lee's army. so, some elements of the union army that fought it gettysburg will be sent west to fight at the battle of chickamauga in september of 1863. so, george meade is going to, robert e. lee is going to lose part of his army and send it to chickamauga in september. so, robert e. lee's going to send a lot of james long streets guys to georgia in september. george meade is going to lose some of his army, the 11th and 12th corps sent to check a new go later in the fall of 1863. so, you have these two armies, but what's happening is after the battle of gettysburg, after lee retreats, the intention. he's now worried about the mississippi river, tennessee and georgia. so, he'll, and so is the confederate high command. and they all shift their attention from the east to the west. the confederates will send james long street to the west to fight in chickamauga in georgia. to join brazton bragg and george meade will send part of his army to join u.s. grant at chattanooga. so, you now have these much

this army is a truly wonderful army, wrote one officer on the eve of gettysburg. they have something of the english bulldog in them. you can whip them time and again. but the next fight they go into, they go in good spirits again. if the army of the potomac would only do so-and-so everything will go all right. they say there isn't a department in the service that has done as much hard marching or fought as many battles as we have. it's true, we have not been victorious. but the fault is not in the troops. any man will fight when flushed with former victories, but only this shattered army will face the enemy though defeat be certain. the identity of that army came into focus during hooker's command. and that perhaps is joseph hooker's greatest legacy, greatest contribution to the war. there is no arguing, no diminishing that period from january 26th, 1863 until may 1st, 1863 as one of the most important periods in the history of the army of the potomac. and i would argue the period during which the army took on its identity, to some degree its structure, that would

his army endured several probing attacks. johnson's official explanation was he needed time to evacuate the wounded. he also hoped that a kounlter attack would wreck itself. another fact may have been his reluctance to reenforce the criticism that he always was too ready to retreat. so he stayed for a day and then on march 20th having made his point and recovered his wounded he ordered the army to fall back. johnston boasted that the courage and enthusiasm disproved the lies that hood had written in his report that the men in the ranks had forgotten how to fight. the battle in north carolina did nothing to believe the force in the lines around richmond and petersburg. throughout the campaign johnson believed lee was holding his own successfully outside richmond and that his responsibility was to protect lee's rear and keep open that vital railroad link between the two armys. in his view it was possible that the two armys might yet combine and turn one on the other to compete grant and sherman. even as johnson fell back lee wa

even though they had army uniforms, they were trained in the army. they were at an army base, they were an auxiliary. it didn't work. they went to the women's army corps, which was just like any other corps in the military. the woman in charge of the women's army corps. >> they called them wacs. when they first arrived the colonel said you have a date and a debt, a date with democracy and a. >> i felt a little patriotic. my older brother had a family and my youngest brother was 4f. i said to my mother, i think i'm going to join. let me take the place of the boys in the service. so that's what i did. >> 23-year-old victoria from allentown, pennsylvania was the daughter of polish immigrants. she'd only left home once to visit relatives in connecticut. that all changed. first she had to make it through boot camp. >> overseas training was fairly tough. we went on full-pack hikes. and when the officer would bloat whistle we had to lay down on the grass and crawl just like the boys did. >> you had gas mask drills. >> yes. oh, that was my hardest part of th

in 2009, the army published a report on counter weapons of mass destruction, which stated that the army lacks the full range of capabilities required to support the joint force commander and the tactical and operational chemical weapons of a mass destruction missions expected in the future. additionally, in 2015, identified the magnitude of the weapons of mass destruction threat and dod's resources or resource priorities for counter wmd missions. can either of you speak to the army or dod's readiness to mitigate the impact of potential north korean use of chemical weapons? dr. esper. >> senator, i'll take a first stab at that. that is an area of concern to the army. as i understand it. much like the rest of the army, the forces aren't fully prepared. of the 130 or so cbrne teams, a quarter are ready to go. are deemed ready. and so work needs to continue in that area, because much like as the army is preparing to engage, a near peer adversary at a high-end threat, this is one of the threats you face. that's something i experienced when we went to the gulf war in 1990, the clear threat of

