he was very instrumental in the desegregation of the united states army. >> soon the united states army entered world war ii. in this case, you can see a soldier with his backpack and duffel bag getting ready to go overseas to fight the german army or perhaps the japanese. you can see we had several different theaters in which they were shipping out to fight and each theater had its own uniform, tactics, and way of doing things. this is neat to show because it shows how the army heritage and education center has more than just uniforms and guns. here we have specific items important to this time in the army. we have buttons that the private probably polished over days and nights for a great shine for inspections. you can see the belt that he probably strapped a pistol to when he went off to war. he was a military policeman so he also carried a whistle. and we have a little piece of material history in this military policeman in the whistle he used to issue commands and everything else. we have his training bulletin and pieces of material that he brought back from the war. another aspect

in the best pow camps in the civil war -- if you look at the death of united states army soldiers who are in u.s. army camps, the death rate is very high. sanitation is lousy, disease is rampant. but there is a huge difference between what is going on in those camps, and what i think is going on in l myra, and what is going on in andersonville. there are no confederate prisoner pictures i have ever seen that look like the people coming out of andersonville. they do not look like they are coming out of dock how -- dachau. >> paul, you are uncharacteristically shy at the end of your talk -- when you talked about the confederate commanders who deserved execution, you seemed to imply that robert e. lee would be culpable for the chasing of blacks, for war crimes? >> you have twoperiod of generally --you have two periods of generally. either he does not anything -- he does not know anything about jubal early and can't do anything about it or lee is complicit when early spin through four days capturing blacks and enslaving them and when they retreat from gettysburg, these black prisoners are

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certainly, for the younger generations. >> this program was one of a multipart look at the united states army heritage and education center in carlisle, pennsylvania. other american artifacts programs will visit their library and their soldier experience gallery, a permanent exhibit chronicling the army's history from the spanish american war to present day. >> 200 years ago on august 24, 1814, british soldiers abroad and american troops at the battle of bladensburg outside washington, d.c. left the capitol wide-open for british forces which burned down the white house and the u.s. capitol. you can learn more about the burning of washington during the war of 1812 this thursday from anthony pitch at an event hosted by the zillion -- by the smithsonian. it starts at 6:45 p.m. eastern on saturday, august 23 as we bring you live to bladensburg park for a panel discussion on the event 200 years ago. that is live on c-span history v on c-span3. >> each week, american history tv sits in on a lecture with one of the nation's college professors. you can watch the classes here on saturday at 8 p.m. and

, and as a former chief of staff of the united states army. the association of united states army represents hundreds of thousands of members of the active army, army national guard, army reserve, the retired community, civilians, and the army families. 121 chapters worldwide. our members and i are very well aware of the fact that much of "the good soldiers" over the last few years would have been impossible without the commitment of this committee. and we are indebted to each and everyone of you and your predecessors. your tireless and selfless personal stats, professional staffs, we appreciate their efforts. and we understand that in these fiscal times these are very challenging times for our nation. certain things need to be done. now, before i continue i want to acknowledge the bipartisan bill -- i've never been sure what it's been called so let's say it's the murray-ryan bill, or the ryan-murray bill, but whatever it was, the chips in the sequestration has been very important for all of the services, and i just want to add my voice to the

certainly, for the younger generations. >> this program was one of a multipart look at the united states army heritage and education center in carlisle, pennsylvania. other american artifacts programs will visit their library and their soldier experience gallery, a permanent exhibit chronicling the army's history from the spanish american war to present day. week, american history tv brings you archival films that help tell the story of the 20th century. herbert hoover served as president from 1920 92 1933. remembered most for his time in the oval office at the start of the great depression, he also secretary under presidents harding and coolidge. in this documentary, he discusses his life beyond the presidency. his childhood, in china. this is part of these stanford university archives. >> when did your career as an engineer come to an end? >> it came to an end shortly after i took over the belgian relief in 1914. i did not know it at the time. that the war would be over shortly and we would get back to work. as the war went on and on, my clients and partners had to have some other interest,

