plank corp. both quickly realized the fantasy of their mission would prevent them from achieving it and their actions that day would reflect that understanding. bernie of course hoped to coordinate his shift west without creating a vulnerable gap. almost immediately bernie grasped that doing so boredered on the impossible due to the rugged terrain and the inherit cautiousness of general right who advanced at a nail's pace through the tare ain. mead grew frustrated at the lack of progress and in a mood characterized by one of his staff officers as exceedingly snappy told frances barlow to concentrate on maintaining contact with mod mott's division on his right and let each corp look out for itself. so mead almost immediately just throwing up his hands with the mission. the stage was now set for what one second corp regimental commander would call the saddest day ever experienced by the second corp. now bernie's men had advanced no more than 1,200 yards to the west and halted and dug in in quote wo

ongstreet's corps be sent to georgia. hisc corps will go west. began to arrive in the federal capital very quickly. that makes the yankees very nervous. meade cannot tell if lee has sent troops west. halleck says, you need to find out. on september 13, the federal cavalry corps watches a full -- launches a full strength drive into culpepper county. you get the very dramatic battle of culpepper courthouse. the federals reach the rapidan on september 14. is gone.t where he has gone, nobody is saying. but he is not here. meade has to decide what to do. he asks washington, do you want me to advance to the rapidan? they say it is up to you. he finally enters the culpepper v, which makes them very nervous. the rebel armys behind the rapidan. this will be his problem for the rest of the year. how do i get at the rebels at the other side of the river? every ford is heavily defended. the ground on the others of the river is higher than the ground on my side. i either have to go east or west . the union army has operated to the east before during chancello

the sixth corp. comes across and he's starting down that backhaulway and he decides to take a wrong turn and discovers he's deep within the bowels of the enemy. sounds like a proctologists nightmare. this will lead into the next echo of fredericksburg, key subordinates not understanding their orders. prince is late starting. he gets bungled at the river. he gets lost on the side of the river. and then things only get worse. now, the commander of the third corp. is a guy named blinky french. every time i say his name i'm tempted to go like this. his men say the more he drank, the more he blinked. on this particular day, by 11:00, he was well-pickled. i can only imagine him blinking out morse code or something, just really going at it. and rather than have someone other than prince take the lead because of course prince had done such a fabulous job so far, he's going to leave prince in the lead. let's see what other problems we can get into then. now, if we think about fredericksburg for a moment at th

experienced by the second corps. now, bernie's men had advanced no more than 1200 yards to the west, halted, and dug in, in "woods more dense and continuous than any we had encountered since the wilderness." barlow on the corps's far left employed the irish brigade for his left flank andish brigadeng irish brigade was so torn up the rest of bernie's line faced north and dealt with annoying confederate skirmishes. the last one covered less than 111 1/10th. creating that gap between the two divisions on the right. this gap right here. confederate calvary promptly reported the movement westward of the infantry and two of hill's divisions responded. wilcox's brigades moved south along the petersburg railroad, and here they are coming down the railroad here. encountering rickets's advanced troops, james connor and georgians under thomas jefferson, simmonds meant the thrust, drove it back, and later the remaining two brigades of the division, james lanes and alfred scales, north carolinians, joined the georgians, and all o

, which is contract, to the women's army corps. the waacs served in every theater of the war, including overseas. when the other services were all stateside, except for the nurses, waac, army and navy nurses and one of the pictures i love to point out here is eleanor roosevelt was a great advocate of women serving in the military, so these are the women in the four components who stepped up to be the leaders of each of the women's components. and i think about them. you know, they came on board. there were no uniforms specific to military women. there was no training base, what do you do with them. how do you assign them. what do we do. but these women made it possible for women to serve and contribute in ways that had never been done before, and we have to be forever grateful for their service and their commitment to women serving and certainly to the nation. >> the women's army corps is an integral part of the army in the united states, and soldiers in every sense of the word, perform a full military part in this war. there are h

