hundred civilians at the police station that the militants are hiding among them using them as human shie

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 special or says.his is how che wound up, if even shaye guevera this icon of the revolution could be defeated and killed then i don't want to hear anybody suggest that it's impossible to defeat any group or insurgency. you can do it. you just have to have the right strategy. the question