there were state navies a washington secret navy, which only operated for about a year. near the beginning of the conflict. the continental navy and privateers of these four private tiers are by far the most numerous and the most effective, capturing somewhere in the neighborhood of hundred to 1800 british ships worth many millions of pounds. now, massachusetts ran to india from was the first colony to authorize privateering in november 1775. the importance of the massachusetts privateering act and unleashing the privateering in the colonies became even clearer in hindsight. some 40 years later. john, who is a big proponent of privateering as well as the continental, wrote that passage of the massachusetts act is one of the most important documents in history. the declaration of independ is a trifle in with it. just consider that the declaration of independence which everybody knows about adams felt that the massachusetts privateer act was much more important. new hampshire and rhode island suit in early 1776 with their own privateering statutes. at the same time, pressu

this is a very special day for the navy, isn't it >> it's a special day for the navy it's a special daye corps we're celebrating 247 years of the marine corps so happy birthday, marines here in the u.s. and all around the world. >> people -- my dad was in the army, and he had nine so-called hot landings in the pacific. and he told me, he said never forget, the marines were always there before us. that is the reputation of the marine corps, isn't it >> they're the 911 force of our nation and when the president calls, they're there to serve >> now, when the president called you came to serve you have business experience so i wanted to ask you, we don't get enough veterans working where we are what should we all do about this it's a real issue. >> sure. well, don't try to recruit active duty navy and marines i think after they transition out of the military i think it's a logical place for them to come for the leadership skills that you pick up in the navy and the marine corps are essential to society in so many different ways, and it's so different to wall street. they build skill sets, b

navy? you mentioned that the fleet is about half the size it was in the cold war, but i think you told me before that we have about the same number of ships at any given time. what does that do to navy morale and recruitment and retention and overall readiness? >> i tried to keep things single. if i have two cars at home, if i lose one of those vehicles, then i have to do everything with one. i have doubled the load on that. it is going to wear out faster, the tires wear out faster. fewer people making those deliveries. the same thing with navy ships as a good example of this. if you are near 600 ships near the end of the cold war and you kept 100 deployed on average each day, you have 292. so half the number of ships. you still have 100 deployed every day. each crew on those chips is working twice as hard. you are deploying the ships twice as often. you get into a shipyard, there are more things broken that they have to repair. you can see the backlog of other ships. other crews waiting fo

the british washington burned, the navy yard, the capital, the height of land, retired. the next city scheduled for the torch. baltimore on feverish preparations were made to defend the city. the british landed took the first line of earthworks but the defenders held reinforced by commodore roger and his sailors. all night the british fleet bombarded fort mchenry but the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there, sold francis scott key as he watched for the dawn's early light light. the invasion from the north by 12,000 seasoned troops was met in person by the governor of canada, sir george kravis. success of the invasion on command of lake champlain as there were no suitable roads and only that waterway could. an army supplies. but the united states controlled these waters. commodore thomas mcdonough had built an american fleet which was based at plattsburgh. the british had also construction of a fleet, including the powerful 37 gunship confiance provost and his army arrived at plattsburgh, where no sizable

was it the navy? i came down on the side of the navy. i think the five inch 38 was the finest -- they had five inch 25. even so, navy anti-aircraft was very potent. >> let's move to the next strike. you took the shots at fuchida this morning. if the japanese do have a successful -- they come back for a second wave. what do they do with it? >> i'm going after the cruisers. i'm going after destroyers and submarine -- submarines and destroyers. there are plenty of warships to shoot out out there. a 250 kilogram bomb would be very -- >> there are six cruisers and 30 destroyers not touched. >> not touched. >> not a single summary. >> not a single submarine. >> they really liked modern battleships. >> yeah, they did. >> there are also carriers, of course. >> that's the other kind of thing. 81 dive warmer against -- i think things are going to burn into the water line. there are carriers in there that were absolutely destroyed. let's play the counterfactual on that. if the carriers get destroyed, the enterprise -- they get some. how does that i

