u.s. military in. reading a thing about the bay of pigs on "usa today" and most generals at a time, the cia was not supposed to go in and do military operations. the u.s. military, the dod, was supposed to go into cuba to get rid of castro. nicholas: yes. both eisenhower and kennedy were unwilling to commit, at least openly, u.s. military forces to the overthrow of the castro regime. one of the great concerns was to maintain good relations with the rest of latin america. latin america, latin american people, saw that united states as overbearing, they did not like them on the munroe doctrine. they did not like to be in america to backyard. for good foreign policy reasons, it was ruled out that we would have the u.s. military openly go against the castro regime. now, kennedy considered that when it came to the event that happened some 18 months later, that was the cuban missile crisis. that is another story. host: what made u.s. officials decide to back this bay of pigs invasion? what was going on that

u.s. military involved.you're an american voter in 1960 and you want intervention in cuba, you're going to vote for kennedy, who actually had serious misgivings about it, particularly in the use of overt force on the part of either cia or the military. so it was a bizarre situation. and it definitely played into the election. one of the closest ever. >> so once he took office, how much did domestic politics have to do with president kennedy's decisionmaking when it came to the bay of pigs? >> significantly, because kennedy and his brother robert, the attorney general, were determined that they would not give the republicans any ammunition that they were chicken, that they were weak. kennedy, you know, had this persona of vigour and a new way of doing things that contrasted with the kind of doddering, sclerotic eisenhower administration. it was unfair. but that was what kennedy believed, that he could not afford not to act in some way. and so he believed more or less in the plan that he inherited from the eis

u.s. military person who quote signed like a. revealing secrets on the terror group that allowed western forces to kill. revelations come from 53 declassified interrogation reports let's get more details now here's our correspondent. when islamic state was running rampant olver northern iraq a few years ago the indigenous community was bearing the brunt of the jihadi atrocities perhaps more than anyone else. you're the one. now some kind of senior figure within eisel ranks must of been behind all this right one of the accused is current islamic state leader. and guess what the released documents reveal the man was once a prisoner of the u.s. military and provided the pentagon with extensive intelligence before being let go in several reports. u.s. forces are the best time of day to find islamic state in iraq members in different locations around mosul for example describing a specific cafe well parts of smith's daily. detainees seems to be more with every session what else do we learn from the declassified reports was an absolute

u.s. military effort. scholars who have examined television coverage of the war in vietnam, please include daniel howland who wrote a book called "the uncensored war." for the most part, television reporting was very supportive, tended to be very supportive of the u.s. military effort rather than critical. that tended to shift as the tet offensive and its effects sunk in. but it's a mistake to characterize cronkite as having let that affect -- or let that effort to change perceptions about the war in vietnam. as i said earlier, public opinion began shifting during the war and television was playing catch up. dylan? >> i think that while he did not start this mass movement of people believing that it was a stalemate, i think we do need to remember how trusted walter cronkite was, and how viewed he was. while president johnson may not have actually been watching the tv and turned it off all dramatic and was like, looks like i lost millions of americans by watching this, and whether or not they were a little

u.s. on multiple espionage charges for leaking classified military files though so far the u.k. has refused to extradite him of the united nations special rapporteur on torture has described the game as long hounding of a sound as of her own press afraid of that you can watch the full interview with knowlton alsa on going on the ground on r.t. dot com. i'm not sure it's a key event in the war on terror i think it's a cheap event and what might be trying to call a war on on the press from press freedom. because joining us andre li stands for someone. defense the right of the public to have access to the truth julian assange has exposed evidence for systematic state sponsored torture and this these crimes that she provided evidence for have never been prosecuted even after given its was published no one has ever been prosecuted for those acts of torture secondly julian ascension self has been exposed. to farias forms of cruel inhuman or degrading treatment that do amount to psychological torture well i visited him out but for weeks after he had been arrested on the 9th of may 2019

u.s. military involved. if you are a u.s.er in 1960 and you want intervention in cuba, you are going to vote for kennedy, who actually had serious misgivings about it, particularly in a use of overt force on the part of either cia or the military. so it was a bizarre situation. host: once you took office, -- he took office, what did decision-making have to do in the bay of pigs? guest: it was significant. kennedy and his brother robert, the attorney general, determined they would not give the republicans any ammunition. that they were chicken. that they were weak. kennedy had this persona of vigor and a new way of doing things that contrasted with the doddering, sclerotic eisenhower administration. it was unfair, but that's what kennedy believed. he could not afford not to act in some way. so he believed, more or less, in the plan that he inherited from the eisenhower administration. i say more or less, because he accepted it, allowed it to go forward, and yet put severe constraints on it that helped doom its chances of succe

