army was the m1 tank. is the equivalent of the f-18 -- given the lessons we are learning from the war in ukraine, that the javelin and other systems can knock out at tank, we are is the relevance of the future of the m1 vehicles within your army doctrine. >> i have heard those comments and here is what i would say, you do not need armor if you do not want to win. what i mean by that is go on the offensive. if you look at great lessons -- in ukraine let's hope we learn them all. he talked about javelins and stingers that was the initial part of the work -- they were in complex terrain trying to defend u.s. cities -- and they did very well. but you do not win by being on the defense you have to go to the office. if you take it look at what the ukrainians have asked for they ask for long-range fires -- you described high bars as a game changer with flyers and as the ukrainians go on war in the offensive that are looking for is armored vehicles and tanks. but i would argue in the future is to -- combined arms.

army rank of colonel porter, officially retired from the army. four days later. weakened by the ravages of diabetes, he died on may 21st, 1901. the unhappy fate of fitz john porter is a story of unfairness, even cruelty meted out to a soldier whose only military crime had been the same myopia in the fog of war that afflicts all but the acute possessors of the ku doyle, the coo of the eye. in those last days before him, cheatham, frederick hitchcock was impressed by his of porter, a small, young looking man with full black whiskers and keen black eyes who dressed very modestly with a high black slouch and a much battered gold tasseled band. but it may be difficult to say more than that about him. porter departed, with the sincere regrets of all his, but not near mutiny. his humiliation recorded massachusetts soldier was enough. move a heart of stone. but by this time old army had become a heart of stone and porter did not move it much. he was neither a traitor nor idol, nor was he, as otto isaac schimmel wanted to portray him an american dreyfus. so in the end, hi

lee will eventually take over the army. we will establish a success and his hard-hitting representation. it's through the rest of what we call the seven days battles, lee will drive the union army away from richmond and then take the army up into northern virginia. he will invade maryland, fight at antietam, and solidify his reputation and his command of the army of northern virginia. when johnston is finally able to take the field again and has recovered, what do we do with him? well, as doug said, things are falling apart for the confederacy elsewhere. johnston is going to be sent to the west. in the fall of 1862, he's going to be sent to the we theater and command of asked department. it's a tremendous amount of territory. it extends from the appalachians to the mississippi river. he is responsible for the army of tennessee, which is in tennessee. he's responsible for the department of mississippi and alabama, which includes the defenders of vicksburg under pemberton. johnson's new command takes up its headquarters in ch

. >> army secretary christine for, chief of staff of the army, and sergeant major of the army, spoke to reporters during a press conference at the association of the u.s. army annual meeting. they addressed national security, recruitments, and modernization. this is about 45 minutes. good morning. this is for the secretary and the chief, you've all talked a lot about the recruiting and retention challenges this year. i'm hoping you can give us some specifics on what you plan to do in the next few months to try and meet your goal this year and do you have an assessment at this point whether meeting the recruiting goals for 2023 is within your grasp? >> i would say it's very early to be speculating about where we will land by 2023 so i don't think we are in a good position to answer that question right now. we have started this prep course , the early results of that look promising. and depending on how that plays out in the next month or two i think we will look at expanding that to some additional training sites which would obviously help us. another thing we've done is we've partner

troops the army potomac realized. we wanted to battle against lee. we advanced into virginia. we fought a battle. and we're advancing. first time that's happened that has not happened before not under mclellan. pope burnside hooker every time the army the potomac advances in virginia and they fight a battle. and they go back and they retreat this time. they fought a battle against the army of northern virginia and their advancing. it was a hard battle casualties were high. i was i'm very unpleasant experience, but we won this battle. we're advancing now. how do you decide who wins the battle soldiers by the way, they're cheering here. i don't know if you can see they're waving their hats and cheering there was quite a cheer a grant was eager to get them to be quiet because we don't want lee to know where we're moving any place. how do you know who won a battle is it is the side that one the side that suffers fewer casualties you know, we haven't gotten to world war two yet, but if the side that takes the fewest casual

