as the ugandan forces were combat in the lord's resistance army then moved into the l.r. a lot into the d r c forgive me and then into central african republic as well where they had for want of a better word bases in order to secure themselves our mission was really to track them down risk your child soldiers that had been deployed with him and to bring him into this campaign of terror conducted by the l r a mission was purely to be in a town called mazhar which is i'm of the 4th infantry we did not really lies or interact with the south sudanese forces will ever fall in this case the us. and if so in which capacity. we were never involved in somalia per se but i can tell you that we were approached by a shipping company in the early days of the piracy we actually met with the pirates from il we met them in nairobi and we got to understand why they were pirates. between the pirates and ourselves we came to an agreement as to what would get them to stop being pirates when their proposal was submitted to the shipping company they were not interested in following it so i think one needs t

libyan army was about to capture chipper now those leading the libyan army where previous cia us as you say but the green the resistance of libya has been using the libyan army as a fake to move forward and got antique and level of sovereignty and independence for their country they can with this cease fire to save the islamist militias and the so-called government of national accord that they imposed upon the libyan people people in 2004 so it is the entire international community that is against the libyan people arguably and actually i mean general after being a former cia asset are you saying that this coverage has been hastily can read because the government of national accord was about to lose all power and is mandated by all the security council members 3rd in china including russia let alone britain and the united states this is something that the west does all the time they change the robots they assign roles between different parties in any conflict germany was you know one of the better countries a few iraq in 2011 and she wasn't involved heavily in the poem by argument of libya even object it to the very ac

the popular mobilization forces iraqi civilians banding together to resist ties and successfully while the army was in shambles as they got their things in order help by the coalition but they defeated isis what the united states has been saying is that he is responsible for the deaths of 517 americans over the years that he was complicit that he had a rule to play in recent in the recent spate of attacks on u.s. bases. draw some indications that they may be planning additional attacks if that happens and then we act and by the way we get word of attacks or some type of indication we'll take preemptive action as well to protect american forces to protect american lives. they disregard sovereignty did this work are the government they disregard the people of iraq their their utter arrogant behavior is has made the whole region outraged and then they wonder why people hate america but wasn't for a general soleimani there probably wouldn't be a syria today and there would be black flags over them ask us thanks to the united states and its allies and if it wasn't for general stolen money probably t

the popular mobilization forces iraqi civilians banding together to resist ties as successfully while the army was in shambles as they got their things in order to help by the coalition but they defeated isis what the united states has been saying is that he is responsible for the deaths of 517 americans over the years that he was complicit that he had a rule to play in recent in the recent spate of attacks on u.s. bases culminated in a u.s. led air strike against syrian and iraq he units military units that again led to the siege of the u.s. embassy again unprecedented in the green zone a fortified embassy that was that was besieged. by the way rainy and. bring him back proxies as they were referred to the urge protesters to withdraw to leave the embassy a little nevertheless the united states said that the threat presented by him was continuing that he had done plenty of bad things and that this was the united states this saying defending themselves at the direction of the president the u.s. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect u.s. personnel abroad to by killing customs s

the defense of organized the rockiness to resist isis what had seen that isis is going to take over the country that there was nothing to stop them the iraqi army was in shambles it was he who organized the p.m.s. public mobilization popular mobilization for forces and they they resist the dice as they push them back and then the iraqi army came along and clean things up and now they see him assassinated like this the united states by the way says that this was a preemptive defensive action saying that he was going to organize they get a tax on american lives on american troops and he was a threat that doesn't hold water with many experts and u.n. officials coming out to say hold on a 2nd less there's a specific targeted threat you can't just kill something that's a violation of international law unless the americans adamantly did this in the defense of the american lives. at the direction of the president the u.s. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect u.s. personnel abroad to buy killing qassam soleimani this strike was aimed at deterring future iranian attack plans the united states will continue to take all necessary action

