sherman's greatness also derives from his mastery of logistics. an enormous field army supply day after day, very deep in enemy territory. sherman's army numbered over 100,000 men. horses, 33,000 mules. imagine trying to supply an army of that size day after day after day. the only way to do it, of course, was via railroads. sherman, in the months leading up to the campaign which began in may, 1860 four, had hundreds of trains moving down a rail system through ,entucky and tennessee stockpiling supplies in nashville and chattanooga. in chattanooga alone, between the months of march and may 1864 there were 165 rail cars unloading on a daily basis there. he is building supply bases he will need as he advances into georgia. hadng the campaign, he about 5000 wagons that were constantly on the move from the railroad to the army in the field. as richard mcmurray writes in one of the best overviews of the campaign -- and like other heard, i am have going to throw out some book titles. atlanta 1864 is a very good overview. decision in the west by albert c

the group is providing logistics, a change of thinking about military intelligence. they provide logistical support, dismantling the training center and the beneficiary and taliban so something has to be done about the analytical capability of the government and civilian military. >> with the absence of the capture or killing of these leaders still remains a very open question. go ahead. >> thank you very much. is a unique experience to see the three distinguished experts. one reason about -- and the pakistan american league and observation, other than recently in pakistan. i found them totally -- they had -- they were really speaking to with one voice. sometimes you see because of the politicians' statements and other things but other than that, they are working together, as well as working closely with the administration, we are going to win that war, and which we don't but this is done terrorism. he doesn't draw any battle lines and even the superpowers generally face in this territory. given the time line of the time frame, it is difficult to get. after that for

finally we have to put in an automated transport and logistics great.ver the next 40 years we have two generations who can build the environment to lay out. but as of this comes in, it is smart, intelligent, can program itself with the small supervisory work force. we have to ask, what do we do that? much of the employment already is now quickly migrating from the marketplace to the collaborative commons, the social economy. and that is because in the social economy it is social requires humans to engage with humans and machines. the last 15 years, the employment of the social commons, the not-for-profit sector has gone up. employment in the traditional marketplace down as technology has displaced workers. this is the way it was outlined. more people are migrating to these expensive types of jobs creating social capital which is a much higher calling than simply attending to a machine. my suspicion, to around this off, is that by 2015 if this is not derailed -- van de think it up set this whole development, in 2015 our grandchildren might look back

that's a 30-year buildout with lots of java and finally an automated transport and logistics grid. i think over the next 30 years or 40 years we have two generations who can be involved in semiskilled, skilled and professional were and professional or to and professional were to lay out this internet of things but as this internet of things comes and it's smart. it's intelligent. you can program itself with a small supervisory work for so we will have to ask what do we do then? much of the employment already is now quickly migrating from the marketplace to the collaborative commons, the social economy. that's because the social economy is social capital and a requires humans and not machines. in the last 15 years the employment on the social commons the not-for-profit sector has gone up in employment in the traditional marketplace down, down, down as technologies have displaced workers just the way canes outlined. more people are migrating to these more expansive types of jobs creating social capital which is a much higher calling than simply attending to machines. my suspicion aro

lastly the forces of creative destruction have ravaged traditional communication and logistics systems. in this environment the job of an infrastructure like the postal service is to support citizens and businesses as they try to compete and positioned themselves, one also takes care to assure that efficient market forces prevailed and are not undermined. to continue in this role, understand the changing world and rapid adaptation are increasingly critical endeavors. the postal service faces a tricky challenge of modernizing traditional products as it provides support services for emerging technologies. success will largely depend on its ability to innovate and embrace the innovations of others. as a result, continual strengthening of the postal service's processes for innovation will be needed. they include seeking to understand the frustrations and supporting emerging needs of people and commerce, develop a comprehensive innovation strategy, clarifying the entry point for innovators and providing staff to join innovators in navigating a huge postal structure and remained with them un

international automobile logistics tried to track down the car and what they call the heavy season. we visited their facility in baltimore, trying to track down answers. ok, you can't tell us anything about the holdup? no, nothing? busyey may have been too chewing too, to when we came looking for answers at this vehicle processing center for logistics,al auto one of seven places missing cars belonging to military members should have ended up. 30 dayse looking at past the required delivery date, 60 days past the delivery date. >> that is not what dod wants. that it isact says supposed to be at 98% on-time delivery rate and at least a satisfactory rating for customers 95% of the time. thousands weighing in on facebook do not give them high marks. >> these people are looking for their cars. they cannot find their cars. >> some are now driving by the lots, checking to see if the photos on facebook match cars in the parking spots. they have questions about the delays and want to know why the feds went with a cheaper bid from a new contractor when the valuations of the previous company, a