but the army of tennessee is reconstructed. it's joined by forces that have been pulled out of garrison. like charleston, wilmington. and they cobble iv's together. they get their supply, reequip, three organized, administrative lay. and they fight at the battle of bentonville. that was in march. here in eastern north carolina, not far from raleigh. big battle, in the last big battles of the war. johnston's goal was to destroy part of the army before the forces can mask together. he comes up short. good effort. and then johnston pulls back through raleigh. into the central part of north carolina. through durham. towards greensboro. he's taken i-85, if you know that area, but what johnson is doing is he's keeping his army just out of reach from sherman. sherman commands a much larger force. sherman's been reinforced by other troops. and johnston keeps his army to gather. that's a pretty big deal in march and april's 1860. five it's out of reach of sherman's troops. and by the time they get to the greensboro area they've heard ab

and the seven days battles, they will drive the union army away from richmond take the army back into northern virginia and they invade maryland and solidify his reputation in virginia command and so when johnston is finally able to take the field again as recovered, what do we do with him rated and things are falling apart for the confederacy elsewhere so johnston is going to be sent to the last. and in the fall of 1862, is when be sent to the western theater and commanded best department, tremendous amount of territory and a big says from the appellations of the mississippi river and is responsible for the army of tennessee which is in tennessee, and of the department of mississippi and alabama which includes that offenders entered general - as a johnston new command and he takes office headquarters and chattanooga about any's going to be coordinating the efforts of those two armies and all the other military units in this vast department and is got a lot of challenges. that's right. [laughter] but seriously, he friday coordinate with these two armies with our defining union forces

army rank of colonel. porter officially retired from the army for days later. we can buy the ravages of diabetes, he died on may 26th, 1901. the unhappy fate of fits john porter is the story of unfairness. even cruelty. meted out to a soldier who who is only military crime had been the same my opia in the fog of war that afflicts all but the most acute possesses of the [speaking non-english] the coup of the i-. in those last days before antietam, frederick -- and hitchcock was impressed by his international border, a small, slim, young man with whiskers and keen black eyes who dressed very modestly. a high black chap and much rather gold tassel band. it may be difficult to say more than that about him. porter departed with a sincere regret of all of his soldiers, but not mere immunity. his humiliation, said one massachusetts soldier, was enough to move a heart of stone. by the time the old army had become heart of stone. porter did not move it much. he was neither a traitor nor an idol, nor was he, as otto eisen show wanted to portray him, an american dreyfuss.

everything is alive and everyone alive in ukraine owes the army to the miracle of life and the army.ords are synonymous in ukraine, because without the army there is no life. to help the army is to help life , help the ukrainian army and life will conquer death, each of you can help even a small contribution to the support of the army saves the lives of our soldiers and brings our victory closer let's see how people who suffer from rheumatism and arthritis live smeared with dolgit now let the dolgit cream anesthetize, reduce swelling and improve the mobility of the joints because the joints are already breaking the only yellow cream for pain in the joints and back order on the website ateca-911.ua dolgit cream 100 g with a 20% discount glory to ukraine, this is a program, the verdict, my name is serhiy rudenko good day and good health to all today is the 259th day of the heroic resistance of the ukrainian people to the russian occupiers. at night, the russians massively attacked the dnipropetrovsk region with kamikaze drones. five air defense drones destroyed the wounded. four people

army rank of colonel porter, officially retired from the army. four days later. weakened by the ravages of diabetes, he died on may 21st, 1901. the unhappy fate of fitz john porter is a story of unfairness, even cruelty meted out to a soldier whose only military crime had been the same myopia in the fog of war that afflicts all but the acute possessors of the ku doyle, the coo of the eye. in those last days before him, cheatham, frederick hitchcock was impressed by his of porter, a small, young looking man with full black whiskers and keen black eyes who dressed very modestly with a high black slouch and a much battered gold tasseled band. but it may be difficult to say more than that about him. porter departed, with the sincere regrets of all his, but not near mutiny. his humiliation recorded massachusetts soldier was enough. move a heart of stone. but by this time old army had become a heart of stone and porter did not move it much. he was neither a traitor nor idol, nor was he, as otto isaac schimmel wanted to portray him an american dreyfus. so in the end, hi

in august of 1862, the army, virginia, john pope's army of virginia and george mcclellan's army of the potomac, the the potomac was coming from the area of and it the responsibility mainly of the man in charge of the military railroad, hermann haupt, who you can see in the top right corner of the screen to forward those tops and forward the supplies fromhe army, the potomac and from alexandria down to john pope's army. well, haupt had reived word trouble on the railroad that night as well from, manassas junction, and then also while the secretary made it through bristow station, made it through manassas junction, just as soon as it crossed bull run over run bridge on the a railroad, it as well. and so word back to alexandria that the line of the own railroad was clogged and that no longer could anybody get troops and supplies to pope's army. so hermann helped devise a an idea of sending a sizable body of troops about 4000 men. ultimately they'd be under command of george taylor, new jerseyans, in some ohioans were used to augment taylor's force down the railroad to try and open up. and