he not only has the sixth corps, but the vanguard of the 19th army corps, which was supposed to go from louisiana to petersburg but was diverted to washington because of the crisis induced by jubal early's invasion. now, at that point in time, on about thet 13th and 14th and he will be in position coming up around harpers ferry, martinsburg, kind of just above it but off the map, so there's going to be a large union force of about 14,000 union men approaching early from the west, at the same time horatio wright has a force that will ultimately get up to about 15,000 men moving on early and pursuing him directly out of washington, d.c. most people don't realize how close a thing it is that jubal early will escape. on the 16th of july, major general george crook, this man pictured right here, is placed in command of the troops from the army of west virginia, hunter's force moving from the west. he will have a thousand men, cavalry, infantry andel terry -- and artillery around helzberg, virginia, and his job is to interdict the retreat of early's army. he will send cavalry south, about 500

granger's corps, david stanley's cavalry corps, grand total of 25,000 men all told along with alex mccook's corps moving south of murfreesboro will operate in the area southwest of murfreesboro and keep polk thinking they'll try to force guy's gap and liberty gap. meanwhile, the bulk of the army, george thomas'14th corps, 25,000 men and 20,000 men with thomas l. crittenden's corps, will march east of murfreesboro and aim for manchester at which point they'll be in a good position to operate directly against tullahoma or down toward the rail ridge across the elk river. what do you think of the plan? good plan, isn't it? it's a good plan. one problem. speed is the vital factor. it's been a real nice dry summer but when these troops start marching out on the morning of june 24, 1863, it starts raining. of the 17 next 17 days, it will rain at least once, and i'm not talking about a sprinkle but a gully washing thunderstorm at least once 14 of those 17 days. so what do you think these roads turn into? and by the way when it's not raining, it's overcast, 90-something degrees with 100% humidity. t

concentrated newspaper markets 60 percent of the paper sold are published by rupert murdoch's news corp including the only national daily the australian the company also owns a 24 hour news channel sky news australia the biggest cable company foxtel and other t.v. channels on the climate change story and the wildfires the various newsrooms feed off of and feed into one another making news corp australia multi-platform corporate ecosystem of its own the way it works is that you get very prominent skeptical commentators people like andrew bolt who's a well known prominent climate skeptic. there is such a thing as just playing well and he has his own program on sky news called the ball report and he also has a regular column in at least 2 other. so it is sort of has a multiplier effect. in. it is not necessarily the journalists or the journalism it is the loss of what is happening in the commentary space it is what is happening on sky news where they interview climate denial i'm optimistic and no one. where they have been tired programs dedicated to dismantling the science based on either

they open a gap for an entire canadian corps. map gives you an idea of the magnitude of the offensive and attack vectors. by chance, the germans had chosen the night of may 11 to leave the defenders behind at monte cassino with fresh troops, and it is nearly double its normal strength. nine german battalions opposed the polls. on friday, may 12, all momentum has seeped away from the allred attack on the right. with the polish assault battalions depleted by half, general anders orders both of his divisions back to the starting line. along the repeat oh, no italian has gained more than 500 yards of the intended 5000 yards. barely half ju$e objectives have been secured on the british left, and none on the right. one thing that goes right, 350 tons of allied bombs batter kesselring's command post, crushing a german counterattack that might have crippled diadem. three approaches are planned for the rapido river. through improved force and a very high cost in casualties, the british managed to place one bridge, then two, and finally a

david: ok, so you are in the marine corps.s you rise up, one of your assignments is to go into iraq after the invasion in 2003. so you were in combat. did you expect that you would survive? it was fairly dangerous. gen. kelly: well, it is dangerous. there's a lot of shooting and bombs and whatnot. we are marines. you take that on as a possibility. when we were designing the campaign plan, one of the things we did was to understand the iraqi army was nothing close to us. but we designed a strategy that would minimize the amount of damage to the country and the amount of death to the iraqi army. we went there and our mindset was we were not there to conquer them but to liberate them. we didn't want to kill a lot of them. i mean the army. you always try not to kill the innocent. david: you thought it would have been over in one or two weeks and people would be cheering you? gen. kelly: well, they were cheering us, almost everywhere we went. they came out in huge numbers. but the attack part of it was, in a sense, easy. we knew we