keeping a large army immobilize for eight months is never a good idea. a defensive strategy easily degenerates. as napoleon pointed out that defense's strategy is defeat. a large army composed of civilians in uniform all eager to get home is particularly prone to lose whatever edge that it possessed. this unfortunately perfectly describes the french army in the spring of 1940. they devoted its time to make itself as comfortable as possible. the british army devoted itself to the occasional entertainment with the british equivalent of the united states and the occasional visits from members of the royal family and politicians. neither army from modern warfare contrary to the present day assumptions had more and better tanks than the germans by relegated to infantry support even though the relatively unknown charles de gaulle had published a controversial book 1934 advocating just the tactics the germans would used to defeat poland and france, the blitzkrieg. it sold less than a thousand copies in france but it sold many times that number in germany where

the french army devoted it's time to making it itself as comfortable as possible and the british army devoted itself to spit and polish with occasional entertainment proffered by the british equivalent of what would become in the united states the uso and occasional visits from members of the royal family and politicians. neither army was well-equipped for modern warfare. the french contrary to president the assumptions had more and better tanks than the germans but they were relegated to infantry support, even though the relatively unknown lieutenant colonel charles de gaulle had published a controversial book in 1934 that advocated for tactics that the germans would use to defeat poland in france, the blitzkrieg. de gaulle's book sold less than 1000 copies in france but so many, many times that number in germany where it was read aloud and became the bible of the officers would command the german army forces. as for antitank weapons rinses venerable 75 millimole in your field guns had been adopted in pt1897 with its flat trajectory and potential for rapid fire was more than capable

he has given one small army, the army of the ohio, it's not. but john schofield, he sends a small, sherman gives thomas a 25,000-man army under schofield. he positions himself between hood's army and northern alabam and nashville. so hood begins his march to nashville and schofield then starts a restreet. so you've b got 30,000 confedere troops and 25,000-man ewan yorn onarmy and they are racing north to get to nashville. schofield wants to get to nashville because it's fort iffeded. hood wants to get between schofield and nashville then attack and destroy schofield and then that will leave george thomas with he'se gathering consolidating troops, putting together a small force in nashville. hood and schofield meet or both converge in the city or the town of colombumbia, tennessee. schofield got there first and he fortifies. so hood has three core and he's sitting there south of columbia and he's got two choices. one is to attack schofield head on. or is other one is to try a flank. he decides to try a flank. so he leaves all 100 cannon or the a

army. get bulkyis about to when the state governments are to take office. that is why it lincoln sends a message to his commanders to engage in hard and tough fighting that will hurt somebody. that is why you get the december campaign in 1862 going east and west for fredericksburg. you have expired and what that turns into. this precipitates a capital crisis for lincoln. that is probably one of his greater moments as a politician. he contemplates resigning. is a question of which wing is going to determine his policy starting at 1863. there are a lot of questions in many ways. is where hesphere leaves the day after christmas. i believe it there. is fascinating. in order to defend my position i need to send you on the offense, that was his response. >> just like he is looking for a battlefield victory for the preliminary emancipation proclamation. he wanted to do this back in july. i think his cabinet persuaded him to wait until you get a battlefield victory or it looks like you are grasping

but because they were such, such alluring sanctuaries and because the army, the defending army was so tied, the one case, the army of mississippi at vicksburg, and then hood's army of tennessee in atlanta. because they are so tied to those defenses their strategy and their tactics do not seem to get past that, and enabled the federals to have freedom of maneuver, and ultimately with the vicksburg they starved them out and with atlanta, they maneuvered them out. and i mentioned washington, d.c. and the example i would use that works against the defenders is i will twist it just a hair because the defenders of washington are the united states army, of course. and there is a considerable amount of concern for the safety of washington in the spring of 1862. and stonewall jackson very well plays on that with the encouragement from general lee from richmond to keep the federal armies and shenandoah valley there so they cannot be moved to the peninsula. it is concern over washington and concern over adequately manning the fortifications, that george mcclellan on his way to the peninsula, he

in 2009, the army published a report on counter weapons of mass destruction that stated the army lacks the full range of capability to support the joint force commander in the tactical and operational chemical weapons in mass destruction missions expected in the future. additionally, a 2015 iran report identified a serious gap between the mag nude of the weapons of mass destruction threat and dod resources or resource priorities for counter-wmd missions. can either of you speak to the army or dod's readiness to mitigate the impact of potential north korean use of chemical weapons? dr. esper. >> senator, i'll take first stab at that. that is an area of concern to the army, as i understand it, much like the rest of the army, the forces aren't fully prepared. the 130 or so cbr teams, a quarter are deemed ready to go. work needs to continue in that area because much like the army's preparing to engage at a high end threat, this is a threat you face. this is something i experienced when i went to the gulf war in 1990 was the clear threat of chemical weapons by saddam hussein and we were in

