At the university of mississippi , and we have stayed in touch quite a bit as we both moved on. We have always had a set of shared interests. Mike, it is great to be here with you today and to have a conversation on a subject that is extremely timely, which is responding to crisis. What needs to be said to the audience, they have seen all the evidence they can of the Current Crisis the coronavirus the economic downturn that will , be the serious issue for leaders, for everyday people. And it seems a good time to talk about two major 20thcentury crises. At the end of two world wars and how leaders responded, and to raise an issue about the light that might throw on the present about a framework for comparison. Mike, youre one of the people to talk to about. There are too many of your books to list for the audience but i thought i would talk about the book, fighting the great war world war i, the blood of free men, the book about the liberation of paris in 1944. But two books for the aud
Debated by leaders as they tried to decide how to deal with destroyed economies, failed empires, and competing political ideologies. Jason i want to extend a welcome to all the viewers joining us. It is a great pleasure to talk to my friend and one time colleague mike neiberg, from the army war college. Mike and i were colleagues. This is going back a ways, so 2006, in the History Department of southern mississippi, we have stayed in touch quite a bit as we both moved on. We have always had shared interests. It is great to be here with you today and to have a conversation on a subject that is extremely timely, which is really responding to crisis. Obviously what needs to be said is the audience has seen all of the evidence they can of the current crisis, the economic downturn that will be the serious issue for leaders, for everyday people. It seems a good time to talk about two major 20thcentury crises. At the end of two world wars and how leaders responded, and to raise an issue about
Allied troops was very small. Discipline was quite admirable. Say, among the soviet troops less so, i would say, among the soviet troops coming from the east. That was part of the price and the pain of victory. Host lets go back to calls and hear from lorenz in st. Paul, minnesota. Caller thank you for the opportunity. Ill try to be quick. Two comments. One, i always admired eisenhower for having to pull in citizens from the town near the concentration camps so that they could witness what the nazis nazi regime did but thats not my question. My question is, studying world war ii is so impactful for studying where we are today from a political, military, and social perspective. You can comment on that particularly as it relates to the politics involved in making both the atomic and Hydrogen Bombs post world war. Thank you for the opportunity and i look forward to hearing your comments. Guest thanks for the call, lawrence. Yeah, the consequences of world war ii are extraordinary socially
Found his style raw. Turned to eb white his concerns were not mine. Hemingway. Then i picked up George Orwell. He was contemporary. It feels fresh. It can take a paragraph out of many of his essays, job it into todays newspaper, and it would fit right in. I started diving into orwell. Why did he feel so fresh and contemporary russian mark contemporary . This resonates with our own time. Paralleled by another hero of mine come Winston Churchill. Such different people in so many ways, yet they keep coming together on the question on how you preserve individual liberty . And we were agent talking about writing a book about the vietnam war. I decided after research, i cannot do it without research and interviews. Onecided to do a book churchill and orwell. Men only buy books on three ii ts, world war host how close is this book to what you set out to do . Tom this is the book i hoped to write, but it is not the book i first set out to write. I sent it out to my longterm editor, six books w
Describing characterize the normandy invasion. Why do the allies is exceed . German defensive plan and allied offensive plan. Explain the victory and defeat. Why was the normandy invasion significant . Question number 8. Why was the battle for omaha beach a flawed victory . You have the questions. Those are the questions we want to deal with the. Beach . Read omaha here we go. Let me try it one more time. Common have read how many have read it . About half. Thesis. Someone helping out. What is the thesis there . You are going to help me out. Basicially i basically is saying that the operation failed and the soldiers won the battle or succeeded with the operation and they organize themselves on the beach in the middle of the fire to get the operation underway. Of theis the argument book is that the overall plan for omaha beach failed. The plans the general put together for the fire plan, the fire support plan, all of the airpower, all of those things failed. As a consequence, soldiers w