they're not even in the class of the united states army in this sense. the u.s. army hardly even knows what a horse is anymore by 1944. every vehicles of every tight and description but jeeps and trucks and recovery vehicles and aircraft and all of it is designed for mobile slashing, transportation oriented mechanized maneuver warfare, ground and air so what you have is a fast-hitting fast-moving for force, this is flip side of the air force. the heavy bombers had been asked in operation cobra to do something that was not in their skill set. to bomb a precision target in front of friendly troops. now you're talking about immediate yup bombers a are more accurate, that can fly lower ahead of grown formations to act as eyes and ears and give them close support and this is precisely what happens. if you're a german column moving on the roads of normandy you will be in trouble and you have nice bodyguards in the sigh above you if you're a ground commander at that point. so throughout the early days of august, 1944, the german position gets worse and worse as you see o

napoleon, developed in europe, and the concept brought back to the united states and refined somewhat and adopted by the united states army in 1857. you'll notice most specifically that on the model 1857 12-pound napoleon, there at the muzzle, the muzzle is flared. that is purely decorative, to make it rather attractive. but if you look at the profile of the confederate manufactured 12-pound napoleon, you'll notice that the muzzle -- to not have the flare on the muzzle, reduce the amount of machining that was necessary. and if you are short materiel, how many pounds of bronze is in that flare. and if you save that amount of bronze for each tube, how soon might you have enough bronze to cast another 12-pound napoleon. so there is a little bit of savings in materiel there as well. in this central georgia military industrial complex, the production of these weapons will begin in the spring of 1863. and at augusta, which produces as many as 115 of these 12-pound napoleons by the end of the war, they had produced at least 57 by the end of 1863. and at least 77 were in the field by may of 1864. and almost all of them are in the

at the end of 1963, the united states had 16,000 military advisers in south vietnam sent to help the army of the republic of vietnam and their war against ho chi minh and the communist north. from 1963, a 30 minute u.s. army film documenting the act committees of william johnston the trains and assist south vietnamese troops while they are constantly being attacked and harassed by viet cong. 50 years ago, the situation in vietnam was transformed when lyndon johnson signed the gulf of tonkin resolution with congress granting the president rod powers to increase american involvement in the conflict. ♪ ♪ [gunfire] since the outbreak of hostilities in 1959, the united states army advisers in vietnam have undergone a variety of experiences and learned much about the complexities of guerrilla warfare in southeast asia. working -- these advisers have creased -- increase the numbers to more than 12,000. as --to referred to andh, lecture demonstration by setting an example. perhaps the advisors must important function is to advise and assist the unit commander to make suggestions skillfully and .i

fortunately, the united states army kept very good records and does keep records. every chaplain -- and chaplain underwood who retired from the air force in 1998, did you industrial to do a monthly report every month in the army? and it had detailed lists of questions that you would have to report on? well, that was going on in world war ii and in the national archive there is's an entire record group that has the monthly reports of every chaplain that was serving. and so those reports existed and i was able to spend part of three summers in college park maryland at the annex of the national archive just pouring through those records. navy records, alas, were not as complete. and the reason is this. i don't know the man's name, i'm glad i don't. i hope he's retired. i hope he's crossed the jordan into glory because i hope i never discover him. but a naval officer around 1980 or thereabouts decided to destroy all of the naval chaplain records up to vietnam. he said they were old things in the way and they lacked space. which meant as an historian you had to become mu

they are not even in the class of the united states army in this sense. the u.s. army hardly even knows what a horse is anymore by 1944. everything is vehicles by every type and description not just the famous tanks and trucks and aircraft. all of that is designed for mobile slashing mechanized warfare. what you have is you have a fast hitting fast moving force now with excellent close air support. this is the flip side of the airforce. you know? the heavy bombers had been asked in operation cobra to do something that's not in their skill set to bomb a precision target right in front of friendly troops. now in this instance you're talking about fighter, medium bombers that are more accurate moving ahead of ground formations to act as eyes and ears and to give them close support. this is precisely what happens. if you're a german column of any type moving on the roads in normandy you're going to be in trouble. you've got nice bodyguards in the sky above you if you're a ground commander at that time. throughout the days of august of 1944, the german position gets wor

