michalski talks about how robert e. lee maneuvered his army after the andle of gettysburg describes the reorganization of both armies during the months after leave a treated across the potomac river. this half-hour talk was hosted by the gettysburg heritage center. tammy: welcome back. my name is tammy myers, i am president of the gettysburg heritage center, and i have drilled to have you here in attendance. he is a retired executive a licensed battlefield guide here at gettysburg national military park. joe is the past president of the association of licensed battlefield guides and the gettysburg civil war roundtable. in addition, he is on the faculty of the prestigious lincoln leadership institute. he has three books to his credit including after gettysburg, lee retreats and another. he lives with his wife, chris. >> thank you. [applause] >> my wife kris is here in the audience tonight. welcome, everybody to the book talk about my latest book called after gettysburg. the great radio commentator always talked about the rest of the story, so this is kind of the rest of the story. a lot

army remains at war than the combat loss of four of our offerings in niger last months. after 16 years of war, the army perhaps more than any other service, has been tested. routinely they've proven their courage, skill and determination. the burden imposed on our soldiers only gres as threats to our nation increase and sequestration remains the law of the land. given current operational demands, restoring readiness must be the army's first priority. we've made some progress this year towards improving ready brigads ready for deployment. but the army still does nautd plan to return to full spectrum readiness until 2021 at the earliest. meanwhile, the army is woefully behind on modernization and our soldiers are increasingly unprepared to confront the harsh realities of 21st century warfare. with glaring capability gaps, these problems would only get worse as our adversaries continue to modernize their forces. put simply our army lacks both the adequate capacity and the key capabilities to win decisively. if confirmed we will expect you to implement the six key priorities for force mode

aggressor. and i think it's safe to say when you look at the history of the army of the potomac, there are few if any subordinate commanders in the army, especially division commanders in the army, who had a more unblemished, unbroken, spectacular record of aggression than did joseph hooker. and this, in an army that was by its nature and culture not an aggressive being. grant, again, said of him, his disposition was, when engaged in battle, to get detached from the main body of the army and exercise a separate command. speaking of hooker as a subordinate. gathering to his standard all he could of his juniors. and of course, what he meant by that by all he could of his juniors was their accomplishments and taking credit. as you can see, grant was not a fan of joseph hooker. many people, those we admire the most, rise by virtue of their own accomplishments. but we have all known joseph hooker in our lives. just as we've known a george mcclellan and maybe, if we are lucky, a u.s. grant or robert e. lee. these are people who live among us today in their personality and methods. oth

directed the army staff to get legislation prepared to go over to the congress to get authority to bring women in. there were two women who played a very prominent role. and that was margaret chase smith who later became the senator from maine. and the other was edith north rogers from lowell, massachusetts. >> the bill that was introduced evoked fierce opposition. one congressman asked what's become of the man hood of america and called women in the military revolting. but fdr signed the bill, giving women a place in the army. they wouldn't be an official part of it until a year later. >> what's the difference between the original army intent of a well's army auxiliary corps and what becomes the women's army corps. >> they weren't an official part of the army. 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 c

defenders both at the time to that hood's campaign and the virtual destruction of the army of tennessee proved johnston's strategy had been superior. we all do this, all civil war students say if this, then, that. we wouldn't know what who you have happened had davis stuck with joe johnston. but part of johnston's justification was based on his insis tans that he was greatly outnumbered. johnston certainly knew what davis expected of him in this campaign. from this base dalton was supposed to advance northward to recover chattanooga and move into central tennessee. well, johnston was certainly willing to try but he insisted that he simply didn't have the assets to do it. in particular he complained he was short of calvary. it was probably true in 1862 and may still have been mostly true in virginia as late as 1864. he had some 12,500, so about 500 the times of mounted forces. the problem was for sherman that he parcelled his calvary. he could win a single victory. that vision so tempted him that he offense issued his primary duty of scouting and reporting seeking a clash with his counte

