i was a cadet at west point. morale at west point wasn't particularly high. the class of 72 is not manned. it was the first time in history it could not fill the core of cadets. my classmates on the topic of hair tended to be a long-haired bunch. officers tended to have short hair and it had more to do with getting a date than anything else. it was a curious time in our history and at that point there was a lot of concern about the volunteer army. there was concern about qualification scores and the quality of the force as you have discussed. the army was not particularly happy with the way things were going so general was sent out to crew recruiting command which was in chicago at fort sheridan. very close to america obviously in the middle of a big city and his mission was to make the all volunteer army work. he brought in at that time the best minds that he could find and there were a lot of them. the army at that time was very much in the vein of a thing called programming planning budgeting execution system. was brought on board in the army was bludgeone

the period of the '70s, i was a cadet at west point. mayor at west point wasn't particularly high. class of '72 wasn'ten maked. it was the first time in the academy's history they could not fill a corps of cadets. they fired admission. topics on long hair, tended to be a long haired bunch. officers had short hair. it had more to do with getting a date, i think, than anything else. but it was a curious time in our history. at that point, there is a lot of concern about the volunteer army. there's concern about the armed forces qualification scores soldiers were exhibiting and the quality of the force, as you have discussed. the army was not particularly happy with the way things are going. general thurman was sent out to recruiting command, which at that time was in chicago at fort sheridan. close to america, in the middle of a big city. his mission was to make the all volunteer army work. he brought in at that time the best minds he could find, and there were a lot of them. the army at that time was very much in the vein of a thing called ppbs, programming, planning, execution syst

the communities of west point in monrovia are quarantined on a full security watch.s means there will be no movement in and ouof those areas. we ordered the military touarantine the place, to stop anybody from leaving. our fear was people would runnd awayome from there and then go into other communities. that's why we did that. (gunfire) >> narrator: the quarantineme backfired diately. the army shot a teenage boy, who later died from his wounds. go except the streets,whereto so the virus was spreading. more quick by now, one of finda's children, sasko, was dead. the rest desperately needed help. >> narrator: as westoint descended into chaos, doctors without borders had been constructi elwa 3, the biggest ebola hospital ever built. but when it opened, it wasld immediately clear not be enough. brett adamson was the fieldfo coordinatothe clinic. yi >> people were outside, families were dying in taxi cabs outside. they were arring seeking care. the families had nowhere else to go, the center was full, and essentially, they were waiting... the center was waiting for someo

west point is crucial for this right here. and it is along the hudson. what that is is literally a chain. a big thick chain that stretches across the hudson river. what you think it is meant to do? >> keep out ships. >> tear the holes open. did what do you think? >> i say no. >> anyone say yes? so bottom line, no one knows because it was never tested. so you have batteries on either side. so the british never tested it but if west point falls and the chain and the garrisons and batteries are removed, what will they do? >> take the hudson. >> and therefore divide the colonies, which they've been trying to do. andre, this is his self-portrait, a very fashionable gentleman, is going to arrange to meet with arnold. andre is a british major, an aid to general clinton. and arnold wants to meet with him. he wants to meet with him past american lines. now, if a british officer in his red coat was meeting with benedict arnold, the commander of west point, that would look a little suspicious, don't you think? so he tells andre to take off his uniform. problems. wh

. >> narrator: west point was now out of control. rens, gunfire) >> fellow citizens, it hases become nsary to impose additional sanctions. te communities of west po in monrovia are quarantined on a full securi watch. this means there will be no movement in and out of those areas. we oered the military to quarantine the place, to stop anybody fr leaving. our fear was people would run away and come from there and then go into other communities. that's why we did that. unfire) >> narrator: the quarantine backfired immediately. the army shoa teenage boy,m who later diedhis wounds. and the infected had now to go except the streets, so the virus was spreading more quickly. by now, one of finda's children, sasko, was dead. the rest desperately needed help. >> arrator: as west point descended into chaos, doctors without borders had been constructing elwa 3, the biggest ebola hospital ever built. but when it opened, it was immediately clear it would not be enough. brett adamson was the field coordinator for the clinic. >> people were dying out

the army at that time, there was a lot of sentiment among these officers especially west point and they did not like the irish. and so, they would punish more severely, and they felt like they were of use and left out. they did not get promotions, they weren't appreciated, so mexicans who are catholic like the irish were, understood this. so, they started sending leafless. this started happening over the rio grande. they sent leaflets over the river saying we share the same religion. come across the river, join our forces and at one point they gave them cash and 40 acres or something like that. they crossed the river in great numbers, hundreds of them at one point taylor posted guards along the river and orders shoot to kill because every night they were trying to swim in the river. pretty bad situation. enough of them got over that they formed a brigade. they were made and artillery brigade and they were quite effective. they fought at monterey and at bonavista-- bonavista. they were captured and about 40 of them were executed. they timed it so that they were hanged just as the america

