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-faceted meaning because it was a conflict fought in various areas of the globe. it was a conflict that began in 1754 in north america 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, especially 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 a large scale and invol

drums for war louder and the calls for peace. what's happening in syria is heartbreaking and rages and what you've seen is the international community mobilize against the assad regime and u.s. lawmakers are ready for action in syria but considering our history of one failed intervention after another at least really be diving face first into another conflict where strikes against so the forces are worn turn. begins america we develop these air defenses noticing a pattern here one hundred eighty three armed conflicts and two hundred thirty six years and counting that's an ominous reputation that has many wondering if america is addicted to war. it's thursday march eighth a.p.m. here in washington d.c. i was wrong you're watching artsy. oh a shot at diplomacy iran has agreed to take part in nuclear talks the country willing to engage in face to face negotiations after facing intense pressure from israel and the last to abandon their nuclear program this comes as the drums of war are beating getting louder as israel threatens to us

war. seems odd. for another example, the biggest single military victory was the battle of new orleans which was fought after the war was over. after the treaty of peace was signed. of course, this was an era without cell phones and without instant e-mail headlines. so in order to get the news from belgium where the treaty was signed to the united states, a messenger had to climb on a boat, sailed to england, climb on another boat, sail to newer, climb in a carriage, take that and another church and another carriage after that all the way to washington, d.c. that took approximately seven weeks, during which time the british attacked andrew jackson and his men at new orleans, and old hickory just plain demolished the british force that barge to new orleans, a couple thousand british soldiers were killed. so it's in some sense hardly a surprise when people don't passionate the sequence of events along with it is just too damn confusing. by the way, the treaty that ended the war, it resolved

the magazine covers the run-up to the civil war, the war itself and the after war period. some of the writers feature great, mark twain, nathanial hawthor hawthorne, ralph weigh dough emerson. joining us is the editor, james and editor scott. thank you for joining us. before we delve into the issue iftsd, the co-member rative issue, let's talk about the atlantic. "the atlantic" has a great history. how does abolition and the abolitionist movement play into the founding of the magazine. >> we had a wonderful time putting this issue together because we love these pieces and gave us an opportunity to connect with the founding of the magazine. started in 1857 in boston. the magazine was basically created by a group of writers who came together with two fundamental purposes. one was to capture what they saw as an emerging american voice in letters. the other, including their own voices, and was to abolish slavery. they were very committed to abolitionists. in 1857 this is a very radical idea still. they were interested in promoting the founding of the magazine what they called

american b-17s helped carry the war to the german backyard. decision to invade sicily also was reached. and in july of 1943, americans and british jumped off from africa on thliane el mainland. a strong partisan for the women's army corps as important to our mobilization, the chief in washington the day colonel ovita coltnew coand commander. by the time the allied leaders convened at cairo in december 1943, the italian campaign was well under way and the war against the japanese demanded pe the future of the chinburm the problem of harnessing china's manpower had to be resolved. in tehran, marshall took part in planning joint strategy with the russians. soviet demands for an expanded second front were addressed to the united states. answered. when the chief of staff visited gaining speed.eatre on his island by island, we were moving in on japan. at good enough island in 1944 marshall listened to a firsthand report on the successful islands and the planned invasions of the marshalls. marshall conferred with general douglas macarthur, theater co

calls go to war. it was not a seemingly easy solution in negotiating terms. clearly not his idea but he decided it was a necessity to dictate the documents to deliver to congress and subsequent ratified has said declaration of war. does that answer a question? any more questions? >> to what extent do you think phi have been napoleon in europe but the same time? >> interest dain question. at the beginning of the war that was a major issue. within in april 1814, and then it came to -- after with the duke of wellington derived and marched on washington that turned back but it is hard to separate the causes of four and the events of four because one of the principal reasons is the british were out of sailors of their own. they have almost been at war 20 years at this point* with the french. the simple answer is it is impossible to separate the french war from this war and to be integrated and a very complicated way. question? >> proposal interested in the naval aspect that they started to build the navy t