so they are elements of the 19th army corps. so he's set up to command all of the reinforcements that are set to prove and reinforce it. so literally reaching for the stars. so what is in d.c. at this point? 108 men and invalids we have here and you can defend washington and scarcely baltimore. so what do we have in washington, d.c.? we have elements of the u.s. treasury department guard. [ laughter ] not the most elite force and this is a cool image. you have elements of the federal reserve corps. they'll see pretty heavy action during the battle, and here's another image of the invalid corps wearing their famous uniforms and you can see the officer there is missing his arm. and they see them unattached and there will be a couple of regiments in defense of the capital. you have 100 day national guard troops organized in 1864 to fill quotas. these men men if they sign up they'll avoid the draft and the soldiers from port stephens are the 150th ohio national guard and they're normally college students. the earliest veterans. so w

in november, a news corp. columnist said "hysterical efforts to blame fires on clim though we have always face the threat and always will." there is another news corp. columnist speaking on his own program on the murdoch-owned sky news australia. >> the global warming hystia right now is insane. once again, i heard not a sougle voice of on the national broadcast this mning that this drought is nocaused by obal warming, nor are the bushfires, nor will it help at all with bushfires to cut our emissions. veinstead, we oliticians who should know better out there feeding the fear and misinformation. ros: the us joy pushback and its critics, tweeting "our stories and editorial commentary have been willfully and ineptly srepresented as, denial." lathuage is familiar. here is rupert murdoch site "a climate change skeptic, not a denier," he goes on to warn alarmist nonsense. call it whatever you would like to, but what we can be sure of is that commentors seeking to distance these fires from climate change are given sp

army corps on the federal left. the white troops withdrew under heavy fire but the black troops held firm as they unflinchingly traded fire with hoke's southerners, solid experienced combat veterans, lee's army, the u.s. colored troops answered the question often posed by critics. black troops would fight, and fight well. even so, as the right flank of the federal rear guard began to give way, some of hoke's field officers were certain that the entire federal line in the rear was about to break. and then general bragg ordered hoke's troops to cease their assault and retreat back up the peninsula. bragg's decision meant that fort fisher's surviving troops would have to fight alone. inside the fort, meanwhile, the federal push down the land face wall ground to a halt. watching the battle from a distance with a borrowed pair of binoculars, general terry ordered in more troops. another brigade would go in. third brigade, 2nd division, 24th army corps, it was known as bell's brigade. it was composed of troops from indian

the vicious assassination of the heroic commander of the kids force the islamic revolutionary guard corps of iran successfully carried out operation martyrs sunni money we warned the great satan the arrogant american regime that any further malice or mobilization will result in a more painful response. now we're also hearing from iran that should israel take any action it will activate hizbollah and israel has been particularly concerned since last friday that he ran it will use its proxies in the region these include hamas. the israeli southern border by gaza and his plenty of the israeli northern border of lebanon and in that respect israeli troops have been on high alert along both those borders for the past few days as of yet no official reaction from the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu no doubt he is being briefed and he has held meetings with his top security process so the situation at the moment extremely tense here in the region but all eyes will be on the united states to see what if any response trump and i'll take. part to his post there reporting live from tel aviv