the army? i think i know but anyway seriously joking aside seriously but my book is about an institution about five remark people young army officers and the combat experience in iraq and in afghanistan the institution is west point. the five officers are lieutenant now lieutenant colonel anthony foster lauro left tennant now major ross pixlr, lieutenant now major nick esslinger, lieutenant now major steven tangent all five are recipients of multiple awards for valor, including west point's prestigious ninja medal. the two wars, of course, are iraq, afghanistan, so in part this book is a combat history. but book is about much, much more than that. it's about character and courage. what inspires it, what's develop it. my inspiration came from a french 19th century military thinker, kind of. i don't do speak and was reinforced by a british soldier statesman, sir peter de la bollea, formerly director of the s.a.s. . colonel de peek argued that exceptional courage on the battlefield is rooted in mo

and it's not even that the red army consisted of 5 million fighters, but for the whites in five armiesely got 1 million. even if the advantage was in the other direction. could the country of russia afford to fall under the rule of the interventionists, in general, russia could theoretically take any other path. there were much more radical forces of the sr and the maximalists of the left era anarcho-communists, anarchs of the sendicalists, but it was the bolsheviks who asserted the revolutionary democracy of the people. i understood, i felt that the patriotic elite, not the one that went, like kolchak, somewhere to america and then arrived and is unknown. how did it become dictator. and the one that remains in the country is that lenin, despite switzerland, is not a dissident, nor navalny in germany, but the real builders of the state. then he took this cart and will drag it and no other competitor can compare with him, the idea beats a lot the idea breaks everything before the idea, nothing will stand if it clearly falls into the people of the esser, the peasants were promised reform

leaders joining us today including secretary of the army christine mormon and army chief of staff general james mcconville. let us recognize the members of congress who worked to make this momentous event possible including the late senator johnny isaacson who showed his great respect for our veterans. there was leadership on the veterans affairs committee and congressman sandy. bishop has long champion the marauders legacy and former congressman peter king always a reliable voice for our nation's veterans. finally, thank you to all those joining us online to honor the marauders profound patriotism and unwavering devotion to duty ladies and gentlemen at this time planned as you please stand as you are able for the presentation of the colors and the national anthem. oh lord. but okay. try come present. oh. oh say, can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we held at the twilight's last gleaming. who's brought some rights and bright stars through the par? adise fight or the ramparts. we watched were so gallantly streaming. and the rockets were the bombs bursting in air gave proo

army ranger.ch right character of the world war ii marauders. you can find this cross displayed on our uniforms and throughout our facilities. we today salute the marauders of world war ii. your legacy is impossible to forget. you inspire us and the memory of your fellow marauders does not go forgotten. the marauders move further, faster, and fought harder and we strive to do the same. the legacy of the marauders encourage rangers in korea, vietnam, grenada, panama, somalia, and throughout the war on terrorism. that legacy will undoubtedly continue to inspire americans, young and old, for decades to come. thank you. >> good afternoon, it is my distinct honor to join speaker pelosi, distinguished members of congress, general mcconville, and colonel kirsey, today to recognize the heroic achievements of miracles marauders. representatives at today's virtual ceremony, by proud family members and three living legends. master sergeant gill highland, mr. russell hammer, and mr. gained kenny. i'd like to

and as secretary of the army you had the army by the stack and swivel. that's a term. we understand as military folks his secretary of defense. it's a little bit harder to get control of of some of these organizations one of the things that you know, we do have the world's finest military. we want to keep it that way and they're really three reasons we recruit and retain the best people and their families and want to talk about that in a minute. we give them constant realistic training, but we also from our industry give them the best technology so they're never in a fair fight you worked in industry how important is the defense industrial base in the technologies then and and secretary of defense you have you prioritize i think 10 or 11 top priorities from hypersonics to artificial intelligence to quantum 5g how important to our country into our economy is keep them a focus on these cutting edge technologies, particularly when china we know they're ahead of us in hypersonics. some people would argue. they're ahead of us and ai other people say well not