the army. he is known as the best course doctor. there was a good reason for that. kentuckian, his grandfather and great article, among the founders of the horse racing industry and his first cousin and uncle were among the elite breeders of thoroughbred horses. it is not a great surprise that he knew a great deal about horses and was good at it. war,e early stages of the he was working in the inspector general's office, inspecting horses. he found himself stuck behind a desk in washington, d.c.. what may have been the single finest to decision that john john buford ends up being plucked out of the inspector general's office and volunteers to do extraordinary intelligence gathering work. some of the best of the war. you end up being slightly wounded in the closing engagement of the second battle of the bull run, lay in the day on the last day. he is struck in the left knee and get a really nasty bruise. it leaves him incapable of field service during the coming antietam campaign. he ends up being appointed administrative head of the calvary for the army of the potomac here the pape

the nominations of mark t esper to be secretary of the army, well key for under secretary of defense for readiness, kernan to be intelligence, and guy rod insurance for nuclear chemical and biological defense weapons. i would like to say that i have been pleased with the reaction of the secretary of defense and the administration being cooperative in responding to our questions and to our ability to carry out our responsibilities on the defense authorization bill. i think that the most members were happy with the briefing that we received concerning the actions on the uss mccain and others. and so we are glad to begin this hearing. we thank all of you for joining us this morning. we welcome your family and friends with us today. as is our tradition at the beginning of your testimony, we invite you to introduce those who are joining you. it's the standard for this committee to ask certain questions in order to exercise legislative and oversight responsibilities. it's important that this committee and other appropriate committees of the congress be able to receive testimony briefings a

next army secretary. other nominees included the defense undersecretary for intelligence and for personnel and readiness and the assistant defense secretary who advises on weapons of mass destruction to the committee is chaired by her son senator john mccain. this is just under two hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the senate armed services committee meets today to consider the nominations of mark espers to be secretary of the army or robert l. wilkie to be undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness joseph d kernan to be undersecretary of defense for intelligence and roberts were nuclear chemical and biological defense weapons. i would like to say that i've been pleased with the reaction of the secretary of defense and the administration being cooperative and responding to our questions and to our ability to carry out our responsibilities on the defense authorization bill. i think most members were happy with their briefing that we received concerning reactions on the uss mccain and others so we are glad to begin this hearing. we thank all of y

diplomacy or even by a coup against hitler on the part of the german army or german conservative politicians. rather than fought out to the bitter end as it had been in 1914, 1918. the chief problem of allies was boredom. nearly half a million men of the british expeditionary force, including a substantial contingent of the royal air force, sat idle and crumbling in france. while over 3 million frenchmen sat in a mood of sullen resignation guarding the french frontier, almost one third of them in or behind the world-famous maginot line which had been built in the 1930s at a cost of nearly 3 billion umfrench frank, an enormous sum for the day. the british expeditionary forces or as it was called and still is, the pes represented the bulk of britain's regulars and the irreplaceable soldiers who were needed to provide the backbones of constricted army as it was performed out and very slowly indeed as the french constitute complained and the french were overwhelmingly afraid as every able-bodied person was obliged to perform his military service for two years in your, followed by an

hearing earlier. we'll hear from mark esper asked about army readiness and sexual assaults in the military. the senate armed services committee is chaired by arizona senator, john mccain. >>> good morning. senate armed service s committe meets to consider the nominations of mark t. esper for secretary of the army. personnel of red naez. joseph to be undersecretary of defense for intelligence. and guy v. roberts for nuclear, chemical and biological defense weapons. i would like to say that i've been pleased with the reaction of the secretary of defense. and the administration in being cooperative in responding to our questions and to our ability to carry out our responsibilities on the defense authorization bill. i think that most members were happy with the briefing that we received concerning the actions on the u.s.s. mccain and others. and so we're glad to begin this hearing. we thank all of you from joining us this morning. we welcome your family and friends here with us today. as is our tradition at the beginning of your testimony. we invite you to introduce those who are join

