[applause] thank you. This lecture series has been ongoing almost since the beginning of my tenure 15 years ago. It has been our great series in the library. This is probably my last introduction because i have been drafted by the president. Some of you can identify with that. To go to washington to save the republic, which needs saving. Say, theys like to command school is the intellectual center of the army. It is selfcritical, selfaware. It plays no favorites and is the best place to learn from the experience and history of the battlefield. And with extraordinary teaching and technology, to learn from todays battlefields and commanders. It is also a school for our and futurepartners military leaders from around the world. A place where a future chief of staff of the Pakistani Army might rub shoulders with the future defense minister from india were a future commander of the Israeli Defense force might meet the future commander of the arab legion. Communication has been incubated. It
Tonight, we will be talking about the 75th anniversary of the battle of the bulge. Tonight is also probably my farewell introduction, if that isnt a contradiction in terms, for the ongoing signature series with the History Department of the general staff college. The director of the command school, scott green, is here tonight. Scott, can you wave your arm . Thank you. [applause] in uniform, at the back of the room. This lecture series, which is about great military events, great commanders and sometimes great controversies in the art of war, has been ongoing since almost the beginning of my tenure 15 years ago. It has been our great series on in the library. This is probably my last introduction, because i have been drafted by the president , so, if you can identify with that, to go to washington to save the republic, which as you know needs saving. But as i always like to say, the command school is the intellectual center of the army. It is selfcritical, selfaware, it plays no favori
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Im glad you were able to join us today for discussing that has been in the news pretty much. A few housekeeping notes i want to make sure everybody concludes that analysts and other devices whether they are smart watches etc. Please make sure they are silent at some level. When we get to the qanda i would ask you wait for the microphone and everybody watching online. This is the way theyve come forward over the last several decades to make various allegations about government misconduct and of course we can look back at the pentagon papers for the first in 1971, the nsa five from the midtolate 1990s and early 2000 and Justice Department officials that revealed the program and of course Chelsea Manning and thereve also been as i indicated previously almost a countless number of corporate whistleblowers in the same period of Archer Daniels midland and a day uncovered the sex trafficking observation of course just this summer we had in our theaters with Kira Knightley talking about the sc
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