. >> you are first in your class at west point.s you become first in your class at west point? what happened to all the other people who were second third and fourth? did they become anything? sec. pompeo: one is the secretary of defense. --ing a hard time about the >> you went to harvard law school, why did you abandon the practice of law. >> a great opportunity. i was practicing law with my partners. i enjoyed my time there. i want to law school a little later and had a chance to start a business. three of my best friends in the whole world. started a machine shop in wichita kansas. me you wereold negotiating with somebody on the opposite side of that deal and that person wound up being your wife? sec. pompeo: true. she took my money toys. [laughter] >> what is the best part of secretary of state? sec. pompeo: i love susan. david: you had to say in that -- had to say that. what's the best part of being secretary of state? to. pompeo: you get a chance help ordinary americans understand what we are doing and trying to live in an en

. >> you talked about the first black grad from west point, i know that davis ended up being a general and when he graduated from west point in the class of 62 i believe, i'm sorry, 22, he, upon graduation that gained a lot of friends basically, his classmates did not want them there because of his color, they wouldn't talk to him. he was ostracized and the gentleman who was the first lot cadet at west experienced the same thing . >> yes, he was not allowed to graduate. i'd forgotten his name but the grant administration, that was the first african-american to enter west point and he was so harassed and he did something, i don't remember the details, i shouldn't get into it but he did something that led himself to be open to court-martial and dismissal from the academy and that's why he becomes the first african-american to graduate they're not the first to attend a west point . >> i am matt from illinois, speaking of the train advantages and disadvantages, you talk about how from the ottawa to the chattahoochee father piedmont more and then from the chattahoochee south the advantage o

mark attended the united states military academy at west point.1986, receiving a commission in the infantry. soon, he earned his tab, ranger tab, and fought with the famed 101st airborne division in the gulf war. he was awarded the bronze star and the combat infantryman badge for his service. brave guy. they all told me he's a brave guy. i knew that anyway. in total, mark served in our nation's military for 21 years. he completed his final active-duty assignment right here at the pentagon on the army staff and then returned six years later as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for negotiations policy. over his career, mark has advanced our national security in a variety of other government and private sector roles. he has worked in both houses of congress, advising lawmakers. i can see he had some talent because he won was it 98 to what? no, you got 90, right? can you believe this? i don't believe it. congress, advising lawmakers. i heard a "ninety." ninety to eight, right? [laughter] i don't know. i haven't heard that sound in a long time,

class you were first air at west point. -- first in your class at west point. that is pretty tough.happened to all the other people? have they become anything? mike: one of them as secretary of defense. [laughter] mike: he's a classmate of mine as well. i give them a rough time about our order of finish. david: you with the harvard law school. why did you abandon the practice of law? mike: i had a great opportunity. i had great partners i worked for. i enjoyed my time there. . went to law school later i had a chance to start a business in kansas with three of my best friends. it was a machine shop. i spent the next 15 years there. david: you were negotiating with somebody on the opposite side of that deal. the person ended up being your wife. mike: true. took my money twice. [laughter] david: ok. what is the best part about being secretary of state? mike: i love susan. we are still married. everything is good. [laughter] david: you had to say that. mike: i have friends in the room who are texting her right now. david: the best part of being secretary of state is what? mike: you get

he told ulysses that he was going to west point. ulysses said he did not want to go to west point and his father said, i guess you will. said, i guess if he thought so, i would too. he served in the mexican war with conspicuous courage in a number of battles. battleblem for grant in was not a fear so much of getting shot at it. he was not like apocalypse myth in the war of 1812. he had been shot at a lot in the mexican war and had done a lot of very bold and brave things there. but it was being responsible, and this was something that got to a lot of people. brian mentioned joseph johnston, and that was certainly a problem for him. tooothered ulysses grant early in the war. very early in the war, grant was only commanding a single regiment, the 21st illinois. to go to florida, harris. and attack and he saidegiment as he went, he became increasingly nervous, and he described it as feeling more and more trepidation, i think we would translate as fear. he said my heart seemed to be higher and higher until finally my heart was in my thr

