the other thing is that the army at that time is much smaller than it is during world war i. there are only about 25,000 troops in the continental u.shis time. regulars. and the whole army is around 120,000, 130,000 people compared to the millions fighting in france. this is actually a very small force. steve: i ask you this in terms of context as we see men arriving. the civil war ended in 1865, world war i was beginning to hover in europe in 1913, 1914, -- what was the u.s. military like? how prepared are we for these kinds of conflicts? julie: like i said, it is very small. a lot of the army's from remote places. a lot of them are in the philippines. a lot of them are in the panama canal zone. you had these very small units and sort of far-flung small camps in the united states, often times in the west. you had the sort of small garrisons that in the southwest onleast are really focused capturing indian tribes. in the 1880's they were crossing the border back and forth between the u.s. and mexico trying to catch the last of the apaches. steve: this appears to be a training mission. is that correct? julie: this does look like trai

they wanted to make sure the u.s. army could survive on the trail and that they would be a buddha find what they could find. they were going to the field often times with a poor sense of the land and the topography. at the scouts in the land and the people very well. anew the land and the people very well and they soldiers.to guide the >> there was no draft in 1916, correct? >> correct. >> what changes took place with the national guard? >> the call up that wilson does originally in may is only of three states along the border. it texas, arizona and new mexico's guard but only about three thousand or 4000 soldiers show up, not enough to protect the length of the border. to border is very long and he needs more troops. so they actually extend the call up to the rest of the state. 49 states show up. the troops and up being about 110,000 on the border. because of this, they need to vastly increase the amount of money that goes into the national guard and the amount of training. so the national security act of 1916 is passed a

in short, the u.s. army made emancipation possible and served as a platform from which black men could fight for social justice. to summarize the larger points, the u.s. military served as a major site of emancipation and social confrontation as a civil war progress. these are stories that require expertise in soldiers and military history. my final point today is that subjects a fall under the rubric of traditional military history such as weapons technology, tactics and combat should remain part of the story the museum tells. the opportunity to glimpse an artillery shell does attract patrons. the story we belay about weapons technology can challenge their assumptions and expose them to greater historical context. recent academic works have done painstaking labor to disprove long-held miss which would often fail to filter down to public knowledge and to provide one example, many civil war and there is a guess continue to mistakenly believe the rifle musket in combination with a mini ball greatly altered the

u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning is back in jail after refusing to testify to a grand jury in a case against wiki leaks. the u.s. threatens to impose sanctions on countries that refused to recognize the venezuelan opposition leader as interim president. those figures show young britons are turning their backs on america for their holidays we find out what could be putting them off. yeah i can understand why people blink and then make sense and i think it's probably not the. case. culturally appropriate. broadcasting live direct from our studios most of this is r t international john thomas glad to have you with us all right u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning has been taken into custody that is after she refused to testify in front of a grand jury in a case against the weak you leaks co founder julian assange here's how her lawyer describe the situation. judge hilton did find her in contempt of court this is an appealable order certainly a typical for this kind of proceeding u.s. arm

u.s. army private turned whistleblower chelsea manning has been jailed after refusing to testify to a grand jury and what's believed to be the case against the wiki leaks founder julian assange the. u.s. continues to venezuelan president nicolas maduro to topple him from power even suggesting the possibility of sanctioning other countries for not recognizing the washington backed opposition leader as interim president. those figures show young britons are turning their backs on america for their holidays there's speculation that it's the president that's putting them off. yeah i can understand why people buy a car and then make sense but it's probably not. preferred to go somewhere a bit more. culturally appropriate. and i welcome to r.t. international live from moscow at eleven pm here in the capsule. the u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning has been taken into custody after she refused to testify in front of a grand jury in what's believed to be a case against the wiki leaks founder julian

u.s. army whistleblowers show. off the refusing to testify to a grand jury in what's believed to be the case against the wiki leaks founder julian assange and. the u.s. continues to pile pressure on venezuelan president nicolas maduro to topple him from power even suggesting the possibility of sanctioning other countries for not recognizing the washington backed opposition leader as interim president. and as figures show young britons are turning their backs on america for the holidays speculation it's the president putting them off. yeah i can understand why people make sense. for me not to. go somewhere. thanks for joining us live in or to international hawkins revue author you're very welcome with us this hour. a u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning has been taken into custody after she refused to testify in front of a grand jury in what's believed to be a case against the wiki leaks. describe the situation. judge hilton did find her in contempt of court this is an appealable order certainly a typical for this