military. it is about burden sharing meaning that the u.s.no longer carry the burden of the fence for the golf and that is the message that has been sent all throughout the obama administration it also through the trump administration despite some rhetoric. if you look at the ground, the united states no longer look at the middle east as strategically most important region of operations and that means local partners have to adopt more burden. hashem: this is the problem with the strategic review forced placements around the world. this is something that americans did in the past, but they had to backtrack and send even more troops into the region, particularly in 2019. hussein: yeah. that can easily happen again. the united states is a bit overstretched globally. there has been an intention, i would argue going back to the second george w. bush's term to draw back from the middle east and every president wants to redirect from the middle east in general and the golf in particular and pivot towards great power competition with china, which is

u.s. military presence in the gulf.of late last year, there were about 15,000 american troops across the region and that is down from 90,000 at the height of donald trump's administration. in october 2019, the u.s. floyd nearly 3000 troops to saudi arabia, but now with the possible removal of the batteries and aircraft carriers, up to several thousand military personnel could also leave soon. ♪ hashem: let's bring in our guests in washington, d.c., douglas ollivant, a retired army officer and senior fellow with the future of war project at new america. in london, andreas krieg, a assistant professor in the defense studies department at king's college london. he is also co-author of "surrogate warfare: the transfer made in of war and the 21st century." also in washington, hussein ibish, senior resident scholar at the arab gulf states institute in washington. douglas, is the u.s. rethinking military or is it just a simple act of reorganizing military? douglas: three different things going on here, the number of patriots a

u.s. military and provided the pentagon with extensive intelligence before being let go in several reports. u.s. forces are the best time of day to find islamic state in iraq members in different locations around mosul for example describing a specific cafe well parts of smith's daily. detainees seems to be a more cruel person if with every session what else do we learn from the declassified reports was an absolutely precious asset for the interrogators he revealed the identities of terrorist leaders provided map like directions on how to find them the man even pointed out the phone numbers of 19 jihadi officials as well 1 as pay they got for their jobs to say the current head of eisel once bitrate the group step he commanded to american interrogators to then take his place this led to a u.s. military op in which the 2nd in command of the islamic state pretty obsessor group was killed in 2008 think guantanamo think of plenty of other individuals imprisoned by uncle sam you can't help wondering how the hell malo walked free the point it happened at is unclear too but the last interrogation

u.s. on multiple espionage charges for leaking classified military files although so far u.k. has refused to extradite him the u.n. special repertoire on torture has described the years long hounding of his sons' as a war on press freedom he features on the latest edition of going underground streaming now on r.t. dot com. i'm not sure it's a key event in the war on terror i think it's bent and what might be trying to call a war on on the press some press freedom. because joining us andre the stance for someone. defense to write us to public to have access to the troops john innocent has exposed evidence for systematic state sponsored torture and this these crimes that she provided evidence for have never been prosecuted even after you have it instils published no one has ever been prosecuted for those acts of torture secondly julian assange should self has been exposed to. various forms of cruel inhuman or degrading treatment do amounts to psychological torture well i visited him out for weeks after he had been arrested on the 9th of may 2019 and. he was obviously was under a

u.s. military files have revealed that islamic states current terrorist in chief previously spent time in american military custody in iraq and while there he apparently revealed crucial secrets on jihadi activities are. picks up the story for us. when islamic state was running rampant all over northern iraq a few years ago the indigenous u.c.d. community was bearing the brunt of the jihadi atrocities perhaps more than anyone else. to believe we're going. to war with you. now some kind of senior figure within eisel ranks must of been behind all this right one of the accused is current islamic state leader. and guess what the released documents reveal the man was once a prisoner of the u.s. military and provided the pentagon with extensive intelligence before being let go and several reports. u.s. forces are the best time of day to find islamic state in iraq members in different locations around mosul for example describing a specific cafe well prince of smith's daily. detainees seems to be more with every session what else do we learn from the declassified reports was an absolutely precio

u.s. military into syria. the u.s. military can't come in and enforce peace in the country. whether you are talking somalia syria, wherever. , we should get out of the business in engaging in that full's errand -- fool's errand, in my opinion. the second argument is, i'm sorry i will get there, the terrorism threat. right now, we would say the reason we are in afghanistan is to make sure that a transnational terrorism threat does not come out, again, like it did with osama bin laden and 9/11. there is risk there, certainly, but i would say the risk of that is lower than is being described and the risk of us staying in terms of u.s. lives lost, cost, and u.s. military presence in a muslim country is not a positive for global stability. you have to factor all those things in. we are better off pulling out. the real transnational terrorist threats right now are more likely to come from the middle east, syria and iraq, and africa. the risk of staying to my mind outweighs the risk of going, and therefore we should pull out. missy: to follow up, what about the argument that we hav

