army at the outset of the war. it goes to the point of, you know, why could these units stand and fight and force the germans and their italian allies to withdraw? it's a challenge to decide where to start and who to look at. everyone has a role to play, whether you're riflemen, the kasserine pass, or corps headquarters. to explain how the army fought at a tactical level, the italian leaders tell the tale. about 170 developed similar carc krissics and capabilities prior to getting to north africa. these lead rers are adaptable based on prewar experience allowing for maximum agility on the battlefield. how and why did the american army exercise without prior combat experience? i would argue that despite the deficiencies with equipment, organization, mobilization and the inadequate leadership, without these battalion leaders, the u.s. could not have functioned tactically in the war given where we were training-wise once we got ashore north africa. they brought discipline, maturity, experience, and ability to translat

army at kasserine. lo looking at the landscape in world war ii, the battlet a kasserine is the focus of the column, and i will focus on that in this talk. they are dwarfed in scope compared to operation barbaro is a, the invasion of soviet union or normandy. so it is not a surprise to anyone in the room, but so why bother looking given the size of it. and where it took place and in how early in the war it occurred. we talked about it a little bit about why kasserine. and i i would like to the talk about how they survived these battles given the derth of war. and the germans are very good at the outset, and after a week, the germans did stem the tide and adjust. when you are looking at the entire tunisia campaign, in that army, they lose about 250,000 casualties and captured in the end. and so they the did end up losing around 300,000, and so when you are looking at a that scale, it is basically devastating. and so, the germans they lost in this set, and the critical staff and airmen who helped to provid

army at kasserine. and when you look at the landscape of world war ii, the kasserine pass battles, as i'll call them. from fade pass to kasserine in this talk, they were really dwarfed in scope to barbarosa, invasion soefie invasi in -- why bother looking at, given the size of it? where it took place, and how earl in the war it occurred? we talked about that a little bit, why kasserine? and so i want to look further, how did the american army survive these battles given their dearth of combat experience at this point in the war? tieing back to what rob said, it is -- the germans are good at the outset and after a week, the americans did sort of stem the tide and adjust. in the end, when you along at this entire tunisia campaign, they lose about 250,000 casualties, mainly captured at the end. when you compare of the same time period on the eastern front, that was about 300,000 casualties that the germans and their allies suffered. so it's on that scale it is significant. once you lose that experience, it

army and the war. this goes to the point of why could these units stand and fight and force the germans and italian allies to withdraw. the challenge was to decide where to start and who to look at. everyone has a role to play whether you are in kasserine pass or in your headquarters. battalion leaders helped tell the tale of the fight. they develop similar capabilities prior to getting to north africa. in short, these leaders are adaptable, based on their experiences and this allowed for maximum agility on the battlefield. the how and why did the regular battalion exercise combat command without any prior experience? i would argue, despite the efficiencies of the equipment and the inadequate operational issue, which i will talk about later, without this, u.s. leaders could not have functioned in the world. given where we were, training wise, once we got ashore in north africa. it brought discipline, and the ability to translate common operational guidance into a tactical reality. a look at this leader

and the army, when it first started to get the volunteer army, what it did was it started with what they called unit of choice recruiting, it was a throwback if you are a , history buff, to what the prussian army did -- crying out loud -- so what the local army did. you recruited locally and you were in a local area, you got -- somehow you got to know the local population and recruited that way. i do not think they got lessons from the way that the prussian army did it, but this basically was you go out in the local area, and for us the local area as far as i knew was the state of washington and oregon, and parts of northern california. and so the division established its own recruiting unit. and i had, at the same time, we began to organize and reactivate the division itself and that -- and i happen to get the urge rifle company to reorganize under the volunteer army. >> what company? harry: second bravo, second of the 39th infantry. i believe. >> ok. what was that like standing above the company in a brand-new, or i guess he resurrected division? harry: it was a phenomenal experience.