the person who deals with that is jonathan wainwright, the son of a cavalryman in the west point class of 2006, a remarkable guy. wainwright holds on the best he can but he and his command are doomed. in 1942, interesting sort of historical point, ned king, a georgian who was raised on tales of the civil war. he knew full well the day he surrendered was more or less the same date general lee surrendered to general grant, all he could think about when he surrendered. i would rather die 1000 deaths, that is exactly what king was thinking over and over again. they surrender in april. wainwright and others by june, in total 21,000 americans, four times as many filipinos end of dealing with the horrors of japanese captivity. japanese treated them with neglect or brutality. that is a major theme that i explore. one of the best ways to understand the pow experience in the pacific is through the eyes of this guy, lieutenant colonel harold johnson, west point class of 1943. this after he becomes a 4-star general, talking about him earlier in life, he was with the philippines scouts, he had been

he went to west point. graduated from west point. you probably all knknow all thi. he never took up a mission. instead, he found jesus at west point. that was the first person to be baptized in -- he was not baptized as a young person, he was baptized in the chapel at west point and he started a whole movement of other cadets that it had profound influence, you know, buts that was all with the e ppiscopal church. look throughout the south, all the churches in louisiana, alabama, tennessee, were all going back to him. and there was a huge upset by his father, colonel william polk, leonodis decided this is the way he wants to go. >> right. >> he's a fascinating man. he was the man who founded the university of the south and the image of wanting to have an oxford over here which never quite worked out because the civil war. so just following the individuals -- >> right. >> -- in the family, you see all this, you know, change, you know, very dynamic change with the generation -- >> since you're sort of demonstrating one of the things i'm trying to push back against, tha

david: in your career, you were first in your class at west point.how do you become first in your class at west point? that is pretty tough. i mean, what happened to all the other people who were second, third, and fourth? [laughter] david: have they become anything? sec. pompeo: one of them is the secretary of defense. [laughter] sec. pompeo: he's a classmate of mine as well. i give him a hard time about our relative order of finish. [laughter] david: you went to harvard law school. why did you abandon the practice of law? sec. pompeo: i had a great opportunity. i was practicing law here, had great partners i worked for. unlike many, i actually enjoyed my time there. i was older, i had gone to law school a little bit later, but i had a chance to start a business in kansas with three of my best friends in the whole world. we started a company that was a machine shop in wichita, kansas. i spent the next 15 years there. david: i thought you once told me you were negotiating with somebody on the opposite side of that deal. and that person wound up to be

. >> you were first in your class at west point.how do you become first in your class at west point, that is pretty tough. what happened to all the other people that were second, third, fourth, did they become anything? >> one is the secretary of defense. i gave him a hard time about the finish. [laughter] you went to harvard law school. why did you abandon the practice? >> i had a great partners i worked with and i enjoyed my time. i had the chance to start with my best friends in the whole world and spend the next -- >> you said you ar were negotiag with somebody on the opposite side, and that person your wife. you had to say that otherwise -- >> to help understand what we are trying to do in an environment where fewer of their kids have to be in conflict. that is the mission to get the outcomes through diplomacy. what is the worst part of being secretary of state? >> i haven't figured that out yet. the state department itself, are you involved in a lot of the foreign service officers to encourage them to be more involved in the s

he went to west point. graduated from west point and you probably know all of this. he found jesus at west point. and was the first person to be baptized, he was not baptized as a young person, he was baptized in the chapel at west point and he started the whole movement of other cadets and has had a profound influence and that was all with the episcopal church. if you look throughout the south you will find all the churches in louisiana, alabama, tennessee, they are all going back to him. there was a huge upset by his father, colonel william polk that he decided this is the way he wants to go. so it is very fascinating. he is a fascinating man. he was one who founded the university of the south in the image of him wanting to have an oxford over here which never quite worked out because of the civil war. following the individuals in the family you see all of this change. very dynamic change. >> you are demonstrating one of the things i'm trying to push back against. i agree that this guy is a great example, he is an easy example and a good one because he becomes enth

