and what he did in one the story of how lee came into command and what he did in ont captures the story of how lee came into command and what he did in one year's time. perfectly phenomenal.came into command and what he did in one year's time. perfectly phenomenal.command an did in one year's time. perfectly phenomenal.year's tim. perfectly phenomenal. he also is a great student of what happened in winchester and cedar creek, fishers hill and so forth. so they're going to talk about some of those things. but i must say they have picked up the theme of this conference even further because they're going to talk not so much about tactics as they are about relationships between the supreme commanders and these independent commanders in the field, and we'll have much to learn from them. so i'm going to sit down and let them come up one by one. peter. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. colonel cornicker says the session after lunch is perhaps the deadliest. i would argue perhaps the last one is deadliest. i will try to keep my remarks brief and pointed. the shenandoah valley campaign of 186

, crossed the potomac with the command intact. geary's reports were false, and he seemed too tired to hustle towards harpers ferry. you have free month about to enter west of strausburg, mcdowell with james shields' division in the lead to enter the valley from the east. lincoln hoped to ensnare jackson between fremont and mcdowell before jackson could withdraw south on the valley pike. lincoln said to mcdowell it is for you a question of legs. put in all the speed you can. i told fremont as much and directed him to drive them as fast as possible. but there's one serious problem. fremont and mcdowell weren't able to talk to one another, did not have communication and both were overly cautious. so with both shields and fremont within a couple of miles of strausburg, they both hesitated, and jackson slipped between their commands and retreated safely up the shenandoah valley. subsequent battles in cross keys and where greatest victories were in a sense anti-clie maxed. the outcome was secondary to lincoln's greater strategic error. i

[applause] >> there are a few more comments, for the commander. supervisor campos: thank you, president chiu. i want to thank her for many years of service. at the board of supervisors, we recently were honoring -- this highlighted the fact that some time in the history of the lbgt community, there was the feeling that many of us have with respect to the police department. this was something negative that was a time when -- not too long ago, there was persecution of these people by the police department and that is why it is so important to have members of this community plays such an important role. i want to thank you for being an important part of this -- and this adds to the effectiveness, now, when a boy or girl, the image they have of the police department is that video, your presence in that department for all of these years, as an openly gay man, i thank you for that. i wish you the best in your retirement. we will see you around. you are not going away. supervisor chu: i want to say congratulations on your retirement. i am thankful you wil

[applause] commander beall will read the citations for sergeant manning. -- commander biel. it will be lots of times for photo opportunities after. >> good evening, everybody. i have the pleasure of introducing our sergeant dani el manning. there was a probation search on the home of a resident who was known to be armed and dangerous and narcotics trafficker. in the course of performing duties, sgt manning encounter the suspect with a gun in his hand. in the days prior to the incident, sgt manning learned the resident of 60 kashmir, was dealing narcotics out of the residents. they conducted an investigation and learn a resident of 60 kashmir was robert hackert, a man with a history of violence in numerous felony convictions. on the morning of february 16, a team of officers who set up outside the apartment to conduct a probation search. once it was determined that sector was in sight, the officer's watch for several hours as this aspect -- suspects came and left sparking a suspicion that he was engaged in narcotics trafficking that day. there was a female suspect that the bro

he'll recommend those up the chain of command to centcom and the secretary and president. that's the process we are looking for. i will say, you've been in afghanistan more recently than i have been, but i'll be back in five days and looking at that, as general allen said in his testimony and we'll find out as we go out there, and afghans are often doing better than expected. this are cases that they aren't doing as either we have expected or they and that's where we're able to give them the additional help that we need. we're also, as i said, seeing places doing better than expected. we have very aggressive and very positive things, afghan commanders who are pushing to do even more than sometimes we think they're ready to. that's a judgment that our commanders out in the field have to make every day about whether people are ready to do things, if you stretch too far, that can be dangerous, but if you don't stretch far enough, you're not going to achieve your goal. so, we do have this review process in place for this year. i'd expect we'd have the same process in place. i'