u.s. military video we'll speak to the reporter after this short break. the world is driven by a dreamer shaped by one person of those but. i am. no dairy thinks. we dare to ask. welcome back to the record number as my going to try to cross america's southern border in march with a report suggesting the massive inflows will continue through to the autumn and on the other side of the front say the situation's even worse with refugees gathering in makeshift camps off the being rejected by the u.s. . and the fact is i've made it very clear within a 100 days i'm going to send to the united states congress a pathway to citizenship for over 11000000 undocumented people and all of those so-called dreamers those docket kids they're going to be immediately certified again to be able to stay in this country and put on a path to citizenship. label and i think if we decided to come because the president said that she wanted to he not families that were separated as many know is that it's something we didn't expect even though the president said to us of course he wou

u.s. military drone attack in that they're both trying to cause harm. i think one more than the other not to mention releasing an animal is not harm what kind of idiot sees someone release a cal and says wow. that's just like murdering jews it's that cal god like all it cost over here. no it isn't you failed out of kindergarten did you and all the grounds on the way out or how about the fact that the cia and their wannabes are surveilling and grouping alongside domestic terrorists anyone who points out capitalism is causing a lot of problems. that's just a fact like capitalism is an economic system based on infinite growth on a planet with finite resources so at the end of the day can only result in africa collapse that's not an opinion that's that's that's physics that's just how it would be so it would be totally cool f.b.i. if you could you know stop watching me take a dump through my iphone camera please said please greenwald also wrote in some to the department of homeland security an extremist is anyone who opposes the current prevailing ruling cl

u.s. military only days after the election last november by signing a presidential order calling for the withdrawal of all remaining u.s. troops from afghanistan by the end of the year do you remember remember when all the troops came home and we were finally out of afghanistan that was a wonderful time i remember the ticker tape parades the celebrate dorie drink specials the vomiting festival in times square i remember grabbing a rained on young lady and kissing her in a bout of pure unbridled joy which lasted until i realized she was a man and he realized that he didn't know me and then he realized that counted as sexual assault and then i realized i better run for it he realized he should hire a lawyer and i realize dies you do the same but that is not the point the point is everything was right in the world war and finally ended that ridiculous morally reprehensible war in afghanistan now you remember. no we meet me neither. i think that because it never happened. trump did sign a draft of that executive order to bring the troops home but then he was met by the chairman of the joint chiefs mark

u.s. military and at the same time it's about you know burden sharing and meaning that the u.s. will no longer carry the burden for defense of the gulf and that's the message that's been sent to partners in the gulf all throughout the obama administration but also kind of through the trauma administration despite some rhetoric if you look at action on the ground it meant the united states no longer look at the middle east as strategically most as this duty the most important region of operations and that means local partners have to adopt more of that burden has same but this is the problem with the a strategic review of force placements around the world this is something that the americans did in the past but they had to. backtrack and send even firm more troops into the region particular in 2019 with the bar with iran. you know that means that can easily happen again look the united states is a bit overstretched right globally and so there has been an intention i would argue going back to the 2nd george w. bush term to draw back from the middle east in every president obama in

u.s. military tose enforce stabilityn countries that don't have it. u.s. 't come in and enforce peace in the country. you should get out of engaging in the. in my opinion. second argument is -- i'm sorry, i'm going to get the. second argument is terrorism threat. right now, the reason we are in afghanistan is to make m sure te transnational terrorism doesn't come out again like it did not 11. there is risk there, certainly i would say the risk of that no more than be described and was listing in terms of the lost cause and u.s. military presence in the country is not a positive globalal stability. we've got to factor that in, factor all those things in, we are better off holding out what it does right now were more likely to come released in africa so it not the risk of staying in my mind, outweighs the risk of going we should build that policy and pull out. >> about the argument that we've had 28000 in korea for decades and other places decades and it could be smaller deterrent. >> a voice found it to be a rather large parts. nobody's shooting at us in jap

u.s. military from engaging in domestic law enforcement activities.nal guard is an exception to that. the national guard can be involved in domestic law enforcement in the way the army in the way the army and the marines cannot. host: they sent a tweet illustrating the numbers of troops that were at the location , 2300. how to cite figure sound to you? is that more than normal -- how does that figure sound to you? is that more than normal? david: it is certainly more than normal. in most cases, the national guard is not deployed in the city at all. they go about doing their business and they are called upon when needed. we saw them deployed in june during some of the protests after the killing of george floyd. we saw them being asked to come to the capital in the aftermath of the january 6 insurrection. normally, the national guard isn't in that kind of deployment inside the city. they are unusual circumstances, and right now it is a large number. host: are they full-time or reserve forces only called upon when needed? david: again, the lines have blu

