today our subject is the seven years war or the french and indian war. as the two names tell us, this war at least a duel meaning, a multifacetted meaning because it was a conflict fought in various areas of the globe. it was a conflict that began in 1754 in north america. through that beginning of the war in north america, france and britain came to be at war with each other and formally in europe, france and britain went to war against each other in 1756. by that time, as you'll see, their colonies in north america and their forces in north america were already joined in conflict. to understand the french and indian wars it's traditionally called american u.s. history and also the seven years war. one has to put it in the a very broad perspective of north american history and even european history, of course. looking beyond europe and france and britain in various corners of the globe. the war would be fought in north america where it began. it was joined in europe on large scale and involved nations such as russia, austria, prussia, as well as france

what if america hadn't gone to war against the nazies in world war ii?e talk about government exceeding the constitutional limits and defense is something that government is supposed to do right here in the constitution. government is doing all kinds of things it shouldn't be doing and defense is not one of those things. still ron paul argues that our government went way beyond defense and attempts at build acts of violence that create new evidence and for saying that ron paul is vilified by other republicans. rick santorum said what people don't like about ron paul is the craziness was cutting our military in half and pulling our troops in from all over the world. newt gingrich said he is wrong on national security. foreign policy is disastrous. and david henderson said ron paul is right. he is an economist in the nailal post graduate school. why is ron paul wrong. >> the devil is in the details. ron paul scrapes everything off of the top and said no more this and that. and he's blames us for 9-11 and capturing bin laden instead of killing him. we are i

entry into world war ii. this is about an hour. >> good afternoon and welcome to the cato institute in exile. we're glad to have you folks here and we're very proud to say that in about two months the construction on our building will be complete and we'll be back in the fay hayek auditorium but for now we're glad to be undercroft auditorium to discuss this book "fdr goes to war." a long time ago, i went to mayfield high school in mayfield, kentucky, and in my senior year i was the coeditor of the high school newspaper, the cardinal, and i think the features editor that year was my classmate anita prince, and she has gone on to bigger things. she got married for one thing to burt folsom. she got two degrees. she worked for president reagan and she was the president-elector and most recently she has directed hillsdale college's free market forum for five years. her co-author and husband is burton folsom, jr., who holds a ph.d. from the university of pittsburgh. i actually visited pitt for the first time last f

the war of 1812 matters because it's the war that forged the nation. thank you. [applause] i would be glad to take your questions. since we have c-span here tonight, just wait for the microphones to come around. we'll be glad to answer a few questions. yes, sir n the back? [inaudible] >> that's a good question. that particular monument you refer to is between the niagara falls and the niagara river flows tout lake ontario. i think the question of how it affected canada -- at the beginning of the war, there were many people in the united states who were sure that all we had to do was march american troops on to canadian soil and the canadians would agree as liberators and say, oh, thank goodness, you threw off the yolk of the british crown and revolution and by golly, we'll join you and do it now. that was not the case. both at detroit and niagara and queenston heights, the canadian as well as the regulators that were there, the militia, fought furiously and had no intention of becoming part of the united states. now, from the american perspective, even years late

the cold war, the iraq war, and the current war in afghanistan. do you see traces of "on war"? can you see traces of "on war" in those wars speak as well, more in the breach than in the observance of "on war." again, i recall in 2003 vice president cheney said as justification for the invasion of iraq that everyone knows that the offense is a stronger form of war. and, in fact, everyone might know this, but that category would include carl van clausewitz who argue quite the opposite. for reasons i think that are applicable to that particular case, and other cases. i think, clausewitz is convinced that time works for the offender and not the attacker. and that a strategy of attrition on the part of the defender will ultimately cause an attacker to modify his political objections. and this is of course a perfectly consistent with clausewitz strategic perspective because it's only -- his own country, prussia, had france as a next-door neighbor. if there was going to be any hope for prussian national survival, particularly after 18 to six when it had been completely smashed by fren

the president who conducted the war. pearl harbor and the dramatic attack and a turning point* militarily for the united states in many ways. the generals eisenhower and patent and marshal all conducting enterprises that were essentials two victory. the atomic bomb itself in here you have to give roosevelt credit for thinking ahead for what might make up a little difference in the war. then you have the end finally of the great depression which dominated the thinking of generation of america coming to an end for the end of world war ii. we work with those elements in the book fdr goes to war. i would like it needed to start by commenting on some of those features of world war ii of franklin roosevelt >> it is the pleasure to be here today with david and kato institute. but yes, in our goal in retained this book was to make it larger than the economics although that is important but to give everybody a book that in 300 pages or so you could -- could get an overview of world war ii whether young person trying to learn, a s