climate change. 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

why -- you wouldn't wonder why they were in command of armies, but why they weren't in insane asylums. [laughter] sam: and the fact is, so much of the stuff that has been written about john bell hood, and i am sure others, as well, just has no evidence at all. where the evidence has perhaps taken too much literary license in their paraphrasing. i like to use this as an example. evening, ande this we can turn on the news to see what happened in the world today . and you can turn on msnbc, for example, and they are going to tell you what happened today, and chances are it will be true. and then you will turn on fox news, and they will tell you what happened today, and it will probably be pretty much true. but the two things you are hearing are going to be totally different. so you can spin things. you can accentuate things. errors ofare also commission and there are also whyrs of omission, which is they tell you, you don't just have to tell the truth, you have to tell the whole truth. so, in my book, it starts out with a quote from cicero. and i am not going to read it to you bu

attack by union troops, and this ultimately sent the union army in retreat. this talk is part of a forum posted by the emerging civil war log. -- blog. has had ach passionate love affair with the civil war and he fell in love with the civil war at gettysburg. he has become a ranger at gettysburg national battlefield park. co-author of the emerging civil war series book, "the last tracks the" which movements of both armies from virginia up into pennsylvania and looks at them colliding at gettysburg. and he works on an initiative to preserve the civil war trails. it is my pleasure to introduce my friend, dan welch. [applause] dan: good morning. before we get started, i would like to take a moment to think -- thank all of my colleagues and all of you for getting up so cominghis morning and out to learn a little bit more about stonewall jackson. jackson's defensive line had been bruised and battered, subjected to numerous federal 29,cks throughout august and on the afternoon of august 30, some of jackson's union's -- jackson's units literally had nothing left to give. colonel stafford johnso

army came into being. to them came hourly report on vast undertaking of forging the striking weapon. it was a race against time. >> in the united states, limited upplies went toward the atlantic sea port. sounding] also, by road and move. an army was on the by day and night, records were tonnage put aboard in one ship. for every soldier, british and tons of equipment. the atlantic, f the effort was tremendous, guns, water, food, barbed e.e, locomotiv 520 ition alone, shipped different times.520different ti. [siren sounding] andvery ship sailed on time in absolute secrecy. [beeping sounds] -- [audio difficulty] -- first line, you are to do uty in north africa as soldier of the united states, give me kick.of a >> why north africa, what was acrobat, heading east, the one from britain of ing south, west gibralter, the british convoy hours, ivide, for 12 proceed in opposite directions, then second half reverse course the first. hours gibralter 24 behind, thus with truck-like precision, combined operations begin with simultaneous blanca, or al sa j jer, casa blanca protect axis, moroccan,

diplomacy or even a coup against hitler on the part of the german army of the conservative politicians rather than fighting to the bitter end as it happened in 1914 and 1918. the chief problem of the allies was boredom. nearly half a million men of the expeditionary force including the staffing contingent sat idle in france well over 3 million frenchmen were guarding the french frontier almost one-third of them in or behind the world-famous built in the '30's that a cost of 3 billion french francs the enormous sum today. the british expeditionary force represented the bulk of britain's regulars of soldiers who needed to be provided the backbone as it was formed very slowly in deed the french would take every able-bodied frenchman two years since uniform intended to produce a mass army to deterred german aggression. 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

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predictable as the sun rise. they know him as a foil to lincoln who might be able to organize an army, but would not or could not fight an 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 abraha