sherman had pretty capable s subordinates that would look after logistical concerns. he had authority over the railroads, this had been a controversial matter in the months leading up to the campaign. he had banned all civilian traffic on the main railroads leading south out of nashville. he had planned for the confederates to try to break the railroad railroads by stockpiling rails and ties at various locations. he had crews as civilians, african-americans who were employed as civilian laborers, engineering that could very quickly rebuild railroads, particularly bridges. as the confederates retreated. they retreated across several rivers. they would always burn these bridges, and it was truly remarkable how quickly sherman's engineers and laborers could rebuild these huge wooden spans. so that's where the real mastery logistics comes into play. one more question over here. general hood has been undergoing a bit of a re-evaluation recently. it seemed to me that his plans. once he took over as commander of the army of tennessee were fairly good plans on paper, it's jus

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i think sherman's greatness also derives from his mastery of logistics. keeping an enormous field army supplied day after day after day, very deep in enemy territory. sherman's army numbered over 100,000 men. it had 28,000 horses. 33,000 mules. imagine trying to supply an army of that size, day after day after day. the only way to do it, of course, was via railroads. sherman, in the months leading up to the campaign, which began in may 1864, had hundreds and hundreds of trains moving down a rail system through kentucky and tennessee stockpiling supplies in nashville and chattanooga. in chattanooga alone between the months of march and may of 1864, there are 145 rail cars unloading on a daily basis there. so he's building supply bases that he'll need as he advances into georgia. during the campaign, he had about 5,000 wagons that were constantly on the move from the railroad to the army in the field. as richard mcmurray, who is one of the foremost scholars of the atlanta campaign writes in one what's one of the best overviews of the campaign, and like some

and we were building out an aviation logistics capability to provide secure logistics for mining or energy companies infrastructure companies doing business in africa or another front or markets getting back to diplomatic security of sad that you recall in many many instances you regret working for the state department but you took so much pride in working for them are so government but of what you are so proud to work for the government would you do this again no. you know if i had to do it all over again i would have stayed in the oil and gas industry or mining and build a business that way again i never never set out to really be a defense contractor i built a training facility that performed really well and we kept answering the phone with the u.s. government call the needed help and in the end we were kind of betrayed politically and i guess in u.s. parlance you've thrown under the bus you know some claim that blackwater was involved with the u.s. special forces in pakistan and in syria those are countries that us isn't officially at war with so it's not like you were doing the dirty

that's where logistics comes into play.o one more question here. >> it seems to me that his plans, once he took over as commander of the army of tennessee, were fairly good plans on paper. it's just that his army couldn't estimate them for one reason or another. could you comment on them briefly? >> sure. hood certainly durnt have the master of logistics that sherman does. that becomes painfully evident during the tennessee campaign in 1864. but hood is operating under some handicaps. he has a command structure with a plot of generals who are woefully experienced. they just don't execute. the time constraints that he's working under and the physical conditions of his men. hood was just asking far too much of men who are already totally exhausted. so that's kind of a short answer. but the renaissance you're talking about, that's not the right word to use. the reevaluation of hood's general ship is taking place of some others. so thank you. [ applause ] >> bart is a professor of the yumpbts of alabama and the author of a book

i think sherman's greatness also derives from his mastery of logistics. keeping an enormous field army supplied day after day after day, very deep in enemy territory. sherman's army numbered over 100,000 men. it had 28,000 horses. 33,000 mules. imagine trying to supply an army of that size, day after day after day. the only way to do it, of course, was via railroads. sherman, in the months leading up to the campaign, which began in may 1864, had hundreds and hundreds of trains moving down a rail system through kentucky and tennessee, stockpiling supplies in nashville and chattanooga. and chattanooga alone, between the months of march and may of 1864, there are 145 rail cars unloading on a daily basis there. so he's building supply bases that he'll need as he advances into georgia. during the campaign, he had about 5,000 wagons that were constantly on the move, from the railroad to the army in the field. as richard mcmurray, who is one of the foremost scholars of the campaign writes, and what is one of the best overviews of the campaign, and like some of t