patton's 3rd army was ready to push on, but foul weather and reinvigorateed german army stymied their efforts. >> it was a totally, totally different war and the tanks couldn't negotiate the field. big, sticky mud. >> patton was trying to take metz, probably the worst set back in the war and the casualties piled up and patton turns in the hour which is the finest hour. >> oliver: 16 december, 1944, a quarter of a million desperate german soldiers burst through the arden forest encircling american units, the battle of bulge had begun. >> three days later in a cold army barracks, ike asked his commanders for help. >> and no one really came with a plan. bradley shows up, he has no idea what he wants to do. patton had three different plans worked out before he even left to go to the meeting. >> eisenhower said, okay, who can relieve fast enough? and patton said i can. he said what can you get moving? he said december 22nd, three days and eisenhower says no you can't. and he convinces eisenhower to let him do this. he'd get the 3rd corps moving in three days. >> oliver: first, patton neede

army air corps and later u.s. army air forces. so right now, as we say that, we go back and forth on that, we are channeling grace from that facing. the british historian from world war ii who has written widely on the anglo-american alliance has spent a lot of his time -- i would not say denigrating, but criticizing the fighting skills of u.s. infantry in the course of the war. as much have great admiration for sir max's work, i would probably have a bit of pushback on that. whatever category you were rated in a bevy of psychological tests that you happen to be, taking -- happen to be taking, look at the combat record. it came out of the war with the reputation that infantry by itself, it used to be the queen of the battlefield, and now it was just one of the supporting arms. it had to work in concert with the artillery and the armor in the air. combined arms warfare is no longer infantry warfare, but i come out of my studies with a hefty dose of admiration for american infantry, particularly the way they learned to stand up to t

that fought with the russian army we know of? >> yes. >> 21-year-old joe byerly was a long way from his home in mus coe gone, michigan. >> when you enlisted, how did you happen to choose the airborne? >> camp custer at that time. a sergeant came in and he said any of you men want to jump out of airplanes? and i says, i will. >> how did you pick up that nickname? >> first time i rode in an airplane i jumped out of it. first 40 times i rode in an airplane i jumped out of it. >> joe joined the 101 z airborne the screaming eagles. he parachuted into normandy on d-day. >> i estimated five seconds too soon and i landed on a church. >> joe landed safely only to be captured two days later. germans shipped him off to a p.o.w. camp. they put you on the 40 and 8. that's the size of the boxcar. >> they put 50 men in there. they locked us in for seven days and seven nights. and they unlocked the doors in germany. >> a big prisoner of war camp. is that where the mug shot is taken? >> that was when i was registered as a prisoner of war and then

one allied army versus two german armies. the first -- the americans and british are in overall british command and now we have a -- the panzer arm yes i and the 5th army here. if only for a brief moment, the allies are out numbered. something else they didn't expect when coming to africa. to exploit that temporary advantage, ramal will need to launch an attack. he will need to do so as quickly as possible before his pursuer arrives. before montgomery arrives in the theater. so he has a good staff at his side and they do the math and look at the distances involved and realize you have about two weeks before montgomery arrives in strength and southern tunisia. two weeks, what is the phrase, make hey while the sun shines. to take advantage of the superiorty you won for yourself. i hope this map makes clear. who is ramal's closest opportunity? the americans. the second core under the general. this is not how the campaign was expected to unfold. i'm a german military historian, i write on the german armed forces and it is a great

one allied army versus two german armies. the americans and british with all this force and now the palms are -- panzer army. the allies are outnumbered which they did not expect when they came to africa. to exploit that temporary advantage, rommel will need to launch an attack. he will need to do so as quickly as possible. before his pursuer arrives, before montgomery arrives in the theater, rommel had a good staff at his side. they did the math and looked at the distances and realize they had two weeks before montgomery arrives in strength in southern tunisia. two weeks. what is the phrase to make hay while the sun shines. well, on this map i hope it makes it fairly clear. who is rommel's closest calls -- target of opportunity? the americans. the untested u.s. second core under general fredendall. this is not at all as this campaign was supposed to unfold. the german -- i am a german military historian. and there was a great philosopher if i did not quote him at least once in this talks. he said the war is province of uncer

was it simply an accident, as the army concluded or was it, as some believe, an assassination? tonight, war stories investigates the remarkable life and mysterious death of general george s patton. of 8 may, 1945, ve-day. general george s patton, jr. delivered a triumphant address praising his beloved third army. >> more than 80,000 square miles of country have been liberated or concurred. you have demonstrated your irresistible prowess in france, belgium, luxembourg, germany, czechoslovakia and austria. >> though the american g.i.'s were looking forward to coming home, general patton was ready for another fight. >> when the war was over he was looking for another war and dreaded the idea of peace. >> he was the purest warrior we had. >> he believed in destiny, a great army and a desperate battle. >> oliver: george s patton, jr. was born 11, november in 1100 acre ranch in california. the vineyard had been owned by benjamin davis wilson, the first mayor of los angeles. the future parents called their son georgi. >> he was read by his aunt and father mythology, history, anything