in 2009, the army published a report on counter weapons of mass destruction that stated the army lacks the full range of capability to support the joint force commander in the tactical and operational chemical weapons in mass destruction missions expected in the future. additionally, a 2015 iran report identified a serious gap between the mag nude of the weapons of mass destruction threat and dod resources or resource priorities for counter-wmd missions. can either of you speak to the army or dod's readiness to mitigate the impact of potential north korean use of chemical weapons? dr. esper. >> senator, i'll take first stab at that. that is an area of concern to the army, as i understand it, much like the rest of the army, the forces aren't fully prepared. the 130 or so cbr teams, a quarter are deemed ready to go. work needs to continue in that area because much like the army's preparing to engage at a high end threat, this is a threat you face. this is something i experienced when i went to the gulf war in 1990 was the clear threat of chemical weapons by saddam hussein and we were in

it's the army taking over, it's the army forcing mugabe to step down. we are hearing reports that may be tomorrow that will make an announcement but we are all in the dark. all we know is what was said by general sibusiso moyo and what was said by general constantine chiwenga on radio. we have been hearing a lot from zanu pf talknig to the bbc about what this is really about and, for them, they said the party is still very much in control. what would you say to that? no, i think they are daydreaming because, from what we have seen, there were two factions inside zanu pf. one for vice president emmerson mnangagwa — the lacoste — and one for grace mugabe — the g40 — and the party was split. so on the lines of succession, i think the army and the war veterans think that grace was getting the nod so they decided to act. this is a kind of squable within zanu pf, it is not a national issue, it is a party issue. zanu pf, they are trying to resolve their problem. we introduced to as an anti—mugabe campaigner. you have been campaigning for his removalf

he joined the united states army in 2000 and was commissioned as an army officer in 2002. he then spent one year in iraq as a tank platoon leader and later a one-year tour in afghanistan. nicholas moran is also a graduate of the u.s. army and general staff college. nick has been working as the san francisco bay's wargaming america's in-house tanker and historian since 2012 and has the nickname of "the chieftain." might want to remember that. his first book on the development of tank destroyers is scheduled for release in the first half of 2018. nick is known for written articles and reviews of tanks inside and out. lots on youtube called "inside the chieftain's hatch," or this video cast on c-span's american history tv. ladies and gentlemen, nicholas moran. [ applause ] >> unfortunately, up as high up as it goes. good evening! okay, so, today's talk is on world war ii procurement or as the sherman is as it was. it's not a good title, but the best i could come up to when asked by rob, hey, can you give us a talk. i'm going to do the obligatory shoutout first. we are a comme

it consisted of the four regular army calvary regiment assigned to the army of the potomac. and also, the sixth pennsylvania calvary. he will command them to the stoneman raid and after georgia stoneman left the army to go get medical treatment. let me digress. will, you are a career calvary men. yes that your entire adult life as a calvary officer. your job is to spend your days mounted on a horse and doing other things covering and do. imagine you also have the most horrific case of hemorrhoids you could possibly imagine and you , oftenorge stoneman described as being hectic. if you have the kind of hemorrhoids he had, you would be dyspeptic to. he made a great scapegoat for hooker to feed -- defeat camusso. stoneman said medical leave on the 15th of may of 1863 to seek treatment and never committed troops again. this means, the senior division would end up becoming the temporary commander of the calvary core. his appointment does not become permanent until august of 1863. the reserved for grade was designed to pleasanton's first division. corpse becomes the commander, buf

unless it causes serious injury to pope's army. the events over the next several days will be able to determine someckson's attacks made sort of clear-cut advantage and a confederate victory, or if you should have waited. by noon, jackson had accomplished his objective as laid out by general lee. he sent on the main federal communication supply route. on the main federal communication supply route. they captured an immense amount of supplies. they made it clear they would roughfare gap if it became necessary. werestreet and his men marching toward this at any passing moment. jackson was quite well situated alsogust 27, but was beginning to lose offensive capabilities. he reinforced a defensive posture in the coming hours. proximity to washington dc meant that more reinforcements dissented from the federal capital quickly, and would comment any moment. jackson had done nothing to protect that retreat route to leave thoroughfare gap. in an orecome engaged g of plunder. drunk and all had been impaired, at least temporarily. can't marc

