it's a war for union. and it's a war that ended with this grand success that ratified the work of the founders. it actually gave this generation work. how do you compete with the founders? that's one of the problems. all they did was establish the country in a bloody war against scummy great britain, then they are responsible for the constitution. ok. check. check. and what have we done lately? how do you complete with that memory? that's tough. how about saving the work of the founding generation? that's not bad. let's put that on our resume and that makes us look pretty good. that doesn't leave anything for later generations to do. who cares? we're taken care of. sort of a baby boomer approach to life. i want all of you to take care of me as i get older. and my generation lives forever. we are going to be around. you are going to have us as a giant anvil on your backs for almost all of your lives and you can't do anything about us, so don't even try. [laughter] prof. gallagher: you don't have a chance. h

war. >> guest: poland thought it was prepared but it wasn't. nazi germany was the mightiest military behemoth in world history up to that point and poland was, had a, sizable army. small air force, small navy. it was basically a poor country. it didn't have the sense and financial wherewithal germany did. they thought they could hold off germany at least for a while but germans rolled over them. cspan: you say it wasn't a surprise. the date was maybe a surprise but was the rest of europe preparing for war at this point? >> guest: they expected war was coming. most european countries hoped it wouldn't happen. half the european countries were neutral. they declared neutrality. some prepared for war to a certain extent but none of them were really ready for what was about to happen to them. they hoped somehow something would happen to prevent germany from embarking on what, you know, hitler had been really preparing for a number of years. so they were basically keeping their fingered crossed.

we're horrified by world war i because it's attritional war. world war ii is mobile. morere going to lose a lot people, but it is something psychological. when you're only taking a couple of yards and losing several thousand men, it is futile. when you're taking several tens are 20's of miles a day and losing the same amount of guys, somehow at least you feel like you are accomplishing something. mechanized infantry is allowing you to go through defenses and keep the enemy off balance so they cannot dig in and get those advantages. good question, thank you. >> i have a really good question. i was just joking. has trench warfare been used before world war i? is it the first time? prof. faulkner: oh, no, trench warfare is as old as warfare. >> that was a really bad question. faulkner: no, no, that is a good one. >> when was trench warfare first used in warfare? prof. faulkner: if you go to a place in britain called maiden fort. it is almost as old as warfare. if you are up on a hill, and you are dug in and the other guy comes up the hill, you have gone -- got an advanta

in world war ii you need to learn world war i. people forget what we went through in world war i. the 100th anniversary and we really did not get there until april 1918. one year after we declared war. emeryville did not fighting until the summertime. and we lost. this is 53,000, we lost more than that actually, 63,000 because of injuries from the war and disease. so the total was more but the point i'm trying to make is, the british in one day lost 65,000 men and when people look back, they do not see with the english peoplesoft.which was horrendous deaths and horrendous personal tragedies from world war i. this is a poor analogy but it is like a football team. the winning team serves a lot of injuries but they win. the losing team suffers injuries and they lose. they want revenge and hitler was the revenge. the winning team in world war i just wanted to move on and the last thing that they want was a war. but i do have a question as far as winston churchill's citizenship. his mother was an american citizen if i'm not mistaken. could he have been president of the united states? >

a civil war was the french american war a civil war it was an attempt to impose a century and imperial or a colonial regime on a country that wanted independence the war later on the next period of the war from fifty four fifty five on again was an american war essentially to call it a civil war is absurd as they don't call it a war in which one side is entirely paid equiped directed basically by a foreign power is not a civil war they i think they were misled by the fact that there were vietnamese on both sides some vietnamese specifically the ones who may have called it a civil war to some degree. they were the ones who had fought for the french against the independence of their country for various motives and essentially those were the same officers and many of the same men who came south and fought under the americans and other foreign power and some of them may sincerely have felt they were fighting against countrymen communists who were they and they didn't want to communist regime others simply wanted the pay or the family physician or whatever of working for foreigners and a ve