i craongratulate the army on beg dod army research lab. to me the satellite chain is the basic research that comes out of the labs. in talking about the future force and what we're doing to integrate, what thought is being given to the infusion of budget to the basic research which as you all know is the building block upon which everything else can happen? >> great. basic research? anyone? >> the air force is undergoing a 12-month review of our science and technology strategy which will decide where the major areas of research are that we need to pursue. it will also look at how we do the research. in the wake of sequester, there was a deep cutback across the board. particularly in research and as most normal organizations do, they turn in where -- they steward what they have at the core. we need to revitalize our connections to the broader scientific and technical enterprise in america. some of it is in corporations, a lot of it is in universities. so we're developing our strategy to do that. the same time are respect with innovation, in

army. from the center for strategic and international studies, this is just over two hours. >>> let me welcome you here to csis. i am the interim director of the project on military and diplomatic history. we are conducting this event today jointly with the army center for military history, and we are pleased to welcome them here to csis. csis' project offn military diplomatic history endeavors to bring historians into the policy community and to give their craft more visibility than maybe it gets otherwise, the academy not paying as much attention to those sorts of history as maybe they did in the past. i want to make one simple announcement before we get going, simple administrative announcement. that is in the case -- the unlikely event of an emergency, i will give you instructions about what we'll do. we'll either stay here or go out the front or back door. to our panel. i want to introduce our moderator. dr. james wilbanks. a vietnam veteran, career army officer. he teaches at the army

the eighth army struck at takrouna.the goubellat plain, the sixth armored division striking toward tunis had drawn upon it most of the enemy's remaining armor. ♪ ♪ in three days of struggle, our main purpose was accomplished. meantime, the british 78th division was pressing the attack on longstop hill. [ gunfire ] [ gunfire ] [ gunfire ] for 12 days, the hills echoed with gunfire. positions were taken, lost, and retaken. when the german lines broke at last, their dead lay in hundreds, unburied, on the battlefields. as our infantry went forward, engineers and pioneers built roads across the mountain tops for vital supplies to reach them. in 14 days, they built 11 miles. meanwhile, further north, the americans had embarked on their place of the campaign. this started with the assault on hill 609. long-range artillery started the attack. [ gunfire ] [ gunfire ] >> left eight. baker, baker. [ gunfire ] [ gunfire ] >> we took hill 609. there weren't as many of us guys when we got to the top as there'd been at the bottom, but

his schoolmaster, the army, had not been tender, but he could appreciate how the army had transformed soldiers into professionals. it is wonderful to see what a change will take place in a man's disposition. i will quickly conclude that she did not leave the army, he fought all the way to the summer of 1864, when his enlistment ended and he returned to new york. but the point is that this move towards professionalization cannot be separated from the idea of union. it cannot be separated from the fact that this was a man that was deeply racist, but believed emancipation was necessary. he came to believe that african-american soldiers were to be respected and admired, especially because he knew if you get captured by the army of northern virginia, or any confederate army, and if you are a black soldier, you are not going to make it as a pow. behind a massive trench, north carolinians alexander keever stared across a barren swath of land between opposing union and confederate line of petersburg. the day rarely passed when he did not spot squads of confederates running towards the enemy w

the german army has been part of the un. no small nation since two thousand and thirteen initially with one hundred soldiers now with around nine hundred dutch and german personnel are currently sharing camp castoff at the end of the year the dutch forces were handed over the camp entirely to the germans a light aircraft group is stationed in mali too. they have four n.h. ninety transport helicopters to recover the wounded. and. chief stone of surgeon kathleen normally works in the army hospital in hamburg she hasn't yet experienced a live mission but there are regular training exercises. off liquid on on you fly with a different level of tension than you would in hamburg it could be that you come across someone who wants to harm you with the strain is not just mental it's also a special physical strain it's still quite cold it's just about forty two degrees and the humidity is around seventy to eighty percent that makes it physically more demanding than working on the north german atlanta as well as in a lot budgeted in. we

army center of military history. the society of military history 2018 kaufmanhe first manuscript prize. it is my double pleasure to prizewinner, 2018 frytly a fried -- zachary a , and present him with a certificate. i have already given him his check. [laughter] i present zachary a. fried. [applause] --ctly: thank you for that zachary a. fry. [applause] separate: thank you -- zachary: thank you for that. from a faculty, friends and family. this is for you. took me as long to read the dissertation get out graduate school than it did for lincoln to get out of the war. onlyind them that lincoln suffered for years learning, and i suffered six. lincolns divided legion looks at the changing political culture in the important union army and how soldiers arrived at political views ahead of elections in 1863 and 1864. --ological officers battered embattled viciously for the less hand in teaching educated men about policy. the size -- sides used principle of loyalty and received help in the meantime from politicians and news e