so the army area until my retirement, i wore an army of warm over 25 years. i was privileged to serve in some of the army's best units. attend the army's top training and leadership schools. i understand well the challenges of military service. the rigors of wartime deployment. wasably military career, i fortunate to serve america's test. the soldiers and officers and civilian employees that were. was this and those of our great nation safe. i am learned a good deal from all of them. their welfare and readiness always my top are ready. today's army is the greatest ground combat force in history. despite this fact, service is else's. this committee knows them well. the army is at a critical point. uponght terrorist groups and global demand for as fiscal pressures in his. the next secretary must prepare for success in the size. must be prepared as well. deliver my to values, experiences and it is to make your voice. if confirmed, my first party will be ready. training rotations to europe. for deploy units in the pacific. readiness must be our top priority. this

i warn army uniform for over 25 years but that i was privileged to serve in some the army's best active infantry units defend the top training leadership schools and serve on three separate continents in defense of our country. to stand well the challenges and military experiences they readiness a rigorous of deployment. am i clear was fortunate to serve with america's best soldiers ncos officers and civilian employees of the united states army whose selflessness and vigilance keep our great nation safer safe. i've learned a good deal from all of those who would not be here today. their welfare and brightness will be my top party. today's army is the greatest ground combat force in history. despite this fact the service faces many challenges. this committee knows him well be the armies of critical point pivoting to adjust the rise of aggressive adversaries while soldiers fight terrorist groups abroad and global demand for ready forces increases from fiscal pressures at home. the next secretary must lead the world's premier success in these difficult times and prepare for future fights a

lines were in the north stood british first army. shirro's nter, general french's and in the south, the americans. of her south, small group fighting french had completed historic 1500-mile march and position on the left flank to the british eighth mari-flang, the army after long retreat entrenched itself. unisia was brave with german troops, 15 full twigzs. poland and france, italianether with seven divisions armed with most modern equipment, including newest fighters and bombers. german orders were hold tunisia all cost, keep control of the ramo, standing behind the line, saw he must the be faced with attack in rear from the allied armies from the great dorsal and assault by army.h he therefore struck first in an menace to remove the behind him. n february 14th, the blow was struck. heavy armored columns burst out and intountain barrier the valley beyond. their onslot, dualed with heavy license. the enemy had forced through the kasserine columns were red advancing. tibeta,n column aimed at supply base in tunisia and our communicati

even though his home, protected by the army. why does the need to be protected ? the army. why does the need to be protected? he is protected with a full residential guard. are you telling me nothing has happened? that it is not dysfunctional to have the state would cast taken over and have a president locked in his home? what has not happened is a coup. so is this, or is this not a coup? zanu pf‘s representative says no. i put the same question to fungayi mabhunu an anti—mugabe campaigner here in london. from what the army is saying, they saying it is not a military takeover and they are trying to put things right. they realise that mugabe is surrounded by a lot of bugs and they wa nted surrounded by a lot of bugs and they wanted to leave of the thugs. the announcement they made on tv and what we have heard from friends, the army is in charge. what is your assessment? it is the army taking over and forcing mugabe to step down. we are hearing that may be tomorrow that will make an announcement but we are all in the dark. all we know is what was said by major general sib

but the fact is, they present 10% of that army. -- they represent 10% of that army. and they have men to fight. like i said some of them fight , very well. and i think about at the battle of nashville. and general george henry thomas, he uses his black troops with his white troops and they completely annihilate general hood's army. commanders,ve good they're going to be able to prove their mettle. in some ways they help save lincoln. lincoln does reward them at the end with the 13th amendment. chris m.: you mentioned nashville. somewhere we white is crying right now. -- lee white is crying right now. chris m.: hopefully so far the conversation has put a letter of stuffing her head and we have been mixing it around. i want to open up to the floor and see what sort of questions you have for my colleagues in terms of the great defense and what that may mean. anybody have any questions? one right over here. remember please tell us who you , are and where you are from. and ask away. >> hello there. inm jim from here williamsburg, virginia. i am a retired physician. i have