bob is a retired marine logistics officer. i met him when he was still in uniform. homeland the staff of defense in 2002 when it was created. bob has had an extraordinary career. he is now a member of the senior executive service. and truly, bob is such a good friend i have trouble saying this without some considerable prejudice on my part but he is the expert in our nation on the subject of defense support of civil authorities. he knows more about that topic than anybody else i have ever met and he's been at it in the service of our country now for about 12 years. we are exceptionally fortunate to have bob deputy assistant secretary of defense for integration and support of civil authorities as our next speaker. >> paul, thank you very much. let me start with i think it's important i'm going to talk about defense support to civil authorities but i wanted to provide a little bit of context before we get going on d.o.d.'s two main roles here domestically. and we've spent a lot of time, nearly a decade. and as the secretary was obviously the author of a lot of these p

>> well, this is one of seven processing lots for international auto logistics.e made a stop into their office today to see if they could explain locally why there's such a holdup and why people have such a hard time finding the cars that are supposed to be in this lot already. they wouldn't give us any answers. they asked us to leave. but that didn't stop us. we dug in to find out more about the company and the contractor they beat out for the job. >> henry bickerstiff drove from ohio to this lot in odenton to send his son's car to his tour on deutaoverseas -- duty overseas. >> it's worth something but if it gets lost, it's insured. >> he's not worried, but maybe he should be after hundreds of military families claim their cars have gone missing. they were handled by international auto logistics, a company that began a $300 million deal back in may. since then hundreds of people have complained their cars have not been delivered to lots like this weeks or months after they were promised. >> i think this contractor is letting the army down. i think they're in ove

he said logistically is the next step is to get these people off the mountain and into safety and that's where the international community comes into play. he said ultimately there will not be an american military solution to this problem, and finally we should have learned a lesson from our incursion in iraq. we'll have more on that tomorrow morning in our weekend politics segment. thank you so much for watching al jazeera, i'm morgan radford. . real understanding... >> where you scared when you hear the bombs? >> al jazeera america real... news... >> welcome to the news hour. coming up in the next 60 minutes. >> if these terrorists threaten our facilities or personnel we will take action to protect our people. >> president obama promises to continue the fight against the islamic state group in northern iraq. >>> it comes as emergency aid is dropped for thousands of people stranded by the fighting. [ explosion ]

logistically, because it's such a huge area, and the other reason, this is both logistically and politically, there wasn't a coalition of people against the war on terror at the time. i think it would have been hard for him to do politically not only with our congress but certainly in the region. >> and the thing is, to juan's point, you know what? president obama might have killed 15 or 20 bin ladens already with drones. we'll never know. >> listen, now i know what bob feels like at the table. >> nobody's disagreeing with you. >> i think it's crazy that -- >> we find it tragic. it's not outrageous, it's tragic. different adjective. but -- let me see if you find this outrageous. are check out muhammad al saha, a florida man who blew himself up in a suicide bombing just weeks ago. he's believed to be the first american suicide jihadist. >> you think you're safe where you are in america? or britain? or indonesia? you think you are safe? you are not safe. those people who died on 9/11 just doesn't justify. when the americans were back in iraq, before 9/11, you think that you killed osama bin la

there is always going to be the issue of access versus the and mechanics and logistics of the process and you balance those two things and want to make sure that nobody is denied access. be integrity in the process and works smoothly and mechanically. i will give you another example we went to touch screen machines in florida after 2000 because we be a goodat would thing. touch screent to technology which was going to be more efficient in theory and special needsith to be able to vote such as the blind or the deaf. a few years later because people lost faith in them because they wanted the aper and what if there is recount issue and there is no paper to do the recount. the countye and spent millions upon millions of dollardollars to go back to the andcal scan ballot machines that was a public policy decision that was made and so be it. ballothave optical scan machines. it is not a static process. always changing and obviously trying to makef it better. i think you this issue of access versus integrity in anything dealing with elections. i want to speak on -- follow up on that especial