may have preferred to have a powerful navy go toe to toe with the british navy, that wasn't going toe the case in a country and with a government that was barely functioning couldn't levy taxes and had a difficult time supporting the army so into the void on the maritime side of the equation came privateers. they were our militia of the sea, or cost free navy. i loved writing about them and i learned a lot about the topic. i feel that there should be the monuments to them few though there are shouldn't be relegated to korean barbecue restaurants. [laughter] >> to give you another kind of example from the book, if you're talking about privateering you have to look at the economic aspects and how they are being paid. i think one of the powerful moments in the book is when eric is talking about this economic aspect of it and then he pushes paws and says we never even talk that much about all the other soldiers and their economic motivations. when you start asking questions about privateers and the other raises and areas of inquiry that obviously you have more books to write, which again

navy commander. sometimes that officer might the selected as captain if he or she is departing the camp but it's a job for the commander. the senior captain of the marine corps and for the white house communication detail that's their navy lieutenant colonel of the u.s. army. >> the last question this evening several viewers have asked this. why did you decide to write the book on camp david and what was one or two things that were fascinated that you learned while you were researching for the book? >> thank you. on the day of command there's a photo of my wife and two daughters ages seven and four and my wife michelle and she hands me this journal and the oeste thing in the journal are scrawled notes from my two daughters saying dear daddy please write stories about the president's. i had never thought of it so after every visit weekend or event i would sit down and write down what happened. i did it after the clinton administration and the inauguration and i put that away in my desk. i never though

the army and the navy are not. i would argue that the marine corps is not moving fast enough, but they are moving faster than the army and the navy. the army and the navy have no excuses. they have got to meet the threat. that is the first point that is absolutely critical to make. we used to talk about how china has this one million man army. but the million man army is actually kind of a handicap because they have so many people -- they are actually very poorly trained and it takes a lot of resources to support them. china recognizes that problem. they changed their force structure dramatically. they changed their investment structure dramatically. they do not spend a ton of money supporting a bunch of constricted troops. they are investing in missiles that kill aircraft carriers. by the way, which cost about one 1250th the cost of an aircraft carrier. they get 1250 shots for one aircraft carrier. that is not math that works well for us. i have no patience with the army into the navy and their excuses here. they

the army hated the navy. navy hated the army and everyone hated the marines and the marines hated everyone literally because of politics. and i'm sure many of you know, but i'll say it anyway, there was no single commander in. the pacific. it had to be divided between douglas macarthur of the army, who, by the way, i think was an incredible royal pain in the -- and got off easy. and i think it was because we were so desperate to have a hero. we made him into a hero even though he abandoned his men in baton the navy the other side of the was chester nimitz, who was a brilliant man. it was a peace between the army and the navy. but you can imagine how that one macarthur argued all the time, i should be the commander. i should be the commander. i should be the commander. and it would have been worse except for the ability of nimitz. i think just like eisenhower in the atlantic to swallow his ego surrounded a bunch of sometimes brilliant but narcissistic hothouse flowers. i was shocked by the constant fighting ov

minor help from the navy.u have to figure out what is moving people to take certain kinds of positions. you have to judge the evidence. >> an event we sometimes miss, that happened, was the day before pearl harbor. it is when fdr directs the building of an atomic bomb. i think the 6th of december is when the directive goes out for that program. >> i was just going to say, if we end up in a conflict where we are only fighting the germans, we have made some bad decisions. at that point, you can look back at the two ocean navy bill and say that is a waste. i do not need aircraft carriers to fight the germans. what am i going to do with that scale of a navy? they are now oriented primarily beside ground power. i would look at my armory for structure. i would say 100 divisions, i mean more like 250. if you are going to play with the big boys, they are deploying hundreds of divisions on the eastern front. we certainly have the capability of helping to get the war over much more quickly, but it will require us to ret

navy disappeared by 1943, we won the war the navy and in some ways didn't even exist in pearl harbor pretty. >> i think that your original question with the japanese could've accomplished her admission, i think absolutely without pearl harbor and most prominent aspects of the initial opening of the japanese offenses is really are sort of plunging into the air in a lot of ways in our preparations for war were terrible as were the relations with the dutch and no position to defend ourselves and give the logistical difficulties of fighting in that neck of the wood in any case we won't protect our there effectively. >> and they had to go into the philippines though and they would be left. >> will they don't attack hawaii and really makes no difference to at least the first six months in the war probably the first year in war and you just look at what it took for us to actually push a fleet across the pacific when we eventually did that and you had to establish advanced basis with the ability to service the ships and that capability did not exist in 1941 and did not exist in 1942 and did