what if america hadn't gone to war against the nazies in world war ii?e talk about government exceeding the constitutional limits and defense is something that government is supposed to do right here in the constitution. government is doing all kinds of things it shouldn't be doing and defense is not one of those things. still ron paul argues that our government went way beyond defense and attempts at build acts of violence that create new evidence and for saying that ron paul is vilified by other republicans. rick santorum said what people don't like about ron paul is the craziness was cutting our military in half and pulling our troops in from all over the world. newt gingrich said he is wrong on national security. foreign policy is disastrous. and david henderson said ron paul is right. he is an economist in the nailal post graduate school. why is ron paul wrong. >> the devil is in the details. ron paul scrapes everything off of the top and said no more this and that. and he's blames us for 9-11 and capturing bin laden instead of killing him. we are i

war. this is about 1:20. >>> well, welcome to our class on colonial history at the university of texas at arlington. today our subject is the seven years war or the french and indian war. and as the two names tell us, this war has at least a dual meaning, really multi-facetted meaning because it was a conflict fought in various areas of the globe. it was a conflict that began in 1754 in and through that beginning of the war in north america france and britain came to be at war with each other. and formally in europe france and britain went to war against each other in 1756. by that time, as we'll see, their colonies in north america and their forces in north america were already joined in conflict so to understand the french and indian war as it's traditionally called in american u.s. history and also the seven years war, one has to put it in a very broad perspective of north american history and even european history of course and looking beyond europe to the competition between empires,

you know a great statesman once said that only the dead have seen the end of the war or the end of war and it wasn't brock obama has said that or george w. bush that was plato two thousand years ago he was right then he's right now you know president obama can go around the world saying the tide of war is receding but kim jong korea didn't get that message the mullahs who run iran didn't get that message the chinese government unelected unaccountable didn't get that government all of those governments plus pakistan are expanding their nuclear arsenal so for president obama to watch i mean it's just it's just totally naive and it doesn't do anything to help american security doesn't help those around the world who want a civilized order and want to live their lives in peace it just is a big green light to unaccountable unelected governments that are acting in blue different ways and only going to do more so. their economy has declined to ok all right matthew and i to ask you i think playing the number. of those countries mentioned are in many ways threatening the security of the united

most think a war makes them great. he came after the war, but he had something that was the moral equivalent of war -- reinstruction, afterwards to figure out what was going to happen to former african-americans freed by the civil war, and were down in the south in a place where people had looked upon them as their property or their property to be at some point in the future, a great amount of hostility unleashed after the war in the south against the freedmen, and andrew johnson from the time of his youth had deep, deep hostility towards african-americans, and you think about the story i tell in the book of what it meant to have a person so personally hostile to african-americans was not something unusual. it was the currency of the time, but he, in particular, had great amounts of animosity towards african-americans, and yet, he was in charge of figuring how how they would be brought into citizenship. he had come into office, as i said, as a loyalist to the union. once he's president, it's like he reverts to the sout

concerns me in addition about obama's latest doctrine is the start of a new cold war a new cold war against china the document says that the united states needs to reorient itself toward asia in the pacific and cites china's economy and china's military is a looming threat to the united states what this is going to do is launch a nuclear arms race between the united states and china and already the chinese have responded to the provocation by saying this is warmongering and do we really want to get into another nuclear arms race after having just been lucky to survive the first one christian if i can go to you some critics of obama's new plan say that what we have right now is just a reordering of the military to the to asia though a basis will remain in europe for some reason twenty years after the end of the cold war but that may be a different question but nonetheless it's really at how ad hoc is and this is not a new plan this is just rearranging the pieces on the board. it is it is barely even that you know again there's this duplicity and what president obama says so he says w

what you find in wars and especially in world war ii. world war ii, some people scaled heights of courage and in their ability and others plum beed depth of evil in a way that commands the aura of posterity and certainly commands the aura of myself. >> and tell me about, tell me about your day. people are always fascinated by how writers get through the day. and you're doing newspapers still. you've got books. >> usually start, i take my dogs for a walk at about, in the summer at 6:00 in the morning. and whenever it is light in the winter. and, then i sit down at the screen. you just start writing. and i think one, people have different techniques. for example, roy jenkins, british historian, who is a close friend of mind, roy would write maybe 500 words a day. then when he was written them reluctant to change them. i work completely differently. i write awful lot of word and change them and change them so that i might write in the space of a morning 6,000 word with a book like that. but very few of those 6,000 words will emerge in the f