army. as lincoln once said, mcclellan has the slows and has to be removed. to call mcclellan a controversial commander in the 21st century is in several respects i think misleading because students of war have largely made up their mind about george b. mcclellan and not in the general's favor. and they are unlikely to be interested in rethinking their position, hence the title mission impossible. when historian mark grimsley published a piece of the origins of him as a feckless commander, the response was immediate and predictable. in the next issue of the publication, the letters appeared. dismissive, utterly dismissive of his efforts and unwilling to consider any other interpretation and by now a standard interpretation of mcclellan. i know opinions about mcclellan are almost baked in and unlikely to change. in his own day, of course, mcclellan had many warm friends and no shortage of friends or enemies. he had the misfortune to clash with abraham lincoln who himself was a controversial f

armyhe army, we had the nurse corps and the women's army corps. for the air force we had the women's air force, the navy, we .ad the navy women and the marines, we had the marine women. each of our groups was led by a colonel there was only one director for each of the women's and that's the woman who made the decisions for those of us who served under them. in this, we were meant-green uniform with a beret nt-g uniform. the colonel told me shend thought this green uniform was as cute as could become after shopping at saks fifth avenue. another time she was shopping at sex fifth avenue and i asked her where we got our drill sergeant cap. and she said to me, well, first said there is this fascinating display, and i saw this. it looks like a safari had. is a wide brim, it comes with mosquito netting, you can just imagine yourself out with the elephants. and that is how we got our drill-sergeant hats. services, we had one woman and that's the woman who made the decisions for each of us. colonel.would be a later, we were permitted to have one woman ge

tension and uncertainty are growing in zimbabwe after the army announced it's seized power the military says it wants to target criminals around president robert mugabe the army has taken over the state broadcaster and soldiers have blocked roads to the government parliament and the courts but the army says it isn't a military takeover and mcgarvey and his family are safe and of. an uneasy calm in harare this after confusing scenes on the streets of zimbabwe with a night of on rest as military vehicles rolled him though also reports that soldiers were seen loading ammunition these developments followed a warning on monday that the military would step in if the sacking of candidates they favor within the ruling party didn't stop a statement was read by soldiers on state radio saying that this is not a military takeover and things will return to normalcy. and used. and sound and security. we are only dead that including those around him who are committing crimes that are causing social and economic suffering in the country in order to bring them to justice. but this has sparked fear of a

the eighth army struck. attacked. 19th corps [gunfire and artillery] on the plane, the british sixth armored division, striking upon tunis, had driven out most of the remaining enemy. in three days of struggle, our main purpose was accomplished. the british 78th division were pressing the attack on long stop hill. [gunfire and artillery] >> for 12 days, the hills echoed with gunfire. positions were taken, lost, and retaken. when the german lines broke at hundredsir dead lay in , unburied on the battlefield. as our infantry went forward, engineers and pioneers, builders -- pioneers built roads across the mountain tops take vital supplies. >> further north, the americans embarked on their phase of the campaign. this started with the assault on hill 609. long-range artillery started the attack. [artillery fire] >> left eight. baker. baker! [gunfire and artillery] >> we took hill 609. there weren't as many of us guys when we got to the top as there had been at the bottom, but we took it. narrator: and thus, one

send an army ot corps until there is a greater necessity. if you ask me, there is a necessity because there is nobody but these 2500 men, hodgepodge, at the monocacy. and henry halleck is still doing the bean counting. here is a union regimen, here is a union division. that will continue to delay the union response. uly 7 of 1864, wallace has broken the middle department barrier. he has decided he is not going to be at the monocacy river, which is on the right-hand side of the map. he goes into frederick, which is technically franz sigel's reserve department, and he decides, we are going to fight here. on july 7, he sends an irregular cavalry unit, loudoun angers, up to the mountain passes to hold the passage. what is going to be interesting what is going to be interesting is that the vanguard of the confederate army is bradley johnson's brigade of maryland cavalry. what you have are unionist virginians fighting against secessionist maryland. so they flip. fighting will begin around middletown between the passes of south mountain and the cat