the popular mobilization forces iraqi civilians banding together to resist ties and successfully while the army was in shambles as they got their things in order to help by the coalition but they defeated isis what the united states has been saying is that he is responsible for the deaths of $517.00 americans over the years that he was complicit that he had a role to play in recent in the recent spate of attacks on u.s. bases. draw some indications that they may be planning additional attacks if that happens act and by the way we get word of attacks or some type of indication will take preemptive action as well to protect american forces to protect american lives 'd. so many skilling's triggered an outpouring of grief and anger in iran where the general was widely revered 3 days of mourning have been announced and thousands of iranians have turned out in cities across the country to want to read the iraqi prime minister mean times also condemned the u.s. strike describing it as an act of aggression however so. mohammad marandi professor of politics and to run university believes that is an unde

war the big name in this regard there rocky a popular mobilization full says iraqi resistance full says the iraqi army this is a cutie full says with the support of the iraqi people they have managed to put an end to this and they have managed to make it clear within few years no pretext then in the hands of the americans and after the end of the data show via so and as the american role was no to everyone their rock is one of them erica. to go out with iraq you said you are here to put that. ok there she is now as gone forever that the americans have to go away and leave our country he used dash in order to come back to iraq and to achieve his goals in iraq again. after douch the parliamentary elections in iraq there were and those are the winners in the parliamentary elections in iraq . and i will talk about the political direction political trends in this regard the political trend that was victorious in iraq was the trend that is not submitted to the americans the trend that is completely nationally the trend is not listening to the americans the americans used to call them the iranian law in iraq

resisters doctor howard leavy, refused to train berets. you had jj johnson, part of the of course of three who will already in the army refused to deploy to vietnam. early resisters donald duncan, celebrated the greenbrae quicken discussed because as he said, you know what to do but he knew what he was doing was wrong. but later we get into the soldiers who marched in great numbers. ken burns knew the story because he had a he of david great film, sir no sir. it tells the story with music and is going to be presented here tomorrow night. and voices of the shoulders but he ignored it. and when he was ignoring was in many of you might not know this but from 1968 on, every major piece march in the united states was led by active-duty soldiers and veterans. in 1969, you had a thousand active-duty gis marching in the streets of texas outside of fort hood. in 1979, yet a thousand active-duty marines in oceanside california. they were outside of camp pendleton marching in the streets. in the next year, you had 2000, and you had people marching in seattle, washington. in raytown new jersey. all across the country, you had thousands of gis marching

sunni money who organized the 1st line of defense against isis in iraq when the army was in shambles when there's no resistance rises when it seemed like they would take over the entire country it was he who came along he helped form the popular mobilization forces the repelled i eventually defeated them with with coalition help. and now we're in a situation where the united states says that this not isis this was the ultimate bad guy denies attacks on the united states who was behind the spate of recent attacks that culminated in the death of an american contractor and the siege of the u.s. embassy. at the direction of the president the u.s. military has taken decisive defensive action to protect u.s. personnel abroad by killing customs so in money this strike was aimed at deterring future iranian attack plans the united states will continue to take all necessary action to protect our people and our interests wherever they are around the world. it just seems the some people americans aren't on board with this decision they're saying that this escalation was wrong that this puts american lives at threat nevert

army soldiers. the peasants, obviously, resisted. they hid the grain down the well or in fake walls in their cottages. they even created an army, a peasant army, to try to fight back. they also reduced the amount of land under cultivation. this meant that there was no cushion when the drought hit. there were no reserves that anyone could fall back on. by march of 1921, lenin was terrified. there was no food. the soviet state itself might collapse because, without the support of the workers and the army, starving now almost as well, there would be no more interest in a bolshevik government. he said at the time, if there is a harvest, then everybody will hunger a little and the government will be saved. otherwise, since we cannot take anything from people who do not have the means of satisfying their own hunger, the government will perish. herbert hoover was born in west branch, iowa in 1874 into a family of quakers. orphaned at the age of nine, he was sent off to live with an uncle in oregon. in 1891, he enrolled in the first class at

after six hours of ferocious fighting, all resistance collapsed and the federal army of the james held fort fisher from the river to the ocean. the general and colonel were lying side-by-side with the orts battle wounded. when he looked up and sign officer in a blue uniform standing over him and looking down at him. it was general jerry. now the victor of the battle of fort fisher. and general lighting, as the anking southern officer, spoke words that had once seemed unthinkable to him. i surrender, sir, to you, the forces under my command. fort fisher had fallen. wilmington was sealed. and the confederacy have lost its last major seaport. the top fort fisher's bloodsoaked ramparts, the victorious northern troops cheered, jumped and hugged each other and a wild celebration as the naval fleet lewis whistles and set off fireworks. victory, a northern soldier would later write. and we proclaimed it, from c and sure echoed back wilder and partying disturb the midnight at this place here in my very heart went up at thanksgiving. men grasped each other and wept only as brave men can in the h