a u.s. army private. manning has been taken into custody after she refused to testify in front of a grand jury in what's believed to be the case against the wiki leaks founder julian assange u.s. correspondent has more. u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning is once again locked up we understand that chelsea manning was called to testify before the grand jury it was a closed proceeding it's been widely reported that it was related to wiki leaks however chelsea manning says she did not know what it was in regards to chelsea manning has refused to testify and has been sent to jail now manning's lawyers have actually requested that she be put on a home consignment essentially in house arrest rather than being taken to jail because of her medical needs now ever the judge apparently came forward and said that actually u.s. marshals could indeed handle her medical needs and that she would be locked up so at this point we understand that chelsea manning has been taken into custody for refusing to testify and now

u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning is back in jail after refusing to testify to a grand jury and a case against with. as well as opposition leader blames president but girl for an ongoing power blackout in the country while the government points the finger at washington. and the figures that show young britons are turning their backs on america for their holidays we find out what could be putting them all. into some my people and then it's like the guy is probably not to. go somewhere. broadcasting live direct from our studios most of this is our two international i'm john thomas glad to have you with us. our u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning has been taken into custody that is after she refused to testify in front of a grand jury in a case against the weak you leaks founder julian assange here is how her lawyer described the situation. judge hilton did find her in contempt of court this is an appealable order certainly a typical for this kind of proceeding u.s. army whistleblower ch

u.s. army medical department museum director george wunderlich stares stories of army medics in time of war. killed inbout a nurse vietnam, a world war ii dentist to single-handedly held at the japanese so the hospital could the firsted, and american world war i casualty in army -- an army doctor. welcome to the united states army medical department museum here at fort sam houston texas. today, i would like to show you the stories of the people who hereither first or only's at our exhibits. these three have an interesting story to tell. you can see behind me are medical department crests, a regimental emblem if you will. the words of the bottom say a lot about what our museum does. " experience and progress." this museum is a living place. not dedicated to history as odd as it may sound, but dedicated to the use of history to build a fornger and lighter future the medical department. our specialty is training soldiers who have medical specialties, not only helping them understand the heritage o

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secretary mark esper of the u.s. armyjoining us exclusively thanks for sitting down. >> thank you for inviting me. >> big day president trump is really proposing across the board cuts for most of the federal government big notable exception, the department of defense. we're drawing down troops, looking to draw down troops in key conflict zones what do taxpayers need to know about the increase in the budget >> this is a big day for the army we are presenting a very bold budget that reflects the shift for the army into the national defense strategy that calls us to be prepared for high intensity conflict against countries like russia and china. at the same time, underscores this renaissance that the army is in with regard to how we man, organize, train, equip the force. it is a very big budget for us. >> in terms of that army renaissance, what are the budget numbers, can you share those with us? >> we have a top line request around $182 billion. that will allow us to continue to grow the force. that will allow us to begin t

as black refugees taken into the care of the u.s. armyuickly realized, however, freedom often proved in complete and almost always under supported. because the u.s. government never manifested a consistent policy towards black refugees, generals often took the lead in deciding -- assigning work. some work for meager or no wages, or merely room and board. others were forced to labor on their former plantations. then a master, uncle sam. -- their new master, uncle sam. suffering a mortality rate higher than the accompanying white soldiers by at least 5% to 10%. freed people with particularly valued work skills such as blacksmiths tended to receive the highest pay and enjoyed somewhat better conditions, follow this made some wages laboring for the army has pioneers, cooks or launderers. whatever the compensation, black civilian labor came to undefined amount -- just as enslaved labor did in the confederacy. each refugee who fled to union lines deprived the confederacy of vital supportive work, with 80% of the white male military aged subpopu

material to wiki leaks she made public a number of u.s. army classified material documents that then were published by the anti-secrecy website known as wiki. weeks after her sentence she spent seven years locked up before ultimately having her sentence commuted by barack obama in twenty seventeen now it's important to know what exactly chelsea manning has handed over to wiki leaks the material she handed over related to atrocities being committed by u.s. soldiers including laughing as they gunned down civilians from a helicopter as well as torture and other details we're going to quickly review some of what chelsea manning brought into the public light but i will warn viewers some of this material can be rather disturbing. it's being reported at this point the chelsea manning could remain in custody until the grand jury finishes its proceedings or until she willingly testifies now at this point we also understand that chelsea manning is facing a charge of contempt of court and that is a new criminal charge for which she could receive an additi