issued a statement saying the army should retreat and return to constitutional order. would support the legitimate zimbabwean government and in no case will we accept a forceful seizure of power for the fate of president robert mugabe and his wife grace is unclear but they appear to be in the custody of the military who say the couple are safe the army's intervention comes after months of power wrangling over who will succeed ninety three year old mcgovern who has ruled the country since one thousand nine hundred eighty last week mugabe fired vice president emerson one ghagra he was widely viewed as the hair apparent and backed by some of the country's most powerful generals that sacking seemed to clear the path for grace mugabe to become the next in line now the military has stopped her ascent at least temporarily and an influential group of war veterans once stunned mugabe supporters themselves is calling for him to step aside completely with. the robot governor for the better corps from is the role as the president and first. frustration has been growing in zimbabwe

salvation army does does such a good job about this. of all of the organizations that are out there that you can give your money to, this is the one that has the least overhead. they spend so little money on administering of costs because they give the money to the people who need it the most. many of them are here volunteering of their own time tonight to take your phone calls, we hope you will join us over the next several hours. two minutes is about how long it takes to do the fulfillment. in my ear right now, i said it we just got over $80,000, it is over 90. thank you. last time for hurricane harvey won $40,000. i think we will surpass that tonight. we have just got started we are over $90,000. we have in the field tonight one of our reporters. people up in the north bay nonstop for 14 days. around the clock for 14 days, and the need is still very great there. there is a shelter up there where people are still being taken care of, and i want to get you out to gabe slates, because he is out there telling the story of some of the peo

army. for all its problems, they are still to be treated with respect. the plan for the germans in the main summer offensive for 1942 is to go to the oilfield of the caucuses. it is food and oil they are short of. the interesting thing about this, what are they going to do when they get there? interestingly, this distance from the top, that map to the bottom right-hand corner, that is the leading oil producer in the world, and the dutch east indies. that is more than 500 miles. already, they are starting to break their role just by trying to get to the caucuses. even if they do get to the oil wells and even if the retreating red army hasn't destroyed them, what are they going to do when they get to the oil wells? how are they going to transport this oil? oil moves the world -- around the world by ship, by and large. the pipelines to berlin do not exist are the only alternative is the railway. again, they had to narrow the railway, then they had to find the capacity. the reichstag is already

follows a group of us army veteran traumatized by war. as they struggle to get their lives back. at this time. significant defeats for i saw in syria and in iraq where the army says it's taken the group's last major stronghold. and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up a u.s. army sergeant held hostage by the taliban for five years gets a dishonorable discharge but escapes prison time. catalonia is deposed president vows to fight any efforts to extradite him to spain. the funerals been held for the multis investigative journalist killed by a kabul. islamic state of iraq and the levant has lost further ground in iraq and syria the armies of both countries and the syrian opposition squeeze its forces in the last few minutes the iraqi prime minister has announced the recapture of on the syrian border syria's army said it now controls the city of daraa which has been divided for three years just five months ago i so still control vast swathes of territory marked in brown here including major cities on both sides of the border since then it's been driven out of mosul itse

destroy from the british eighth army. arm would be imputed and supply lines around the cape of good hope would be shortened by half through winning control of the mediterranean. north africa would be hours with basis at which to step at the heart of the axis citizens. that was the plan called acrobat. and both convoys, the men kept lieknowing the task would ahead. this was a new experience for most of them. then never been so far from home before. >> that is certainly true of me. my name is george metcalf. we were a military family. never met such a collection of blokes we got on this ship. caps on glasgow, new york, london, montreal, cape town, and igham, wellington, think was about this time the internationals got cracking. i wrote quite a letter to my girl. about flying fish and wales. we have not seen any yet it i thought she would like to know i was enjoying myself and now i am something else to tell her, too. the best news for a long time. they just put it up on the ships board. ♪ >> the eighth army offensive was

your that's what the ovens in the army. the word went out at soviet army bases across the country everything can go of course it wasn't official but under the counter in good old socialist style. the doj market been introduced into the former east germany and banknotes were easier to transport than equipment. if i just just i know it was going on you said ok a kalashnikov you can get one for a hundred marks. the soldiers were facing a journey into the unknown. the soviet union they had come from was disintegrating . on august thirty first one nine hundred ninety four the soviet troop withdrawal was complete. germany paid about fifteen billion dollars marks to cover its cost but the price that moscow painted was far greater. until then the heroic soviet army had been seen as a symbol of the empires power and grander. it would soon learn to emotionally it was seen as a defeat. really i'm telling you a defeat not only did i understand it that way but also the bulk of the population did was just for most of. the empire wasn't o