no wars, no monies. the organizing principle of any society, many garrison, is the war.ts people resides in its war powers. and kennedy canted to end -- wanted to call off the moon race in favor for cooperation with the soviets. he refused to invade cuba in 1962, and he set out to withdraw from vietnam. all of that ended on the 22nd of november,1953. [applause] >> [inaudible] >> it's quite an amazing scene, oliver. the question is, is it true? [laughter] i mean, i know it's a movie s and it's fiction, but it's based on facts, mostly, isn't it? >> yeah. a lot of these facts came there a kohl them in the air force, and he worked very closely, he was an officer, but he was a focal point officer with the cia, and he did a lot of black ops. he knew alan dulles. he would provide the hardware -- they didn't have the right to the hardware -- he would provide the hardware, the guns, the planes, the drops. he used to go to dulles' townhouse every couple of weeks, and, you know, he knew them all. in fact, he never -- he pointed his finger at alan dulles, but the older i got i do be

he famously writes a small book called "on guerrilla war." in 1938 he writes "on protracted war." this was basically his scheme or his outline for how the chinese communists could take control of china, how to defeat the nationalists and also defeat the japanese as well. and his model of these three stages here that we'll talk about here in just a moment, it becomes the model for a lot of other insurgencies, particularly communist insurgencies in other parts of the world. and it also becomes for good or ill, it becomes the way we often evaluate insurgencies to see how far they've developed. again, can you see that's good or not, you can argue that, but it becomes becomes a tool for t. so what was mao thinking about? what does he mean? first of all, he had what we would call phase one, the strategic defensive. sometimes it's called the organization or consolidation phase. and here during this phase, the communists being weak, they would act primarily on the defensive. they would build up the party organization. they would build the basic structures. they needed later on. they would

anti-war you're going to have war you know i think there's just as likely a possibility is that obama would somehow get involved militarily with iran as a republican president would at this point or a president romney at least this year might be slightly bigger chance for romney but democrats cannot impose their own anti interventionist feelings on their own party because there are so quick to say republicans are evil knuckle driving nazis and we have what we have i mean i think matt has a good point in terms of particularly young people don't see a big difference between the parties of foreign policy and in particular under obama have a get there as there hasn't been that big of a difference but i do think it's it is unlikely for there to be a war and the primaries there isn't because the parties have a different philosophy of it because i like the other countries the united states has gone to war with recently iran has a huge set of deterrents that would cause a lot of pain for the united states and its allies and i feel like this is a little bit more of a deterring effect for them

again and we have been able to win a war. since one thousand nine hundred five not because we are capable of it but because our leaders want a lot of the military to do what's necessary to win i want to get to about point i really want to get back to that what you said earlier about the economic threat because this is something that we are an economic show and this is something i've seen you i started to i've seen your prose with other anchors before on the mainstream news i just want to play a clip i know it's been played and hashed out but it's just such a good one and i feel it's relevant to the discussion so let's play and then i'm going get your commentary on it. to call the crap you guys is reading here we're going to have success at the economy and this mission in libya are two separate issues they're not separate issues here just carry no water for mr obama. so just for her separating the issues of the u.s. budget terry situation and any kind of military engagement it's obvious to me why you can't do that but i'm curi

war ii. he declared war on america eight days after pearl harbor. i don't believe america would have ever declared war on germany. and england was a very last sphere of a democratic nation on the earth in 1941 when pearl harbor was bombed. and america didn't get in the war with europe until they declared war on us. so the scope and the dynamics of the world today are entirely different than what was going on then. >> unfortunately we've reached the end of our time with our distinguished panel this morning. if you'd please again join me in thank our veterans for their service to this country. [ applause ]