he was recently replaced the commander of the second corp. he was a very capable officer, deserving of corp command at the time. you could almost argue that long street's wounded not with the army, ap hill has not been stellar, jubal hadn't been. that's why he was given it. he was supposed to be the only man that dared cuss in the presence of lee. there were better cussers earlier, men were gifted in that department, but early was a very capable man and of course he t earlier, men were gifted in that department, but early was a very capable man and of course hha earlier, men were gifted in that department, but early was a very capable man and of course hn earlier, men were gifted in that department, but early was a very capable man and of course he yi that department, but early was a very capable man and of course her, t department, but early was a very capable man and of course hr, m department, but early was a very capable man and of course h, me department, but early was a very capable man and of course he headed the second corp, old jack's

in their hands, the great captains command of the army of northern virginia, in a high risk environment, marked by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, instructs, inspires, and even entertains. but such works usually find shelf space, as i said, in the business sects of bookstores. and in the end, are merely the product of adroit cherry picking through lee's long, fascinating 19th century life for the purpose of illuminating specific points in some 21st century leadership philosophy. so what we are going to do is go back and put lee back into his proper historical context. if we respect historical context and evaluate his leadership against the expectations and the standards of the 19th century as we should, if we look at him, as part of the military culture that produced him, we can still learn a great deal. from the first day that lee donned a uniform, lee became part of and never apart from a military institution with its own expectations for its leaders. what did american military culture teach robert e. lee about commanding an army? the answer is straight forward. not

locklear byrd is commander of the u.s. pacific command. i can't think of any time, certainly not since i've been here, and i doubt even before that that we've had so many top leaders come before the foreign relations committee at one time, and i thank you all for being here. i want to make clear why the committee is so interested in this testimony and why it is so important. there many people -- there some people -- who raise questions about the treaty. inevitably, as they have about any treaty that we've ever passed. but this treaty, particularly, has two components that those of us who support it believe are important for the country. one is, above all, the economic component, and we will have a hearing shortly with major leaders from american industry. mining industry, oil and gas, communications. others. transportation. who are deeply concerned about the legally of their claims, should they capitalize and spend millions of dollars exploiting resources from the ocean seabed. and that is worth enormous competitive advantage to the united

he was recently replaced the commander of the second corp. he was a very capable officer, deserving of corp command at the time. you could almost argue that long street's wounded not with the army, ap hill has not been stellar, jubal hadn't been. that's why he was given it. he was supposed to be the only man that dared coususs in the presence of lee. there were better cussers earlier, men were gifted in that department, but early was a very capable man and of course he headed the second corp, old jack's foot cavalry. lee decided to detach the foot cavalry, second corp, and two battalions. they were going to go west and save lynchburg. then we have lee again. lee looked at it, and somehow he had to break the grip of grant. somehow if he could, could he force grant to dispatch troops to weaken his army who is opposing lee? see, lee understood from the time he took command that yes, he had an opponent across a river, or on a battlefield, but the real enemy, the enemy the confederacy had to defeat was a civilian population of the north. he had to

he, grant would set the broad objectives of the command and stay away from what he called the minutia of command. initially meade grumbled that grant was probably going to get all the credit when his successes in that spring campaign and yet meade was soon telling his wife that he cheerfully would give grant all credit if he can bring the war to a close. i think this statement deserves a moment of historical attention. the willing to give grant all credit. of the five commanders of the potomac, only george meade accepted second place and worked so devotedly in a subordinate position. it's inconceivable that others would have willingly given the cooperation that meade tended for the rest of the war. from their first meeting grant and meade sensed that they could work well together. mutual warmth and respect between the two wasse ewas a ma factor in the last year of the war. in mid-march grant returned briefly to the west. he had by then made a number of principaled decisions. one it was impossible to command all of the northern military forces from west of the mountains. nor was the ca

so, it tells you an awful lot about the lack of preparation, lee or any other senior commander of his generation, would have had from a west point education. by necessity the lessons that they did learn came from translated european military tre treatises. the u.s. army possessed no such literature of its own studying the campaigns of washington or jackson or anyone else. for those soldiers who continued their professional reading after graduation, lee was one of the ones who did, but most said, that it was very difficult to carry textbooks around in their, in their, saddlebags while they were chasing indians. those european texts would have taught them that successful generalship, successful leadership, rested on two main qualities. those two qualities were character and compa tense. of the two, character mattered more. character always trumped competence. and as swiss theorist, one of the leading military authors of the day, wrote, the character of the man is all above all other requisites in the commander-in-chief of an army. the essence of character, the prime military virtue was