when it came down to just logistics. it wasn't even about the lives, it was the logistics. the money and resources they koe allocate to the problem. gentleman i think that's an excellent point. we're talking about resources that -- given the collective resources that could be martialed by the united states, by france, by really any european country that might have had a stake in this. of course belgium sent some people. what was actually sent, what was actually provided by a pittance. that was exaggerating it really. they sent damage vehicles that showed up not in working order with manuals in the wrong languages without parts needed to repair the vehicles needed to be repaired. of course, the number of people and what should have been sent. >>. david. >> for me the most difficult aspect of everything. as you mentioned there were so many logistical and technical problem that's weren't addressed by anyone at all until they were notified -- until they realized there was a problem. the most difficult thing for me was the empty leadership that came from the supposed leaders. >>

the question is the logistics of distribution. that is where the dart team deployed will make sure that they reach the front line workers that require them. with the additional resources we are mobilizing, we will reach 70,000, which is the number you have seen. that is the space suits you have seen. to be prepared. they do not come ready to use. that is where we are now. we expect to reach 70,000 bpe's, as we call them. we also have in neighboring countries some of these available to them. that is for them to become familiar with them in case we need to scale up. ghana has been another where we are paying attention. that couldbe a route allow us to escape the countries we have today. we are preparing. we have training. we have resources available. >> thank you. ambassador williams? >> as i said earlier, we are continually monitoring the situation in all of the affected countries. our primary concern is the health and well-being of american citizens abroad. we have not in fact ordered the departure of our family members from any o

you might en kur logistics costs and have unhappy customers. time is money. you want to make sure your goods are getting across the border quickly. >> don't just leave this to someone else. you better understand it all yourself. >> you have to understand it. even if you have somebody else do it, you're ultimately liable importing goods for your compliance. you want to make sure you're working with people that run a tight ship. >> and then costs. there are ways to get around some of the costs or reduce them. >> first of all, really understand whether or not you can take advantage of free trade agreements. nafta has been around for 20 years. most of us know about nafta, there are a lot of bilateral trade agreements with any number of countries that reduce duties. you have to comply with the requirements and demonstrate your goods qualify. >> how do i find this out? i work with a lawyer, need to know to ask the lawyer. >> exactly. you can work with a customs broker, work with an attorney. you need to be able to document that your goods were sourced in a particul

the mountain to slaughter the people who are there, but the next step going to be complicated logistically is how do we give safe passage for the people down are from the mountain and where can we ultimately relocate them so that they are safe? that is the coordination that we need to do internationally. i was pleased to get the cooperation of both prime m minister cameron and president hollande in addressing the immediate needs in terms of the air drops and system of the assets and the logistical support they are providing, but there is a broader set of questions that the experts are now engaged in with the united nations. and our allies and partners and that is how to create a potentially safe corridor or some mechanism so that the people can move, and that may take some time, because there are varying estimates of how many people are up there, but they are in the thousands and moving them is not simple in this security environment. just to give people a sense though of a timetable, the most impornt timetable that i am focused on right now is the iraqi government being formed and finaliz

with his small staff all of the army's strategic tactical and logistical needs. long days in the saddle, stress and tasty meals had taken a toll on his 57 year-old body. a year earlier lee had suffered a minor architect. his hair i am right when the war began had turned silver white. his trouble now is dysentery. he was unable to leave his tent. there was no one to take his place. lee was 26 to utilize the formation to attack granted. no stonewall jackson, no longstreet, nudge of stuart. when union probes revealed the contours of the rebel offensive formation granted elected not to attack bill he maneuvered again to the southeast to try to get between lee and richmond fed tabret may 27 to can the veterans council reported the union entrenched and was empty. the two armies jockeyed northeast of richmond and gravitated a place. familiar to the veterans of both armies to had thought in 1862. in fact, they reoccupied the old fortification and the positions were reversed. on may 301st engine first the armies fought the engagements for position a massive attack on the

you might incur logistics costs and have unhappy customers. you want to understand if your goods are getting across the border quickly. >> done the leave this to someone else. maybe after you get it going you can trust someone else. you better understand it all yourself. >> i don't you have to understand it. even if you have somebody else do it, you're ultimately liable if you're importing goods for your compliance. work with people that run a tight ship. >> someone you can trust. and costs. there are ways to get around these costs or reduce them. >> understand if you can take advantage of free trade agreements. nafta has been around for 20 years. most of us know about nafta. there are bilateral trade agreements with any number of countries that reduce duties but you have to, once again, comply with requirements and demonstrate your goods qualify. >> how do you find this out? i work with a lawyer, somebody who understands, i just need to know to ask the lawyer. >> you can work with a customs broker or an attorney. basically you need to be able