, and robert scott, who also served in the u.s. army. n have incredible stories about their time spent after returning back to civilian life. for instance, since his service, michael worked as a security policeman, richard worked at the army medical center, which brings his residency at full circle. robert attended classes from both the university of california at berkeley and san francisco state university. he's also featured in the video "taking responsibility," which illustrates the story of how a veteran came there. black history month and black futures month is a time to look at the contributions african-americans have made in shaping our nation. we must recognize that while we do honor and support our veterans and their sacrifices, we need to acknowledge and remember black veterans were more likely to be attacked for their service than honored for it throughout our nation's history. for generations, african-americans returning home from service were more likely to face discrimination, disrespect, violence, and sometimes even death.

the u.s. army intelligence whistleblower chelsea manning is back behind bars after refusing to testify to u.s. grand jury in a case against wiki leaks. and the u.s. house of representatives passes a bill to counter the influence of so-called dark money from. the international world news first for you this saturday morning the ongoing power outage in the country. while in venezuela people calmly handled the consequence is electrical sabotage the entourage of donald trump was celebrating and enjoying with guilty perversion the suffering of the venezuelan people a few weeks ago the mature regime blamed for causing a large electric group blackouts we have now received the first video of what caused an ice unprecedented nationwide blackout in venezuela where there is poses bring nothing but darkness. electricity stations across venezuela shut down during the thursday evening rush hour bringing public transport to a standstill the power supply is gradually being restored in some parts of the capital what

she is the historian and author of the mexican expedition: 1916 to 1917, put together by the u.s. army these two years and it's importance today?

what how would you characterize technology in u.s. armymuch cultural condition of how we will use that in our operating model as well as the technologies that will invest against ai will be quite frankly, the technology that will change warfare in the future whoever gets their first will dominate. >> and do you feel like you have the tools needed to -- become number one. >> we are putting our best and brightest forward, we are investing substantially, and it will be a priority for us in the future. >> before you go quick in terms of of the priorities for u.s. army today. >> readiness, always number one, we have 180,000 troops the deployed in 140 countries on 17th year sustained combat operations, and middle east, so we will always be focused there. to put our men and women best position when zploid, but stam moves in modernization more coming in the near future great to have you on fram this you undersecretary ryan mccarthy joining us thank you a break large poll says millennials embracing socialism as freshman politicians like congresswom

recapture all these on and i confirm that the syrian people are awaiting the syrian army but today the u.s. army there how can the syrian army fight the u.s. army in the north east of syria ok this to the nitty gritty could ship and i think the u.s. the troops will not fight the syrian army for the for for only reason because this is this is not american syria american bottle i mean it is. this israeli bottle and as you know. america big ally to is right there visor to president assad but then the shotgun says that donald trump soldiers fire at syrian. positions that's true because they're united states is there. supporting the eighty and its allies and when we talk about that america not all we we have to see is that iran in syria then now days that are easily lost syria and it didn't anything during this war so i think this corporation between america and is that aid we will know we will stay and we will we will see more schoolish in in syria by easy and we are preparing ourselves to fight them or to defend ourselves so i think america will estate will estate stand against us with is that in a

former u.s. army intelligence whistleblower chelsea manning being jailed for refusing to testify in front of a grand jury in the case against wiki leaks co-founder julian assange. lawyer sais they'll appeal listens. this is an appealable order judge children did find her in contempt of court it was certainly a typical out for this kind of proceeding as everybody knows chelsea has tremendous courage higher primary concern at this point is her how well she is confined. first came to fame in twenty ten after handing over classified sensitive military data to wiki leaks she was home to thirty five years in prison for spend seven of them there before being commuted by then president obama the whistleblower was aware she could be taken back into custody have a history of having to deal with secrecy and a lot of these secret proceedings they tend to favor the government they tend to allow things you know if arius goings on to happen so i am i am in general opposition of that kind of of this kind of proceedin