was applied to war. he also describes the attitudes of generals before and after the war. this was hosted by the emerging civil war blog. >> ladies and gentlemen. good afternoon. i am glad thatl, you are not stuck in traffic right now. i'm sure some of you have enjoyed that in the past. i'm glad to have you here for this event. introduceivilege to my cofounder and friend. education manager at the civil war trust, and that basically has turned the civil war into his playground across the country. one tobeen going from the next to the next. he wants to contextualize this symposium. great defenses of the civil war. we will talk a lot about great title field defenses. successful, non-successful. we also want you to think about defense in a broader context as well. to help us get our gears turning, it is my pleasure to chrisuce my friend wright. [applause] >> thank you, everybody. thank you for coming out to the fourth annual civil war symposium. been fantastic. his wife jenny who is floating around somewhere

ge that comes with the war. so black folks leaving the south and settling in war production centers like los angeles, or san francisco, chicago, and elsewhere around the country is not uncommon. heart of why this is important for us, and we will see in a few minutes, is that the kind of demographic context in which mexican-americans find themselves living, changes, especially in big cities like los angeles where they are now living. are living,folks going to school with, perhaps working with, on occasion even being folks that might not part of mexican-american communities, or even mexican-americans themselves. los angeles in particular is home to a boom in wartime industry, lake shipbuilding, aircraft construction. finding work were as welders, or in other sorts of , working in wartime industry came to be seen as doing one patriotic duty. it became a marker of citizenship. of productive citizenship for many americans. if you are not a sailor or a soldier, the next best eating to doing your duty during world war

i'm oliver north and welcome to "war stories." with war come casualties. tonight, we focus our "war stories" cameras on the brave men and women who care for those of us who get wounded on the battlefield. these are the warriors of military medicine. they're the medics, corpsman, nurses and doctors who often risk their own lives to save the lives of others. i'm here tonight because a navy corpsman braved enemy fire to save my life in vietnam. we're here at the national museum of health and medicine at walter reed army medical center in washington, d.c. a place where some of the best medicine in the world is practiced. they've come a long way since leeches were part of treating sick and wounded troops. now it's high-tech surgery usually within minutes of being wounded that saves the lives of thousands of countless service personnel. it will always come back to the basics. training someone who's willing to brave enemy fire when an american is wounded on the batt battlefield. someone whose eyes may be the last you gaze into. someone who can save your life. ♪ >

the war. over the course of dr ron paul's political career he has served as a republican and libertarian dr paul and jesse have opposing views on many issues they're both members of a third party they've both served in the u.s. military and neither support foreign intervention and asked then they had a lot to talk about dr ron paul that is a hall facing for joining me a subject i want to get with you on is one that i know is close to both of us and we really sit on the same side it's a simple subject cold war i was in mexico last winter when when they fired the rockets into syria and i came back to the country going did i miss something when did we allow the president to shoot what was it sixty rockets i forget the number in two or another sovereign nation without a declaration of war and the country applauded the wheels it was a lot of it and i thought what is going wrong with the united states of america when you have to have the congress vote to go to war and now we arbitrarily allow our pr

less than world war i or world war ii. and the memorials for fdr and for george washington -- and we know that general eisenhower continues off with terrific tension between the family and the powers that be here in washington. for this memorial of yours to become a reality is absolutely amazing. even something like the george washington memorial, the design itself was totally different initially than what was built. there is a connection between the washington monument and the vietnam memorial in the sense that they are both indeed quite scaled down. it's one of the surprising things -- surprising to me and all of this was going into the way in which the vision developed for this thing, it was originally a very deeply antiwar design where it was not just the chevron she presented in her class, but it was the chevron were there were a series of stones coming down to that chevron. and the stones going down are meant to be the dominoes of the vietnam war, as if those who died, all 58,000 serve down the stones of the dominoes

today we think of war as the breakdown of the system, but before 1928 war was the system, war was thelegal mechanism by which victims sought recompence, but any type of legal violation none payment of debts, property damage, enforcement of inheritance claims, shorting out of succession disputes, all these wrongs that states claimed, they could pursue forcefully using violence, killing people, seizing land in order to right those wrongs. as mentioned in the world order, states have the right of war but also rights that went with it, crucially they had the right of conquest. if states had claimed to be wronged, they had the right if their demands were ignored to use force, invade territory and seize that land as their own, which of course, makes sense from the perspective of the world order, the point of war was to compensate for wrongs committed to them so right of conquest only gave them the right which would enable them to be made whole. many people don't realize that in 1846 the united states went to war with mÉxico in order to pay an order to collect unpaid debts, mÉxico owed the u

the war. all right governor you've been vocal about your support for a former forty nine ers quarterback collin capper nick now while he was on the team last year he refused to stand during the national anthem before a series of games to protest police brutality and the oppression of minorities critics say that football should not be political but football has always been political in fact a senate report titled tackling paid patriotism reveals that between twenty twelve and twenty fifteen the department of defense paid professional sports teams six point eight million dollars in taxpayer money for patriotic tributes now these include on field color guard in and listen ceremonies national anthem performances flag details military appreciation night and welcome home performances for returning soldiers during that same period the military service is spent fifty three million dollars in marketing and advertising contracts with professional sports leagues this includes the n.f.l. and b.a. and h.l.