new defeats for ice a losing their results to the syrian army and its last crossing on the iraqi syrian border. i know i'm certain this is al jazeera live from london also coming up the u.s. army sergeant held hostage by the taliban for five years get some of this dishonorable discharge but to skate prison time. catalonians deposed president vows to fight any efforts to extradite him to spain. zimbabwe police arrest an american woman for sharing a tweet which appeared to call president mugabe a goblin. and the novelty or warning sign could a robot take over your job one day. the islamic state of iraq on the level and has lost further ground in iraq and syria as the armies of both countries and the syrian opposition squeeze its forces the iraqi army and its allies have taken the last international border crossing under i still control while syria's army says it's in control of the whole of the city of daraa saw which has been divided for three years just five months ago i saw the. still control vast swathes of territory marked and grey here including major cities on both sides of the bor

he could lose his army as well as washington's army. it's too risky and they don't have enough french naval coverage. the american naval cover it's about nothing so it has to be all french. so he says wait until next year. let's sent a letter to louis saying send more money, send more men, send warships. washington says, where's the dotted line? i have to sign that one. it goes over and, in fact, the wiki site is going to sent a fleet and we will get to that fleet in the moment. the winter of 1780 goes by. there is an mutiny in the pennsylvania line of the americans on january 1, 1781, that was put down. things were in pretty bad shape but by the summer, everybody is ready to go. they have a conference at wethersfield on may 28, and washington writes in his diary after that, we're going to go after new york. as soon as he gets here from the hudson come he's going to come over from newport to the hudson, and he does that in the midsummer of 1781. he brings his forces over to the hudson river to camp next to washington. they are going to

no, but i've never said it is a victory for the army. i said the army intervened. but the people supported them. i don't want to get into arguments about was it a coup, was it not a coup. as far as the people are concerned, it's something that was desirable and maybe the means justifies the end. people will look back in years to come on this day in november 2017. the tell them what this day means in history, the day that robert mugabe resigned? well, i'm sure that the people of zimbabwe will look back to this day with a hearty degree of nostalgia. because it's something that they have been wishing for for the last five years. but it's been very difficult to achieve because of the machinery that has been put to prevent it. so, like in any new birth, i think the celebration represents a new feeling. and i think it will go down like in 1980, when we got our independence, as a very memorable occasion. the opposition leader there saying mugabe should not be indicted for war crimes, and that he didn't know if he would ever stand again for president. so, where will the co

the government might look weak for bring out the army, the army was doing its job, might look weak for bring out the army, the army was doing itsjob, i think, but the protesters could be thinking they have made their point. they were able to set up they are occupying a major interchange in islamabad fought more than two weeks. —— for. they got a lot of media attention. a lot of people had about the demands. so they won out. the military has come out with the other had. he has made the government look bad, which is what this military wants, and having got over with the government for the last two years. the government was essentially looking like it was sitting on its hands for a few weeks, and unable to deal with what was a small group of religious hardliners out there in islamabad. and then one it finally did come out and tried to crack down, today, it is in the did not go very well, and police had to retreat. so that the libertarians of sending its troops there. it looks good. where is the government looks bad, and i think it makes even more unpopular in the eyes of the pakistani

the army couldn't win. but. to be victorious you would have needed a clear task in other words you should have known what it was fighting for. and that is. economically the soviet union and thus the entire eastern bloc did well as long as the price of oil remained nine but when the oil price fell on the world market the bill became do nothing had been invested in the country's factories for decades many were still stuck back in the one nine hundred fifty s. . in one nine hundred eighty aborning of mounting trouble for the eastern bloc came from poland from the lenin shipyard of all places. celadon. solidarity with the first free trade union in the whole eastern bloc called a general strike after an increase in meat prices. almost the whole country was behind it another soviet invasion seemed imminent the polish government prevented it by proclaiming martial law and smashing the strike but many saw this sign of resistance as a signal of hope. poland was seen as the most colorful hut in the camp the least soviet a