the campaign develops. it was a change in command at the highest level because, well, the commander of the south pacific force u.s. naval forces in south pacific, vice admiral robert gorman was found wanting, for a number of recent the he had been brought in to lead the charge in the south pacific, having been stationed at london. he was a special naval observer as the blitz was going on reporting directly to president roosevelt. so using natural choice to serve as commander of so back. but as the campaign began unfolding, it became clear he wasn't the kind of leader that exactly fired after to be like to complain about the in my development of a panic or. a premier strategist, marvelous diplomat and a planner. but when the fighting started, he found himself just obsessed with detail and he had never left his headquarters. he never went forward to see the marines in guadalcanal. never saw his forward naval base where the cruisers and destroyers were we fueling. he was very aloof from the fighting front. and it quickly became clear that he was in a very tough position. they concluded that admiral gormley was h

it goes through the process in the command staff boats. they use little marbles. there are black marbles and gold marbles. they bowed. they get two-thirds of the boat from the command staff. these members of the command staff, many are very decorated. they make this decision not likely. then they bring the officer's back and they get a standing ovation from command staff. that is one of the most impressive things you will ever see. i want to think the family members. --

governments of the united states and canada. based on my command responsibilities, principally in the arctic, my experience and our changing on rae ining opera environment, there's a compelling reason for the united states for the law of sea convention for the safety and security of our homeland. our military defensive operations are best served by a clear, stable, rules-based cooperative international framework that helps our friends an allies work with us, helping us be the security partner of choice. now, arctic cooperative security is one of the five lines of operated delineated in u.s. northern commands theater campaign plan. u. it would be helpful in supporting peaceful opening of the arctic, which is my mission. showing interest in engaging in the arctic, engaging sovereignty, natural resource, infrastructure, communication, navigation, military presence and public safety issues in the arctic as human activity increases. for our maritime warning mission, ek session to the convention will help us establish global operational relationships cri

the west. meade would be treated, as grant continued, as he treated all commanders. he, grant, would set the broad objectives of a campaign and stay away from what he called the minutia of command. initially meade grumbled that grant was probably going to get all the credit when his successes in that spring campaign, and yet meade was soon telling his wife that he cheerfully would give grant "all credit if he can bring the war to a close." i think this statement deserves a moment of historical attention. "willing to give grant all credit." of the five commanders of the army of the potomac and its antecedent, only george meade accepted second place and worked so devotedly in a subordinate position. it is inconceivable that irvin mcdowell, george mcclellan, ambrose burnside, or joseph hooker would have willingly given the cooperation that meade tendered for the rest of the war. from their first meeting grant and meade sensed that they could work well together. mutual warmth and respect between the two officers was a major factor behind union successes in virginia in the

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yes can come on the german command allowed thirty minutes for the destruction of the frontier posts but some held out from one to seven days repulsing one attack after another. these pill boxes on the border were built shortly before the war but they were never used supplies and ammunition for the machine guns had been scheduled to arrive the day after the nats invasion of soviet territory. was in command of one of the pill boxes he was officer on duty the day before the start of the war this picture shows or so i would encourage his friend nikolai a fellow servicemen returning from a night of dancing in breastplate on june twenty first. the news. vladimir. i have something terrible to tell you. chance thoughts. when i was there my girlfriend told me. that a war would break out to morrow she was four in the morning so like. all those nine hundred thirty nine two years before the start of the war relations between the soviet union and germany had become noticeably warmer foreign ministers of the two states motto of an ribbentrop sign a non-aggression pact. in september one nine hundred t

he told the british commander, overall commander of british forces in north america, that the fall of a capital is always a great road to the government of the country. so he knew this would be a struggle, it would really, really hurt americans' self-esteem and it would be a blow to their morale. >> we have calls waiting for anthony pitch, historian and author of "the burning of washington." seattle is next. >> caller: good morning, excellent show. it's my understanding that president madison personally, physically, commanded the troops in the battles, making him one of the only two presidents who personally had the front command of troops during his tenure, and then, also, as a former marine, our belief is that the commandant of the marine corps' house, not far from the existing white house, still today, was not burned because of the british respect for how the u.s. marines fought in the battle. any comments? >> those are two very good questions, but i have to correct the caller. he described himself as a former marine. once a marine always a marine. i learned the hard way. i address