even a small contribution to the support of the army can help. it saves the lives of our soldiers and brings us closer to greetings. dear viewers, on the espresso tv channel, the studio program, the event will analyze the most important events of this week and we will try to predict the events of the next week by our experts. tihor yakovenko, a sociologist, a former member of the state duma of the russian federation and a retired colonel of the british army, will work today. glendgrant will start our analysis of a retired colonel of the british army, a well-known military expert, glen grand, glory to ukraine, mr. colonel, i welcome you to the studio of the espresso kherson tv channel, so much attention is drawn to him without exaggeration from the whole world, the military environment, the military, the political leadership of many countries is reacting and carefully studying the situation, so there were speculations that it is possible that the russians are preparing some kind of trap, where is this one about kherson, but in any case, we underst

, that the red army, that the soviet army fights that the current russian one fights exclusively in theresence of a huge human advantage, and when it has an advantage in artillery, when it is opposed by a motivated, well- equipped enemy, which we now have in the armed forces of ukraine, then they are nothing cannot demonstrate on the battlefield and are forced to resort to terrorist tactics, such as rocket attacks what is happening now thank you for the interview and then the story of the 32-year-old choreographer and ivan from berdyansk, the man with the goat, along with his family, managed to break free from the russian occupation, they did not give up, they started life anew artur tereshchenko about incredible ukrainians, next goal, enter the arena in this dance hall there are no cups and awards for pupils yet, because to train children in the dnipro, an immigrant from berdyansk choreographer ivan kozlov started only at the end of summer about life under occupation i will run away with my wife and baby in my arms, numerous interrogations by riot police and roadblocks and threats to s

the other part of the russian army, as before, was the temporary army of the home guard, this was thecalled local, cavalry for service. in it, the noble landowners were supposed to have a land allotment, an estate, at the very first order. they had to come to the assembly point on horseback and fully armed, except for personal service. the owner of the estate exhibited for every 50 hectares of their possessions, one warrior on a horse, they were called military servants. the constant military training of the relevant troops was not lame, discipline, weapons and uniforms here were selected to your taste. this model of army formation is clearly outdated, especially since with the development of firearms. the value of the cavalry decreased, while the infantry, on the contrary , increased. she's just the cheapest company of troops. plus, saturating the infantry with firearms makes it. well, i would say so with a collective machine gun and it made a terrible impression. the armies of the states increased, the tactics of the battle became more complicated , this required constant training a

army nurses at an undisclosed fighting front a notice is posted enough said woman's the same in the army or out. naple where we find the air core taking a fire in a gas buggy minus the familiar wing they're heading for the movie in big cities. the problem is much more simple. just find the right kind of auditorium and you can give the man the same presentations they used to get at home. in the outlying areas along the italian front mobile units are doing the job of bringing the movies to the troops most outfits only show about three nights a week. so it's not uncommon for the men to visit another camp close by even though they'll see the same picture as the night before. you come and see it man and that they do. it's the same story each time operations permit time out for relaxation. one of the bigger problems is getting sufficient films to the right places at the right time 1500 and more shows a night with a five and a half million weekly attendance is big time exhibition. naturally every soldier wants to see a brand new film something. you can write home about like a world premiere on

the confederate army. both terms, it's easy to say while he was doing this out of pragmatic reasons, not because he felt moral urgency and i'm sure there was a pragmatic motive in his thinking at the same time, he didn't have to. there is no compulsion for him to step forward and do that and get he does. does it mean robert has suddenly become racially enlightened? no. after the war is over, makes no effort to promote reconstruction. he has no interest whatsoever seeing black people and seeing them occupy, to the contrary, he is critical of reconstruction so domestic what lee does for some kind of enlightenment experienced the same time, don't depreciate it either. as part of the problem, robert e lee and the complexities, contradictions, always like mary chestnut discovered. always the? , that is the symbol of robert e lee. >> let's get into one of the questions, i have several questions from the audience were wondering if we can talk about prewar experience and getting into the civil war, let's take a pa

the krai's army, just part of it, is like a patchwork of outright bandits. who then, in general, will take, uh, the leading places, and some of them, uh, well, these are ideological officers, and they completely fought for their poland, which is another matter that there was no soviet power in this poland. this is also what needs to be understood. they were polish e, imperialists document dated january 18 , 1945 to the head of smersh abacus. here is the head of the fourth department of the nkgb here platova about that guide. the army is supplied by its units with poisons for the destruction of soviet officers of historians, this fact is not surprising, preparations for the use of poisons against soviet commanders were certainly carried out. eh why? i say this because the use of poisons was what is called such a mainstream for polish underground organizations?