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here, but on april 9, after a last flurry of few sill resistance -- futile resistance, lee arranged to meet to surrender his army. he could not formally surrender for the whole confederacy but the surrender of his army would trigger the surrender of all others so represented the end of the confederate cause. it was a poignant scene, dignified and restrained and sad as when a terrible storm that has raged and blown has finally exhausted itself, leaving behind a strange and reverent calm. the two men had known one another in the mexican war and hasn't seen one another in nearly 20 years. lee arrived first wearing his elegant dress uniform soon to be joined by grant, clad in a mud spattered coat, his trousers tucked into his muddy boots. grant was always a fashion plate. they showed one another a deep and respectful courtesy, and grant generalously allowed lee -- generously allowed lee's soldiers to keep their side arms. none would be arrested or charged with treason. four days when lee's army of 28,000 mean marched and surrendered their arms and colors, the general of maine, a hero of gettysburg was present at the

why wouldn't i join the resistance, learn to parachute behind enemy lines, at 38, and raise a secret army in france? she had two missions, her second mission was in normandy throughout the summer. her territory is extraordinary to me. it covers a lot of places that we know well. every big battle in the summer of 1944, when the resistance was there, they were her troops. they were using munitions dropped from the sky to her guys. and again, we had not heard of her. it is not just that men are writing war histories and not just a failure of leadership, because general degaulle needed the french resistance to be a certain kind of story he could tell about french strength. women's work gets mis-categorized. when i started researching this, i spoke to experts and they said, the women did not do much, they were couriers. i mean, they are behind enemy lines with guns in their hands blowing up bridges and railways, but they did not do very much. this kind of erasure is problematic. we can see it again and again. we see, for instance, the code breakers in virginia, they were often thought of as se

resistance. spent a couple of weeks in warsaw rebuilding the infrastructure, then he is moved east to the russian army where he is given to a soviet tank regiment that has u.s. equipment. he fights with the soviet army for about a week. then he is put on a train. goes on a ship to istanbul. at that point he talks his way onto a british ship where he talks his way onto another british ship to naples. reports to u.s. facilities there. he is told, you are a state prisoner so you get a 60 day furlough. he says he wants to go back to his battalion. he gets on another ship. when he is there, that is when the submarine is still being held out. the 106 the vision and it's one regimen is guarding them. if he walks into his battalion headquarters three months later, his battalion xo -- he basically says, hi, i'm back. [laughter] prof. mark gerges: it is an amazing story that is in there. 81st engineer battalion. thank you so much for coming out. i will stay if you have any other questions. [applause] tv,his is american history featuring events, interviews, archival films and visits to college classrooms, museum

is that you exterminate any army defeat, this might incentivize the next army you face to be rather more enthusiastic and resistant. attitudes existed -- coexisted. there was clearly this warrior tradition of suicide but it was by no means permeating the entire culture of all japanese warriors through all these years. during the era which was marked at the beginning by not a small thent of revolts against government, the government found it expedient to expect -- expect the surrender of rank-and-file members of the rebel forces and their junior officers. then, when we get to -- what we get to is in the russo japanese war, and by this time, it becomes an unwritten norm in the imperial army that death is to be preferred over surrender. inthis time, if you were fact captured by the russians ad returned, you would face gotland of derision, cheers and insults for which no apology or explanation was adequate. as ed draper put it, along with the ideas of racial superiority, national uniqueness, seizure and fighting spirit, the myth of death before dishonor slowly permeated postwar society, incubating until the army would

after the us killed in force commander and solemn army in baghdad's ayatollah ali khamenei has said the attack would double to iran's resolve to resist the united states the us president donald trump past me tweeting about the attack he says solomonic was responsible for the deaths of millions of people secretary of state mike told us media the strike was justified and legal. and far fighters in australia say it's very likely more homes will be destroyed by bushfires the focus is now on saving lives where the conditions for saturday are being described as catastrophic and tens of thousands of people are continuing to flee areas under threat felicity davey reports from sydney. australia and prime minister scott morrison seen for himself. for the latest areas devastated by bushfires in new south wales the day after he was confronted by angry residents in the town of go this woman refusing to shake his hand the funny thing was that the prime minister said he wanted to offer comfort to those affected by fires on using and he's not surprised at their reaction people are angry it is something that i was there before i was with it is someth