the biggest challenge that we all have is the logistical support to get the materials and the supplies on the ground to fight this disease. as one of you quoted, if we do not fight and contain this west africa, we will be fighting and containing an multiple other countries around the world. the truth is -- the cat is most likely already out of the bag. staff andthank my recognize them for who had been there and done a valiant job at great risk to their own lives. i want to let you know that the reintegration back into their country is awkward. people are afraid to get around them. their husbands and their wives do not know if it is safe to hug them. their communities may be ostracize them. we are doing everything that we can in the staff care way to give them a safe place to be to protect their privacy. i want you to know how difficult it is for american citizens and in fact citizens of all country -- we have people on that team that came from maybe seven countries -- they all suffer these issues. i believe this is a very nasty and bloody disease. i could give you descriptions of peopl

operation when you consider who he was and all the other issues he had to deal with in terms of logistics, military strategy, leadership and the politics of the time. washington was an expert at what i would say is probably the most difficult aspect of intelligence, deception planning. deception planning allowed him on many occasions, all strategic, to completely fool the british commanders as to the size of his army and what he planned to do with it. yet for deception operation you need three key factors that are very hard to put together. number one, you've got to be able to control the information if it's coming out from your side so that there is a steady stream only of what you want done. that means no leaking, it often means falsifying reporting to junior officers so that they can't inadvertently say what's going on. number two, you've got to have sources, double agents primarily or people who are friendly with the adversary to whom you can purposefully leak information so that you know the information is going to the adversary's command. and thirdly, and this is really a key that m

and also beginning to converge with a fledgling an automated logistics' the internet.t is expanding into three, information, energy, automated transport or logistics' and creating one super internet of the internet of things. and these three internet seven placing sensors across the system to monitor the flow of data. we have sensors now connecting three source close, sensors feeding data in from production lines, warehouses, distribution centers, sensors on smart roads, sensors that are connecting the electricity grid so that we know what the appliances are doing at any moment, since disconnecting vehicles and offices and stores. that big a data coming in across the economy to these three internets, communications, energy, and logistics' is providing a wealth of data about what goes on at any given moment across the economy. and what this is -- we now have 13 billion censors out there. ibm says in 2020 there will be 50 billion. and by 2013 perhaps 100 trillion sensors connecting everything or anyone. later on we will talk about the questions of privacy and data securi

unfortunately, there are logistics and we have to live with that. just before i end, i would like to say that they were successful in the sense they will control the areas. they have not abandoned their posts. they help these people. on the other hand, that particular freedom they had is not there anymore. the good news is the operation should be over by september, going back sometime in the middle of september. they can, crop and operate at will. my own reasoning on this is that pakistan will not fail in military operations. parkistan will fail in the relief operations, even though the army engineer corps are making these roads, wide-open roads to make communications less difficult. the relief part is something -- you take a person and put him across the road in a camp, you have disrupted him. you know you have disruption which must be addressed. the rehabilitation is something that must be worked upon. we must give them a means. give them reason to protect that means of livelihood. thank you. >> thank you. let's move on. maybe you can take this fo

the logistical support to get the supplies on the ground to fight this disease. quoted, if we do not fight and contain this disease, we will be fighting this disease. the cat is most likely already out of the bag. i want to recognize them for who had been there and done a valiant job at great risk to their own lives. i want to know that the reintegration back into their country is awkward. people are afraid to get around them. they do not know if it is safe to hug them. their communities may be ostracized. we are doing everything that we place tove them a safe be to protect their privacy. i want you to know how difficult it is for american citizens and citizens of all countries that came from maybe seven countries also for these issues. i believe this is a very nasty and bloody disease. i can give you descriptions of people dying that you cannot even believe. we have to fight it now. we will fight it here or somewhere else. i think an international court nader is something significantly needed. >> thank you for that testimony and i think for underscoring your exp