beyond what is the condition of the arab spring are humanitarian interventions affected what about the war. good afternoon now welcome to capital and how time more and list are here in washington d.c. and these are your headlines for march twelfth two thousand and twelve does the u.s. imperial machine manufacture weapons in order to confront new threats or does it manufacture threats in order to sell new weapons to try to answer that question and more is the u.n. security council votes to extend its mission in libya and america's oldest active duty warship left yesterday on its last deployment to cover the area including iran and syria we will look at the economics of war and defense with former cia intelligence officer michael scheuer and as the u.s. budget deficit is released for february it close to two hundred thirty two billion dollars reportedly the highest ever recorded for a month how can anyone with half a brain at least separate america's growing indebtedness from a bloated military budget that takes up more than fifty percent of discretionary spending will look at the defense dr

the only difference is that the afghanistan war is a war that is still going on. yesterday in southern afghanistan a staff sergeant is said to have gone in the middle of the night from house-to-house, on his own, searching for and shooting civilians. he wounded five civilians, killed 16. 16 afghan civilians killed in their homes including three adult women, four adult men, and nine children. the killer then set fire to some of the bodies, and then walked back toward his u.s. base and surrendered himself, he's in custody and will face criminal charges. the shootings came two days after nato helicopters shot and killed four civilians in eastern afghanistan. more than 1000 afghans marched in the province in protest on saturday. last month, afghan workers at a nato base found partially burned qurans, they had been accidentally burned by u.s. forces. the discovery touched off days of rioting and reprisals that killed 40 people. of course in january of this year, there was the public surfacing of a video showing four marines urinating on the corpses of dead taliban figh

twelve the civil war world war one world war two and the question is how did the white eisenhower the republican president pay off all of this debt and create this incredible trough all the way down to the point where reagan came into office and with his tax cuts on the rich exploded the debt and clinton dropped the debt and then bush came in with his tax cuts on the rich and explode the debt again so how did eyes and how or do this after world war two there is simple he borrowed money and spent it he created a national highway system the equivalent of today building a high speed rail system across the country that created a boom for communities all across the nation and for in one manufacturers who want to get products to port for export which of course stimulate our economy and a down where it used to be their pay down the debt he created eisenhower nine hundred fifty three and department of health education and welfare welfare and made it a cabinet position to reduce the number of hungry and poorly educated americans and stimulate the economy to pay down our debt he pushed for and

foe, with the americans in the revolution in the war of 1812. but the purpose of those blockades was to blockade enemy warships to prevent those warships from getting to sea. the object of the union blockade against the confederacy was very different and far more ambitious. it was, in lincoln's words, to prevent the entrance and exit of all vessels. all vessels of any kind, from any port, or any river mouth, along 3,500 miles of hostile coastline. that was a ludicrously ambitious objective. and because of that -- lincoln's proclamation provoked ridicule in the south, skepticism in europe. after all, according to the international laws of war, a naval blockade was not legally binding on any neutral. unless the blockading power stationed a competent force. that's the important phrase there. a competent force off every harbor that was under blockade. you couldn't merely say that a coastline was under blockade. you had to station a squadron off every one of those 189 navigable harbors and river mouths. without that, merchant ships of any neutral pow

we don't want the war.a%i$ the vietnamese don't want the war. so why is the war?intend to cooperate with senator irving's committee? >> mr. president, mr. president! >> teeny-weeny -- >> we've got a position in. >> the point is, ladies and gentlemen, greed is good and you mark my words, will not only tall darth vader, but that other malfunctioning corporation. thank you very much. news not >> never forget on any given sunday. >> yes, the world is a terrible place. these knock -- news not ♪ >> say hello to my little friend. ♪ >> i guess i've always been sheltered and special. i just want to be honest like everybody else to do my share for my country. here i am the. guys nobody really cares about. >> not everybody becomes a united states marine. we want the best. we will accept nothing but the best. >> what i'm saying is i want to be treated like a human being. i am a vietnam veteran. i talked to my country. ♪ ♪ [applause] >> oliver fought for your generation, for our generation. the vietnam war was defining war. of that. and memories remain, even the younger genera