at the end of 1963 the united states had about 16,000 military advisers in south vietnam sent to help the army of the republic of vietnam in their war against hoe chi min and the communist north. next a 30-minute u.s. army film documenting william johnston who trains troops. 50 years ago on august 10th 1964 the situation in vietnam was transformed when lyndon johnson signed the resolution to increase american involvement in the conflict. >>> since the outbreak of hostilities in 1959, united states army advisers in vietnam have undergone a variety of experiences and learned much about the complexities of guerrilla warfare in southeast asia. working through m.a.g. these advisers have increased in number to more than 12,000. each is assigned to a specific activity or unit to the army of the republic of vietnam commonly referred to as arvin to make sure that u.s. equipment is used and maintained properly and to teach by lecture, demonstration and by setting an example. perhaps the advisers most important function is to advise his unit commander to make suggestions skillfully and diplomatically in

they are not even in a class with the united states army in this sense. the us army hardly even knows what a horse is anymore. by 1944. everything is vehicles of every type and description. not just the famous tank but jeeps, and trucks and recovery vehicles, and aircraft and all of it is designed for mobile/transportation-oriented mechanized maneuver war fare, ground and air and what you have is a fast-hitting, fast-moving force, now with excellent close-air support, this is the flip side of the air force, you know? the heavy bombers had been asked in operation cobra to do something not in their skill set to bomb a precision target right in front of friendly troops. okay? now, in this instance you are talking about fire bombers, medium bombers, that are more accurate, can fly lower, moving ahead of ground formations, to act as eyes and ears and to give them close support and this is precisely what happens. if you are a german column of any type moving on the roads of normandy, you are going to be in trouble. and you have bodyguard in the sky above you if

american involvement in the conflict. ♪ ♪ ♪ [ ♪ since the outbreak of hostilities in 1959, the united states armys in vietnam have undergone a variety of experiences and learn much about the complexities of guerrilla warfare in southeast asia. throughmagt, these advisers have increased in number two over 12000 and each is assigned to a specific activity or unit of the army of the republic of vietnam, common asarvin tod to make sure u.s. equipment is used and maintained properly and teach by lecture, demonstration, and by setting an example. perhaps the advisers most important function is to advise ,nd assist the unit commander to make suggestions skillfully and diplomatically in a manner adjusted to the customs and traditions of the vietnamese and to the individual personality of the commander. 1959, in fact, since 1956 when mag advisers were first sent, lessons have been learned and many guidelines and tech exempt principles have been developed. perhaps the best way to describe the experiences of u.s. advisers in their relationship with the vietnamese and to illustrate the lessons learned is to

let's start with sergeant bergdahl's status in the united states army.was held captive by the taliban and the haqqani network for almost five years. he was officially listed as missing captured. no charges were ever brought against sergeant bergdahl and there are no charges pending now. our entire apparatus, the military commando t command wits community and state department person would agree avenue to recover the sergeant just as the american people and this congress and the congress before you expected us to do. in fact this committee knows there were a number of congressional resolutions introduced and referred to directing th the president of te united states to do everything he could to get sergeant bergdahl released from activity. we never stopped trying to get him back as the congress knows that because he is a soldier in the united states army. questions about the sergeant's capture are as mr. smith noted and you are separate from the effort to recover because we do whatever it takes to recover any and every u.s. service member held in captivity

we now have the privilege of hearing from the united states army band brass quintet. >> thank you, jebtle men. and thank you for being with us here today. we appreciate it. it has now been 70 years, three score years and ten, a biblical lifeti lifetime since the summer of 1944. for many living in the 21st serve ri, the events of the second world war have grown hazy. blurred to black and white images of tankss, artillery, glimpsed, perhaps, on late night tv. for others, world war ii is now a chapter in the history books. as such, some may conclude it was just another war. bigger, bloodier than those we watch on the evening news. but another war, just the same. that is not the case. the second world war was not in any way typical or representative of other wars. this war was not the product of a squabble. the enemy in this war, else specially the enemy in europe, was generally terrible, everyone monstrous. and would have ushered in a new dark age for all of humanity. there were many turning points in the pacific, in north africa, at stalen grad in the bloody and terrible eastern front. but