of words could translate to an all out war. the cold run of tension between iran and the west is simmering. seems the slightest thing chris of heat could make it boil over into an all out confrontation. where we'll be that boiling point the point of no return we're getting closer and closer to war with iran the iranians are playing with fire problems in a crisis if you get where any small thing can really set it off and it doesn't quote washington that the international nuclear watchdog these i'm sorry closely monitoring iran's nuclear activities are they trying to develop a nuclear weapon no but we know that they're trying to develop a nuclear capability and that's what concerns us and our red line to iran is do not develop a nuclear weapon iran's main source of livelihood its oil exports is in danger the u.s. is imposing fresh sanctions that will dramatically complicate transactions that you grand central bank iran is also close to losing europe as a customer the reason that this is happening is that this is the logical concl

or to get us into the war and then lose the war. quite frankly, you mentioned, david breckenridge long as -- but roosevelt actually a couple of times, roosevelt was -- many people in the administration were deeply afraid of the fact that they were worried that we did have thousands if not hundreds of thousands of what they called fifth colonists back then. and he in fact -- roosevelt i believe at one point did raise the possibility that refugees coming into the country, that they -- there might be fifth colonists sprinkled and smattered among them. >> yeah, maybe i misspoke. long said we had to stop any kind of effort of bringing in the refugees because they might contain fifth colonists. >> in terms of yet another connection to duchess county, he mention henry morganthal. he had a son who was the legendary son who lived in dutchess county. >> i was going to ask about morganthal, but you answered that. mr. parrish, wasn't marshall supposed to be head of the supreme command in europe and it was a problem and how did eisenhower get th

after eighteen days of war u.s. forces into baghdad without encountering any particular resistance more than one hundred journalists and media workers covering the war from the iraqi capital are staying at palestine hotel. but the world had the feeling that the day would be an important day a critical day for the war in iraq. the marines and the u.s. army were so close to the hotel we could almost see their eyes still so hoarse. a medium i hear there on the local time i went out on the balcony and it was a very calm on and on and on shots were being had from a long distance away and that's why i was on that balcony because i realized i wasn't in any danger by being there on that balcony looking over the city at. an alj meridia bridge just four hundred meters away from the hotel two american tanks a taken back a position since the. sergeant sean gibson scans with his binoculars the floors of the hotel. he focuses on the fifteenth floor always spot someone moving. brought to a reuters cameraman is filming from his roo

entry into world war ii.we're glad to have you folks here, and we're or very proud to say that in about two months the construction on our building will be complete, and we'll be back in the hayek auditorium. but for now we're glad to be here at the undercrofte. auditorium to discuss this book, "fdr goes to war."nder a long time ago i went to mayfield high school in mayfield, kentucky, and in my senior year i was the co-editor of the high school newspaper, "the cardinal." newspaper, the cardinal. i think the the features editor that year was my classmates any dab france to has gone on to bigger things and she got married to burton folsom and to history degrees, worked for president reagan and senator mitch mcconnell and kentucky. presidential the left door and most recently, has directed hillsdale college free market forum last five years. who are at -- per co-author and has been is a burton folsom, jr. ph.d. from pittsburg and i actually visited there for the first time last fall and saw something that i had

is one of the photo journalists that war interested in this side of the war. that proved difficult to find quality images to include in the book. i did find lots and lots of not so quality images that were taken by these very soldiers themselves who had very little facility with the cameras they were using. so lots of blurry shots and darken interiors. the professional journalists were charged with getting a story to sell papers so the war they focused on was the killing and dying warm ask the images are powerful and beautiful from he shooting war. i have a few photos in the book that are famous. but there was another photographer i talk about. who was actually a soldier journalist. they took photographs that captured this other side of the war and it really undermind the impression that the war was of great urgency for most americans who were fighting it. >> host: when did you get interested in the vietnam war? >> guest: very, very early in my life. >> host: why? >> guest: i did my first research report in seven agreed on vietnam. and and the reason was i am

or the post cold war military meaning they are moving away from ground wars told words and air wars toward the intelligence war so to speak the u.s. has pull troops out of iraq but feel less thousands of contractors behind president obama said it was drawled aid for u.s. forces in afghanistan which is due in twenty fourteen but winding down the decade of being conclusive wars in iraq and afghanistan will. necessarily mean less wars but rather wars of a different shape the u.s. is already fighting this new kind of warfare on multiple fronts in different countries with the use of air force with the use of drones levy is one example the whole country was destroyed mainly from air pakistan is another example not not a successful one though people in pakistan are infuriated by u.s. strikes which end up killing many civilians and as it happened recently their own pakistani soldiers over washington said the strike was a tragic mistake the u.s. will have to do a lot of damage control work to help the pakistani leadership overcome the humiliation so although the u.s. administration looks at