global cold war. if i want to change the title to the cold war, a global history, would that work? the other question i have is toward the end of the book you mentioned that gorbachev didn't like the leaders of eastern european communist parties. so in 1989 when things got nasty over there, he refused to intervene. my question is, if there were still met in 1989 or 1991 where communism, would communism collapsed in eastern europe, or would soviet union disintegrated in 1991? thank you so much. >> thank you. >> i am a fulbright scholar at gw history department. and so i'm going to ask you about the role of global institutions, and some wondering how you would respond to the criticism, even if you call this book a world history rather than global history is still history on east versus west. still history of the global north. if you look at the role of global institutions, think about global society, what we see is a very dynamic discussion about the experiences of capitalism versus socialism and ideas

there was an american civil war. the american civil war was the first ministry conflict to be documented details through photographs. around and the technology at the time played a crucial role. to put it another way the move came by train. the american civil war was the first conflict all over the world where the railroads became a tactical. weapon for war it move troops it move supplies it moved and munition all over the country out support the war effort on both sides to be a no railroad was an important player because it ran through both northern territory and southern territory it was the object of many many attacks and so what we see during this four year period is the development of new technologies things like armored box cars things like better locomotives things like tactical planning for moving munitions and troops and things like that for the first time in the world and we would see as a result of that experience in later wars. in this remote region on april the ninth eight hundred sixty five following th

there was an american civil war. the american civil war was the first military conflict to be documented each detail through photographs. around and the technology at the time played a crucial role. to put it another way the move came by train. the american civil war was the first conflict all over the world where the railroads became a tactical. weapon for war had moved troops it move supplies it moved ammunition all over the country out support the war effort on both sides to be a no railroad was an important player because it ran through both northern territory and southern territory it was the object of many many attacks and so what we see during this four year period is the development of new technologies things like armored box cars things like better locomotives things like tactical planning for moving munitions and troops and things like that for the first time in the world and we would see as a result of that experience in later wars. in this remote region on april the ninth eight hundred sixty five followin

and someone has gone to war, how do we enforce it. >> we've outlawing war, surely you can't use war to him enforce war, how are we going to enforce this prohibition a war? they struggle with the question for some time. ultimately they came up with a solution. it turns out henry simpson who was secretary of the state at the time had been classmates with samuel levinson and they had been corresponding and levinson sent him one of many articles he had written which is about the sanctions of peace. the idea of the sanctions of these was the force, you're not going to use war sanctions but you can refuse to recognize the seizure of territory. by states acting illegally. this is a revolutionary idea at the time. up until then when states conquer territory, even if they did it for legitimate reasons, once they had control it was there. if you look at maps from the 1600s through the 1928, the lines are shifting constantly. the borders are moving, if you look at a map from 1800 and 1650, everyone looks very different because wars are shifting and changing orders left and right. and he says the

one of the great whimpers of the civil war, who is one of the great centers of the civil war --a man who was on undoubtedly a cavalry officer. he became a very good cavalry officer. represented almost in the triumphant area of sherman and grant in sheridan. on a personal level sheridan is a rather unlikable fellow, in the way you would leave people of command on the field. it was the way he dealt with subordinates, and it was not to be admired. you rarely see sheridan portrayed in a negative way. >> good point. >> george? >> i am tempted to follow john hennessy's example. for one thing, i agree with it. having written one book on hatred and studying hatred from the northern side, i am not sure i want to contribute to it. i will give a contrary answer just to get a contrary answer. i will say mcclellan was not hated enough during the war, and he has been hated too much after the war. typical professorial answer, george. >> i think what the question implies, at least when it is intended to apply -- and pike is someone whose reputation is pretty good these days. , oh, i am think impress