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so his army pushes into one of us in the final strongholds. and jane doesn't this is al jazeera live from the was a coming up to learn his political crisis escalates with a rest of some of the region's ousted cabinet ministers. and u.s. secular state prepares to visit me in my on his agenda talks on their hengel crisis . inspired by freedom i read look at the art of the impressionists who were refugees in london. syrian state television says the army and its allied forces have pushed out of the eastern city of. last remaining syrian stronghold and the capital of an oil rich province bordering iraq the military campaign to recapture that is on again in september when the army managed to break its three year long siege on the city and its residents there's been hashim on the monitors tracking developments from on the turkey syria border so it seems they managed to push them out and they're going to find their ass from . a city which has become politically destroyed by months of strikes and intense fighting between the syrian army backed by russi

retaliated for the killing of dozens of people fortify rights says the army used the operation as an excuse to attack innocent row him just civilians me and more soldiers are accused of burning entire villages killing men women and children indiscriminately they're also accused of raping dozens of women the report says the situation amounts to ethnic cleansing that's defined as rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation fortify wright says the rohinton crisis may even be genocide which is the intentional targeting of a community for destruction by murdering people and imposing measures to prevent births within the group manned mars military leaders deny security forces are guilty of all that now simon i want to ask you want to you make of matthew's reports and do you consider what's going on in iraq and state to be genocide. i think it's very clear that the book is on the march to genocide and we have to stop this. what makes these reports so credible is that the burmese army has used the exact same tactics against other ethnic minorities the kitchin scho

under trotsky's red army. refuses to turn over power to the soviet, but he leaves the building in disorder. a following day a few hundred citizens gather outside to protest the dismissal of the assembly they have elected. byy are probably shot down fire from the red army. >> class war. narrator: citizens of the soviet union still vote. but not since november, 1917, has more than one name for office appeared on the ballot. the assembly never reconvenes. power passes to the soviets which lenin controls and from there to the council of commissars where lenin's power is absolute. >> this is the dictatorship of the proletariat. power thataintains , is unrestricted by any law. resting directly on order. keep this well in mind. narrator: lenin makes peace with the germans, and then a genuine civil war breaks out. before it ends, the white russians rebel against the red. allied troops fight to keep russia in the war. cossacks fight for both sides to czarists try to restore the monarchy. the czar and his family are exe

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army located a fort here on the site of the falls. the fort at sioux falls was called fort dakota, was really one of many forts established throughout the region and it was really, i think, established by a sense of safety and security for those settlers in dakota and also provide a perception of protection for the state of minnesota, which is just a few miles east of us. in putting together this exhibit, we were really lucky in many regards. we have a number of original accounts of the fort, probably one of the best is an account by the post surgeon, an actual official report that was written by him about the living conditions at the fort. what the structures were, their sizes, how they were built. it talks about the different kinds of trees that are along the big sioux river and the kinds of animals and fish that are available and around. this is all important because it really impacted how these men lived here on the frontier. another great account was ehrhardt flights. a man who had served three years at fort dakota in the company

zimbabwe to try to mediate a way out of the current political crisis it's speaking to members of the army president mugabe's family and his party the military seized power wednesday in place with the house arrest lebanon's prime minister saad hariri has accepted an offer by the president of france emmanuel macron to visit paris lebanon's president michel aoun tweeted that he hopes the country's political crisis is over but he announced his resignation from riyadh two weeks ago turkey's foreign ministry has suspended a quarter of its diplomats over suspected ties to last year's failed coup more than fifty thousand people including security offices military personnel and civil servants have been detained since july last year. at least eighteen people four of them female suicide bombers have been killed in a series of blasts in northeastern nigeria twenty nine others were injured in the attacks which happened in would've got on the outskirts of my degree city there's the headlines more news here on al-jazeera after inside story next. just horrific in me and more america's top diplomat hits o

live from zimbabwe's military says it's making progress in talks of president robert mugabe after the army took control. and started news detention centers ordered to kurds after shocking revelations of abuse . building the future we take you to the world architecture festival where the latest innovations are on display. russia has vetoed a u.n. security council resolution to extend the investigation into the use of chemical weapons in syria last month un investigators found this eerie and government was responsible for a chemical attack you can show her in in april eighty people died many of them children are diplomatic get into james bays reports from new york the ten veto by russia in the u.n. security council on syria and one that the council's efforts to hold to account those who use chemical weapons in the country. it was a vote that sparked outrage from the u.s. ambassador and she gave this warning that the u.s. may now work outside the u.n. russia has killed the joint investigative mechanism which has overwhelming support of this council the assad regime should be on clear notice t