the logistical support to get the supplies on the ground to fight this disease. as one of you quoted, if we do not fight and contain this disease, we will be fighting this disease. the cat is most likely already out of the bag. i want to recognize them for who had been there and done a valiant job at great risk to their own lives. i want to know that the reintegration back into their country is awkward. people are afraid to get around them. they do not know if it is safe to hug them. their communities may be ostracized. we are doing everything that we can to give them a safe place to be to protect their privacy. i want you to know how difficult it is for american citizens and citizens of all countries that came from maybe seven countries also for these issues. i believe this is a very nasty and bloody disease. i can give you descriptions of people dying that you cannot even believe. we have to fight it now. we will fight it here or somewhere else. i think an international court is something significantly needed. >> thank you for that testimony and i think for und

more than 60,000 people are expected tomorrow, and it will be the first real test when it comes to logistics there. stadium officials tell us they have fine tuned the traffic plan, working with signal timing and parking attenadadon'ants to people in and out. >> to think there's no glitches is unrealistic. have a good time, car pool, arrive early, and help us help you. >> the gates open four hours before kickoff and the stadium itself opens two hours before kickoff. to learn more about the stadium, how to get in and out, where to park, go to and click the guide on top, and details on what to bring and leave at home as well as tips to getting to various parking lots. to candle stick, in what was to be a grand good-bye, the paul mccartney show was to be the memory of a lifetime, but those with tickets to the concert never made it inside the stadium. they were stuck in traffic. police say a lot of the problem was that people tried to get to a parking lot that was already full. after a four-hour drive, one fan got in late and stumbled around in the dark looking for her seat. >> there was a lot of

the company, international auto logistics just got this contract three months ago, and already big problems. and now captain aaron stanley says they are under the watchful eye of the military. leadership now making personal visits to i.a.l. headquarters and to processing centers where these cars are supposed to end up. stanley couldn't give us an exact count of how many cars are missing past that delivery date. we were told it was hundreds earlier. but he says i.a.l. is making progress. the proof, calls into the special call center set up to handle complaints. the first day they had 1800 and it was down to 500 earlier one day this week. still a long way to go. the company had to submit a detailed plan on how they will fix the issues. and now they say they hope to have everything worked out by the end of september. but the families, some of them are saying that they have absolutely had enough and are calling on the feds to revoke the contract. captain stanley says revocation is an option if they cannot perform. but he says the focus now is on giving the company a chance to see if it can deli

special forces anti-aircraft artillery logistics, a lot that could seriously interfere in eastern ukrainekyline, there's been smoke, local residents saying there's been fighting out in one of the southwestern edges of the city street level gunfire, fears that the ukrainian military's advance to the city center has begun. >> no coincidence that the ukrainian army is moving fast into donetsk. inside the city on monday, great quiet reigned. dozens of children eke out a life, sleeping on mattresses they carried down here. twins who find the nightly explosions scary, loud. in this dim labyrinth, they believe the separatists when they tell them, the ukrainian army are american backed fascists, set on attacking the ethnic russians here. they crush us, the americans. what are they doing? where there is war in the world, they have a part. look, these little ones here they can't afford to leave, have nowhere to go. all the women of the world she says, raise your voice against these murderers, streets torn up. ukraine's army have used a lot of artillery in their fast advance and returns to her home

second, the logistics is really difficult.everything has to be trucked hundreds of kilometers and sometimes thousands of kilometers and the last is population is constantly moving out, looking for better places where they feel safer to stay. the humanitarian assistance has to keep catching up with them. it's quite a lot of logistics and cost to be able to deliver it at a time it is needed and in the place it is needed. >> families with babies, can you talk with the toll this takes particularly on children? >> absolutely. i mean one of the -- one of the difficult things when you talk about numbers is you forget those numbers represent people. just walking down today, we were distributing water santa at a center. first thing the heat is overwhelming for children. its temperatures are 50°. sitting in tents with are hardly any moving air. the children keep crying because of the difficulty of circumstances. these are for very young children. ones a little bit older not going to school having lost friends and family are traumatized.