former u.s. army intelligence whistleblower chelsea manning is back behind bars after refusing to testify. against wiki leaks. live from moscow to the world this is your r.t. international your company i'm you know neal our top story the foreign ministry is accusing the united states of stripping and celebrating an ongoing power outage in the country said to be worse than decades electricity stations across. thursday evening bringing public transport to a standstill the power supply is gradually being restored in some parts of the capital now this is the. international airport in caracas where all flights have been suspended opposition leader and self declared interim president one. government is to blame while the u.s. point the finger. of corruption. venezuela's defense ministry has called the garbage an act of sabotage by this. week after all we have seen after the statements from the spokesperson of the north american empire and those who support them here no one can be so naive to believe this is

as i am an employee of the u.s. army, i need to start off with the disclaimer, these are my personal remarks and do not reflect the official views of the army or the u.s. overnment. let's start in this moment in 1944. what we are going to do is start here. then we are going to go backwards in time. then we are going to move forward again to come to the moment late in 1944 and into 1945. but at this moment in time, things were looking very, very od for the aleyes -- for the allies, for the good guys. things had gone reasonably well. it was tough to get out of the normandy pocket, but we did it. we broke out. then there was a lot of progress rapidly in july, august and early september. so there was the great victory at felez, which i am sure most of you know about. and following on the heels of that, the liberation of paris. so there was a tremendous sense of progress and of jubilation, elation, a sense that the war was now coming to a close. because of course the red army was moving weled world as we moved east ward. so t

and now to discuss it discuss this issue that's cost lives a retired u.s. army major general poland mr. thanks for joining us on the program it's great to have you with us at the u.s. it is already number one in global defense spending so why another increase. well i think there's a number of reasons so we've had some interesting and very serious threats current matter of fact over the last twenty four hours you uncover major cyber attack against u.s. military by the chinese. the president is looking at the threats and not mentioned in those reporters comments was the threat to our ships are on the southern border from central america and others are trying to hit the soft underbelly of the united states that wasn't even mentioned so president drop his major goal is to protect the american people against any threats that our national security team comes up with but before he knows that you know russia is moving forward with advanced weapons systems on the ground and in the air the chinese or the armed in orbit and then you've got the threat of iran in the middle

the u.s. army private turned whistleblower chelsea manning has been jailed after refusing to testify to a grand jury what's believed to be the case against the wiki leaks co-founder. of this hour islamic state has abandoned their last stronghold in syria in the face of advancing military forces but a top u.s. general says the fight is far from over despite donald trump's claims to the contrary. and his figures show young britons of america for their speculation is the president that's putting them off. i can understand why people buy cars and then make sense. it's probably not to. prefer to go somewhere get more. culturally. welcome so i think from moscow. thanks for joining us this hour. the u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning has been taken into custody that's after she refused to testify in front of a grand jury and what's believed to be the case against the wiki leaks founder julian assange that score straight to us correspondent he's got more on the story thanks for coming on just give us

u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning sent back to prison after refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating wikileaks and julian assange. from glenn response greenwald and pentagon papers' whistleblower daniel ellsberg. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. an ethiopian airlines s flight traveling from the ethiopian capital addis ababa to nairobi, kenya, crashed sunday morning, killing all 157 passengers and crew on board. the boeing 737 was carryining passengers of 35 different nationalities, including 8 americans. the e un confirmed at least 19 f itits staffers were on boaoard e plane. ththis iththe second f fatal crh of a boeing 737 max 8 in the past fivive months. that is aftft a donation lion air flight 610 crashed last year in october, killing 189 people. indonesia, and ethiopia are corrupting the aircraft after the crash. u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning has been sent back to jail after ref

sunday night on c-span's q&a, u.s. army eileen rivers on her book "beyond the call." women who went beyond their regular duties to help women in afghanistan and further the mission. >> one experience sheena shared with me was there a time when she felt like there were men who were trying to break her and test her and see if women could actually hack it. they had this heavy gear, they had their weapon, and they were carrying it on this road march. she pulled her women aside and said, no matter what happens, don't you dare start crying and you better keep up. because she is like i have a feeling that they will test us. and that is what happened. her women cap. step for step. announcer: eileen rivers sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. announcer: american history tv, historian garrett peck talks about his book "the great war in america: world war i and its aftermath." warhronicles how the impacted americans as well as societal issues such as prohibition, women's suffrage, and race riots. the smithsonian associates hosted this event. it is about one hour and 20