which everyone had that the supreme commander , thed be general marshall chief of staff of the united states army. marshall, was the man who had opposed the president over the fail.on, fearing it would moreover, marshall had further disappointed the president by lest thedeeply anxious germans magically invade spain, invadehe mediterranean, spain, come through spain, cross the mediterranean, and strike eisenhower's forces through the flank through spanish morocco. that is what he was so afraid of and kept in entire american army for that possibility. the president thought this absurd. in a short, for all of his administrative ability for chief , marshall did not inspire the present with the confidence that he would make a great supreme commander in the field of battle. marshall could be stiff and formal, not even the president was encouraged to address him. but above all, he could be obstinate and lacking in good judgment. it was thist, that roosevelt sought in choosing a supreme commander for overlord. held offer month he the appointment for supreme commander, leaving the invasion plan to be done

ambassador william taylor, a grad rat of kennedy school of government, former captain in the united states army, current vice-president of the united states institute of peace. thank you. >> glad to be here. >> we're getting drawn in again, looks like. >> it does. the big threat, the big new threat, is islamic state, this could be a threat not just to iraq but to the whole region and, indeed to the united states. >> when you hear they have taken control of a dam, they could unleash that dam with a 65-foot wall of water and kill millions of people, sounds like the kind of thing that no one would actually do, but these people are different. >> we have seen that these people are different. these people do horrible things to people. when i was in iraq, the mosul dam was always in danger of failing on its own. it would not be difficult for these crazy people to unleash that wall of water you just described, and that's a concern that we all have. >> the reason i even ask is because we realize, as individuals and as a government, i'm confident, that these people are being run over with the weapons tha

i found women and alcohol and the thing that cured me more than anything else was the united states army and its it's a great experience. i spent three years in germany during the cold war and we were right on the border and when i looked across that border, we saw people in east germany. and it dawned upon me and we saw several people that tried to get across the border and we could do nothing until they got across and some of them were actually killed. and so it was -- i realize that i grew up in a free country and i grew up in a wealthy family and i was given all of this. and i said that i missed my shot at college. yes, i graduated, but i certainly could have done better and i said i'm going to start applying myself and that is the whole reason i'm not over there and i'm over here, just because i was bored in america, and i never forgot that. [applause] >> what did you learn from reading that book? >> i learned a lot of things about my ancestors that i didn't know. [laughter] somebody asked me one time and they said what do you think about what your ancestors did and obviously he was

among the dead -- a general officer of the united states army.becomes the highest ranking military officer to be killed in action since a three-star general lost his life at pentagon in the 9/11 attacks. pentagon officials would not identify him, nor any of the wounded. >> there are a number of casualties as a result of the shooting, perhaps up to 15, to include some americans. many were seriously wounded. others received only minor injuries. the assailant was killed. i can also confirm that among the casualties was an american general officer who was killed. given that the family notification process is not yet complete, i cannot, and will not, release any additional information about the general. >> kirby added details are few since the investigation is literally just getting under way. he described the attacker as a member of the afghan national army but went no further. insider attacks in afghanistan have actually declined since a high of 44 of them in the year 2012 to only three this year, including today's attack. in large part due to prote

joining us is the research director at the institute if the steady of war and former united states army intelligence officer who is an expert on isis. jessica, we have talked about this before. explain how the structure of isis has almost a corporate structure. >> yes, we were able to tell early this summer when isis released the second annual report that they do have the ability document the attacks that are conducted by all of the local military organizations throughout the area as desicked by this map in the isis controlled areas designated in red and controlling that campaign requires such a bureaucracy and being able to affect the campaigns in iraq and syria in a way indicates they have the kind of bureaucracy available. >> for a terror group it is very sophisticated in the use of videos and social media primarily to try to recruit new fighters. >> i would say one of the mother developed organizations in isis is the public relations arm. they have been able to leverage social media and to be able to build a campaign of print media in many languages especially in english which means

