the north atlantic treaty organization. or as it came to be known, nato. together in washington in april 1940 night they put the seal on their union. they were resolved as they put it to unite their efforts for collective defense and the preservation of peace and security. it was to be the end of leaning over backwards in the face of consistent soviet expansion. for west berlin it had been a tough winter. on the airfields fog, mist and freezing cold. yet in spite of the conditions the air lift carried on. in spite of the conditions, and the --. by means of the airlift west berlin had been kept alive. all of the sufferings of war in the mist of peace. there could be no turning back now. if the russians thought the city could not be supplied indefinitely by air they would be proved very wrong for the airlift or possible reinforcements. more planes, improved runways, greater facilities. and so what had begun as makeshift became routine. food and supplies, month-end, month out. soon it became clear that the west had not only won a victory against logistics but

this 30 minute film details the berlin airlift in the creation of the north atlantic treaty organization now called nato to defend against the soviet aggression. >> the building of roles, the erection of barb wire's, these cannot provide people. never create a prison for the human spirit.

information service this half hour film details the berlin air lift, creation of the north atlantic treaty organization, and the problems facing the city and the western allies as the cold war developed. >> the building of walls, the erection of barbed wire and barriers can never long divide peoples, never create a permanent prison for the human spirit. for the strength of the wall is measured only by the fear of those who built it. [helicopter engine]

and readiness in what is the most important alliance in the world, and that's the north atlantic treaty organization. the nato summit originally concluded -- recently concluded despite the headlines was in fact a very good summit that delivered quite a few important conclusions and set the alliance on a good path towards combatting the threats that face us. it provides leadership in the region, troops in afghanistan for many years and so on. the u.s. and the u.k. have been shoulder to shoulder for many years. sharing these defense and security priorities. we are pleased to welcome the secretary of state williamson. he was appointed in 2017. the position of great responsibility going all the way , from strategy, to acquisition, to operational deployments. in 2016, he was honored to be named commander of the order of the british empire. today we hear from our guest, and we will have a >> today we hear from our guest and they we will have a conversation with 23rd secretary of the air force, the honorable deborah lee jones who is here today. she's a distinguished fellow of the atlantic council and also

service, this half hour film details the berlin air lift, and the creation of the north atlantic treaty organization, now called nato, to defend against soviet aggression. >>> the building of walls, the erection of barbed wire and barriers, these can never for long divide peoples. never create a permanent prison for the human spirit. for the strength of a wall is measured only by the fear of those who built it. this was the city 30 years ago, a city then one of the great nest the world, in size and stature, ranking with london, paris, rome, new york. alive and a unity, this was berlin in the 1930s. no barriers at the brandenberg atoll. no guards at the blats dammoplats. but this was berlin before hitler came to power. 1945. and this was berlin, a city in name only and geographical location. amid the rubble of destruction the flags of the victors, men who had taken up arms in self-defense with the common aim to destroy that which menaced them all. around them, a defeated nation for their armys had met in the very middle of germany. until such time as germany could reshape her own destiny she would be

lab now this is an offshoot of the atlantic council think tank in turn a member of the atlantic treaty organization although formally independent of nato and washington openly sharing both their values and speakers fighting fake news is a noble cause terms of use platforms. violet expect a burn increasingly though the question will be asked is it violating social media policies or violating mainstream consensus and prevalent narratives that can really do you in hot water we've asked facebook to comment on why they banned the outlet so far they've chosen not to respond earlier we spoke to tokyo not all the english multimedia director for telus or who says that facebook's move is extremely alarming. we're not aware and we didn't get an explanation we going to any mail yesterday afternoon saying that our page was removed and this e-mail said that we were violating the terms of use but it didn't we don't consider that an explanation since we've doing got a recently or we are they didn't explain how in what way were we violating supposedly violating the terms of use not a specific content that we pulls