i love our navy, we have a powerful navy.'t think there's any reason for us to go back to s privateering but the arc of the story continues and who knows what will happen in the future but i doubt we're ever going to have privateers, american privateers on the open ocean again. >> gothis is a good time to plug our absent colleagues book tom clemens. he couldn't be here but his book addresses directlythose questions of privateering during the civil war . >> max asked me to talk about africa a little bit. africatown began when cujo lewis went to timothymayer who had enslaved him and cujo was working for mayor at this point . he, this was just perhaps two weeks after the end of the civil war and the on behalf of all africans asked mayor to give them land. and timothy mayer saidno . he said i treated you good as slaves so i don't know you anything. so cujo and the others decided to save up their own money and buy the land for peace from timothy mayer and in cujo's words, he didn't giveus one nickel off the price .so they bought f

i was shocked by the constant rivalry, the army hated the navy, navy headed the army and everyone hated the marines, and the marines headed everyone else. literally. because a politics, and i'm sure many of you know this there has been no single commander in the pacific. it had to be divided between douglas mcarthur of the army, who, by the way, i think was an incredible royal peÑa -- and got off easy. and i think it was because we were so desperate to have a hero we made him into a hero even though he abandoned his man. the navy, the other side of the pacific was chester nimitz. who was a brilliant man. it was a peace pipe between the army and the navy but you can imagine how that went. mcarthur argued all the time i should be the commander, i should be the commander, i should be the commander. and, it would have been worse except for the ability of nimitz, just like eisenhower in the atlantic to swallow his ego. surrounded by a bunch of sometimes brilliant but narcissistic hothouse flowers. i was shocked by the constant fighting over who should get the credit in the media for victorie

at a stroke he ordered the navy to stand by not to go back to its spaces and this meant that the navy was ready for the war when asked with announced that britain would join the french and the russians. with this meant was that the both the north sea and the english channel were under the control of the world navy and when it came time to dispatch british forces to flanders and to france not a single british soldiers life was lost. churchill also later played a role in the creation of the device that would end trench warfare and that was the tank now there are others who were developing this idea, but churchill as head of the admiralty had a position to do something about it and just revolite revolutionized a warfare down to this day. in a modern war like the great war it was a fact that the navy navy's primary duty would be to blockade. german held europe. this is not the kind of job that churchill wanted to do he had even before the war created a royal naval division of virtually a a land unit that could be used in time of crisis and when the germans invaded belgium he ordered the n

i make no comments on that in the book i love our navy. we're very navy.don't think there is any reason for us to go back to privateering but the arc of the story continues as and who knows what will in the future. but i doubt wherever going to have privateers american on the open ocean again and this is a good time to plug our absent colleagues book tom clavin couldn't be but but his book addresses directly those questions of privateering during the civil war so. go ahead ben. so matt asked me to talk africa a little bit, which i'm going to do. so africa town, as i mentioned, began when kojo lewis went to timothy mayor, who enslaved him and kojo was for mayor at this point in, his shingle factory and. he this was just perhaps two weeks after the end of the civil. and he behalf of all the africans, asked mayor to give them land and timothy mayor said, no. he said, i treated you good as slaves. and so i don't know you anything. so kojo and the others decided to save up their own money and, buy the land, and they bought the first piece from timothy mayor in

they have a stronger navy but it's still not very powerful.e up against the british navy which is the most powerful of the world so they decide to rely once again on privateers. there are 530 somers letters of mark thatis are issued during te war of 1812 in the end of the company of the cobb lady had a much better record during the war o of 1812 it was privateers once again that captured them and had an impact on the outcome of the word. after the war of 1812 the number of presents another american officials argued we should privateering but when the opportunity came to do that in 1856 after the crimean war there was an international maritime treaty designed by 55 nations. the united states damira. they decided not to fight as they wanted to have privateering in their back pocket if the need arose. they still inhabit a particularly powerfular navy. what happened? a big part of united states gets left behind during the civil war because about 100 days after -- expired on jefferson davis using that same argument that the americans used during th