is it the revolutionary guard corps itself? the severity of the situation and what the potential response from the united states will be. if it has rocket attacks that suggest more that it may be some of the proxy militias that operate in tandem with iran. if it is political cruise missiles that will point towards tehran and the revolutionary guard corps itself. it is only three o'clock in the morning and western iraqi. that will make it a lot harder in the initial stages to determine and ascertain exactly who is behind us, but the news agencies and around saying the revolutionary guard corps are taking some degree of responsibility. it is important to stress that we are unclear of any casualties in the damage and as you mentioned the possibility of multiple locations but we certainly do know that a number of rockets, possibly as many as ten, have been launched at this airbase and of course as they how us forces there, there is a lot of concern. the president has been briefed and he is aware of the attacks. yes, and he visited

troy middleton, the corps commander of the corps that takes the brunt of the german offensive, says you don't have to be a genius to understand the importance of these two road --ersections at some thief st. vith and bastogne. you probably know very little about the other crossroads. we will talk about the influence of the other crossroads. a general of panzer troops, his army will fight against the americans both in bastogne and in st. vith. he is not -- his ego makes one battle seem better than the other. he takes place, his troops fight in both of them. in 1945 he says that of the two of them, he says st. vith was a much more important crossroads for the success of the german offensive. in 1951 he is going to write a letter to a friend of his and he says he doesn't really understand in all these new histories coming out on the battle of the bulge. everything is emphasizing bastogne and he doesn't know why there is no emphasis on st. vith. if i ask most people who haven't studied up before the lecture tonight what went on there, you probably know very little. we are going to talk abou

corps seems to indicate that if the u.s. responds to this retaliation, that the revolutionary guard corps could respond then inside the united states. that's another threat coming out. the revolutionary guard also warning the united states not to retaliate after these strikes that the iranians are conducting right now. they're warning america's regional allies that have u.s. bases on their soil that if attacks against iran are launched from those bases, those countries will become targets as well. in the u.s. now seeing how it wants to respond to this iranian retaliation, what are some of the countries in the region that have u.s. bases on them going to think of this iranian threat? the iranians also once again threatening israel, as we've seen in the past assi well. but one of the interesting things is that the iranians are using their ballistic missiles to do this. it's one of the most sophisticated weapons they have in their arsenal, and it's certainly a case that the iranians are making a point that they're not using the

the marine corps participates, has a substantial presence during the exercise. some of the things that marine corps are looking at is the disposition within the region as well. i don't think they have made any decisions at this point. changes, excuse. christopher: christopher woody from "business insider." regarding logistics, the army in europe has been working with nato and the e.u. to resupply and the worst. how satisfied are you of the army's ability to resupply, and what do you need to do with sister branches and partners from the region to improve that? sec. mccarthy: like i mentioned before, it is the tyranny of distance. what is it, about 900 miles from just vietnam to the spratly's? it is a call to get anywhere. points inlogistical the region. you have to rely largely on your allies, and the expeditionary nature. where do you put pre-positioned expeditionary equipment that has access to harbors? we have had great relationships for decades. to michael's point earlier, it is kind of reenergizing some of those muscles. that will require investment and it w

poke's corps is going to be in shelbyville. hardy's corps is going to be camped in and around beach grove and fairfield. and the area around fairfield is going to be alexander p. stewart's division of about 6,000 men holding that area right there. there are cavalry, the first confederate kentucky cavalry protecting the lines, kind of being an alarm force in case the federals decide to move out, the idea is warn them, they'll have plenty of time to move up into the gaps and stop the federals. that's the basic plan that bragg's army has come up with. let me read you what rosecrans plans to do. this comes right out of the official records. i want you to follow along on your map and i'll unpack a little bit more of what he says. this is rosecrans's plan for the operation. positive information from various sources concurred to show the enemy intended to fight us in his entrenchments at shelbyville. should we advance by that route and he would be in good position to retreat if beaten which lead up into the barrens and inflict loss to