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the relationship from which the allied army came into being. to them came hourly reports on the vast undertaking of striking weapons. it was a race against time. ♪ >> in the united states, men and supplies poured eastward toward the atlantic seaboard. in britain also, by road and rail, and army was on the move. ♪ >> by day and night they worked. records were opened and put on board. for every soldier, 10 tons of equipment. on both sides of the atlantic, the effort was tremendous. guns, trucks, aircraft, water, food, barbed wire, locomotives. of ammunition alone, we shipped 520 different kind. ♪ >> and every ship sailed on time and in absolute secrecy. [piano music] [beeping sound] [sirens] [faster beeping sound] [explosions and gunfire] >> the convoy continued its hidden way. >> my name is mcadams, joe mcadams, kansas city, kansas. private first class. i was on one of the ships you are looking at. part of the biggest to on earth and didn't know it. too darn many ships to see all at once. we had been hollering for action and now we were going to get it. we did not know wher

army intervened in the succession to president robert mugabe ninety three year old is under house arrest at this hour as the army patrol streets many are hoping the military will make good on its promise a political change. the army stresses this isn't a coup but with tanks and military vehicles blocking off parliament and government buildings in the capital harare it sure looks like one and the coup is something the rest of the african union has said it will not accept. you know we in the african union are against any violent government overthrow. 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

house arrest. the african union says robert mugabe's detention and the army's takeover seems like a coup. nearly a million rohingya refugees have fled to bangladesh from myanmar. we report from the mega—camp that just keeps growing. just look at it — there are now more people living here than in washington, dc. i'm babita sharma in london. also in the programme. back from asia, donald trump says he achieved his main aim — uniting the region against north korea. and gasps as leonard da vinci's 500—year—old masterpiece dubbed the ‘male mona lisa' goes under the hammer. live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it's newsday. good morning. it's 9am in singapore, one in the morning in london and 3am in zimbabwe's capital, harare, where around twenty—four hours after the military mobilised to seize power, there have been mixed reactions to the intervention. zimba bwe‘s long—standing leader, robert mugabe, is still president, but is believed to be under house arrest. the whereabouts of his wife grace, who was bidding to succeed him as presiden

i am going to talk about tomorrow is the near-death experience and the successful escape of the army of cumberland. said thene lincoln nation could have scarcely lived through. that said there are many other examples of fortitude as well. i can think of any other points -- a gettysburg that may qualify as a great defense. there is a debatable proposition i would put near the top. theow many people have third day at chancellorsville. there is the army of tennessee. holding together at atlanta. the attack them both sides with their commanders decapitated during the battle. chris hill.s those would be the ones that come to mind immediately with the stakes are the highest but -- to borrowe odds a quote. the nearest thing in your life. that is how i define a great defense. those would be some of the candidates i would pursue with the civil war. stewart? stated, usually when i talk about this fighting against the army of northern virginia they talk about the 23rd and their first skirmish with the army of northern virginia. today i am going to talk about the first major action of the united

particular group of vietnam veterans. we estimate 1000 women from the army, marine corps, navy and air flightserved as controllers, typists, physical therapists, dietitians, communications specialist, nurses and much more. in her book, "women vietnam major donnaergeant lowery tells their overlooked story. in her 26 years of service, sergeant major donna lowery served for overseas tours. in 1967 she was in the initial group of army-enlisted women to serve in the and him. after her retirement from the army she worked with the washington state department of veterans affairs. since her retirement she has been active in her community and received one of the governor's 50 volunteer awards for her work with the homeless, and also received washington state's outstanding women veterans award for 2011. please welcome sergeant major donna lowery. [applause] donna: good afternoon, everybody. i'm so excited about being here because i'm going to tell you about a fantastic group of women that, in this country have been .verlooked until this time when i speak of the vietnam war, i am talking about a t

homeless. 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 mosu

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army. zanu—pf has said it is not a coup. do you see it as a coup? 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 eve

