there we are old friend george patton. you remember himrom last year's lecture and the year before and the year before and the year before. what would norma bout george? well, as he would say, nothing but here's the starting quotation for tonight, and we'll a number them. if if the proper study of mankind is man troper study of warfare, our maps. maps are key to moving armies. why is that? the american army in europe, in world war two, the average division of 20,000 men consume. 700 tons of supplies per day. that's mind boggling. and you have to have a road network to do that with. you can't be hollywood and go traipsing over hillandale. it doesn't work that way. and we're here tonight because our sister city is con france. and i would like for you to look over here. here's normandy. normandy is the key to liberating france, england. there's no other proper area of beaches that can be covered by support and can be landing craft coming in from the english ports. but normandy. and there's paris. why france? e france is the ga

patton. and they're on th island, sicily and they've got big, huge maps of sicily. george and his headquarters. he looks at his staff and says, messina, bill messina's the key to sicily. if they had let me land that syracuse and drive up the coast road. messina, i have every german on this -- island now. it's the same thing with con, ladies and gentlemen. if you're going to go into normandy to get into northwest france, to get to the third reich, you've got to go through con imagine the old fashioned spoke wheel and the center hub that the roads come through north, south, east, west is con you cannot move an army through normandy unless. you have a road network. the only exception, of course, is george patton, because he doesn't go through general montgomery, stays at con and visits there for six weeks. and before gets anywhere. but that's another story. the next map r right shows the relationshi con to paris. here's the rhine river and the third reich. so you can see how important this is, this connection cois like a bow and arrow pointed at the heart of pears, and that p

blackjack, before pershing went to france and he goes down there with the young lieutenant named george patton chased the mexicans 1000 miles back into the desert and the secure the border with the seventh calvary. that was coasters hold -- >> host: coming to the current situation with the secretary, you originally said you thoughtc it was waste of time. >> caller: yes, a waste of time. 1953, isaiah was told he had about close to 900 million illegal aliens picky acted with a joint military law enforcement operation every move close to 1 million mexicans by force. it had ace bad name to it, it ws called operation wetback but that's what it was. he did it twice by the way and the american people applauded him because that's what a country does. when you have to make people, to buy to come across a river, it doesn't matter whether they have guns or whether there hello kitty backpacks. it will have the same effect demographically and culturally on the nation. without assimilation we will never hold together as a people. we will know have linguistic and cultural unity and thus we secure the border.

and something about george patton and the third u.s. army. and they've done great things and they've done wonderful things. but there were one american army out of four u.s. armies in northwest europe. the first, the third, the seventh and the ninth. and we know a lot about the third army, but not too much about the other three. and i was sitting around, why is that? and then i started dug in digging it a little bit more. and then i discovered that everyone's suddenly like the ninth army. everywhere i looked, people, hey, the ninth army. we like having them in their organization. we like with them. it's pure organization, subordinate organizations. we being in their organization for leaders. that's the trifecta right. and whether they were effective, it wasn't like they were just people pleasers. so that kind of got me started. i think going that's that's kind of odd and yet no one's ever heard of guys. and then there was a great by general omar bradley, who was the commander of 12th army group, who said, unlike noisy, rambunctious third and