they say that this will be the islamic revolutionary guard corp. is warning the u.s. that this is just the beginning of a crushing response in case of new aggression. what are you hearing over there in baghdad? >> reporter: just very scant information at this stage. all we really can confirm is that it does seem as though the al-assad air base has been hit by at least ten rockets. let's look at the context at which all of this is happening, wolf. there's been all sorts of mixed messaging about whether or not the u.s. military is going to be withdrawing. there was that whole debacle over the letter that was inadvertently sent to the iraqi government that made it seem like the americans were beginning to pull out. and you had very strong statements from the u.s. side from the secretary of defense, from president trump, about how the americans were not withdrawing. president trump has been threatening sanctions on iraq. and those threats, those positions, have had a reaction from a number of iran's proxies in iraq saying that if america doesn't withdraw, they are going t

is the most prestigious unit there is in the marine corps this is the unit where the best of the best go it is the marine corps showcase ceremonial unit it handles presidents and dignitaries security at the white house the silent drill team. after my deployment to operation iraqi freedom in 200-2009 my command officer recommended me for the marine barracks washington i was excited it was the tip of the spear as far as the marine corps is concerned. he would stay work late and then she would drive home and she'd call me and she'd be on some kind a little and she talked about how she loved her job she was a. sweet person who was trying really hard. and succeeding. one of the 1st things i was told my entire dinner was. don't worry because the marines will think that you want to sleep with them and i thought that's just ridiculous the atmosphere off the bat at marine barracks washington was was horrible people asked me what sexual favors had i performed to get my orders there. there was a senior officer in my command who the 1st time he spoke to me he said marines here are nothing but obj

visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] the c-span cities tour is exploring the national story in chapel hill, north carolina. coming up, we will visit the morehead sanitarium and learn about a program that put more than a decade of nasa astronauts into space. at morehead, we still talk about the role that we played on the front lines of the cold war. the space race was a major initiative within the cold war. t -10 -- t minus 10, 9, 8, 7, 0.5, 4, 3, 2, 1, >>>> we are in the campus of the university of north carolina at chapel hill. i am standing in front of the morehead building, home of the morehead planetarium. john morgan the third is from a famous north carolina family. his family was the governor of north carolina. john morehead the third attended carolina for undergraduate school in chemistry. made an accidental discovery in a chemistry lab as an undergraduate that ultimately led to the founding of union carbide and the fan -- he became an extremely wealthy man, and he came up with this idea, what he leading science education contribution was

rupert murdoch's sonjames murdoch sits on the news corp board. and james views on climate are well—established and their frustration with some of the news corp and fox coverage of the topic is also well—known." "they are particularly disappointed with the ongoing denial among the news outlets in australia given obvious evidence to the contrary. strong stuff. there are different examples we could highlight. sometimes it's an issue of emphasis. on the day australia hit its highest ever average temperature, the murdoch—owned australian newspaper led on a story about coal exports. other times there is something more explicit. we know australia's climate has been getting warmer over the past century — this from the bureau of meteorology — and meteorologists say a hotter drier climate increases the risk of bushfire seasons being longer and more intense. but you'll find examples in the murdoch media questioning that. in november, news corp columnist chris kenny wrote in the australian newspaper: hysterical efforts to blame the fires on climate change co

who chose to join the peace corps or work in development. they represent the best of our country all around the world. today they are doing so at great risk because of our president. ladies and gentlemen, i want to thank you all. these are dangerous times, but let me end by saying, may god protect our troops. we need action, mr. president. you have to explain what you're doing. thank you very much. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> our live campaign 2020 coverage continues thursday with president donald trump in toledo, ohio at a rally. watch live on c-span2, on demand at c-span.org come or listen on the go with the free c-span radio app. 's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. wednesday morning, we will discuss escalating u.s.-iran tensions with nebraska republican congressman don bacon, california democratic congresswoman barbara lee, an