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what barton realizes is the u.s. army is not prepared for this conflict. barton decides she is going to do something about it. she will start to gather supplies and she will do it at her boarding house in washington, d.c. she turns her room into a store room, filling it with supplies. so much so that by the end of the year, she is going to have to rent three warehouses in themngton in order to fill -- in order to hold all the supplies she had been given. she asks friends, family, supporters of her, friends she made when she was teaching, please send supplies to me and i will distribute them to union troops. the problem she will face is in the second year of the war, we are still dealing with issues of what is a woman's proper place during this conflict? in 1861, you see the start of women in the nursing trade. it is still difficult for women to find access to the front lines, to go and provide assistance where the battles are taking place. barton is on the cutting edge of that. she has three warehouses full of supplies but nowhere to take them. she goes re

u.s. army intelligence whistleblower chelsea manning is back behind bars soft for refusing to testify to u.s. grand jury in a case against wiki leaks. the u.s. house of representatives passes a bill to counter the influence of so-called dog money from unknown donors in the election process. hi there live news around the clock this is our c international on call in bright mosque over the world news this saturday morning at nine the venezuelan foreign ministry is accusing the united states of orchestrating and sell.

u.s. army whistleblower chelsea manning is back in jail after refusing to testify to a grand jury in a case against wiki leaks. the u.s. threatens to impose sanctions on countries that refused to recognize the venezuelan opposition leader as interim president. and those figures show young britons are turning their backs on america for their holidays we find out what could be putting them off. yeah i can understand why people make sense but it's probably not to my aunts. some are even more. culturally appropriate.

appealing to your duty as an to join theizen u.s. army. more than just having a poster saying join the u.s. army, it is uncle sam wants you and he is pointing at you. you better sign up because the country is counting upon it. this is all part of the howaganda to affect american see the war and their willingness to support the war effort. controversially, right as the nation is discussing going to war in 1917, the militant wing of the suffragists led by alice paul start protesting in front of the white house. languageell from the used on these posters, they are using president wilson's words against him. very clever. they met with him in january 1917, and asked for his support for suffrage. like many presidents do when they want to punt on an issue, he says, this is a states rights issue. that is when a president says that word, it means he does not want to get involved. or she. -- ratheriser controversial. they kept up this picket in front of the white house. even after the war declaration. signs, some their of the signs started calling w

here at the u.s. army medical department museum, that is what we are all about. saving a life. you can watch this and other american artifacts programs by visiting our website, c-span.org/history. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] our c-span cities tour takes american history tv on the road to feature the history of cities across america. here's a recent program. the african american museum of iowa was built 15 years ago. the purpose of the museum was to fill in the gaps. gaps traditional education was not providing in iowa. there was an african-american contribution agreement in iowa that shared stories that were a part of our regular educational system. ironically, some of the founders of the museum were not from iowa. when they arrived here at the end of oregon to spend time here, they wondered about african-american history in iowa and we did some digging to find out if there was enough out a museum.arrant once they

this procures 37 thad intercepters in support of the u.s. army, bringing the total to 568 by the end of fy '20. additionally, in fy '20 we will continue thad software upgrades and capabilities on the korean peninsula. we are requesting $543 million to support and sustain 12 radars which includes the forward based mode radars in japan, turkey, israel and u.s. central command. this spending also continues software development to improve discrimination capabilities and other upgrades to improve the radar performance. our budget request of $500 million in fy '20 for israeli programs continues mdas long standing support of cooperative programs to include iron dome, david sling and the weapons systems. finally in support of phase three of the european phase adaptive approach or epaa, our pb '20 budget request includes $64 million to complete the aegis site in poland to be available in 2020 and make capability improvements at other aegis shore sites. mda is developing advanced missile defense technologies for integration into the bmds to defeat rapidly

ten years after that battle, as the u.s. army was heading down into mexico, they decided the alamo had four sturdy walls. it would make a good storage facility for their materials. if they could put a roof on it. so they did. but it also necessitated increasing the height of the front facade. so the facade that you see today looked very different from what you would have seen in 1836. >> so give us a turrer toial. a historical tutorial. what happened in 1836 and at the alamo? >> okay. this was a time when the predominantly anglo population of san antonio and texas in general was unhappy with the way the mexican government had been established. and the strong man, the dictator, santa ana, had established himself in mexico city. so they were rebelling against santa ana. who had ignored or changed the constitution of 1824. they wanted to break off from mexico. so they were, in essence, trying to bulk up, trying to defend the city of san antonio with the alamo. they had actually been given orders. there were some suspects whether the

a former u.s. army intelligence whistleblower chelsea manning is bach behind bars after refusing to testify to us during a case.