they're not even in the class of the united states army in this sense. the u.s. rmy hardly even knows what a horse is anymore by 1944. every vehicles of every tight and description but jeeps and trucks and recovery vehicles and aircraft and all of it is designed for mobile slashing, transportation oriented mechanized maneuver warfare, ground and air so what you have is a fast-hitting fast-moving for force, this is flip side of the air force. the heavy bombers had been asked in operation cobra to do something that was not in their skill set. to bomb a precision target in front of friendly troops. now you're talking about immediate yup bombers a are more accurate, that can fly lower ahead of grown formations to act as eyes and ears and give them close support and this is precisely what happens. if you're a german column moving on the roads of normandy you will be in trouble and you have nice bodyguards in the sigh above you if you're a ground commander at that point. so throughout the early days of august, 1944, the german position gets worse and worse as you see on

the united states army still hasn't figured it out, they're calling ft. hood a workplace violence. that was radical islam, and until we as a nation understand that this is who we are fighting and we're caught in the middle between a fight between moderate islam and radical islam. let's let them defeat it, we will help them, let's not do the primary driving. no matter what we do, they're going to come after us, if we let isis expand and own the arabian peninsula, they're going to be a far more formidable threat and they will be here, and they'll be here maybe this 9/11, i don't know, but we better be much better prepared than we were for benghazi because of the political narrative, there was an election, osama bin laden was dead, gm was alive. that's the wrong narrative. >> got it. tom mcinerney, good to see you tonight. >> thanks, megan. >>> we have confirmed this evening that an american was just killed inside of syria, while fighting side by side with the terrorists. the guy grew up in minnesota. he loved to play basketball. what is he doing over in syria trying to kill americans

judge advocate general school and a studies degree from the united states -- a master of strategic studies degree from the united states army war college. he has had an extraordinary career within judge advocate general's corps and has been deployed in a variety of operational and staff positions, some of them among the most important in our recent history. these include the deployment to the first special forces operational detachment, his deployment to the joint special operations command, united states special operations command, and the united states central command. in 2001 and 2002, he was deployed as a special legal adviser to the joint operations task force for operation enduring freedom in afghanistan. he served as the head of the judge advocate general center law school in charlottesville. and now he has taken the extraordinarily important position as the judge advocate general of the united states, a position that carries with it the rank of lieutenant general. there is no one better qualified that i can imagine to help us understand how the ever evolving conceptions of equality in matters such as race, gender, a

it was led by former secretary of defense william perry and united states army john abizaid. basically they had to look at the military spending of the last several years, the obama administration's four-year defense strategy. they sate lacks funding needed for fulfilling the responsibilities, and then it says the gap is disturbing if not dangerous in light of the fact that global threats and challenges are rising. it's a very interesting report that if you're a serious policy person, i think you could take a look at that, and in washington hopefully there are some cooler heads that could prevail and come together and say, facing all of these global threats we've all just talked about, what is the position that we should take in the next budget cycle in order to try to right the ship that we up and did? >> get ahead of it instead of coming from behind. great idea. >>> next, the president vowed again to act alone to resolve the crisis at the border and of course he spent a great deal of time mocking republicans at the podium. the update coming up on "the five." >>> president o

and systems management a vitally important job, one that involving buying equipment for the united states army is the first general to be killed in the line of duty since a three-star general was felled in the pentagon attacks in 9/11 back in 20012. this attack happened monday night just west of kabul at afghanistan's military equivalent of west point. it is called the marshall fahim national defense university. he just touched down for a site visit when an afghan national army soldier armed with an automatic weapon opened fire on a cluster of people who were listening to a briefing. security guards heard the gunfire. they shot the assailant dead at that point in time. insider attacks in afghanistan have been on the decline, though, from a high of 44 in the year 2012 down to about 3. if you include today's attack in the year 2014, the pentagon is stressing that this massacre will not affect their drawdown strategy and maintained the afghan security forces are growing stronger by the day and most military operations, most combat operations and will eventually run all military operations by the