we talked -- i threw out the peace corps metaphor a minute ago. let me now switch over to the more long-term dire scenario of a worsening relationship with china that heaven forbid could come to pass but if we end up in a more rivalry state, are you thinking long-term about ways in which the u.s. army might more permanently establish combat power throughout the broader region? i'm thinking of bases that perhaps are primarily air force or navy but where the army has a huge role in providing missile defense, long-range fires, now that we are out of the imf treaty, perhaps surface-to-surface missile batteries. you alluded to hypersonics in your remark as well. this could be in the philippines archepelago or it could be in other south pacific nation archepelagoes, it could be in vietnam some day. i'm wondering to what extent the army is thinking about these kind of possibilities. in the abstract, i realize you don't want to get ahead of the game and start asking countries to base forces where those countries are trying to balance their own relationshi

we have four divisions part of corps. the 106th infantry division, the 28th infantry division, the ninth infantry and fourth infantry. thearea of the ardennes u.s. forces are using is for two purposes. one are the units that have been so bloodied, they put the troops in there and refilled them with new replacements. the 20 eighth and fourth infantry divisions are experienced divisions that fought across france and have gone into the forest, they lost about a third to half of their strength and are being refilled from their bloody fighting in october and november. the other divisions, the ninth armored and 106th, our new. the 106th are so new, they have gone to the front, taken over the second infantry four days germanthe for -- the defensive will start. they're just settling in. the other division to the north is the 99th infantry. that division has only been on the line for approximately three weeks. you get a number of very inexperienced divisions and lots of bloodied divisions in this area. that is ok because we don't

from the german perspective he thinks he is fighting an armored corps. anytime they move, or tanks start to mass on him. what is happening is that clarke and the seventh armored division are keeping infantry and engineers forward and maintaining a reserve of tank companies and tank destroyers. and so, wherever the germans start to mass, they are able to move rapidly. they call the tactic "racetrack." the racetrack pattern. what happens is tank destroyers will get a reverse slope. german tanks come over the hill and start firing at the tank destroyers who have longer-range guns and the better guns that can hit the frontal armor of the tanks. while that is happening, american tanks will race around to the rear and try to come around and destroy those tanks. at the same time artillery is coming in and taking away infantry that are supporting the attack. once that particular attack is defeated, the germans retreat, you re-cock and put the reserves back in there and are ready to do it again the next time the threat comes in. the situation for the seventh armo

it's also the border between two corps. it makes it a dangerous area. he would not pass if you put a core boundary on the middle of that in the approach. then there is a 106 infantry regiment that will be on this good defense terrain. the only problem is we look at this only say, if this is not grounded we want to defend. one of the major problems is all the road networks come around and they all come together. if it falls all those troops will be trapped. there is one other regiment that will be just off this to the side. as you get back to sans be, the one bridge, a single road. the piece of high wooded ground about a mile to the east. then the town of sans be. it is not a large town. in 1944 has about 2000 inhabitants. that stone has about 4000. it has been taken over not because these are great defense positions, but because this is where we ended up stopping in october. we would hate to have to go back to the west wall and capture it again. the morning of the 16th, german forces, they have been patrolling heavily. have identified the new division i

colin: corps is a much larger organization, pple in the fifth corps. and a year later he let me go, and we to germany and took command of the fifth united states corps headquartered in frankfurt, guarding the fulda gap, one of the invasion routes we expected the russians to come in. david: so that was a great job-- powell: it was a great job. it lasted 4 months. david: because what happened was there was e iran-contra scandal...well:. david: new national security advisor, frank carlucci, came in and he wanwed you as hiseputy. : and i said, "frank, it can't be that important." he says, "it is that important." so then i said, "ok, see if you can risk your entire career by saying the next sentence. i said, "well, frank, if it's that important, why doesn't the president call me? heh!" [scattered laughter] halfour later, david: you get a call from... powell: "hello, roneral powell. this ild reagan." "yes, sir." ha ha! "i really, really want you to come back here." he's reading the talking points that frank gave him. "i really, really want you to come back h