lab now this is an offshoot of the atlantic council think tank in turn a member of the atlantic treaty organization although formally independent of nato and washington openly sharing both their values and speakers fighting fake news is a noble cause terms of use platforms individua. violet and expect. increasingly though the question will be our last is it violating social media policies or violating mainstream consensus and prevalent narratives that can really land you in hot water. daniel hawkins where we have asked facebook to comment on why it so far they've chosen not to respond. tell about militants have overrun a military base in northern afghanistan killing seventeen soldiers and that is as the un confirmed over one hundred civilians were killed in the latest clashes between the taliban and afghan forces in the city of galveston let's take a look it's long been considered a strategic area situated on the road connecting the capital kabul fighting there escalated on friday when the taliban attempted to storm cows me and take control taliban fighters have been blocking the roads in not of th

lab now this is an offshoot of the atlantic council think tank in turn a member of the atlantic treaty organization although formally independent of nato and washington openly sharing both their values and speakers fighting fake news is a noble cause terms of use platforms individua. really violent and expect a ban increasingly though the question will be asked is it violating social media policies or violating mainstream consensus and prevalent narratives that can really land you in hot water. un peacekeepers are set to return to the golan heights after the area was liberated from jihadists and were the region is still hotly contested syria and israel have been fighting over it for decades. off takes a closer look. this city in the golan heights is one of the latest sites where the syrian army has brought terrorist ruled to an end. we were among the first international news crews inside after its liberation just months ago the city of me was still under the control of well with most of the infrastructure gone this is the main focus of the syrian government now. liberated but far from safe we weren

lab now this is an offshoot of the atlantic council think tank in turn a member of the atlantic treaty organization although formally independent of nato and washington openly sharing both their values and speakers fighting fake news is a noble cause terms of use platforms individua. violet expect. increasingly though the question will be arsed is it violates social media policies or violating mainstream consensus prevalent narratives that can really do you in hot water with us facebook to comment on why they ban the outlet so far they've chosen not to respond. taliban militants have overrun a military base in northern afghanistan killing seventeen soldiers it says the un has confirmed over one hundred civilians were killed in the latest clashes between the taliban and afghan forces in the city of gosney locals who managed to flee the area described what they've been through. many people including the one of my neighbors were killed there i saw my friend dying he was among thirteen people including children and women who were killed during an airstrike last night guys in the province. i have escape

lab now this is an offshoot of the atlantic council think tank in turn a member of the atlantic treaty organization although formally independent of nato and washington openly sharing both their values and speakers fighting fake news is a noble cause terms of use platforms individua. violet expect a burn increasingly though the question will be asked is it violating social media policies or violating mainstream consensus and prevalent narratives that can really land you in hot water we've asked facebook to comment on why they banned the outlet so far they've chosen not to respond. iran's supreme leader says he won't negotiate with washington after president terms latest offer to talk about improving ties at the same time president anyone has announced that turkey will boycott u.s. electronics killam up and picks up the story. donald trump not known for his modesty never stops bragging about the fact that he wrote the art of the deal seems that when it comes to his role as commander in chief he sees himself as almost the great negotiator and when it comes to north korea you could argue that his appr

the north atlantic treaty organization. in may, the war in europe came to an end. this had been the price of europe's unpreparedness and -- unpreparedness. peace 19 85, our hard-won seemed secured. a few days before, allied forces on the west joined with the russians from the east. agreedtatesmen had not that the countries they had occupied should be truly liberated and that freely elected governments should be set up as soon as possible. , scandinavia and europe for free and independent. is occupied by russia, stalin had other ideas. throughout eastern europe, elections were held, but the russians had placed the communists in key government positions and in the secret police. within a short time, the non-communist leaders had been liquidated. russia had swallowed up eight european countries. great britain and the united states were tested, but these countries had bad -- been coursed. russia ignored the protest. stalin knew the greater part of the allied forces had gone home, leaving their arms to rest in europe. west, demobilization. the war was the next. they had

what is still the most important alliance in the world and that is the north atlantic treaty organization. the nato summit that recently concluded, despite the headlines was a very good summit that delivered quite a few important conclusions and set the alliance on a good path toward combating the threats. course has been at the desired defense spending level for quite a while. we should pay tribute to the europeans for kicking in over $40 billion towards revitalizing the economic strength of the defense agreements. the u.k. has troops in estonia, and poland which form a core of the nato defense in europe. it provides leadership in the region, troops in afghanistan for many years and so on. the u.s. and the u.k. have been shoulder to shoulder for many years. sharing these defense and security priorities. we are pleased to welcome the secretary of state williamson. he was appointed in 2017. the position of great responsibility going all the way , from strategy, to acquisition, to operational deployments. in 2016, he was honored to be named commander of the order of the british empire. toda