he was indifferent at west point. he is really smart. terrific poker player. but he had a little problem about authority. and i said, where did that come from? i associate ike with being the master organizer. why would he have a hang up about authority? daddy. daddy was the hang up about authority and his big brother. his big brother was called big ike and in high school he was called little ike. now, that's a burden to carry around for four years. and who was the captain of the football team? not little ike, no. okay. you've got to suffer through that. so you put those two men together, one young and one older, and you get a real hang up about authority. so ike rejected his father, he started to smoke cigarettes. at d-day he was smoking four packs a day. four packs. that means you're lighting a cigarette off of a cigarette to do that. i do not recommend that for anyone. i have a strong interest in public health and, believe me -- and my father died of lung cancer, smoked all of his life. so i don't recommend that. but he rejected his father. he learned to pla

this is west point class of 1902 at the high watermark. you can see they lay their caps out on the o 2 in front of the high watermark, all of the west point cadets here. if you look to the top left, the men wearing civilian clothes are some of the park commissioners. gettysburg in the war department era is preserved and managed by three park commissioners. two are union veterans and one are confederate veterans and they're photographed here. later you could look at photographs of west point cadets and see dwight david eisenhower visiting gettysburg. so the war department brings these young cadets here and talk about leadership, what it means to be a good general, how to fight a good successful campaign. that's part and parcel of the war department era. and into the early part of the second decade of the 20th century, the war department is going to use gettysburg in a very utilitarian fashion. this is a photograph and some of you are familiar with this by name. during the first world war, the great war, the u.s. war department establishes c

david: in your career, you were first in your class at west point.how do you become first in your class at west point? that is pretty tough. i mean, what happened to all the other people who were second, third, and fourth? [laughter] david: have they become anything? sec. pompeo: one of them is the secretary of defense. [laughter] sec. pompeo: he's a classmate of mine as well. i give him a hard time about our relative order of finish. [laughter] david: you went to harvard law school. why did you abandon the practice of law? sec. pompeo: i had a great opportunity. i was practicing law here, had great partners i worked for. unlike many, i actually enjoyed my time there. i was older, i had gone to law school a little bit later, but i had a chance to start a business in kansas with three of my best friends in the whole world. we started a company that was a machine shop in wichita, kansas. i spent the next 15 years there. david: i thought you once told me you were negotiating with somebody on the opposite side of that deal. and that person wound up to be

general who was born to be a soldier, the son of a calgary and, had been the first captain since west pointclass of 06, remarkable by. he holds on as best he can. april 9, 1942, interesting historical base point who surrendered here is a georgian who had been of course on details of the civil war and he knew full well that it was more or less the same then general lee surrendered before and that is all he could think about. this earneso this vendor in aprd others by jailing a total of 21,000 americans and probably four times as many filipinos end up dealing with the japanese captivity. the japanese treated them with neglect or outright brutality. so you get a sense of that and that is another thing that i explore. one of the best ways to experience this experience is through the eyes of this guy, the lieutenant colonel harold keith johnson class of 1933. this is when he become becomes e for general comes to talking about earlier in life he was with the philippine scouts and had been a commander, staff officer. he has to surrendered along with everybody else and hunger, lower now, misery, ch

west point graduate. i'm a west point graduate.id eight years in the army active duty as an apache helicopter pilot. my brother is a west point graduate as well. >> dana: quite the family. >> thank you. i had really good parents. we understand the sacrifice that it takes and those kinds of dishonest comments don't benefit those that are fighting abroad and defending their lives and risking our lives for the betterment of our country. >> dana: joey, it came on a weird day for her to say that. hours earlier, it had been confirmed that the son of osama bin laden, it was confirmed he has been killed in the war on terror, the very same day that she said president trump was not fighting al qaeda. >> well, you know, this is a place where tulsi gabbard should be the strongest, but in my point, she's the weakest. she is a flip flopper. she's waivered on this. in 2015, 2014 receiving pats on the back from shell matterson, same tulsi gabbard meeting up with iran. to say she's got some explaining to do is an under statement. what are her motiv

yes it's thought that the 5 the origin of all sin also initiate the west west point people this race he said all along and finally reached a tipping point this past 2 days so when the people say that oh it's good to the incident in surround by you know where the. students don't work attacked and racist lots of monkeys it's just. it's just bigger this they finally have reached a tipping point how would you describe so far the the indonesian state's response to the protests and also overall the reverse have been witnessing a separatist movement many decades now how would you grade the response of the indonesian state. their response saw fall in asian government has been find they are not using security approach since the since the beginning in the one to 6 this until now are international been using stood the approach that been sailing and that's why. that this past few days. used to eat under international law if you want to protest you have to do something at the level of the ticket can treat aspire to protest but this protest this last good blood test that no one. not discussion abo