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on april 9 after futile resistance, arranged to be in a brick home in the courthouse to surrender his armyhe could not formally surrender but the surrender of his army would trigger the surrender of all others. it represented the end of the confederate cause. it was dignified and restrained and sad is when a terrible storm that has raged has finally exhausted itself, leaving behind us strange calm. the two men had known each other in the mexican war. we arrived first wearing his dress uniform, soon to be joined by grant, and trenchcoat and muddy boots. they showed one another, a deep respectful courtesy. none would be arrested or charged with treason. four days later when lee's army of 28000 men surrendered their arms in color, general joshua chamberlain of maine, hero gettysburg was present at the ceremony. he later wrote that day reflecting on his soldierly respect of the men before him, each passing by and stacking his arms and only days before and here i quote from chamberlain who cannot be improved on. before us and proud accumulation stood the embodiment of men, men who neither toile

passage here but on april 9, after last flurry of feudal resistance lee faced facts and arranged to meet grant at a courthouse to surrender his army. he could not formally surrender for the whole of the confederacy but his surrender would represent the end of the confederate cause. it was a poignant scene, disnyed and and sad, a terrible storm has finally exhausted itself, leaving behind a strange and reverent calm burn purged of%. the two men had known one another in the mexican war and had not seen each other in 20 years. lee arrived first we aring his elegant dress uniform, soon to be joined byiant, a muddy coat and muddy boots. grant was a fashion plate. theyed so one another a deep and respectful courtesy and grant allowed the officers to keep the side arms and men to keep their horses and tame think them to for the principle planning. none would be arrested or charged with treason. four days later when lee's army surrender third arms and color general joshua chamberlain was present at the ceremony and later wrote of his observation, reflecting on his soldierly respect for the men before him, each passing by and stacking his

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army iran's supreme leader has warned of harsh revenge after a u.s. airstrike killed qassam solomonic at baghdad airports ayatollah khomeini has said the attack would double towns resolve to resist the united states u.s. president donald trump past tweeted that custom salomone was responsible for the deaths of millions of people secretary of state might pump a 0 told us media the strike was justified and legal. in lebanon hezbollah's leader has voted to punish those behind some mani's assassination lebanon's foreign ministry has also condemned the killing and asked for the country to be spared from any repercussions. now the attack in baghdad is a dramatic escalation of the crisis between the u.s. and iran let's take a look at the timeline all the vents thus far last friday a rocket attack struck an iraqi military base killing an american contractor the u.s. blames the pro iranian group the husband brigades 2 days later the u.s. launched air strikes against the group's military outposts in iraq and syria killing 27 fighters iran backs paramilitary groups in iraq and storms the american embassy compound in baghdad leading to a 48 hour siege. is shabani is a former iraqi u.n. amba

army. the capture of st. vith with the roads and railways was vital to the advance. they had been expected to take st. vith with little resistance 18th, their commander came up himself to see what was delaying the advance. >> [speaking foreign language] >> i suspected the presence of scattered though very courageous forces which had come here from st. vith or other directions to assist the fighting troops. i was under the impression that up to the 17th and 18th, the small, scattered battle troops were not under centralized command. however, on the evening of the 18th before nightfall, it became obvious that new enemy forces were approaching. >> the general's surmise was correct. but american intelligence of the size of the german attack was still so limited that some units of the 9th and then 7th armor divisions hastily strung out to extend the american defenses from the original roadblock. to a long horseshoe line were still unaware that a little crossroads could be vital. there, most troops had already withdrawn when lieutenant will rogers junior woke on the morning of the 18th to word that a german tank was in the street belo