before being recalled to active duty in summer 1949, to take the helm of nato, the north atlantic treaty organization. in 1952, the former camp colt commander was nominated to be republican candidate for president, and went on to win a landslide victory over adlai stevenson. . president and mrs. eisenhower occupied the executive mansion for a little more than a year and a half in the summer of 1954, unable to attend the reunion in gettysburg. he sent a message to his former comrades, the lieutenant general. please extend my warmest greetings to everyone attending the homecoming reunion of the world war tank corps association. as you review the experience gained in the active service of your country, you can take added satisfaction that your fellow citizens understand and appreciate the importance of your contributions to the security of our nation. i wish you a successful and enjoyable reunion. general ofcommanding the second army had quartered fort meade, maryland, was a fitting surrogate to represent the 34th president. as a young officer, parks had tanknded company a's 333rd battalion and camp col

european recovery program, but that western germany eventually would become part of the north atlantic treaty organization, part of the nato alliance. the intent of this was to both use german power to defend against the possibility of a soviet attack in the future, but the other part of nato was to integrate and co-opt german power for the western alliance. let me add a coda to this. at the end of the cold war, in 1988 and 1989, this whole issue reemerged.ny it reemerged after the fall of the berlin wall. after the fall of the berlin wall, it became clear that eastern germany and western germany would be integrated into one nation. , there was still enormous concern and apprehension about the revival of german power. margaret thatcher was stridently opposed to the unification of germany in 1989. she still feared, she still had the memories of world war ii on her mind, as did many brits. what was so interesting was that in 1989, one of the selling , both of george h.w. bush to mikael gorbachev and margaret existed, was that nato precisely to integrate and co-opt german power. the indispensable requirement

principally is to drive a wedge between the russian speakers and their host nations the north atlantic treaty organizationand european union. to do this, russia uses the social media accounts and synchronize with their online news portals and army of regional proxies that some calll useful idiots. the study i will talk about abot today talked about the understanding of the nature and effectiveness of the pro- russia outreach on social media. our research team sought toou hp advance the defense of the baltic states and shed light to combat this issue on the globe. we will focus on the recommendations. first there's a need to the analytic methods to track getting the efforts to take any actions against the operations is critical to identify the accounts and track their activity in real-time. this will require to the advancement so they can distinguish between the campaigns that are to come. second it's important to highlight and tag the propaganda and the approach that the organizations involved websitese or a words that reach collectivists were members of the community. instead, the research team argues th

goal is to drive a wedge between these russian speakers in their host nation the north atlantic treaty organization and the european union. to do this, russia uses social media accounts. they also synchronize such tools for their safe on a television network, online news portals and an army of regional proxies that some called useful. the rand study i will talklk abt today about how defenders to the pro-russia outreach and social media by focusing on the region that includes estonia, lithuania, latvia, ukraine, belarus. our research team sought to help advance the baltics they can shed light on how to combat this issue around the globe. my written testimony highlights the methods and key findings from my report before today's testimony of focus on five key recommendations. first the need to further develop and track and target russian propaganda effort to take any action in social media operations is critical to identify and track at it in real-time. this will require analytic advancements of computers can distinguish between authentic social media chatter and the adversarial campaigns that are to

defense strategy in addition to china also says that russia seeks to shatter the north atlantic treaty organization and change european and middle east security and economic structures in its favor, also not in our advantage nor in the advantage of those in the world that will be affected by it. russia has violated key arms control treaties. it's expanded and modernized it's nuclear arsenal sometimes outside agreements that have been made. it's tested counter space weapons. it's used emerging technologies. it's undermined our election process. it's infiltrated the way that we communicate with each other in social media. it has confronted elections of our nato allies and others. and i think this bill shows not only a firm commitment to nato, but a firm commitment to article 5, which means that any nato country when attacked will have the other nato countries come to its help and aid. additionally this bill authorizes that important resources and policies are there to counter north korea to counter iran, isis, al qaeda syria, and others that we should be concerned about as they oppress the people of