>> janah: the war was very brutal, and people, after 30 years, everybody is tired of war.close to 25,000 orphan children, about 15,000 people who were land mine victims. from the government side, they are still a bit scared, that there may be war popping up again, but slowly now they are addressing issues, like employment-wise, opportunity-wise, and there are a lot of occupied lands, now they are slowly giving it back. >> anthony: so, hopeful? >> janah: yeah, i see the progress. what i see here is the human resilience, like, you know, after going through this war for 30 years, how quickly people here can rebuild. [ bells ] >> anthony: so, what's happening today? first of all, where are we? >> janah: this is a kali temple. >> anthony: and kali is? >> janah: kali is a destroyer of evil. people go and pray, and have kali temples in villages because it destroys evil power. >> anthony: both good and bad? >> janah: yes. >> anthony: protector? >> janah: protector, destroyer. >> anthony: and destroyer. >> janah: yes. because kali is also known for courage and valor, like when peop

we are in a war. but at thelike it, same time, when you are in a war and you are captured by the enemy, you cannot expect -- you know, to have tea. after his capture, senator john mccain talks about the impact of the vietnam war on his life and the country. today at six ago p.m. and 10 p.m. -- today at 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. on c-span3. >> fort gorge is is a mile from portland. it has been abandoned for over 150 years. american history tv will hear about a group trying to save the historic landmark. >> today we are in casco bay, one mile off of the mainland shore of portland. we are on hog island ledge, where they built fort gorgeous to help defend portland harbor. 1865, builteted in with two sister forts to the south. fort preble and the other on house island. they were designed to work in conjunction to defend of the harbor. everybody thinks this fort is a civil war fort, but it was actually approved and funded as a response to the war of 1812, things that occurred much earlier. gorgeous is a hand

war book and read it and then you would know all about the civil war. if you were interested in something else, you could buy the whatever else book you wanted. but we exist, and there are a bunch of us in this room that either already doing this for a living or will be doing this for a living. if there were only one past we would be doing something really useful in life than what we do, something that contributed to the common good instead of adorning it which is what we , mainly do. but the fact we disagree puts us in line with what the generation that actually experienced the war did. they had very vibrant -- a sort of soft word -- to describe how they contested their versions of history. we'll start with the winning side. the union cause and the emancipation cause. the two winning memories of the war, then we'll go to the lost cause, which is the most common term used to get at the former confederates' memory of the war. then we'll get to reconciliation, which is another stream of coming to terms with the war that i think historians have vastly exag

very important one and somewhat overlooked, people talk about world war i, world war ii at the cold war in its way was just as important, just as significant in affecting the outcome of the world and of history as the other two. >> host: mr. edwards, that meeting at yalta happened just before the end of world war ii, correct? >> guest: yes. fdr was dying -- >> host: january or february? >> guest: i think february. fdr was dying, looked terrible but still he wanted to be there to try to pin down as much as he could what postwar europe and the rest of the world would look like. they thought he and churchill thought they had worked out an arrangement with joseph stalin, the dictator of the soviet union, regarding forthcoming elections in eastern and central europe. and mr. stalin said don't worry about a thing, we will have free and open elections there. and, of course, poland also was a key factor in their discussions as well. they thought on our side, the west, things had worked out, things are going to be perfectly fine. and if they were not that we could depend upon the united nations

civil war blog. here.is so great to be i'm honored to be here in support of the great work of the emerging civil war. give a lot of talks at around tables around the country. i hear the same collective lament from roundtable members. civil war military history is on life-support. nobody cares about the civil war after the centennial. push back.olitely so in largeon i do part is because of the emerging civil war. and all that it is done in a remarkable space of five or six years. i hope this weekend can be a celebration of those efforts. the rugged spine of maryland's south mountain. outnumbered soldiers saw to to stem the tide of federal offenses. if successful it would defeat and already divided confederate lee and finish off robert e 's first invasion of the north. and three mountain passes almost unrivaled interest city. at least in this point of the war. union and confederate troops struggled over difficult terrain and at close range. veterans theyome aimed at flashes of anything. in the years af