one of the things they're going to start doing is welding prongs on to the front of the united states army tanks in order to punch holes through the hedgerows. y you' you' you'll often hear claim that is are debatable. the tanks are vulnerable on their own. if you send a tank through, punch through the hedgerow, there's a very grood possibility that there will be a german crouching in a ditch with what's called a panzer tlous. he can bass icalically punch a in your armor. infantry must be right in front of those tanks. they'll figure there must be german ins the ditches or maybe in the field, if they're dumb. but maybe, you know, close buy. they will saturate the area with white phosphorous shells. white phosphorous is a nasty weapon. basically, designed to burned through all the way to the bone. no german wants to have little bits of white phosphorous come down on him, catches his uniform on fire and burns through his skin. so saturate them. shoot people. kill people, what are it may be. >> else specially because the germans don't have enough manpower or fire pow eer to really hold off th

the jefferson booty that had been developed in the united states army in the 1850s. the southern style shoe had to be produced a little more simply. after our presentations today, if you want to come and handle these and look at them a little more closely, you'll be able to -- i'll have them out in the lobby there. but they also had to use some expedient methods. in the south, with plenty of cotton, why not substitute cotton cloth for some parts of leather items. and so shoes that are partly leather, and partly canvas, is a part leather, part canvas shoe as good as an all leather one? no. but will it put a shoe on a soldier's foot for a time? in the summer of 1863, you would have seen thousands of army of tennessee soldiers wearing these part leather, part canvas shoes. accoutrements were done often the same way. instead of a set of infantry accoutrements, made almost entirely out of leather, why not make a combination of leather and painted canvas. it is part leather, part painted canvas set of accoutrements as good as an all leather set? no. but it will work for a

developed in europe and whos concept was then brought back to the united states and refined somewhat and adopted by the united states army in 1857. you'll notice most specifically' that on the model 1857 12-pound napoleon, there at the muzzle, the muzzle is flared. that is purely decorative, to r make it rather attractive.el but if you look at the profile of the confederate manufactured 12-pound napoleon, you'll notice that the muzzle is sands that e, flare. to not have that flare on the muzzle reduced the amount of haa machining that was necessary, and if you are short materiel, how many pounds of bronze is in that flare? and if you save that amount of e bronze for each tube, how soon might you have enough bronze tot cast another 12-pound napoleon? so there's a little bit of savings in material there as well. in this central georgia military industrial complex, the production of these weapons will begin in the spring of 1863. and at augusta, which produces w as many as 115 of these 12-pounp napoleons by the end of the waro they had produced at least 57 by the end of 1863. and at least 77 were in the field by may of 1864

and representative david mckinley writes, the united states army major general was killed today by an afghan soldier. he directs his followers to read more about the attack app "the new york times." today's pentagon briefing coming up at 12:30 eastern. that'll be on c-span. in the nation's capital, african heads of state are in washington for a three-day summit held by the obama administration. today focusing on business as groups hear from the heads of ibm, coca-cola, and walmart. s susan rice speaking now. they will hear later from secretary of state kerry, the vice president joe biden, and president obama. all of that live today at 1:45 eastern. our coverage is now live and will resume live later at 1:45 over on c-span. >>> while congress is in recess this month, c-span's primetime programming continues at 8:00 p.m. eastern tonight with the western conservative summit in denver. saturday, robert gates, condoleezza rice, and madeline albright on the situation in ukraine. and sunday on q&a, ronald reagan biographer edmond morris. >>> the senate finance committee recently held a heari

the pentagon now reports an afghan soldier killed a united states army general officer. the highest ranking american to die in action since vietnam. the shooter also wounded as man sass other soldiers, have of them american. the military reports happen at a training bass, camp qargha. this is kabul. a sprawling city with one major east-west highway, and that is where this base is. you can see it here right at this intersection, and the base is right here. very secure, they tell us. pentagon officials say the gunman ambushed the soldiers as they made a routine base visit. the white house says the military briefed president obama and offered condolences to the victims. and sacrifice our men and women in uniform make every day for this country. the thoughts and prayers of those of us here at the white house are with the family of the general, are with the soldiers and the family of those who were injured. >> defense officials say it looks like an insider attack. in other words, an afghan soldier turned his gun on his american international partners. u.s. troops have been wo