army, work began to provide the basic needs of life. health care, food and water, shelter and transportation. ♪ >> in the past two decades, the face of disaster reflecting tragedy and despair has become a familiar portrait in every quarter of the world with brief pause touched and scarred the people of every continent. no longer is the soldier the soel victim of battle. cities and towns are prime target and the casualties, civilians. despite the repeated experience of the miseries of war, mankind has learned neither to maintain peace nor to accept callously those who suffer most. life the life tame of a present -- a new list is compared with those of ancient history. very names are synonymous with ruin, london, warsaw, hiroshima, berlin and today still another, four times crushed in less than two years, a city which refuses to die, seoul, the korean capital since the 14th century, the capital since 1948 lies in the hill surrounded valley. one of the most modern cities in the orient, seoul and summer of 1950 enjoys a democratic form of g

i would like to congratulate the army on being named dod innovation exemplar army research lab. for me, they start of the supply chain is the basic research that comes out of the lab. talking about the future force and what we are doing to integrate, what thought is being given to the fusion of budget to the basic research which, as you all know, is that building block upon which everything else can happen? the air force is undergoing a 12 month review of our science and technology strategy, which will decide where the major areas of research that we need to pursue, but will also look at, how do we do our research? there was a deep cut back across the board. especially in research. as most of normal organizations do, they turn inwards. we need to revitalize our connections to the broader scientific and technical enterprise in america. some of it is in corporations. a lot of it is universities. we are developing our strategies do that. , andrespect to innovation number of things in the air force and the way in which we drive innovation and get things , and rewarding innovation wi

no field army understood took but the united states army.ur job is to help the koreans help themselves. we had the put the railroads back to work. trolley transportation got a high priority. the chinese used the tracks to place mines next to so they couldn't pick up the mines. in some cases these exploded. some tracks were hit by shell fire, so a great deal of track had to be replaced. now we have replaced all the existing trolley lines. like any city, seoul has a downtown business sent rm. the trolleys are a help in bringing people from their homes to the places being rebuilt. things are not yet back to normal, of course, but they're well under way. most of us figure seoul is unone of the cleanest cities in the oriental it's certainly the cleanest in korea. right from the start, the people started to rebuild with the same kind of determination they showed in wanting to get back to their homes in the first place. even without modern construction equipment, they set to and new buildings started to mushroom up, almost overnight. during the yea

army a graduate u.s. military academy and served over a decade including service in the gulf war also served as deputy secretary of defense at the secretary of defense and for the past seven years vice president for government relations. with a doctorate in public policy from george washington university sitting in the middle secretary spencer of the navy early in his career he entered the private financial sector he worked as vice chairman of intercontinental exchange and served as the chief of naval operations executive panel and secretary wilson 24th secretary of the air force a graduate of the air force academy serving 82 through through 89 also served on the national security council staff of george hw bush and later served in congress were her committees services included energy and commerce. a rhodes scholar earning her doctorate at oxford. so with the opportunity to talk about their priorities as we are beginning the second year of the administration at the national security strategy that secretar

with no army of his own, he must make an alliance.ses the most powerful king in the western empire, charles the great of france, better known as charlemagne. in christmas day in 800 pope leo crowns chalemagne holy roman emperor. >> he took on the role of defender of the faith. >> the moment he was found it puts the church back together with the empire. if you have the pope crowning a king that means the pope is giving that earthly king temporal and divine power. >> pope leo iii's decision to crown empire marks the pivot away from the eastern church. >> the relations between rome and eastern chrtians had not been good for a while. >> charli main in his have you he was the only legitimate christian emperor left. as he developed in power he developed a stand offish relationship with the ruler of constantinople. >> that's the start of the skichl between the orthodox and catholic church. >> in the two centuries after charlemegan unite europe under the western papacy in rome, the eastern part of the empire breaks off and calls itself the gr