army and navy are not.ould argue na the marine corps is not moving quickly, but a hell of a lot faster than the army and navy. the army and navy have no excuses, doesn't matter their history, their path or force structure. that's the first point that i think is absolutely critical to make. we used to talk about how china has this million man army, but you know, the million man army is actually kind of a handicap because they have so many people are poorly trained, takes a lot of money and resource toss support this million man army. guess what? china recognized that problem and changed their force structure dramatically and they don't spend a ton of money supporting a bunch of conscripted troops. they're investing in missiles that kill aircraft carriers, which by the way, costs about, i don't know, 1250 shots for one aircraft airier and that's not math that works well for us. so, i just have no patience with the army and the navy and their excuses here. they've got to rapidly modernize and if that means cut

navy commander. sometimes that officer might be selected for captain, he or she is the -- it is a commander. the senior marine is a captain, the co of the security company. for the white house communication agency detail that's there, maybe a lieutenant colonel, typically the u.s. army. >> our last question this evening. several viewers have asked this. why did you decide to write the book on camp david. and what was one or two things that were fascinating that you learned? >> wonderful final question. on the day of the change of command there is a photo of my wife and two daughters at the age of seven and four. my wife michelle. she hands me this journal. the first page of the journal is a scrawled note from the two girls saying, dear daddy please write stories about the presidents journal. the kids will read about them. it was humorous, right? i would've never thought about it. so, after every visit or vans i would sit down and i just kind of would write down what happens. i did that to the clinton

if you would, i'm a navy pilot, i've encountered a uap. walk me through the protocol once i see something i think that should be reported. >> the first thing they would do, debriefing, contact their intelligence officer and the intelligence officer would first do data preservation to ensure that whatever sensor data may be on the aircraft that we preserve that so it's available for later analysis. second, they would fill out a form that includes details like where they were operating, altitudes, operating speeds, what they observed. whatever sensor data they may have recorded from that and then that report is filed. it goes two places, one, it goes through the operational chain of command, so that operational units are aware of what is being observed, and also, to the uap task force so that they can take that data, data base it, and quite often have individuals from the task force contact the aviator and ask them additional questions, if there were things that weren't clear in the report. that things goes into a data base where we compare

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by a senior member of the navy.ell me that an appointment could be made for me the following week and i could be back on the ship a few days later again. because ijust want to be clear. had you become pregnant through the assault? through the rape? yes. it's extraordinary to listen to you, emma. she went on to have the child. she did. she describes her baby as as a bundle ofjoy. and she tried to rebuild her life and carry on. she also describes her time, which i think is important to say in the royal navy as something she's very proud of. you know, and i'm aware we're talking on the eve of armistice day and we're thinking about the service that, you know, the armed forces personnel give to us. but she has remained silent about this, and she is concerned about still the culture and also how it is to be a woman in the royal navy with these other reports. that's why she wanted to talk. ben wallace, the defence secretary, gave a statement to us this morning and he said that things are changing. he is told by women in th

navy to fight the barbary pirates in north africa. jefferson, in principle, claimed he didn't want the debt or the taxes or the federal military power represented by that navy. but he saw the need as president to use the capability provided by another approach grand strategy, and he prudently used it. here, though, we encounter the term problem for the predominant jefferson strategy or abstract doctrine of the new democratic republican party, which madison first as secretary of state and then presidents supported for after these two presidents had repudiated bank and had mothballed blue water navy that jefferson had used. and they had drawn down what little federal army we had. lo and behold, should we have been surprised that britain to bully a disarmed america began to exploit our un readiness, given britain's own problems with the imperial hubris of napoleonic france? might we have anticipated such a turn of events. one might ask jefferson's doctrinaire view of avoiding entangling alliance as of a kind of insular ism of disarmament

the navy missed recruiting goals by 2000. the air force met active-duty goal by creative accounting with late entry and they missed their reserve component. we are a cricket juncture and facing really an impending crisis. in 1980, 18% of the population, down to 7%. junior rotc is planning a critical role where you can have a positive and instructive interaction with military service and that is why it is so important it is under threat. for the sake of student safety and literary recruitment which are matters of national security calling for greater oversight and transparency with the rotc program, it is a role that becomes more important because the facts related to that. structures need to be held accountable and military service needs to be protected. what are the services doing to create an environment of positive interaction and engagement with junior rotc and the civilian population? >> thank you for your service and continued service, they engage, it would be best if you will indulge me, how each of them does it. >> we