and i lost some nights worrying about the logistics, but they lost a lot of nights putting together the programs over the past week. i'd like if you could just stand real quick, if you don't mind -- no matter what division you're in -- [ applause ] and volunteers, please. [ applause ] >> these folks, many of them, were at the church parking lot this morning at 3:30 a.m. and met the tours and followed in the foot steps of the 18th and second corps, and as depleted as they are, they're here tonight to support this final program. so as the superintendent of this park, i couldn't be more impressed by this staff and proud. so thank you all so very much. [ applause ] and finally, parts of this battlefield would not be available to tell their stories were it not for the work of the civil war trust and the richmond battlefields association. their preservation work will ensure that these places will remain available to teach and inspire our children, grandchildren, and generations to come. indeed, these places, this land, and the history it contains, are the reasons that we are here. 150 years a

a manual specifically on military logistics. and he also leans on this doctrine of military necessity to justify forageing. and he argues foragings was a quote, well-established right of war. he does concede though there need to be restraints placed on forageing because as he put it to do otherwise would be to bring dishonor on the country. and lip it's work, i know it's published after the war but it will all make sense it. dmomt demonstrates the compl complexity of the moral issues that surround forageing. you are inflicting hardship on that civilian population. and so in order to inflict, sort of, the magical right amount of hardship, enough but not undo, to operate within the moral boundaries of civilized warfare, officers need to maintain very tight control. and lippet explains that without defined foraging parties and centralized systems chaos could ensue and the army would really descend into a sort of armed mob engaging in pillage and so forth. so what's interesting is that you would have expected lippet to use sherman's

stronghold, we have done a tremendous favor to the afghan national forces by not allowing their logistics to take place from this place. it will have to really recapture this area from the pakistan army to do this. obviously, i have no blueprint. i can only take my guess is from other things. thecommitment i've seen in pakistan army which i've never seen in all my life. it is something which is amazing. pleasure to get the feedback from them. in my own unit, take it for my was in southch waziristan for two years. talk with them regularly. people, 9000 rx servicemen. all the mongols, brothers, cousins, what have you, and the armed forces. you have regular feedback on what is happening. my own feeling is, the optimism is there. whether it is misplaced optimism i do not know. i think the optimism is there. hassan has a very good point. you have to activate. we do not have a national security status. we do not have a national security strategy. the civil government has to spell out a strategy. once you have set up national security, there's a common minimum program which all the political par

. >> a company called international auto logistics holds all the cars, with the families left in the dark. they still have no idea where their car is. it was supposed to join them for weeks ago. >> we want to make sure the car is ok and not damaged. 3000facebook page with members shows they have plenty of company. an internal army e-mail confirms how large the delays have grown. whichage shows ial, started moving vehicles for the feds in may, has more than 14,000 cars in transit. approximately 70% of them are already past the required delivery date. the army is now picking up the contractor's slack. a 309 andding ial dollar contract, a team of -- $300 million contract, the military is going to do the work on your dime. it is being sent to vehicle processing lots like this one in baltimore, and container freight stations near the ports, to physically find the missing cars, log them into a database, and track down the cause of delays. >> i do not anticipate any day getting a call or e-mail that my car is here. i think we are kind of in for the long haul. ial says it has been making sig

back here, as you mentioned, it's a logistic issue.et to the plants to deliver goods, rails are slow, so all that plays doo -- >> the u.s. economy by far is better, i get that, and i don't know if i find total solace in that, but here is something bigger with the inventory number big, nonfarm inventories in second quarter, were the widgets find a home? >> absolutely, rick. we have a special survey question this month and 75% of the respondents expect demand to be strong in three months. seskly september and purchasers think there's one final push that's larger than the 11.7 gain seen this month. probably at the beginning of the first quarter. expected demand is certainly there. >> well, thanks, alice, have a great three-day holiday weekend, and my hope is we're done with the fix and starts and get consistency to the strong numbers. back to you, simon. >> upbeat outlook, thank you very much, rick santelli live in chicago. still ahead, google testing delivery of drones. is this the future of the product delivery? thank ythank you for def

general green a logistics expert was killed when a gunman opened fire. he was wearing an afghan uniform and was killed. 16 others were wounded, including a german brigadier general and eight americans. >> a retired air force colonel and former members of the joint chiefs of staff is in washington, d.c. this morning. thank you for being with us this morning. tell us about the security of our officers. >> our officers are generally very secure, however in an environment like afghanistan, all normal security rules and all normal security measures are kind of flying out the window, just because of the way in which these insider attacks are so pernicious and can be so devastating and they can happen so quickly. these kinds of situations are such that when a major general or somebody of higher rank is out there, they do have security, but it is very, very difficult to prevent these kind of attacks from happening, especially when they are spur of the moment attacks like this one may very well be. >> the shooter, i understand, was at least 100 yards away. if you