one of my colleagues back in newport, he talks about this being a war within a war within a war. it's an interesting perspective to think of. you have a multi-layer series of events and activities that are going on here and different ways of finding it. for the communists it's a revolutionary war. they want to expand communism. south vietnam is only the next stop on the road for that. guerrilla warfare is a big part of the how that they're going to do this but not all of it. you have a regional war that develops between north vietnam and the united states and this of course spills over to laos, the fighting in north vietnam, particularly on the arab side. a lot of this is conventional. that's not the whole thing. it's only part of the picture. you also have to keep in mind that the cold war context of what is going on here because when we think about vietnam, we don't automatically think about this being a coalitional war. we sometimes even overlook the south vietnamese role in it. some of the literature, for example, you almost think there's no south vietnamese army there when y

american b-17s helped carry the war to the german backyard.ision to invade sicily also was reached. and in july of 1943, americans and british jumped off from africa on the preliminary leg to the first assault on the italian mainland. a strong partisan for the women's army corps as important to our mobilization, the chief of staff made it a point to be in washington the day colonel oveta culp hobby was sworn in as its new commander. by the time the allied leaders convened at cairo in december 1943, the italian campaign was well under way and the war against the japanese demanded stepped-up operations. the future of the china/burma/india theatre and the problem of harnessing china's manpower had to be resolved. in tehran, marshall took part in planning joint strategy with the russians. soviet demands for an expanded second front were addressed to the united states. it was george marshall who answered. when the chief of staff visited the pacific theatre on his return from tehran, our offensive was gaining speed. island by island, we were moving

make it nicer to go to war. not for the people fighting it. you're watching "hardball." >>> tonight, the day we have all worked and prayed for has finally come. for the first time in 12 years, no american military forces are in vietnam. all of our american p.o.w.s are on their way home. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was richard nixon on this day 30 years ago announcing withdrawal of the last american combat troops from vietnam. by the way, he could have made that speech when he took office. it's been 10 years since the start of our war in afghanistan. they increasingly express frustration with our american presence, we still remain in the country. how it got to this point is in rachel maddow's new book "drift." in it she makes the point how much easier it is for the united states to go to war. also drones that made fighting less costly to the public, perhaps most significantly, fewer and fewer americans actually serve in the military these days are even affected by the war in terms of their families. rache

war is howard zinn once said you can't declare a war on terror because war is terrorism so in that sense it's impossible to make legitimate what if there is a legitimate threat against our country. well we are at the i mean against our country i guess i mean the united states but the united states is the legitimate threat for the world so there is no legitimate threat to the united states of the largest military power in the world nobody even comes close to being a threat to the united states and if you look at the conceptions of what a threat is i mean take iran for example is a very good example what is the threat of iran today we hear that they're developing nuclear weapons and they're going to wipe out israel or be a huge threat to the region even though top officials defense secretary intelligence officials the national intelligence council announced that iran has no nuclear weapons they have no nuclear weapons program there is no evidence so what is the actual threat and if you look at the pentagon and intelligence reports to congress they're a little more blunt they state that ira

i, followed by world war ii, followed by the cold war. in that narrative, the islamic world has never been anywhere except on the periphery. let's take the case of the suez crisis of 1956. when i was a kid growing up, 1956 was the year of the hungarian revolution. because when i was a kid growing up, my perspective was very much shaped by events of the cold war. and hungarians, freedom fighters, rising up against their soviet occupiers was a big deal. well, it was a big deal. well just about at exactly the same moment in 1956, there was another very important episode that i paid very little attention to, called the suez crisis. what was the suez crisis all about? well what the suez crisis was all about is colonel nasser, the dictator of egypt nationalizing the suez canal. that is to say, claiming for egypt control of this crucial asset on egyptian soil. and in consequence of that, great britain, the imperial power that had controlled egypt for decades, and france, another european imperial power with interest in north africa, and israel,