this week, russian propaganda produced quite a lot of everything about the army and aimed at the army, and not so much at ours as at theirs, and there were simply even magical cases. the first is a ridiculous and at the same time shameful attempt to make a vivid biography of general serhiy sorovikin. on november 18, the telegram channel e sladov, hosted by voenkor and reporter vgtrk oleksandr sladov, appeared the post with such a very bright title, the father of general survikin turns out to have shot down three american planes and died not far away while diverting his burning plane from residential areas well, further on in that post it is described how in 1966 at the air base near ussuriysk during a training flight, the engines of the fighter jets failed and the pilot volodymyr syrovikin died saving residential buildings from destruction with the same aircraft posthumously. he was awarded an order or a medal . and this story is all the more remarkable that the moon fell on a residential building in the russian esk and there a russian pilot successfully saved himself at the cost of t

on the red army what kind of joint operations could there be, if from the forty-third year there were even diplomatic relations between the ussr and the emigrant government of poland? including from the jews of their parts. here we see a document about the execution of jews, a bashkovite. it partly consists, like a patchwork of outright bandits. uh, who then, in general, will occupy, uh, leading positions, and some of them, uh, well, these are ideological officers, and they fought for their poland quite differently, which is another matter that there was no soviet power in this poland. this is also what needs to be understood. they were polish e, imperialists document dated january 18, 1945 to the head of smersh abacus. here is the head of the fourth management nkb here platov that leadership. korolev's army supplies its units with poisons to destroy soviet officers of historians, this fact is not surprising, preparations for the use of poisons against soviet commanders were probably carried out. eh why? i say this because the use of poisons was. what is called such a mainstream for e

of course, we clearly understand that the belarusian army is the enemy of the ukrainian army. has the most. in three days i even rock-jongi will hold out this army, and what will remain after this, not the army, but the support of the people, well, of course, i do not rule out that i will be so - called and good hunters will try to recruit some of them criminals into his chvk. and can there be any uh-uh volunteers who don't take those uh-uh special forces troops there? to er show one's skill, there may be such ones i definitely don't think that there will be 15-20,000 of them, or even more, there are hundreds of thousands, but there may be a few thousand , and it is being recruited, but not more. -e volodymyr makey, you share all these opinions that he could not just take it and die of a heart attack, that this signals lukashenko and that lukashenko weakens the death of makey . to be perceived as some kind of signal or blow, but people die sometimes, even those who serve lukashenko, well, yes, he is right1 here, as it were, conspiratorial versions definitely evoke the fact tha

the army's top priority is its people to include students participate in army junior rotc activity six sexual harassment and sexual assaults have no place in our army. we take jrotc misconduct stronger. given our commitment to -- students and our emphasis on preventing harmful behaviors. jrotc instruct mr. even of contents is particularly egregious because of the faith and confidence that the army, parents, students and the nation place in those teachers and we will not tolerate it. from sector warmness and chief of staff mcconville, to trade-off commander, are cadet commander general tony minera, our brigade commander and our instructors in the programs, we leave and followed by our army values. the united states army cadet command oversees the junior rotc program and is proactive in its approach to screening instructor candidates in training instructor to provide a safe learning environment for our cadets. instructors that unsuitable due to illegal activity or behavior contrary to army values are decertified permanently and removed from army jrotc classrooms. six years ago cadet comm

army with russian army in times of chechnya and then in army in times of chechnya and then in army in times of chechnya and then in terms of georgia and so on and so forth terms of georgia and so on and so forth terms of georgia and so on and so forth so i mean is there a trend that we can so i mean is there a trend that we can so i mean is there a trend that we can see right now the same as it was in 90s see right now the same as it was in 90s see right now the same as it was in 90s yes i've been in a nutshell yeah that's yes i've been in a nutshell yeah that's yes i've been in a nutshell yeah that's a part of the problem you know you could a part of the problem you know you could a part of the problem you know you could obviously you know russia is has a very obviously you know russia is has a very obviously you know russia is has a very corrupt society from the top to the corrupt society from the top to the corrupt society from the top to the bottom you know every branch of bottom you know every branch of bottom you know every branch of government is is riddled with corruption gove