eventually be the commander in corkorea and this james gavin, the youngest major general in the united states armyce the civil war. command the 82nd airborne division. he's a large player in sicily, southern italy and particularly in normandy. and this is general jowan. he's the best of the bunch, french commander. again born to lead other men in the dark of night and so himself to be particularly adept tactically in italy. there are others whose reputations are probably inflat inflated. now, this is general omar bradley who is a pretty good core commander and pretty good core commander in sicily and then he's over he is head in normandy. when he's promoted two grades above where he has been comfortable, he becomes an army group commander in normandy in the summer of 1944 and overmatched in my opinion. he's talking incidentally to terry allen who commands the first infantry division in sicily and will be relieved of command by bradley. and this strun iing one, pattons the senior american commander in sicily. patton is a special case. he looms very large in the campaign as the commander of the seve

what's the charge me more than anything else was the united states army. we were right on the east-west german border in the center. that's right where we were and we saw people literally enslaved and it dawned on me that we saw several people shot that tried to get across the border that we could do nothing until it got across and several of them were killed. and i realized i grew up in a free country and in a wealthy family. and i was given all this. and i said i missed my shot at college and yes i graduated etc., but i certainly could have done a lot better. and the only reason i'm not over there and i'm over here is because i was born in america and i never forgot that. [applause] what did you learn from reading the book lacks [laughter] >> i learned a lot of things about my ancestors i didn't kn know. they said what do you think about what your ancestors did? obviously you were not going to condone it. they had to do something to entertain themselves. [laughter] >> what stories have you heard since the book was published that you wish you could have i

entertainment before they get up and i'm not going to talk to you so much as doctor as retired united states army special forces where i spent about 28 years of my life. looking at what we're doing in iraq right now to try and combat isis, first kudos to the president he's doing something, that we are taking some action, the humanitarian effort to help relieve the refugees on the mountain was the right thing to do as were the air strikes that have occurred. but to be honest with you, i don't think it's enough. i'm not advocating we suddenly redeploy marine divisions to iraq. i don't think we need to do that and i don't think there is any appetite for it. however there is middle ground between those two positions and what i would like to advocate is taking an action that i would call sort of a combination of gulf war one and the beginning of the afghan campaign where we leverage allies in the region, both the curds, the iraqi military, some of the various militias and hopefully folks from other countries, jordan, turkey, maybe saudi arabia. not thrilled about iran getting involved in it. then embe

the youngest major-general in the united states army since the civil war.will command the 82nd airborne division and he is a large player in sicily, southern italy, and normandy. the general who is the best of the bunch. he is a french commander. he is born to lead other men in the dark of night and he will show himself to be adept tactically in italy. and then there are others whose reputations are probably inflated. [laughter] is general omar bradley. he is a pretty good core commander in tunisia and in sicily and he is over his head and normandy when he has rades over where he was comfortable. he is overmatched, in my opinion. he is talking to carry outland terry allen.-- this strutting cock is george patton. case.rse, he is a special he looms very large in the sicily campaign. of course, he disgraces himself by slapping two soldiers on two consecutive sundays in august 1943, soldiers he claims are both cowards. he is disqualified from further command in the mediterranean. he will spend the entire italian campaign in purgatory until he is rehabilitated s

clements heard as an officer in the united states army for nine years ago delighted that he could join us today and we ask them to proceed with his testimony. >> good afternoon, chairman whitehouse, i am pleased to be here today with you to discuss the fbi's efforts to combat economic espionage and theft of trade secrets. the fbi considers the investigation of theft and trade secrets and economic espionage a top party. in 2012 alone, the national intelligence executive estimate a range of loss to the us economy approaching $400 billion. to foreign adversaries and competitors who, by a legally obtaining a broad range of trade secrets, degraded our nation's advantage in innovative research and develop an in the global market. this loss threatens the security of our economy and preventing such laws requires constant vigilance and aggressive mitigation. the fbi is diligent in working to investigate and apprehend targets pursuing economic espionage against us-based businesses, academic institutions, clear defense contractors and government agencies. it has made significant progress in putti

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