the western dialogue on the war. everything that america does becomes portrayed as something illegal, immoral, you can't do it. it's criticized. but the constant and constant atrocities of the communists are ignored, forgotten about. it didn't really happen, we won't talk about it. very odd situation that emerges. on the military side of it, when the americans come into the war they have some problems with how to deal with the americans. one of the problems they have is u.s. air power. how do you deal with air defense? have everybody shoot at the planes as much as they possibly can. you start with that. they move very quickly to get help from the chinese and soviets. they get soviet migs soviet ground offensive and have a dangerous air defense network against the united states. the ground war though dealing with this is the most -- arguably the most important purposes here. they have to figure out how to fight this ground war against the united states. again, the north, the generals and the political leaders in north

the secretary of war, the task of mobilization lay ahead. the resources of a mighty nation had to be tapped to produce the props for the great drama about to unfold. marshall had waited in the wings for 20 years for the role he was about to play. the country's manpower resources, the great citizen army in which marshall believed so deeply, had to be activated, trained and equipped to fight if necessary. and with each passing month in 1940 and '41, it appeared increasingly probable that the united states would be drawn into the war. the army numbered less than 200,000 men when marshall took over as chief of staff. it would swell to more than 8 million before the axis defeat. he accumulated experience from the early days in the philippines and the news argan and the staff worked with the seasoning in china. the sum total was imaginatively applied by george marshall to direct the american army during the war. it was as if his career related to the monumental task he undertook. the american military build-up was just beginning to gain momentum w

a republican lawyer and world war i hero from new york. while bill was not all of the republican lawyers in new york, he had a pretty big tent and welcomed a lot of people into that tent from various persuasions. he started off with people like himself, a lot of rich and prominent people and then he brought in the best and the brightest. he brought in academics and he brought in adventurers and brought in artists so it was quite a crowd at the end of the day and oss, and the official name was the special services, and the office of strategic oh, so, social or so, so, socialist. ernest could have been under oh, so social or oh, so socialist. so the first character when i was researching the subject for the cia museum i looked at the -- i looked for special stories and interesting stories of people associated with oss, and i came across the fact that hemingway's son jack was a member of oss and he's a fully paid up member of oss and not a celebrity spy and not much special treatment and he put on the uniform and submitted to the discipline.

in america mean that war is inevitable did we ever live in a society where war was not the norm but instead the exception joining me now to discuss this is john horgan science journalist and director of the center for science writings of stevens's to technology and the author of several books including his latest the end of war john welcome. nice to be here very very pleased to have you with us what did you set out to prove in your book the end of war. well first of all the reason i wrote the book was because i discovered in doing surveys over the past seven or eight years that the basque majority of people eighty or ninety percent of the thousands of people i surveyed are extremely pessimistic about the prospects for humanity overcoming war and militarism once and for all this is all people it's conservatives as well as liberals young old male female think that war is a permanent part of the human condition you mention that barack obama alluded to this view in his nobel peace prize speech of all places and many people who have this pessimistic view have a belief that science has pr

war in iraq. question of torture attention and mutely outrage them these are internet stations where soldiers can not only check the internet but they also have the capability of. doing webcams that. you can do and. to focus on the war and not work perpetration is just simply shovel after the elephant one has to look at the war preparations that are going on around the world which military bases are central to. if one doesn't pay attention to that then again we can only deal with the symptoms which is which is workfare there's a saying that goes when soldiers come war comes. to feel . feel . fear. in the past when the american soldiers came we would drain this well to scare them away. we would scream yankee go home. the american bases have not only stolen our lands but also our way of life if you will not culture our history and everything else such a thing cannot be tolerated. and they say the bases are here to guarantee world peace so they've been used in the korean war in vietnam and now in ira

war ii, since the beginning of world war ii. they provided trauma care, personnel and strategic actions, military police work and special staff work. some were trained pilots and some had been prisoners of war. many women had died for their country. less than five years after the close of world war ii, american once again found itself facing a war for which it was unprepared, primarily due to downsizing. women who served in korea were primarily nurses, and 12 army nurses were amongst the first troops to land at incheon on september 15th, 1950. they set up they set up the first m.a.s.h. well-known to the american public, but this was a different scenario all together. during the korean war, a few women were assigned to special staff positions such as army special services serving either state sidejapan, headquarters in paris france. recruiting for women became even more of a challenge than in world war ii and some women were assigned as officer procurement specialists. we actually have one here today. the army women's medical spe