because your moving forward - this is actually what causes to the cracks in their system, the russian army at the front is very fragile and can easily crumble if it is attacked again strongly where it is not ready, then the mobilized soldiers will definitely flee, it is necessary to find and hit the positions of the mobilized russians, because if they start to flee, others will also follow them with the attack, this is a real problem, i don’t know why, but someone in the white house does not want to give this system to ukraine, for some reason they do not think logically how these systems will change the course of the war. as general ben holds says, russia does not demonstrated no ability to resort to anything else. so they will not dare to do anything significant and after the attack by the atakams and takams systems would allow in ukraine to attack airbases, command posts and logistics located in the rear and all these three things would hasten the end of the war now . it is time for zelensky to go to america, i hope that this thesis will gain wide publicity , he needs to meet with repre

row , the russian-ukrainian war continues, full-scale , its component, which concerns the russian army that is currently on the territory the republic of belarus, just a few days ago, a high commission of military officials from moscow arrived there in order to check what the same scumbags were doing during the last six weeks on the territory of the educational centers and races on the territory of the republic of belarus, most likely the same things were directed at other areas of the front, and most likely it will be the eastern face of the russian-ukrainian front in order to strengthen the defensive positions of the russian occupiers, who still do not lose hope of reaching the administrative border on the donetsk and luhansk regions have already put a bunch of russian people there, but they still can't do anything against you there, ah, regarding the attack from the north on our country, well , just the other day, a representative of the president's office, mr. arestovych said that the russians do not have the same resources and the opportunity to attack ukraine from the north, mayb

during the first month of the war, the german army.0 km from these lines to moscow, she had half as much. the red army suffered colossal losses in the cauldrons of the environment , not only people and equipment disappeared, the structure of the troops collapsed in them, entire battalions of the regiment and division disappeared to make up for the losses , it was not enough to mobilize men of military age. it was necessary to train them to arm and re-combine into units and formations before the war to form a rifle division of 14.5 thousand. it took a man about a year to form hundreds of divisions to form them with the former, uh, from the regiments, more precisely under the ward of the regiment to the rifle division, as it was under the military staff alone on mechanical traction. with a 152 mm gun, it was all a luxury that was not realizable. heavy losses forced the soviet command to create the most lightweight divisions, the number of light machine guns. in comparison with the pre-war staff, they halved the easel and one and a half m

everything is alive and everyone alive in ukraine owes the army to the miracle of life and the army.nymous in ukraine, because without the army there is no life. to help the army is to help life , help the ukrainian . army and life will defeat death, each of you wow, even a small contribution to the support of the army saves the lives of our soldiers and brings our victory closer, imagine ukraine was a part of european civilization 500 years ago because our state was part of of the european country of the polish-lithuanian commonwealth and how ukrainians lived in a catholic country, we will talk about this history page with researcher nataliya stadchenko today at 6:30 p.m. on the espresso neistfak youtube channel .

his army captures monterrey, but the mexican army leaves. taylor become sort of a hero back in the united states. then, in november, he moves north of a place called buena vista in mexico. he sets up his headquarters in the meantime, in the meantime, new mexico and california had falling quite easily to american troops. the governor of new mexico, as the americans were coming, he got on his horse and left. he decided, enough is enough, they take new mexico without firing a shot. there is a revolt in new mexico during the war, there is a revolt near los angeles during the war. by the end of the summer new mexico in california, you're pretty solidly in american hands. that first part of the war seem to go really well for the united states. in the meantime, taylor is just there, he is waiting near one of vista. it seems the mexicans are not gonna treat for peace, so polk goes to winfield scott and says, you need to draw plans for an invasion of central mexico. the united states is gonna have to take the capital. so, scott is now gonna be in cha

i might say former secretary of the army mark esper colonel retired u.s. army mark as. serving fromin active duty, the aarmy national guard, served in theor army reserve, one of the w people who i know served in all three components for 21 year career. doctor esper, vice president esper h of one of the largest defense aerospace companies we have in our defense industrial base, professional staff member on the foreign relations committee s in a policy on the house on services committee, national a security advisor to e of the most distinguished senators, thompson, of varied career and extensive background in your role and we are here to discuss your book entitled sacred oath, the mars of secretary of defense during an extra nighttime. i'd like to start by saying i believe if i am correct when you graduated, you raised your right hand and said i, mark esper solemnly swear i will support and defend the constitution against enemies, foreign and domestic and bear true faith and allegiance to take the obligation freely without reservation or purpose of the vision and i will w