. there were 1000 women from the army and marine car -- marine corps, abn marines. they were dietitians, communication specialists and nurses and much more. book, she writes. sergeant major she was. she tells her story. , sher 26 years of service was first sergeant of four units and served for overseas to her's. in 1967, she was directed as one of the groups of army list and women to serve in vietnam. after her retirement from the army she worked with the washington state department of veterans affairs. since her retirement she has been active in her community and received one of the governor's 50 volunteer awards for her work with the homeless, and also received washington state's outstanding women veterans award for 2011. please welcome sergeant major donna lowery. [applause] donna: good afternoon, everybody. i'm so excited about being here because i'm going to tell you about a fantastic group of women that, in this country have been overlooked until this time. when i speak of the vietnam war, i am talking about a time in our country when women were segregated. for the army

will meet army commanders tomorrow — as thousands of people take to the streets to call for him to stand down. i have watched estate house for the freedom of my children. today is a different day altogether, the dawn ofa different day altogether, the dawn of a new era. and i'm ben brown in harare where demonstrators are calling for a change of leadership. the former trade union organiser richard leonard is elected leader of scottish labour — replacing kezia dugdale. investigators search for clues as to why a light aircraft and a helicopter collided in mid—air in buckinghamshire — killing four men. one of those who died was captain mike green, a helicopter instructor. also in the next hour, tributes for malcolm young, co—founder of ac/dc, who has died aged sixty four. young played guitar in the australian rock band that he set up with his brother angus in the 1970s. and in rugby, after england's win against australia, scotland are battling it out against new zealand. good evening and welcome to bbc news. zimbabwe's president robert mugabe will meet military commanders for ta

germany and. the group of soviet armed forces in germany was the largest permanent army ever stationed by an occupation force abroad. the logistics needed to get them back home or just as fast. poland had also broken with moscow so most of the troops left germany via the ferry port of new kron on the baltic island of will again. observers follow the huge enterprise with great interest nobody knew exactly what weapons the soviet army had kept in east germany. as fond feel if he had hugo there were a lot of hazardous materials so we kept out of everything so you could almost piece it together these were in the missions those were special russian rail cars which were somewhat larger than normal but enclosed and when they passed through then you knew either there was a rocket inside or maybe there wasn't a little like you didn't know off like a kind of like. the soviet withdrawal gave to cry on a much needed boost. as one of east germany's last big transportation projects the port had been built specifically for trade with the soviet. union and the collapse of comic-con and left it largely

of his armies in may 1865. three armies came together from different hills with separate histories but bound by one common cause, the union of our country and the perpetuation of the government of our inheritance. sherman said that the men, had done all men can do. and he added that they could join in the universal joy that fills our land because the war is over and our government stands vindicated before the world. he touches all the key points there, the citizen soldiers, saving the government. ross conklin of new york who's just a congressman at this point, became a very powerful and some whispered corrupt senator after the wore. he grated a new york regiment that was on its way home from the war. a veteran regiment. and he said that they had come together with a common purpose in hoping, quote, peace with the government and the constitution of our fathers established has been the object of the war and the prayer of over patriot and every soldier. and finally i'll quote one union soldier here, a ohio soldier, he celebrated, quo, the citizen soldier of the army of the republic. t

sioux falls remained abandoned until may of 1865 when the u.s. 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

offensive. if successful it would defeat an already divided confederate army and curtailed and finish off robert e. lee's first invasion of the north. and three mountain passes almost unrivaled in its ferocity at , least in this point of the war, ensued. breathless union and confederate troops struggled over difficult terrain and at close range. in many cases well after dusk. according to some veterans they ain't muskets not at men but at flashes of enemy fire. in the years after the war, southern writers eagerly portrayed south mountain as a sort of confederate thermopylae. good fortune of visiting the battlefield in maryland, you can at least again to apprehend the analogy. the first question anyone who visits that field asks is how could anyone have battled these -- of these nearly vertical slopes? a correspondent for the cincinnati gazette combed the fields of south mountain for weeks after the fight, marveled at the superior position held by the enemy. and predicted accurately that future visitors would be amazed to think how it is possible for our troops to dislodge the confederates