despite the oath that they took upon graduation from input -- west point. they suffered horrific casualties there so down in southeastern virginia. when it comes to raw numbers. valor will get you a long way mathematics takes over. on the second day at gettysburg when they have the sweet sweeping flank attack and almost overruns the little top. his problem is he runs out. when they are defeated there is nothing else. there is no reinforcements left. what if he just had 5,000 of them. the battle may have come up the same way. but it would've been crucial several hours on the union left in confederate right. they would've have a series of tackle engagements which could've gone either way. as brave as they were in the union left they just didn't have the numbers it didn't matter how hard they fought. they could not overcome the numbers. if they have another 10,000 men it may still fail. but it may have worked. so it would be my contention as a former soldier and a lifelong student of military history that launches him he believes his own kool-aid. he gets to g

he applied to west point and became a member of the west point class of 1915. 59 members of this class were to achieve general officer rank. known as the class the stars fell on. while at west point, he makes the varsity football team but not the baseball team. he's supposedly devastated by that. and he meets and marries maymy doubt in 1916. he asks for combat duty continuously when world war i breaks out finally they say okay and he's scheduled to get on a ship november 18th, 1918. needless to say, he never makes it to france. he thinks his career is over for not having seen combat during world war i. eisenhower's career was actually not bad. not great, but pretty good for not having been in combat. he's a brigadier general when pearl harbor is attacked. he spent five years working for douglas mcarthur in the philippines. not surprisingly, he doesn't get along well with douglas mcarthur. but hey, ike was a great staff officer. made his bosses look really good. and so even though mcarthur and eisenhower didn't get along great, he still wouldn't let eisenhower go because he was such a g

it also marked the debut of large numbers of west point graduates in combat. and for the first time, american news papers sent reporters to cover a war. public now read dramatic battle accounts rather than dull government reports. in 1846, five new york news papers began sharing war news and costs. and so is born the associated press. world's largest and oldest news gathering organization. the new american field artillery was the war's great military innovation. using horses, gun crews quickly moved around the battle field to support troops. u.s. field artillery was the best in the world. and decisive in several battles. when the war began, america had just 8,000 regular troops. tens of thousands of volunteers from pancreatic tick hi practically every state. volunteers were largely untrained. many could not even take care of themselves. they succumb to diseases in shocking numbers. the best of them in addition to donathan's missouri volunteers were the mississippi rifles led by jefferson davis. future president of the confederate states of america. and the tex

and he went to west point. gararaduated from west point. you probably know all this. and he never -- he found jesus at west point. he was baptized in the chapel. he started a whole movement. they have had profound influe e influence. but that was all with the episcopal church. you'll find all the churches in louisiana, alabama, tennessee, all going back to him. and there was a huge upset by his father that he decided this is the way he wants to go. so it's a fascinating man. had it never worked out. it's just following the individuals in the family. >> you're demonstrating one of the things i'm trying to push back against. while i agree, he's an easy example and is a good one because he gets baptized. my point is just because you don't do that stuff means you don't have religion. that's lienglike my line in the the sand. it's easy to look at the whigs and evangelicals and they have the religion party. it's a different kind of religion, it's a different kind of -- a lot of them are still engauged in the theological musings. but to james k. polk, one of the things that

photograph -- you see that this is above the high watermark, all the west point cadets here. wearingleft, the men civilian clothes are some of the park commissioners. are utilitarians fashion. the u.s. war department establishes camp colt and that facility andining it is established on the field of pickett's charge. this is a photograph. look at the tank in the center. if you everss the landscape and they see world war i tanks roaming across the fields of pickett's charge. colt. the big change occurs in 1933. one of the things that struck me when i was lighting the dissertation and researching -- writing the dissertation and ,esearching as a phd candidate the history of gettysburg does not occur in a vacuum. this place is not managed or preserved in a vacuum. social, political, economic events influenced this. this is a great example. when the u.s. war department transfers ownership of gettysburg to the national park service, it'sgettysburg is manad on the local superintendent. james mcconaughey -- he is a harvard graduate. he has a degree in landscape architecture. so when h