one of my colleagues back in newport, he talks about this being a war within a war within a war. and it's interesting perspective to think of because you have a multilayered series of events and activities obviously that are going on here. and different ways of fighting it. for the communists in many ways this is a revolutionary war. they want to expand communism in southeast asia. again, south vietnam is only the next stop on the road to that. and a regular warfare, guerrilla warfare is the how, but not all of it. of course, you have a regional war that develops here as well between north vietnam and the united states. and this, of course, spills over and allows cambodia and so on and south vietnam, the fighting in north vietnam as well particularly on the air side of it. a lot of this is conventional. again, it's not all. that's not the whole thing. it's only part of the picture. and you also have to keep in mind that the cold war context of what is going on here, because we don't -- when we think about vietnam, we don't automatically think about this being a coalitional war. w

tragedies ensue in wars. we've seen it in every war. that's why those who have known war hate it the most. all i can say is that we will continue to do everything we can to try to bring about as much treatment and care for those who have suffered the wounds of war, both visible and invisible. let me say, the irony here, as far as afghanistan is concerned, general allen's plan is succeeds. we have succeeded on the ground. we have made dramatic gains. the fact that karzai is acting like he is, we can go into a little more. but on a pure military tactical standpoint, we are winning. but what the president keeps talking about is how quick we're going to withdrawal. so, put yourself in president karzai's place. you see in the front page of "the new york times" it says, debate in the administration, how about how quick the withdrawal, how speedy the withdrawal is going to be. well, president karzai has ambition to stay there. one predecessor was hung from a lamp post in kabul. instead of saying, we're going to win this war, what president oba

and the tactics he been trained on how to fight a war, worked in world war i, in world war ii, but with korea, he was having to work under constraints that went totally against the way he had been trained, yet the repeaties of having to conduct a limited war dictated you could not totally go against, and throw everything you had, all your arsenal of weapons against your enemy. you have to correct macarthur for believing in his principles to the point he was willing to sacrifice his military career for those principles. he had been taught all of his life, from his father being a military man to his military service that you oh, boyed your commander in cheer. heave he was going publics with disagreements with his commanding chief. many say he did so because he felt his point was so right that he was willing to sacrifice his career, which he ultimately did. truman fired him. brought him home, and the war continued on until its conclusion a few years later. now, we, today, have the benefit of hindsight and there are people today who would argue that had macarthur been allowed to pursue the

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and damaging war in vietnam virtually nobody to friends that war today and he has played an absolutely destructive role in the middle east backing dictators going in to get resources under this still but is still perhaps dictators others from the the arab league and the gulf cooperation council are composed of people who are very quick to attack because after you were asked who are perfectly happy to repress their own people using western arms to do so ok zhang in brussels you want to react usually international history because russia is just explaining where to begin with you for the program starting a state fair time for everyone john go ahead you have to count the millions of the in the american intervention in. southeast asia in southern africa india the embargo against iraq interventions. and you're also to take into account the overthrow of myself because a democratic leader of. which started all the terrible history of you and they were the scenes the overthrow of our brains in guatemala which. we blocked the week reforms in latin america over to a value india which is another w

ernest is not through with the war yet. through with the factory but he wants to continue serving his country and doing something for the war effort. and he goes to the ambassador and says look, i've done all this great stuff for you. i set up this crook factory. we did all this reporting. now i want you to support me on something else. and the ambassador heard him out and said what's that? he said i want to go look for german submarines off cuba. have we heard this before? is this part of hemingway family lore? after the war, lester is like the little brother. he's got a keep quiet. but after the war lester says ernest got the idea from me. we can't prove that, but there is circumstantial evidence to that effect. ernest, he's going to do his brother one better. he's going to outdo his brother by not only finding the germans, reporting their presence, doing the naval intelligence thing, but he's going to sink the pilar. and the idea is that the pilar's going to pretend to fish. that's going to be its cover. it's going to be