to algiers came general anderson, commanding the british 1st army.nch land forces. united under general eisenhower, they were ready to take the field. once more, the stars and stripes, the union jack, flew side by side. ♪ but the enemy had lost no time. across the mediterranean by sea and by air, he was pouring in in equipment to tunis. despite this, we determined to start the campaign at once, hoping to reach the distant cities before the enemy's grasp had become too strong. this was a bold decision, for the british 1st army was as yet little more than one division and the bulk of the american forces were needed to safeguard our position in morocco. we had other disadvantages. roads were poor, railways inadequate. the enemy beyond the mountains had short supply lines from sicily and sardenia. our own stretching forward from the improvised base at algiers were four times the length. even more important, we lacked as yet airfields whereas the enemy in tunisia had all the permanent airfields he needed. in less than a month, the weather would break. cou

soviet red army soldiers celebrated at the feet of nazi, germany. together allied generals, eisenhower, montgomery and the soviets zukoff toured the vanquished third reich. >> the nazis began the bombing. the allies finished it. >> victory wasn't always certain. five years earlier, hitler was at the height of his power. after the success of its blitzkrieg against poland in 1939, hitler turned against france, holland and belgium. he ruled the european continent. >> what they have done is they have integrated that air power. that luftwafa into a team. the team that characterizes blitzkrieg. >> the author of numerous books on the front in world war ii. hitler tried to bring britain to its knees but prime minister winston churchill stood tough. >> we shall fight in the fields and streets. we shall never surrender. >> 1500 miles away stallen waited for hitler to invade the country. describe for us the relationship that the soviets had with the fascists in germany. >> stalin understood hitler's ultimate aim. >> published in 1927, hitler wrote when we spea

army here and around the globe however when the army began to review its contract from the incumbent agency mccann and accept competing offers something strange became clear to everyone first in october of twenty seventeen the army auditing agency's analysis showed that only three percent of tore through only three of twenty three about thirty percent of the marketing programs generated a positive impact in the air in addition the a.m.r. jihad only bought one of its six established performance schools the second revelation really was that the gave their current agency mccann an advertising direction sheet in which they laid out plans to take business from other contractors and move it to make can see this violates federal acquisition regulations by creating a conflict of interest according to the guidelines it is developing or approving any contractual documents to include documents defining requirements incentive plans and evaluation criteria during the bidding process is forbidden. finally one of the competing contractors found that mccann was getting special treatment and being al

army, a graduate of the u.s. military academy and served for over a decade, including service in the gulf war. served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for negotiations policy in the office of secretary of defense for the past seven years, served the vice president. publicing doctorate in policy from george washington university. richard spencer, the 76 secretary of the navy. he served as a pilot for the u.s. bancorp early in his career before departing active-duty to enter the private financial sector. secretary spencer worked as vice-chairman of intercontinentalexchange incorporated. chief of navale operations executive panel. lson, thet, heather wi 24th secretary of the air force. served as an air force officer from 1982 to 1989. she also served on the national security council staff of president george h.w. bush and served in congress, or her assignments included house permit select committee on intelligence. she was a rhodes scholar, earning her doctorate at oxford university. i promise each secretary

newsding to a number of agencies, and explosion was heard at the army headquarters in the army headquartersowntown. one building is currently on fire. let's bring in our senior reporter who has been following developments for us. can you give us a recap of the information we have so far? there have been some contradictory reports. reporter: it has been a very fluid, fast-moving, confusing situation with lots of reports coming in from on the ground. let's go through what we know at this stage. there are attacks at two separate locations, both in the center of the capital. there are lots of strategically important buildings in these two locations in the city, which are around two kilometers apart. one is the army headquarters where several witnesses have reported hearing a large explosion and seeing armed men. around two kilometers away, we have the french embassy, the prime minister's office, and other important government buildings. they have also reported signs of an attack. from thewe heard french ambassador on social media saying this is an attack on the french embassy. they have climbed

patton is the general of the third army. he had taken third army from its beginning. and the soldiers in third army for the most part loved general patton interviewed a lot of guys from the fourth division. given his chance, he could have gone all the way to moscow. we dealt with the cold war. it was not the same with the soldiers of the first infantry division. they did not like patton at all. that was universal. they felt patton tended to focus on unimportant things like dress code. truth be told, second core did need a shot in the arm, okay? they had been badly whipped at cassarine. especially the first part, you did a good job talking about the first part. patton invigorated the moral, started to treat them like soldiers, even the commander of the second division felt that patton was a good edition to second core. and we didn't waste a lot of time after cassarine. there wasn't a lot of time to recover. we talked about, the eighth army showed up, and had gotten to the line in southern tunisia. there was a big operation monty wanted to run. we now know it as the fir