the civil war. he also talks about how generals defended their actions before and during the war. this 40 minute talk was part of a symposium on great defenses of the civil war hosted by the emerging civil war log. >> good afternoon. i am glad that you are not stuck in traffic on i-95. i am sure some of you have enjoyed that wonderful form of torture in the past. glad to have you here with us. it is my distinct privilege to kick involved by introducing my ecw co-founder kristopher white. christopher is currently the education manager at the civil war trust, of it as soon -- a position he has had since the beginning of the year. that has turned the civil war into his playground across the country. he has been going from one event to the next. we are glad he could land here in spotsylvania. as our chief historian, his job is to contextualize our symposium. the theme is "great defenses of the civil war." we are going to talk about some great battlefield defenses both federal and confederate. we want to

the war . i do not know if the russian state hacked into john podesta scheme ailes and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know barack obama's director of national intelligence has not provided credible to support his claims of russia i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing three months before the revelations provided by edward snowden he denied the deep n.s.a. was carrying out wholesale surveillance of the us. the hyperventilating corporate media has once again proved to be an echo for government claims that cannot be verified you would have thought they would have learned something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. it is vitally important that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinguishable. for decades the american middle class has been railroaded by washington politics. big money corporate interests has thrown down a lot of voices that's how

against the president, who has usurped power, who has involved us in war without a declaration of warand -- theeneral luis hershey, head of selective service, is the storm center of a second controversy involving this -- involving dissenters of the grant -- of the draft. -- who take actions interfering with selective service procedures. when these students staged a sit in at the draft board in ann arbor, michigan in october 1965, the general ordered some of them conducted. the courts have held the action unconstitutional, but that has not changed his tactics. he explained his position to abc's dan hackel. we havef the problems, individuals, not only students, but fathers, apprentices, farmers, that were being deferred, and at the same time, were attempting to interfere, with force or violence or threat, with the operations system. it's a little awkward when you deferred people who violate the law. >> is that why they were deferred? >> they were deferred, as, for instance, a student. whether he was using it as a crucial study in some of his laboratory work, to go out and disobey the la

they have seen the balkan war and other wars. the know how deadly battlefield can be but they .on't know what to do about it believe there is going to be war but they think it will be short. beside the news first is going to achieve victory. although we will have mass casualties, it will be a short amount of time and the war will be over. will affecthow this them when they get the war they do not anticipate. is anrman part of this attempt to make sure that his theory is wrong. we can mobilize and move before army gets m going, we can cut them off and then deal with the russians. this plan goes off the rails in disastrous fashion in september of 1914. by early october 1914, you have two armies glaring at eachother north of paris along the aim river. want to gain the initiative and the other guy thinking the same thing. 1914, you haven't broken line of trenches and lines -- you have a broken totrenches all the way belgium from the swiss border. on the 22nd of august, 1914, the e 27,000 dead. an answer toave this. only by digging in

xxxx that's tonight on "war stories." >> good evening, i'm oliver north and this is an engine of war, the helicopter known by the nickname the hughie. ask any soldier, sailor and marine who served in vietnam and they will tell you the wof, wof, wof of that rotar is the most welcome thing you can hear. when we were wounded it carried us out. i was medivaced in vietnam. 2.75 inch rockets and a machine gun that would fire over 4,000 round as minute, a virtual shower of steering lead. tonight on war stories, the men that pioneered warfare, warriors that risked their lives in a strange, dangerous land called vietnam. april 29th, 1975 the end of the vietnam war and as they had throughout the long and bloody conflict, helicopters provided some of the most memorable images. the frenzy evacuation of the u.s. embassy in saigon, being pushed into the sea destroyed to make room for south vietnamese. it was a conclusion to a long and costly war. ten years earlier, a very different time and image. formations of hughies sweeping in for the beginning of the world's first helicopter war. >> we were th

and this is why this war must come to an end let me join in i think even. like you're saying let me take that point to kate then it sounds like we're listening in to what i came in saying there's some anecdotal information does it look like the blacklist is not likely to dissuade countries from continuing to employ the same sort of tactics we've seen i mean saudi abuses by the coalition have continued with impunity throughout this war despite verbal condemnations and you know the recent u.n. see a presidential statement that also condemned saudi actions and blocking humanitarian assistance so do you think any of that will change now though that this i think they're starting to be baby steps towards it changing but until the u.s. and u.k. actually take verifiable action and start limiting its assistance to the coalition their behavior likely will not change the only time we saw a change in behavior by the coalition was and it was a small change in behavior was when the u.s. put partial arms sales on hold under the obama administration due to gross violations