i believe he injected world war i that led to world war ii. that's a debate for another show. >> you talked about two people there, the john quincy adams approach to -- he was a president. had been the sixth president of the united states and went on 17 years in the house of representatives. what did he do when james polk was inaugurated president? >> he had a chance to be in the inaugural procession, which he had no intention of doing because he was jr. sup set about polk's election. he despised andrew jackson but he was a giant of his time. now he had his protege and polk was elected. it was a rain "day planner" that day. it rained all day during the inauguration. quincy adams kind of watched from a distance and then put rye comments of many of them quite pointed in his diary about polk and the proceedings. >> did you look up his diary? >> oh, yes. his diary goes on and on. >> he has that little tiny writing. where did they get the polk diary, the written on hand? >> that is at the library of congress. >> and jump to another scenario that yo

part of a broader war from washington d.c. to key west. but rather than talk about the battle which others will do today, i am going to try to establish some context for that battle and describe the war of which it was such an important part. i am going to start by talking about the blockade. now this is a subject that often gets only passing attention from some civil war scholars. most acknowledge there was -- a blockade during the civil war. they might mention the anaconda plan. they might note in passing that blockade was never fully effective. and then move on to discuss again, the peninsular campaign, gettysburg, emancipation, all iconic issues that make the civil war a traumatic turning point in our national history. in part, perhaps this is because to many the history of the blockade seems a rather, well, tedious subject. and admitted me much of it was. certainly for the thousands of men, tens of thousand of men. who spent their days bobbing around off the coast of the south-atlantic where they swatted mosquitoes and marked of the d

effort as a whole about the strategy there the end game or lack thereof and finally ending the war in afghanistan is an idea that everyone can agree on but aside from that we're now going to go through the get to know the shooter part of the story we find out about his background his family life everybody asks what went wrong. sometime today the u.s. army staff sergeant accused of killing afghan civilians in cold blood is due to meet face to face with this lawyer army sergeant robert bales now awaiting trial at a u.s. military prison in fort leavenworth kansas formal charges against army staff sergeant robert bales are expected this week a deadly shooting and stabbing rampage at family and friends of u.s. army staff sergeant robert bales say they are stunned but are standing by the man they call a devoted father and husband what caused this otherwise well respected member of the military to barely go berserk the staff sergeant bales was have been sent overseas for time since two thousand and three years to you most likely would play a role in a sentence soon if he was convicted new re

he's taught at the naval war college. he's been in charge of history for the marine corps and has several books to his credit. one on marine operations in the second gulf war and also he had done -- he has done a book on german resistance to hitler in world war two which is an interesting spectrum of interest, nick. so we're delighted to have you here. we're very interested to hear about mr. hemingway, so please help we welcome nick reynolds. [ applause ] >> well, thank you, peter, and thank you all for coming out to hear my story. what i'm going to talk about, as peter told you, is the hemingway family and intelligence in world war ii. my thesis is that the hemingway family was involved in intelligence to a greater extent than has previously been acknowledged. this was something that they liked to do, and they in this case is ernest himself, his brother lester, and his son, john or bumby, and they thought they were very good at it. i'm going to tell you that the results are a little bit of a mixed bag, and i'm also going

for this war. and as general purser mentioned, it was much more of a challenge for women than even world war ii. because we weren't ready for war at that time. american domestically wasn't really cognizant of what was going on in korea. we were so busy healing ourselves after world war ii. so consequently, we sent troops over there that were not quite prepared. we sent medical folks over there with no medical training. so you talk about a challenge. hence some of the stories that you see this m.a.s.h. they were very innovative to say the least. but what i wanted to ask all the ladies was in regards to training address preparation in the provision of medical care, what was your perception of korea in comparison to world war ii and vietnam did you see any major differences? >> i don't know that much about the second world war, but we had 97% recovery going through the m.a.s.h. which is a big recovery when you think of that many patients coming through. and you're not aware of being prepared for that