was not at war yet. the economy was finally bouncing back after the great depression, and companies were intent, not surprisingly, on making as much in profits as they could. there was also still a lot of isolationism in america at that point, and a fair amount of anti-british feeling. many in washington had already written britain off. the president was not one of those naysayers. he very much wanted to save england, but he was also very cautious. he didn't want to go to war if he could do anything at all to prevent that from happening. i should also point out that at this time roosevelt and churchill were highly skeptical, even suspicious, of each other. that famous friendship that developed between them later in the war was no where on the horizon then. it's conventional wisdom that the success of the anglo-american alliance was in large part due to the close collaboration of those two. and, of course, it was vitally important. but equally important was the work of many others. prominently including w

french and indian war occur or the seven years war in north america. the british, of course, will call this the french and indian war. the name as we'll see in today's lecture can be a little misleading because not all indian peoples by any means sided with the french. indian peoples shifted in loyalty. some were more neutral at the beginning of the conflict. others joined the french. others had a wait and see attitude. some would change sides during the war. so native peoples belonged to particular groups. we have to think of them as iroquois and even within the iroquois of the various nations within that native confederacy. let's say the mohawks as compared to the senecas, and, of course, you have to do the same with the other native groups, shawnees, delawares, potawatomies, miamis, many, many others, and we'll talk about some of those today. so the name french and indian war can be used to indicate the seven years war north america, but it's very important to remember that it doesn't really mean that all the natives by any means are simply on the f

will lose the war before we will win it, and the great lesson of world war i is that we won the war, but we lost the peace. so she embraces the four freedoms with a life and risking fervor. there are assassination attempts on eleanor roosevelt's life during the home front in the second world war. i do not make threats. i do not need hate mail and this is the time when she will be assembling the largest fbi file in american history, and a symbol of j. edgar hoover who hated her, who wanted to strip her of her citizenship who sent her to go live with her people in liberia. so, eleanor, in many ways, and eleanor speaks her mind in the way general marshall speaks her mind and also like general marshall. there are times when she will -- there's no other word for it, just shut up. and nowhere is this more clear than in the issue of internment. now my great friend doug robinson and i have spent collectively 20 years trying to find every scrap of paper in the history of the universe and eleanor roosevelt and internment. we have talked to people who were in internment camps because we had tal

the war room is next with governor jennifer granholm. >> welcome to the war room. this is current tv's campaign headquarters from the 2012 election. this show is name after after the great documentary called "the war room." it was filmed inside the clinton campaign headquarters. this war room is a tribute to the wars being waged in campaigns across the country. my name is jennifer granholm. i'm the former governor of michigan. i've been in lots of my own war rooms over the last 14 years as governor and attorney general. i ran the state with the toughest economy in the nation during the last decade. i've been there on the ground when people have lost their jobs their homes their loved ones in wars overseas. i'm the best with how we can create jobs in america. i'm obsessed with the role of government in building a better country and educated citizenry and i'm obsessed with democracy. i am a political junkie. and this show is my fix. i hope it will be yours too. come on inside. [music] >> so here in the war room our goal is to bring you behind the scenes with access t

as a statement against rape as a tool of war. why this movie, and why now? >> well, i didn't -- i didn't intend on becoming a director, i didn't want to direct a movie. i just, uh, spent ten years traveling around the world in conflict and post-conflict zones and i was moved by the situations and the people i met. and i felt compelled to, and frustrated by lack of intervention and violence against women. and i kind of wanted to do something. so i kind of sat and i decided to write in script form as an exercise and i chose bosnia because it was my generation. i was seventeen and i realized how little i knew and that i traveled to europe during that time and i was so close. and i knew nothing, um, but just a few generalizations and o felt the responsibility to educate myself and then, and then from that it just kind of kept evolving and suddenly there was a script and then suddenly there was a cast, and suddenly here we are. >> you said you never intended to direct but in a sense could you see this as a breakout movie for yourself