war. passions get up quickly when people remember civil war. been watching that in charlottesville in the last year and a half in the debates over equestrian statue of r.e. lee downtown. i'll talk when i get to the war today about some of the residences of the war in our current american situation. the ways in which the different streams of memory put in place by wartime generation either do or do not remain with us. my real focus is going to be on how the wartime generation remembered the war. i'm going to focus on four great interpretive traditions that came out of the wartime generation, thrived for many decades thereafter and in different degrees continue right down to 2017. the loyal white citizenry and african-americans and former confederates have very different takes on the war as they went forward after appeomattox. served them come canning out of the war thinking good bow about themselves and suited their purpose as they dealt with social and political issues that came up in the

oh yeah i mean it's not a limitless you know it could be a war a cyber space war a computer based war it could be a war and fought on multiple multiple fronts when you're dealing with space why can't we you know go up there with a flag with a p. symbol on it make everybody salute that you know that wouldn't be as controversial as cap or nic a flag would have peace symbol on it. as a soldier governor do you think it's a viable to attack another nation's communication systems. isn't viable certainly in war there's an old cliche vergina anything goes in war you know it's he who is left standing at the end wins doesn't matter how you end up standing at the end there are no rules govern a war has been an engine of progress do you think that maybe having weapons in space will give a push for space exploration. i don't know you'd have to talk to them about that i think that the basic concept of putting weapons in space is wrong and bad i mean we can't even control our weapons down here on earth we're now going to put them up in space and who's going to be in charge of all that i mean we had

world war ii was then followed by the cold war and we realized that we were to continue reading otherpeople's mail. i think there might have been this time where we thought we were going to close up the shop. and then it turned out that a estate open. there were actually a number of women who participated in the wharf who became a crucial part of the early nsa staff. he spent the rest of their careers in washington breaking the soviet messages. and in fact a woman who was a 22-year-old recruit. spent her life working for the nsa it was the first female deputy director of the nsa and there is a very important room at the nsa is named after her. that is a great question.ou i am a graduate of a women's college it brings me to my question in the history of meredith collegege there is nothing about this were they aware that this was happening in how was it represented in their history. and often what happened. what happens as a member of the military. they often wear the same person. and in some of the colleges have reconstructed their history. they have begun to recover this. they have a

feel clear of war, because he had been in the barbarism of war. he learned and it is a great story of heroism. it is also a great cautionary tale. he had the opportunity to, as winston churchill said, it allows you to see all the elements of human emotion and caf au lait it in one day. he had come out of it alive. without any apparent ptsd. that is where i am going to wrap it up. i think we do move then -- my slides have not gone through. i would just like the less like if anyone would like to become a fox hunter. come on. the battery is dying. [laughter] it is moving but slowly. so, this horse, if you will, is a wild horse in north dakota that she let me ride for a day. she obtained it at the age of five. worried as we went out on a trail ride that it would run off and that i would get killed. it did not do that. part of the story and the fun is to learn about the world. winston churchill always said the best seat to observe the world is always from the saddle of a horse. so, you can do that, too. along with the dancing and the fencing. i will ta

>> dissent is better in this war than a predecessor war.his does not mean the climate isn't showing some increasing hostility. war is unique about this that it is very unpopular, perhaps the most unpopular war in recent history. on -- of dissent on the part of government officials have tended to create an area in which government has had to tolerate dissent. >> legal director of the american civil liberties union. me thatu asked question, about two weeks ago, i would've said that general hershey and his selective service policy -- the government was behaving itself well. the indictments of dr. spock and the reverend and the other three individuals led a very critical change of behavior. they have lost their cool. they have been reached by the criticism, affected and injured by it, which is the purpose of criticism, of governmental action in a free society. it doesn't really serve its full purpose. clark, a strong administrative support are on vietnam, -- suppoerter on vietnam, his view. >> think the question of a rally in this war -- i thin

if you want a reminder of wars that are unrelenting in nature, reread the book "this kind of war." would like to see why we should supplement our approach to control, read "rules of the game." in terms of strategy, read "the and most strategy." importantly, when it comes to your willing and just to you, willing and magnificent soldiers, i say that you need --y follow the armycreed the army create that we saw on the screen and cited. physically, i salute generalsmillie -- generals initiatives.ost's i am reminded that general schwarzkopf in the years after vietnam served under a korean war veteran, and he was a battalion commander, a brigade commander who insisted on tougher soldiers, knowing what he had faced in the korean war. mentally, i want you to enhance your war fighting skills, assuming every week in the army is a week to get better at integrating all army and joint efforts to become more tactically cunning. so body and mind must be met with the spirit. spiritually, ladies and gentlemen, we need our soldiers to build your own and your comrades in arms' resilience to take comb