is a really smart with the marine corps needs the professionalism. everything about it inspired me. after i graduated high school i left for orlando florida which was the 1st. i was ever on an airplane and a life. initially it was just wanting to go see the world because i'm from a really small town i had a college scholarship to go play basketball but i instead opted to go into the military. you know what i chose to do. i come from a long line of military when we had somebody from every generation on both sides of the family all the way to mary ward had served in the armed forces and i chose the marine corps because no one in my family had ever done that. well of putting on a uniform every day and you know just getting out there and giving it my all and it's a very proud feeling. that i would have done the camp and it was create the cooler ottery the discipline and everything it taught you who i wanted to be that's what they taught. obviously it was different taking a shower with different people all of a sudden. but i disagree experience i was a sa

rfo years, the islamic revolutionary guard corps and its ruthless forces under soleimani's leadershipas injured and killed hundreds of servreemembers. thnt attacks on u.s. members, including missile attacks that killed servicemembers badly, ands well as a assault inarank debt wereed out at the direction of soleimani. soleimanith mad death of innocent people his sick passion , contributing to terrorist plots as far away asew delhi and london. today, we remember and honor the victims ofoleimani's many atrocities and we take comfort in knowing that his reign of terror is over. >> gary it was a srt statement. did president trump explain his long-term iran strategy? gary: i don't think you did. he did say he wasn't seeking regime chae in toronto, which some of the -- tehran, which of somece of the f called for, but he was calling for tehran'in proxy efforthe region to destabilize and to create difficulties. they had to end now. in some ways, perhaps that is warning to iran about the future, but it was, ihink, a president who was trying to make the argument that, we had to do this now becau

, we are hearing more from iranian state television and from the international revolutionary guard corps itself. fred liken is in tehran at this moment able to monitor that and those signals you're seeing. fred, what are they saying? >> reporter: well, they're obviously saying that the revolutionary guard corps is the ones who are behind this attack on this air base. they say tens of rockets and missiles have been fired at that base. in fact, on the farce news network which is one of the state run news agencies here in iran, there is video proporting to show one of those missiles hitting the base. they are saying that was a ballistic missile hitting the al-assad air base. we're not able to independently verify that. but that obviously erin would be a significant turn of events. one of the things we've seen so far with attacks on american bases inside of iraq, some by proxy forces, is they've often used lower tech shorter range missiles. if this was a ballistic missile, it would be the revolutionary guard corps not just showing it's lashing out as the u.s. or taking revenge as they put it

we talked, i threw out the peace corps metaphor a minute ago. let me now switch over to the more long term dire scenario of a worsening relationship with china, that heaven forbid come to pass, if we wind up in a more rivalrous state. are you thinking about ways the u.s. army might more permanently establish combat power across the region? i'm thinking of bases that are primarily air force or navy but,where the army has a huge role in providing missile defensally defense, long range fires, missile batteries, you alluded to hypersonics in your remarks as well. this could be in the philippine archipelago, this could be in other south asian or south pacific nation arcarchipelagos, could be in vietnam some day. i'm just wondering to have been extent the army is thinking about these kinds of possibilities in the abstract. i realize you don't want to get ahead of the game and ask countries to base forces where those countries are trying to balance their own relationship with china, but in a more abstract, general sense, are you thinking about new kind

family all the way to of revolutionary war i had served in the armed forces and i chose the marine corps because no one in my family had ever done that. ellos putting on a uniform every day and you know just getting out there and giving it my all and it's a very proud feeling. that i would have done the camp over and over again it was create the cooler ottery that discipline. everything that taught you who i wanted to be that's what they taught you there. obviously was different taking a shower with different people all of a sudden good. but just a great experience i was a sailor every single report on me was excellent grades i knew what i needed to do and i was a great team winner. i really enjoyed the whole challenge of it i got several different awards and. it was mainly men i love that i could blend in and keep up with the guys and work as hard as. i knew how do you was challenging and education was talk not my senior year i was selected to be one of the top 30 leadership positions by the company great officers there. after basic i went to the name of security through alaska i rememb