, urging him to go. he's been under house arrest since the army took control four days ago. now, the country's ruling party, zanu—pf says it will dismiss mr mugabe as its leader on sunday and reinstate the ousted vice—president. our africa editor fergal keane reports from harare. something happened inside the people today. a shared energy that swept them along the streets. they were there on the big streets and small. all sing a common purpose in a place so long divided. all sing voices that would not have dared speak of robert mugabe a few days ago now sounding his political requiem. it is a historic moment. it is special and we have waited for it for 37 years. you have returned from england, you are happy to see this? indeed, i am very happt. this is a new beginning for the people of zimbabwe. what i am seeing here is the death of a dynasty. all of the faces of the nation came into harare. all sing joy was unrestrained and exubera ntly expressed. we watched passing soldiers being enveloped by eager hands and arms. who knows what freedom the military coup will deliver. but an ar

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 border sin

front at this time on al-jazeera. 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 russian warpla

successful escape of the army of the cumberland at stones river. that is one lincoln said the nation could have scarcely lived through. that said there are many other , examples of fortitude as well. i can think of five different in july at gettysburg. any one of them may qualify as a great defense. there is a debatable proposition , i know, for many people. we have the third day at chancellorsville. there is the army of tennessee. holding together at atlanta. being attacked from both sides. having their commander get killed, decapitated during the middle of battle. then there is chris hill. the battle of chickamauga. those are the ones that come to mind immediately with the stakes being the highest but also where , the odds -- to borrow a quote. the nearest run thing in your life. those are the candidates i would submit for the great defenses of the civil war. >> [indiscernible] steward? teward? as you have already stated, usually when i speak about the united states colored i talk about them fighting against the army of northern virginia. but today, i am going to talk about

wall, the u.s. army film prevents a critical history beginning with the failed revolution up to the 1985 construction of the berlin wall. this half-hour film was nominated for a 1963 short subject documentary for academy award. ♪ james: at the road's end, the wall. these are the people who live along the road. some walk. some ride. some are well-shod, some are barefoot. some are so young, they must be carried. or so old. of the hundreds of millions who take this road, some do so willingly. others hope that the road leads to bread for the hungry, peace for the weary, land for the landless. some protest openly. it does not matter. some are born on the road. many will die along the way. havana, cuba, january, 1959. this road leads to this wall. red china, september 1960. this road, this wall. berlin, december 1961. this road, this wall. ♪ in the beginning, the road exists in the mind of a 19th century philosopher and scholar, karl marx, who maintained only through a system of communism can the worker and farmer avoid starvation and exportation. we declare openly, marx writes, that

delegation has arrived in zimbabwe to mediate a way out of the political crisis that the army seized power on wednesday and placed president robert mugabe under house arrest. it was angered by the sacking of the vice president last week and reports from harare. parts of harare are now on lockdown and soldiers in army vehicles have blocked roads to government offices parliament and the courts people say they are cautiously waiting to see what happens next many are relief so far there has been little violence i can see. moving as usual no more business. moving around freely. the country's war veterans say they have had enough of president robert mugabe many helped keep him in power for nearly forty years we. should have been recalled from is a row as the president insisted. the mob his army said on wednesday the president robert mugabe and his wife are safe in their private residence south africa's president jacob zuma city was concerned about the situation in a phone call with zuma mugabe confirmed he was fine we would like to call for calm in the strained. particularly to the defense

french can build up their army and navy, piece of cake. here we go. they decide on a very unusual way of doing this, and that is to get in touch with this man, the famous playwright we know for america figure out which is not yet on the board at the time but was considered to anti-rule but he has written it but he's also a former music master at versailles. he goes after them on behalf of the king. he writes pamphlets. he does all these things give and is a very serious manner very literate guy. he says to louis who he knows because he used to be the music master at versailles, he says if you give me $1 million in three years i will give you 9 million. i'm going to do this by setting up a fake spanish name company, and what we're going to do is buy up all the old french munitions and so did americans at reduced prices, and we're going to take from the americans in payment not money because it don't have any, but we'll take tobacco and rice and indigo which were having to buy currently from great britain and they sell it to us at three times the price that the americans are willing to