u.s.- trained salvadoran military officers. one of the expert witnesses, stanford university political scientist terry karl, detailed the on-site presence of u.s. military advisor allen bruce hazelwood with the salvadoran army at the time of the massacre -- providing new insight into what karl referred to as a sophisticated cover-up of the events on behalf of the reagan administration and the salvadan military junta. >> the presence of an american advisor with salvadoran general rosa, whose name is allen bruce zelwood. if this had been made public at the te, in my opinion and the opinion of other secretaries of state, this would have cut u.s. aid because this is illegal. amy: back in the u.s., democrats and voting rights advocates are raising concerns recently revealed census data will lead to an under representation of latinx residents as a result of former president trump's attempts to exclude undocumented people from the 2020 census. texas, florida, and arizona -- which all have growing latinx populations -- had been project

u.s. with other nato nations military spending is over a trillion dollars a year so you know russia with a population of $140000000.00 some odd people and spending only 69000000 on defense while the u.s. is spending you know i think up to 720000000 sometimes 30. 1000000000 rather last year so this is not a credible threat nor is it with china though i should mention that at the recently concluded nato foreign ministers meeting in brussels that the 6 key threats that nato believes faces it and the world russia is right at the top china's number 5 incidentally of the 6 and in between. you know vegas years like cyber security and so forth by the way and to david's comment about joe biden one should not have been under any illusions about that since he entered the u.s. senate 973 he was not only supported he was very unlikely agitated for every american war every american proxy or every regime change every color revolution all the way down the line i don't believe we should have expected anything other than. you know the sort of almost maniacal you know. until this is diplomacy the only thing

orders reverse the trump administration's ban on transgender people from serving in the military this brings the u.s. in line with germany's military which now has its 1st transgender commander tonight on this international transgender day of visibility we introduce those among us who have been ignored and overlooked for much too long the people who have a right to be seen the transgender people we now see i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. i am kind of standard and i decide that age of 40 to actually leave my male life behind when i want to call to say that i'm female and they on may join them at how they should put female i don't want any member of the transgender community to suffer i don't want them to lead and these are the lines. i wanted to become a man and i thought the says you can do it but you don't have to do it by yourself i can help you to do that any of my mom once said it's she seems to be finally happy. also coming up it is promising news for parents who hope to soon send their kids back to school today pfizer said tests show that its coronavirus vaccine is safe and effective

u.s. military showed up at the front door of his shop of the photography shop he really protested and had an argument with the officers somehow talked his way with the military of keeping the photographs. they were safe that way. put a squash on these things the soviet union and japan itself. how does japan look upon these photographs today? >> there is a very strong and tight nuclear movement in japan. that in fact was what inspired the photographers movement. i mean look at their name, and tight nuclear. that inspired them to go out. they were worried the younger generations in japan were going to think about the war. they were not going to be knowledgeable. they were losing a collective memory and japan about how horrific these bombings were. that's one of the reasons why they would have to try to find the visual evidence. they did in fact do in exhibit of these photographs in japan and several cities. have huge crowds come and look at them. so there is an insight nuclear movement in japan. but like a lot of countries there's an equally nationalistic movement in japan that wants to re-

u.s. military support. he told us that on the day of april 13 he sent a message to the chief watching the brigade get ready to sail for cuba. he asked this man whose name was jack haskins, if he still felt the brigade could win by fighting alone. president kennedy showed us a copy of the reply signed by haskins. this document informed the president the brigade could overthrow the castro regime without u.s. help. the president looked very angry, and he told us he had relied on such advice in making the decision to send the brigade to cuba. >> on the beach of the bay of pigs fighting continues. the brigade has no food, almost no ammunition, no hope of help from within cuba or from outside. at 3:45 p.m., wednesday, april 19th resistance ends. all those who are not killed are taken prisoner. in less than 72 hours castro has destroyed the brigade. the american plan is now a total failure. the failure at the bay of pigs was not merely the failure of the cuban exiles. it was a failure of united states policy, whic

u.s. military when the plan falters. >> the bay of pigs. [speaking spanish] in the year since he took power, fidel castro had become an enemy of the united states. in the eyes of washington a threat to the united states -- a plan of action against him has gone up. march 17th, 1960. the cia chief alan is told secretly organize a cuban exile force. he is not told how the force is to be used. he is only told get it ready. in miami, recruiting army has begun. the operation is supposed to be a secret, but word of what is happening quickly leaks out. six weeks after the secret meeting of the white house, fidel castro has probably said that the united states is training an army to invade cuba. meanwhile in miami, there are 50 exile groups of every political hue from former supporters of batista and former supporters of castro. they only have one thing in common. they want to overthrow fidel. the cia's problem is to find a way to unify them. [speaking spanish] >> -- dictatorship. >> the announcement of the formation did not receive the expected att