manning was transferred to fort leavenworth and at fort leavenworth he was not the sort of very fine but much the explanation that i was given for the first eight months i considered insufficient. and i i issued a report that i submitted to rights council of the united nations in which i said that his eight months of solitary confinement was unjustified. and i'm just sort of tree confinement does constitute torture. well it depends on. i was in solitary confinement under all circumstances constitute torture. because it creates a pain and suffering that can be severe enough to constitute a poorly no one hundred rating treatment or in some cases torture which is a higher gravity yes it is in this case it's prolonged for the very confined and what are you thinking why do you think he was treated like that. the u.s. government. it was pursuant to the regulations of the military applies in court martial proceedings and that it had to do with the gravity of the charges against him which seems to me that before someone is found guilty it's a reason to apply such an extreme regime. only beca

all over the spectrum of both parties but i was asked or speaking about my other books from fort leavenworth the military base, not the prison. [laughter] 1400 majors from around the world and someone asked what is the biggest problem that i worry about when i go to bet at night? the answer was american weakness. why do i say that? was sent out from this country is we you're modeling the american economy and a failed model. there is no way you will have the deficits we have had or the debt we are incurring without sending out a signal to the world that this country will not be but it was in the past and there is no way you can do that if you don't act responsibly people take that message and then you turn around when i went to washington i can matt of the navy and served there during kennedy johnson we were 10 percent of gdp on defense today we spend less than 4% and in you're spending less than 2% now with the sequestration is cutting $493 billion out of the pentagon budget and about to cut another half a trillion that brings it close at $950 billion out of a 10 year budget. the signal that

called an organization arms hich is combined lessons learned in fort leavenworth. hey are responsible for collecting lessons learned, lessons and operational learned for iraq, afghanistan ll lines of operations to include the civil and military lanes. one thing i asked them to do was level lessons learned. hat gets into the higher level what have we learned in operating in these environments and what do we have to do at the highest levels to ensure we are interagency activity. if you look at our doctrine as you will published it ind joint interagency, intergovernmental, multinational. that is from what we have or seven e last six years of doing this. what is my concerned? strong relationships over the last seven or eight years civically between the military communities. and we have done that because we had to in iraq and afghanistan. sustain that when we come out of afghanistan so when we get to the next problem we established this keub capability? i want to make sure we don't go corners.he that we stay together. direction is doing we are going to continue to put l

i was asked, i was speaking about my other book, at fort leavenworth, the military base, not the prison. there were 1490 majors mostly from our country but from around the world too. it is a big school. someone asked me what is the biggest problem that i worry about, and the answer was american weakness. why do i say that? the signal that is being sent out from this country is that basically we are modeling the american economy on europe and it is a failed model. doesn't work. there is no way you can have the deficits we have had and have the debt we are incurring without sending out a signal to the world that this country is not going to be what it was in the past. there is no way you can do that. if you are not going to act responsibly people take that message

when you go to your pre--, and force training, when the army would go out to fort leavenworth, kansas, you have the legal briefings and they really explain to you these troubling issues as well as issues with drugs and things of that nature and how you should be prosecuted. host: women serving in the military. we heard from several callers this morning saying that is the problem. guest: i don't think it is a problem. i was commissioned in 1980 two. i have a lot of great friends who were female who served admirably. to --k when we talk start talking about women serving in combat units, that is the step we have to look at are we ready to go there. general dempsey kind of alluded to even having to lower standards. when you look at the canadian army, they changed the standards to allow females to go into combat type units. your special operations, infantry. it is not about allowing women in the military. as a matter of fact, if you go back to molly pitcher at the battle of monmouth in the revolutionary war when her husband felt that she stepped in on the artillery gumline and we honor her