, behind which barrier the army had entrenched itself., 15 full divisions. battle-wise veterans of poland, france, the balkans, they, together with seven italian divisions, were armed with the most modern types of equipment, including the newest fighters and bombers. the german orders were hold tunisia at all costs. keep control of the mediterranean. standing behind his line, he saw he must soon be faced with an attack as well as an assault by the eighth army. it was an endeavor to remove the menace behind him. on february the 14th, the blow was struck. heavy armored columns burst out of the pass in the mountained area and through into the valley beyond. in the face of their onslaught, allied armor withdrew. by the 21st, the enemy had forced his way through the pass, and his armored columns were advancing in a three-pronged thrust. one main column aimed at tebessa, our supply base in southern tunisia, and another at thala, a key town in our lines of communication. almost within sight of his objective, he was halted. american, british, and

army here and around the globe however when the army began to review its contract from the incumbent agency mccann and accept competing offers something strange became clear to everyone first in october of twenty seventeen the army auditing agency's analysis showed that only three percent of tore through only three of twenty three about thirteen percent of the marketing programs generated a positive impact in the air in addition the a.m.r. jihad only bought one of its six established performance schools the second revelation really was that the gave their current agency mccann an advertising direction sheet in which they laid out plans to take business from other contractors and move it to make can see this violates federal acquisition regulations by creating a conflict of interest according to the guidelines it is developing or approving any contractual documents to include documents defining requirements incentive plans and evaluation criteria during the bidding process is forbidden. finally one of the competing contractors found that mccann was getting special treatment and being

army and a graduate of the academy and served in the regular army for over a decade. he also served for the policy in the officofthe office of the sef defense and for the past seven years vice president for relations with. a doctorate in public policy from washington university. sitting in the middle is richard spencer at the 76th secretary of the navy who served as the pilot of the marine corps earlier in his career before departing active-duty to enter the financial sector and prior to serving as the secretary of the navy, he worked as the vice-chairman of the intercontinental exchange inc. and served on the board and the chief of the operations executive panel. then all the way to my left is heather wilson the 24th secretary of the air force graduate of the u.s. air force academy and served as an air force officer. she also served on the national security council staff of president george h. w. bush and served in congress where her committee includes the house permanent select committee on intelligence and commerce. she was a rhodes scholar earning her doctorate at

i was army marine corps but i won't go there. let me ask you all this question. if eligibility criterias change, what should be the timeline for phasing in the changes? mr. allen, start with you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. we have not really discussed a timeline among our membership. i would be hesitant to give you a projection on that without having discussed that. you know, if there is a decision and it's going to be made anywhere in the reasonably near future, the big challenge that we would want to make sure is going to be handled is the communication aspect of that. i know general bacon just mentioned that. but really formulating a path forward to make sure all interested parties are aware of any changes coming will be an important factor. >> okay. we are doing a second round at this time. mr. avila, if you could -- if eligibility criterias change, what should be the timeline for phasing in those changes? >> in accordance with the resolution, we know the criteria american legion supports, approximately 67,000 spaces are used annually based on ceremonies tha

and the reality is the role it played a lot for or army's psyche and the army's morale. because we talked about, and we had just gone through the battle of kasserine pass, and there was a lot of doubt, okay. a.j. liebling who was a journalist working at "new york yorker" who was working the battle of el guettar said that the german were actually super men, and that is the term that he used. this is an important battle, because it dispels some of the myths, but also at high command. aj, who was a journalist working at the new yorker, who was actually present at the battle of el guettar said there was this impression among the american soldiers -- it's not a good things when you have a general talking about his adversary as if he's some learned professor and you're just a mere student. it kind of reminds me of "star wars" and obi wan kenobe and darth vader with the student and the master, so you can understand why el guettar was so important. it was the first time that we had really beaten the germans in a stand-up fight. the first time that the germans had attacked us fro

is preparing for the next attack from the me and maher army. they burnt down the houses shoot people and rape women these are three tactics they use all the time but tactics the world has become aware of in the western state of retiring where hundreds of thousands of ring you have fled to bangladesh because of attacks by security forces the united nations and others have called it ethnic cleansing. the kitchin say they have faced similar violence for years it's estimated around one hundred thousand are in camps along the border with china because of fighting between the kitchen independence army and the myanmar army which some still call bernie's referring to me and miles form a name for a cease fire which had lasted for seventeen years broke down in two thousand and eleven and the battle for control of the resource rich area restarted. and so did the attacks on civilians which kitchen soldiers say are continuing. my mother or my sister was killed by burma's army my house was burnt down i am very sad and feel helpless so i made the decision to