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they look at his experience as a soldier in the civil war and indiana wars and his relationship with fellow marksman and showman captain jack crawford. the buffalo bill's center of the west in cody, wyoming, hosted this 90 minute talk. >> thank you, jeremy. thanks to the buffalo bill center of the west for holding this symposium. thaw to c-span for filming it. this is a wonderful opportunity to get the story of buffalo bill and the west out to the broad american audience, that is the goal of all of us in this business, to try and inspire others of the story of the american west and show why we love it so much. this morning, we have three folks who are going to inspire you, and make you fall even more in love with the american west. we're going to have them speak in alphabetical order. i learned to do that back in the fifth grade. that's the way we're going to do this. i'll introduce them individually as they appear. first, we have jeff broom. who i've known for many years. jeff is very active in not only the academic world but world of popular history and writes magazine articles for

war. >> guest: poland thought it was prepared but it wasn't. nazi germany was the mightiest military behemoth in world history up to that point and poland was, had a, sizable army. small air force, small navy. it was basically a poor country. it didn't have the sense and financial wherewithal germany did. they thought they could hold off germany at least for a while but germans rolled over them. cspan: you say it wasn't a surprise. the date was maybe a surprise but was the rest of europe preparing for war at this point? >> guest: they expected war was coming. most european countries hoped it wouldn't happen. half the european countries were neutral. they declared neutrality. some prepared for war to a certain extent but none of them were really ready for what was about to happen to them. they hoped somehow something would happen to prevent germany from embarking on what, you know, hitler had been really preparing for a number of years. so they were basically keeping their fingered crossed.

we've outlawed of war. we can't use war to enforce the prohibition of war. they struggle with this question for some time. ultimately they come up with a solution. it turns out that henry stimson was a secretary of state at the time had been classmates with samuel levinson, one of our heroes, they been corresponding and the levinson sent him what a mini articles in britain which was a about the sanctions of peace. the idea of the sanctions of these was you are not going to enforce with war, , you not use war sanctions but you can refuse to recognize the seizure of territory by a state that is acting illegally. this is a revolutionary idea at the time. up until then when states conquered territory even if they did it for illegitimate reasons once their control of it, it was theirs. if you look at maps of europe from the 1600s up to 1928 lines are shifting constantly. the borders are constantly moving. if you look at a map from 1650 1650-1750, everyone looks different because wars are changing and shifting borders left and right. he says we are not, the ideas

was basically a civil war.after world war ii, the united states occupied south korea. soviet union occupied north korea. i think soviet troops withdrew in 1948 from north korea. u.s. troops withdrew from 1949 from south korea. the civil war was on again. both the north and south were at least in rhetoric, as by the way kim jong-un regime is today, paying lip service to reunification and the fact that they wanted to resolve this civil conflict and unified. so the driver, the driving force was kim il-sung. he really wanted to launch invasion, and none of the great powers really wanted the war. i mean, as we're talking about before, there's been so much going on in europe. .. and that could harm his revolution at home. stalin, he convinced stalin to intervene and as he was a bit wary, he said at one point he told kim il song you should get them now for all the help. he gave him a reluctant lesson to kim's invasion but he wasn't wild about it although he eventually sent troops. not troops butadvisers and weapons .