for the war. so madison was taking a politically divided country into war, and you know how dangerous that can be. but it was much worse than that. the navy, the american navy i have in 1812 had 20 ships. six of them were laid up being repaired in june of 1812, so we were down to maybe 14 ships. the british had a thousand ships, and 6-700 of those were in the water active at any one time, and the rest of them were being repaired or being built in their shipyards. so our navy was practically nonexistent. in addition, our army was also in very bad shape, very small, had very old leaders and was less than 10,000 at that time. and, of course, the british were -- army was much, much bigger. why did madison think that he could win the war against england? what have his strategy? what was his strategy? well, he had a strategy, was not a stupid man, as you know. this was his strategy. in 1812 there were three prongs to the strategy, i should say. in 1812 napoleon invaded russia. and the fact that napoleon

is ready to go to war with iran well going to war with iran is a very challenging to be perfectly blunt i mean if the united states is twelve feet tall iran in comparative terms is maybe six inches high it's a non entity militarily it can't project military power beyond its borders the fear of iran closing the straits of hormuz is much exaggerated the iranians would suffer terribly from that remember that about eighty three percent of china's oil comes from the middle east it has to pass through the strait of hormuz and through the strait of malacca and reach china the japanese the koreans are equally dependent upon it no one no one profits from the closure iran has revenues would tank it's already going to suffer as a result of sanctions nothing would improve we would not benefit so the frankly speaking this tension is artificial it doesn't have to happen it doesn't need to exist the iranians would do themselves an enormous favor by saying. unless. we would do ourselves a favor by ignoring most of it because quite frankly it's not important they're not going to do it we don't need to e

what about before the war and after the war? >> there was no al qaeda prior to 2003. we created al qaeda in iraq. we didn't conditions out of our invasion did. that happened. we can't change that. there were sporadic strategically insignificant contacts with a few al qaeda personalities that did not amount to much but who was ruling al qaeda? it was being run by ivan of our colleague --ayman al zarqawi. he took charge of the key battle, moved into the area and attempted to wipe out the awakening. very unusual strategy which was light infantry. foot soldiers. dozens of foot soldiers launching a boots on the ground attack pivotal to the awakening. they came within a hair of doing it. the calculus might have been shuffled differently and all comes down to a moment when travis patriquin is looking at the jumbo screen at the fight is getting wiped out. our forces can't figure out who is who. there are aircraft overhead trying to kill the terrorists and patriquin says in arabic take off your shirts and wave them in the air. take anything you got. handkerchiefs, pants and sh

and again all war is an atrocity i don't care if it's if it's a drone war it is inevitable that one day we will see a video of drone pilots laughing about the murders they are committing david swanson author and campaigner roots action dot org thank you for being with us here and i'll take thank you. the world's most controversial prisoners turn ten years old the anniversary of guantanamo bay was met with protests around the world with fresh calls and obama to keep his election promise and shut it down but today that's a fading fantasy off to washington and not to the new nor among the military to indefinitely detain anyone it deems hostile ati's or smith as this report. one zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero one zero zero zero abdel moneim am absolutely today is probably just another day for the inmates of guantanamo bay they may not even know that people around the world are campaigning for them but as far afield as london demonstrations are held to demand the release of the hundred seventy one men still held without trial in the cuban camp after ten years one of those men is

now, back to war stories". for your latest headlines log on fox news.com. >> welcome to war stories. i'm oliver north. this is tuskegee, alabama. today it's a small airport. and more prepare to join the fight. this is part of a military experiment. in july, 1941. the small group of americans all of them volunteers gathered on this very ground. their goal? build a special fighter unit for u.s. army air corps. but it wasn't planes they flew or weapons they employed but the color of their skin. the 1940s, our military, like our country was segregated. many believed black men couldn't fly combat aircraft. they were asked to prove them wrong and they did. by war's end, tuskegee trained over a thousand black aviators and many thousands mechanics and technicians. the crew was 16,000 combat missions. and never lost a bomber to an enemy fighter, tonight on war stories, for red tail, the saga of the tuskegee airmen. >> i wasn't -- i never felt i couldn't do it. flying was something i really wanted to do. >> but before th

there were some french canadians assisting the french war here. it's apparent war is in full tilt. let's move to another important theater of the war. remember, acadia called nova scotia, province of can da. it's in the maritime zone of the atlantic. also, there was a good native population in acadia mainly of the mick macks and another group as well. the point was the situation was very tricky at the beginning of the war, very uncertain and fought with complex. maybe question go to an overall map of north america to come back and explain this point. in 1713, after the british conquered and relied on troops to take hold of acadia. in 1713, after war between britain and france. france surrendered acadia to the british. the british will remain that problem, nova scotia. the french were still in the region. first of all, most of the colonies, the great, great majority in acadia were french. second of all, the french retained according to the peace treaty, this island. it's hard to see it's an island on the map. there's a narrow channel between it and the rest of the nova scotia or aca