former u.s. army intelligence analyst to chelsea manning has been jailed after refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating the wiki leaks website she says she objects to the secrecy of the proceedings and that she's already told all thought is everything she knows amounting to jail term after leaking documents to the site in twenty ten . and a stepsister of and frankly jewish direst whose family hid from the nazis has visited a california high school after a party that caused outrage last weekend the school's facing criticism after pictures emerged on social media showing students giving nazi salutes around a swastika a made of big cups. d.w. reporter. has been looking into this story welcome to tell us what happened so these nazi salute photos were initially posted. by people at the party they were quickly picked up by the social media and on twitter for example caused a bit of an embarrassment to the school lost last week earlier this week hundreds of people showed up at a meeting there to exp

when the u.s. army officer named james carlton saw the central thoroughfare in the southwestern rating and trading network for the first time in 1852, it was winter in the valley was laid out before him and possibly green and a huge expanse of brown. this vision of oscar ramonda remain visit visit for co-even after he left new mexico for california. and he returned 10 years later and took command of the department of new mexico, the union army had already forced a brigade of 3000 texans back to san antonio. they believed they had won the west for the union. their hold on the region was still tenuous however. during their conflict with the confederates, the apaches and navajos continually rated union and confederate army cams and had attacked the union troops under james carlton coming from california to the rio grande. and so in the fall of 1862, james carlton sought to make the union hold on the west more secure to bring the westmore fully into the union making war on the apaches and navajos. his plan

up next u.s. army medical department museum director takes us behind the scenes to see some of his favorite items. he e shows us models of a civil war era ambulance train, a doll made by pow nurses and a dummy used to train army medical professionals. >> i would like to with welcome you here at fort sam houston, texas. you're probably looking around saying it doesn't look like a museum. in fact this is a part of every museum, the part that the public doesn't often get to see. when i first came, museums are quiet, i thought they're places -- boy, was i wrong. i didn't know the inner workings until i started volunteering and later on working at museums to understand, first of all, they're a frenzy of activity all the time, artifacts coming on and off. here, we have a very special -- really, a somewhat different mission. our mission here is to train medical professionals for the army. now, we also inform school kids and inform the public as to the history of the army medical department but our primary ics

as a former u.s. armye embarrassing if another country had to provide security for the leadership of our country. >> of its military presence of about 100 troops in venezuela and of u.s. criticism, russia responded saying -- >> russia said they're in venezuela under the invitation of the legitimate government there, which russia says is nicholas maduro. cuba also recognizes the transi there. shep? >> shepard: rich edson. thanks. the united nations security council holding an emergency meeting later today about president trump's decision to recognize the golan heights as part of israel. syrian officials requested this meeting and called the united states move a flagrant move of the u.n. israel took control of that territory in the war in 1967 and annexed it in 1981. all 28 members of the european union have rejected the united states decision on the golan heights and five gulf states condemned it. analysts warn that this could complicate the mideast peace plan. russia is now using the u.s. decision to justi

. >> up next, on american artifacts we go behind the scenes at the u.s. army in itage and education center carlisle, pennsylvania to see a section of world war i objects in their storage facility. we will see how they prepare,

here in the oxford union sean mcfate is a former private military contractor former officer in the u.s. army a professor at georgetown author of the book the new rules of war sean you've said u.s. generals of loft at eric's plan for afghanistan you've called it unworkable and even magical thinking why blackwater if this was a job interview i would not give you the contract because blackwater was simply a body guard shop in iraq you've never raised or deployed a military like you're advertising now i have in places and it takes hold it's a lot more sophisticated than just mentors in the field it doesn't quite require up to political leadership in kabul and they have already the message that they don't support this this is a dead deal in my opinion well and that you're mistaken because we built the entire afghan border police it was fifteen thousand people we did all the recruiting the training the vetting and we actually had mentors that went the field with them and the success rate of these units when our guys were allowed to go with them. effectively as training wheels there their success r

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