war effort for world war two and then after the one nine hundred sixty s. things like international competition and resource depletion tonnage of the other industries out i mean have still has a pretty big cast iron pipe industry but then not anymore hey iran isn't made here anymore. the furnace is a no longer burning but there are impressive reminders of the time when birmingham was also known as the pittsburgh of the south pittsburgh was america's number one steel city at the time. was the right now but i am. the. one. with the population of two hundred twelve thousand birmingham is still alabama's biggest city even though it's lost half of its population as a result of the economic decline of the past fifty years that's evidenced by the many decaying buildings many of them are being pulled down three quarters of all the inhabitants are african-americans just half a century ago these people had to fight for their civil rights the events from back then a student at the forefront of them minds. but during that time birmingham was rigidly segregated segregat

to know world war ii you have to learn world war i.hat we went world war i, the 100th anniversary. we didn't get there until april 1918, after the declared war and didn't start fighting until the summer time and lost, this is combat, 53,000 we lost more than fat, 63,000 because of injuries from the war and disease. the point i am trying to make is the british in one day lost 65,000 men and when people look back at chamberlain, they don't see what the english people saw which was horrendous death and horrendous personal tragedies from world war i. this is a poor analogy but like a football team, the winning team suffers a lot of injuries but the wind. the losing team suffers a lot of injuries, they lose. they want revenge and hitler was the revenge. the winning team in world war i wanted to move on and laugh they wanted was a war. i have a question as far as winston churchill's citizenship. his mother was an american citizen if i'm not mistaken. the president of the united states -- >> guest: he wasn't born here. you have to be born her

theabolitionists welcomed war. the union and confederate deaths was the price to be paid for the sins of the past and what the founders had done in the constitution, for the creation of the ongoing legal status of slavery. for the abolitionists, those 700,000 bodies would liberate the nation from an otherwise impossible national misery. view, practical point of once the south forced the decision on the north, the united states was destined to be a slave free country, sooner than later. so moore's northerners, including lincoln, did not think of it -- but most northerners, including lincoln, did not think nf it in those terms whe the war began. by choosing to prevent separation, the north made it certain that they would be one of three likely results. the north would lose the war and one, there would be no slavery in the diminished united states or the north would win the war , -- a total victory, slavery , at some time in the not-too-distant future be abolished. started, ae the war compromise would be affected. the

the war never end and i'm not going out today it's too sad hurts me to watch a war that never ends anyway so let's kick off the of ghana stand ward sweet sixteen and start watching the whole. thing. with the. real thing. as you leave the bottom if you. like you know that i got. this. week so. welcome everybody to watch the hawks i am tyrol but for them to have a while is so terrible that yes afghanistan is old enough to drive now you have got to stand war has now early to have an all out there are only drive a helicopter pilot flies i would have to guess it is a six yes sixteen you get a hell of a get it you get two helicopters too you know rain chaos down. the populace and i love that and you know i want to show you a quick chart take take a look at this stuff this is the length of the of galveston where it was now the longest running us war in history longer than the bro rebellion fourteen years northwest ward ten years iraq eight point eight us coming up fast in the real american revolution eight years later vietnam a second some little i civil war a little more to nothing compares to

the war that never ends and i'm not going to sing that day it's too sad hurts me too much a war that never ends anyway so let's kick off the afghanistan wars sweet sixteen and start watching the hawks. as you put it to. you that i got. so. welcome about it watching the hawks i am tyrol but for them to have a while so it's out of the yes afghanistan is old enough to drive now. stanmore has now only. i have to go out there apparently drive a helicopter pilot flies i would have to guess it is a six yes sixteen you get a hell of a get it you get two helicopters to you know rain chaos down. the populace and i love that and you know i want to show you a quick chart take take a look at this to this is the length of the of galveston where it is now the longest running u.s. war in history longer than the bro rebellion fourteen years northwest. ten years iraq eight point eight dust coming up fast in the american revolution eight years later vietnam a second subtotal civil war world war two nothing compares to now for the u.s. of the afghanistan war and that just boggles your my and i think thi

side of war. there has been a lot of great military and sometimes political leaders like ulysses s. grant who found war to be a antidote to depression. this temperament that was prone to melancholy. with the intensity of war alleviating that. i am wondering with george washington in your research did that ever,? -- come up? how was his temperament when he was inactive otherwise? phillip: this question has come up before. i think george washington during war suffer from bouts of depression. we see that in his letters. this is a long war. he often thinks that it is a lost cause. even when he takes the command of two boston he looks around and he sees a lot of ruffian frontiersman. he has to be reminded by command that these are the best marksman in the world. over the course of the lord his temperament and his attitude improves and he is less depressed. is he participating in war , maybe to relieve some psychological desire. i did not mention that he was depressed in the british empire. he was the p