resistance, those who refused orders, who engaged in various forms of noncooperation in the military to undermine the war. in 1970, the army was well aware of how widespread the dissent was. they asked, have you participated in a dissent kind of activity. read an underground newspaper, gone to a protest or demonstration. one quarter of the soldiers they surveyed said yes. then they asked a different question. have you engaged in acts of disobedience, of sabotage or insubordination. again, one quarter of them said yes. so it's quite clear that at least a quarter of the military was participating in antiwar activity. and the historian richard mosier makes the observation that this level of opposition to the war in the military was equivalent to the proportion of activists in society among young people and in the rural and very conservative communities where most of our bases were located the proportion of antiwar activism was greater on the military base than in the community. that was certainly the case for me when i was working with gis for peace in rural and conservative el paso, most activity was on the base. so this was

obstacles hinder, resistance they go ♪ ♪ death and destruction attend every blow ♪ take that, hamilton. [ laughter ] [ applause ] service with light troops attracted some of the british army'sas the subject, a cost of revolution, master george, who fought with the 52nd regiment of light company during the philadelphia campaign of 1777. on parade back home at the british isles, the light infantry company fell in on the left flank. that was not the case of the american war zone from 1775 to 1783. both grenadier and light infantry companies were detached from their parent regiments and brigaded together in elite battalions with companies of their own type. light infantry battalions help remedy the british army's scarcity of calvary by taking on the role of reconnaissance and tactical situations. grenadier and light infantry ba stallions worked together, working in flanking movements that made many opponents run and remorselessly pressing braver rebels who endeavored to hold their ground. when the american rebellion erupted the british army contained one infancy regiment who advertised its members' ethnicity. the 42nd regiment of foot, the highland regiment, the blackwatch. due

army. i had been in contact with him until he died. then on january 2nd a year ago. he talked about being in the resistance movement, him in his best friends were 14 walking along and his partner made some comment about the nazis and they call them both in and determine who had said the remarked. he said when he went back the next day, his friend was hanging on a meathooks in the middle of the square. at any rate, he was not too far from where my uncle had been killed, so we exchanged a lot of information. that's all i want to say. >> i will stick around if anyone has any questions. >> coming out of primers bergh, 21, 22 thank battle up there. you have any anecdotes about that? >> the officer who commands it is lieutenant colonel rigs, he had been all american at the university of illinois. 20 years old. gets captured there. his account of what happens to him, he's captured, he walked east, put on a train, sent to a prison camp, refuses to cooperate, they move him to another prisoner camp in poland. he escaped from that camp, marches until he's picked up with the resistance. spends a week in warsaw rebuild

the fifth army casualties for that tuesday approach 2000, including 344 killed in action, the highest single day american ta&ly of death in the italian campaign. by wednesday, resistancerumbling. the coastal roads into the beachheads from the american front to the south is finally opened on thursday, may 25. after 125 days, anzio's isolation ends. trust believes that by sometime on friday, his entire corps will be a stride the german line of withdrawal. then clark gives his alternative order, and that smile is going to disappear. he instructs him to send just one division to block highway six with the rest of the sixth corps pivoting to rome. mark clark is going to spend the rest of his long life defending an indefensible impertinence that for 75 years has remained among the most controversial episodes in world war ii. clark will argue that many escape roads besides route six lead north from the german positions on the pillar and gustav lines. that is true enough. he also believes that kesselring's last german divisions will soon congeal along highway six to make things sticky. that is also true. clark sugars the pill for alexander by keeping more than 20,000 sixth co

resist. wilson acknowledged these orders but obtained mead's approval to stop en route to tear up that line closer to petersburg. wilson also raised the sensible question of his safe return of the army, as we all know from our study of the cavalry raids in the civil warring with going out is not the probably. [ laughter ] getting back is when you run into a situation. mead confidently assured him that the movement of the second and sixth corps would place infantry across both railroads and wilson would have all the help he would need to counter any attempt by the confederates to impede his trip home. touts received his orders to join. by mid morning they began to arrive near prince george county. now, june 22nd dawned cloudy and humid with the promise of another scorching summer day. i won't keep mentioning this but bear in mind for this entire week the temperatures were in the upper '90s with high humidity, and we all know how that feels. at dawn, beth borny and wright moves out intechdetending to reach the appomat oks river. they quickly discovered that absence total ackwiessence their mission would be impossible. while maintaining contact with the left flank of the fifth corp whi