in the field. [ laughter ] and the other is, so he winds up commanding things like conscription of the draft in georgia and the other is john c. breckenridge who turns out to be a decent division commander but not given too much responsibility until he's already demonstrated himself. the confederacy doesn't have as many of these enclaves to please, though there are still plenty of them and virtually every tole tigs politician in t confederacy thought he ought to be a general. lincoln in order to hold the coalition together he's got no choice but to make generals out of people who have no business being generals. >> before we go back to the generals i want to spend a few minutes talking about the common soldier, because you've both written so many important things about each of these commanders' relationships with the common soldier, which was important, and i'd like you each to address how they related to the troops and specifically the culture of visiting the front, which jack, you've written about, both presidents doing, and ironically i guess davis vi

the commander-in-chief termed grant the quietest little fellow you ever saw. however lincoln told a friend he's a first between environmental he is a general, i'm glad to find a man who can go ahead without me getting involved. on wednesday may 4th, ulysses grant led the army of the potomac across the rapidan river. a member of the 15th new jersey stated that as his regiment went over the crest of a small hill that day, the whole country side was laced with dense, dark lines of men. they looked he said like long fences except that sunshine sparkled on polished rifle barrels and flags whipped defiantly in the springtime air. the sunset on the confederacy had begun. thank you. [ applause ] . >> next week we'll be back at the virginia military institute for another session from this conference organized by the virginia civil war sesquicentennial commission. it will talk about the shenandoah valley campaigns of 1862 and 1864. the civil war airs every saturday at 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. and sundays at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. you're watching american history tv all wee

since then he has been assigned as the commanding officer of the central police district, one of our favorite stations in the city. june 17 of this year, he will be retiring after 39 years of service. i read all of that into the record because i want to make the point that the jobs are incredible and the people who fulfill them are amazingly talented individuals who can be masterful in any division or expertise and then, happily down to central station and invest all of that talent and know-how to help to make our community a better community. the community could not be happier to have had him as captain for the last two years. it will be a big loss and he will have big shoes to fill in his absence. we have been so fortunate to have your problem-solving capabilities, analysis, friendship, and support. we cannot thank you enough. we will be sad to see you go, but we hope they will be able to relax a little bit after all of these years and we hope to welcome you back as a patron of the port. you are welcome here any time. with that, vice-president brandon, do you want to take over? >>

they were probably supported and they embraced the commander. they have been the victims of domestic violence. the commander is not here tonight. i want to thank them and the officers in that particular. police department. also, as we heard from one of the members of the public, last week was the annual juneteenth festival, which i was happy to attend some of the events where i also got a chance to observe and talk to some of our officers who were helping with public accommodation and ensuring public safety during a very large and active public gathering. i found that the officers were respectful and kind and were members of the community actively participating. it was told to me by several of the individuals, who also recognize many of us from seeing us on television. people came up to me and grosso complementary on the police. i want to thank you for that as well. i have been in contact with already, as june is the additional month for pride celebration, and as a former member of the pride board, i have already had calls and communications from

of europe, as well as the commander of our european command. he has been a leading force in the government and the military and a big thinker on a lot of the topics that we're wrestling with over these three days. we could not think of a more fitting candidate to be here with us today to talk about the importance of collectively tackling these issues of development and security and doing so in a way that really moves us thoughtfully forward. so please join me in welcoming admiral james steverides. admiral, welcome. approximate thank you for that. thank you very much. good morning, everybody. first of all, i want to thank the administrator for letting me come and take just a couple of minutes to set up what i think will be a terrific panel headed up by ray suarez and with some extraordinarily wide-ranging views to share. i am going to use a couple of slides. i know, generally speaking, people look and see a military guy from the pentagon with a power point presentation and that's created a fair amount of problems around the world. i assure you, t

held in solitary confinement for nearly a year before human being charged the president states the commander in chief has announced him guilty on videotape the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff the highest those are the two highest military officials the commander in chief and chairman joint chiefs of staff have also announced i'm guilty and that was published in stars and stripes the semiofficial publication of the department of defense and so they sent a message down the line to everybody who works in the military that the top two military officials are found this person guilty and they want to and i can't imagine anyone who wants a career in the military going against the commander in chief or the chairman joining the staff as a result of the military prosecutors and playing a very modular game of hiding the facts not allowing the defense to get documents that it's required to brief be provided under law materials that are real to the defense relevant to the fence and therefore should be made available or not be maybe also it's looking like a bit of a kangaroo court and railroading br