he graduated from west point in 1932. number 35 in a class of 300 some.. before he was an west point he was put under the silent treatment and groomed and eight alone and was able to come out superior. they tagged him to become the commander of the tuskegee airmen were 332nd fighter group when it was formed. he was tough but fair and i remember when he chose the three of us. in 1949 he called us to his office and said with his magnificent and booming commanding voice gentleman, i think this is a splendid opportunity foris the 332nd and i'm wishing you godspeed as far as yourr participation and let e admonish you if you don't win, don't come back. [laughter] there's a great story in the book you have to read about the flight from the air force base in ohio. i won't spoil it by telling you. buy the book. center section back row we have time for one last question. the last question. >> first of all, thank you for your service, god bless you for that. i've always been curious how the nickname originated. >> all of the aircraft in world waworldwar ii haveworld

what do you remember about mike pompeo at west point?emic pedigree and smarts. >> your uncle was a renowned ap reporter in vietnam and i had the privilege of meeting him. what will you do to ensure there are regular briefings and that it's been a year since a defense secretary had an on camera briefing the briefing room. >> my uncle was a tremendous journalist and many years of experience beyond vietnam as well. i learned a number of things that his knee, his second day on the job i met with the media pool. we sent out a memo expressing the importance of our commanders engaging with the media. >> the price is not the enemy? >> the press is not the enemy in my book. >> thank you. >> shannon: what started as a joke is morphing into a real concern for some counties in nevada, talking about the so-called plan to break into one of the u.s. military's most heavily guarded facilities. area 51. here is national correspondent william la jeunesse. >> i don't think anybody could prepare for anything like this. we are doing our absolute best. >> for

he needed a shrunken perimeter. >> you talked about the first black grad from west point. i know then -- well, most famously colonel benjamin davis ended up being a general. when he graduated from westpoint, i believe class of '62. excuse me '22, he upon graduation gained a lot of friends, basically. his classmates did not want him there because of his color. they would not talk to him. he was ostracized. the gentlemen who was the first cadet, black cadet at westpoint, did he experience the same thing? >> yeah. he was not allowed to graduate. he actually was -- i've forgotten his name. that was the grant administration. that was the first african american to enter westpoint. he was so harassed and so hazed, and he did something -- i don't remember the details. i shouldn't get into it, but he did something that led himself to be open to dismissal from the academy. that's why flipper is the first african american to graduate. he's not the first to attend westpoint. >> matt from illinois. speaking of the terrain advantages and disadvantages, you talked about how from the et w

david: you were first in your class at west point. that is pretty tough.t happened to all the other people? have they become anything? mike: one of them as secretary of defense. [laughter] he's a classmate of mine as well. i give them a rough time about our relative order of finish. david: you went to harvard law school. why did you abandon the practice of law? mike: i had a great opportunity. i had great partners i worked for. i enjoyed my time there. i went to law school later. i had a chance to start a business in kansas with three of my best friends. it was a machine shop. i spent the next 15 years there. david: you once told me you were negotiating with somebody on the opposite side of that deal. the person ended up being your wife. mike: true. took my money twice. [laughter] david: ok. what is the best part about being secretary of state? mike: i love susan. we are still married. everything is good. [laughter] david: you had to say that. otherwise -- mike: i have friends in the room who are texting her right now. david: the best part of being secreta

while at west point he makes the varsity foot wall team but not the baseball team. he is supposedly devastated by that and meets in 1916 asking for condo duty continuously when world war i breaks out. finally they say okay and he is scheduled to get on a ship in 1918. needless to say he never makes it to france so he thinks his career is over for not having seen combat. so his career was actually not bad. not great but pretty good for not having been in contact. >> he was a brig. gen. and spent five years working for douglas macarthur. not surprisingly he doesn't get along well with douglas macarthur but he made his bosses look really good. even though he and eisenhower did not get along great he still would not let eisenhower go because he was such a great staff officer. while others were being weeded out of the army particularly during the great depression eisenhower continued to get promoted ready steadily. during the great depression and the lead up to world war ii he's looking for a commander who could work with senior commanders and organize a diverse interest

bring home a total of $33000.00 troops by next summer fully we're covering the surge i announced at west point after this initial reduction our troops will continue coming home at a steady pace by 2014 this process of transition will be complete in the afghan people will be responsible for their own security middle east expert early risk things the complete withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan cannot be expected any time soon. trump is being subject to some significant pressures within america pressures from the deep state there are close allies to trump in the republican party who have voiced their objection to any complete withdraw i refer here to lindsey graham of the well known republican senator who was also closely allied with trumpet lindsey graham has been very vocal in saying that deal with should not completely withdraw in fact he had an article in new york times with the former a your worst vice chief of staff jack keane in that article graham and mccain said that the withdrawal shouldn't be a withdrawal which is all which meets the conditions of the taliban and shouldn't be t