army to raise money for victims of the north bay wildfires. pam moore and steve aveson are in the newsroom where the phone lines are open and calls are coming in. we have already raised 157,100 and that number is only going to go up with your help. (vicki) we are going to give you a quick look at some of the headlines from today. an amber alert has been activated in southern california for a missing 2- month-old baby boy. police are now searching for this man here... jeffrey michael gomes. police say he is considered armed and dangerous. (grant) gomes was last seen driving a 20-07 white chevorlet pickup truck. this is the california's license plate... zero - two - three - nine - zero - p - one. the incident was reported near the grapevine area off of interstate-five. police believe gomes is driving north. (grant) the san francisco police department held a public meeting at city hall today.(vicki) it is discussing the possibility of arming officers with tasers. the u-s department justice recommended the department to strongly consider deploying tasers. according to police... the us

zimbabwe but the army denies it's staging a coup. we should make it abundantly clear that the season not and needed to all of the. still the army has occupied state t.v. and says it wants to remove criminals from the government now that has the fight to succeed the ailing president robert mugabe intensifies we'll get the very latest from our correspondent on the ground also coming up. all straley a says yes to same sex marriage in a non-binding postal poll two thirds of participants backed the change now the government wants to make it law by christmas. i'm brian thomas welcome to the show a night of unrest in zimbabwe with shooting and explosions reported in the capital harare but the army says it is not a coup it's saying this is a targeted assault on criminals surrounding president robert mugabe and promised that he is safe but tanks are on the streets of harare. and the army has taken over the state broadcaster soldiers have sealed off the government and parliamentary buildings the situation remains confuse the opposition has called for a return to democracy now this after

happened. and you know my wife just heard the army, as the announcement was made, the armyjust started to chant, there was such excitement about the army, in the army. everyone here together celebrating. good to talk to you. yes, everyone celebrating, black and white, young and old and people from all different political persuasions. that is the latest on this momentous day. back to you in the studio. with me is a relative of robert mugabe. and former adviser to morgan tsvangirai. thank you for being here on this momentous day. just a quick reaction, a headline thought from you both on the developments today. well after 37 years and the rule of one man, it is important for people to look to the future. 1980, we had independence day and today is freedom day and i think this is the thing that has united the country and we should take advantage of this moment and move zimbabwe forward. alex, we surprised, we have seen is edging towards this moment but in the end we surprised that the facade drop so quickly crumbled. absolutely. president mugabe has beenin absolutely. president mug

forces in 1997. 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

slowly build up our forces. we created what was called the eighth army, and it was commanded by walton walker. he was a corps commander in patton's army. he is a really experienced combat soldier and a very fine officer. macarthur, however, came up with a concept to crush the north koreans. his idea was that walker in the pusan perimeter would launch an attack out. meanwhile, he would launch an amphibious landing at inchan the port area for seoul. the object was to seize seoul, push inland, and cut off the north koreans. the problem was multiple. inchan has between 29 and 35 -- 36 foot tide differentials. so, you know -- higher than this ceiling at high tide, below our floor at low tide. that's a huge tidal difference and that makes a dramatic difference when you're trying to land. secondly, you've got mud flats at low tide that extend 6,000 yards. 6,000 yards. so they're going to have --that is four miles. and of course landing craft and ships and tanks are going to get stuck in the mud so you're not going to be able to land at low tide. there are numerous islands en route that you'll

whites millions died in the conflict. the victorious red guard turned into the red army and the red army in turn became a pillar of the newly founded state. the red star above the kremlin became a symbol of the empire the epitome of the other world they called itself the dictatorship of workers and peasants. that name aptly summed up how democratic it would really be the newly founded communist party of the soviet union the c.p.s.u. became the ruling party indeed the only party. yet the russian word soviet means council and the soviet union literally the union of councils had its roots in the democratically organized councils of the revolutions of one thousand nine hundred five and one thousand and seventeen. communism is soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country lenin said but what it really meant was expropriation and collectivization. there was to be only one form of ownership under communism the ownership of the people. once i was gone so i decided. the soviet union had a decisive advantage over capitalism with property of all resources all productive forces wer