people side with rommel because he is rommel. war, when in the germany was clearly on the losing end and hitler's general .hip had devolved even then come the situation is not all that clear. sure that is stupid. he was demanding permission to carry out a mobile defense. whenoviets strike them they least expect it. he claimed if we can do that, we could fight the allies to a stance standstill. we have to rate the wehrmacht 's ability. they were running low on supplies and their opponents had a clear advantage in mobility. that is questionable. , hitler's decisions were questionable in the course of the war and became worse as the war went on to they were amateurish, then became defective. that is the price they all were fighting a global war against a coalition with insufficient resources. he had another idea. he wanted hitler's to step aside. let him handle the military side while hitler's did the political thing. think he would have come up against the same kind of problems they hitler's had. panzera small number of divisions o

people side with rommel because he is rommel. war, when in the germany was clearly on the losing end and hitler's general .hip had devolved even then come the situation is not all that clear. sure that is stupid. he was demanding permission to carry out a mobile defense. whenoviets strike them they least expect it. he claimed if we can do that, we could fight the allies to a stance standstill. we have to rate the wehrmacht 's ability. they were running low on supplies and their opponents had a clear advantage in mobility. that is questionable. , hitler's decisions were questionable in the course of the war and became worse as the war went on to they were amateurish, then became defective. that is the price they all were fighting a global war against a coalition with insufficient resources. he had another idea. he wanted hitler's to step aside. let him handle the military side while hitler's did the political thing. think he would have come up against the same kind of problems they hitler's had. panzera small number of divisions o

would be susceptible to the same kind of critiques that we are seeing leveled against gandhi as well rommel imagist say a couple of pictures here this is from the hindustan times mahatma gandhi statue vandalized in south africa and then this one him of a day in a child suddenly standing on the pins that once held mahatma gandhi so happy that he has gone as a statue how are some indians processing what is now happening around the well to somebody as. well thought of as a how a gandhi. again there are many people who are defending god heap and their defense rests on two things one is that the man in court right and the quote later courts of course in forty seven he may have said something and then in forty door he said something else so there are as many quotes that you can bring that up to to buttress your argument so there are people who say he changed he evolved yes and then the balls will say we should not use today is lens to start the gandhi was a product of the state these are going to go on. to defense so rather said i when we were at the end of the show but i hear that the debate tha

now rommel wickramasinghe has been reappointed it's really because prime minister nearly two months after his dismissal set off a political crisis that left country without functioning government he took the oath of office before president my trip out of syria cena the man who sacked him and often and is has more from colombia. just. such a run of the commission has sworn in as prime minister by the president who sacked him fifty days ago. dang mamma i don't want to come a verdict i'm starting my duties as prime minister the second thing is to name the cabinet today we're committing to first bring him back normalcy to the country and then bring back the vote men in the country video footage of the short ceremony in the president's office showed an awkward exchange. my policy to say and i had vowed never to reappoint become a singer even if all two hundred twenty five members of parliament asked for it saying he would not remain as president even an hour if you returned but serious in his bid to replace the man who helped make him president was struck down by the courts leaving him no choi

rommel was moving through north africa and threatened the vital suez canal. hitler held from the arctic circle in the north to the southern shores of the mediterranean. and to the border of the soviet union. and this instance 75 years ago he was massing more than 3 million troops on that border take invasion that would place six days later. at that moment, switzerland. polls in the spring of 1941 show that about 75% of americans thought the fall of great britain would pose a serious danger to the united states. almost 85% said that nonetheless, no americans should fight a foreign war. you can't get 85% of americans today to agree the sun rises in the east, but they were agreed no american troops in europe. now, fdr in the heat of the 1940 presidential campaign, quite bravely, instituted the draft but he also promised, and congress said of those troops that not a single american boot would go and fight a foreign war unless we were attacked. as you know, he made the united states, which congress passed, the arsenal of democracy and we began sending aid to the b

nothing is in more need of modernization in cuba's political system ordinary citizens like roberto rommel's are being allowed to weigh in on the draft a new constitution and there's. something interesting is happening in cuba people have the ability to meet to debate publicly not in a physical space but in a virtual space. drill bit of the who runs.

this session is an attempt to break away from the eisenhower, patents, -- patton, bradley, and rommel. they are important but they have been covered. cover those who are less well known. we asked our friends to help us. nyberg, dr. alexander linton, and dr. howell -- winton. trying to keep these three historians in line and on time is the chief of historical services division at the army heritage and education center in carlisle, pennsylvania. good luck. >> just make everyone feel real my firstant to tie in panel presentation with a presentation we had before luntz -- lunch and reassure everyone that after the great discussion about the inevitability of war of attrition to be successful as i said in my opening remarks. the american military is completely incapable of fighting that kind of war. just make you feel better about our kind of security situation. be on thisd to panel, this is three great historians and three great friends. mike and i were at the war college together but i had to fly to new orleans to see him, because you never see him in carlisle. havelex, how many people ha

this session is an attempt to break away from the eisenhower, patents, -- patton, bradley, and rommel. they are important but they have been covered. cover those who are less well known. we asked our friends to help us. nyberg, dr. alexander linton, and dr. howell -- winton. trying to keep these three historians in line and on time is the chief of historical services division at the army heritage and education center in carlisle, pennsylvania. good luck. >> just make everyone feel real my firstant to tie in panel presentation with a presentation we had before luntz -- lunch and reassure everyone that after the great discussion about the inevitability of war of attrition to be successful as i said in my opening remarks. the american military is completely incapable of fighting that kind of war. just make you feel better about our kind of security situation. be on thisd to panel, this is three great historians and three great friends. mike and i were at the war college together but i had to fly to new orleans to see him, because you never see him in carlisle. havelex, how many people ha

this session is an attempt to break away from the eisenhower's, patents, bradleys, rommel's. while also important are also well covered. so we wanted to cover some of those are lesser-known and-or understood. so to tackle this task we have asked three of our friends to help us out. doctor alexander ritchie who is the convener of our presidential counsel and doctor hal winton who is making his first return to our conference since 2015. trying to keep these three historians in line and on time is doctor tom crane she's up historical services division at the army heritage in education cental in carlisle pennsylvania. so carl good luck and it's up to you. >> just to make everybody feel real good i want to tie in my first panel presentation with the presentation we had just before lunch and reassure everybody that after that great discussion about the inevitability of any kind of war of attrition and be successful as i said in my opening remarks the american military is incapable at this point of fighting that kind of war. so just to make you feel better about her security situati