Because michael has had exceptional access to top u. S. Officials and military commanders. And because of his extraordinary firsthand reporting from the battlefields, hes produced a must read book on this historic conflict. We were very proud to have michael with us inhouse at fcd for a period while he was working on the book. And we understand you also spent time at cns during the same. Were all happy to see it on the shelves today. Its available for purchase at all. Major booksellers online, im sure. And for those of you here in person, in the back of the room at the conclusion of todays events. Michael gordon currently as the National Security correspondent for the wall street journal. In addition to his latest book, he is the coauthor with the late general bernard trainor, a wonderful man of three definitive histories of the United States wars in iraq. Full disclosure. Ive known michael for a rather long time. I wont tell you how long because he looks so young and may not want to a
May not want to admit his age. But this clue we were in the same bullpen at the New York Times in the previous century. He wasnt astonishingly good. Reporter i could tell you stories. And by the way, reassuring to note, hes still an astonishing good reporter today. So some things dont change. To dive into this conflict with us and the Lessons Learned, we are very glad to have with us Lieutenant General sean macfarland, u. S. Army retired general macfarland served as a three star commander of the coalition against isis in syria and iraq during his command from 2015 to 2016, Coalition Forces recaptured nearly half of the enemys territory and set the conditions for enemys final defeat. Well, well talk about that a little more today. Were equally honored to have michele flournoy, who served as undersecretary of defense for policy in the Obama Administration from 2009 to 2012. Shes the cofounder and chair of the cnrs board of directors. Shes also cofounder and managing partner of west exec
Use ukraine as a pond in order to achieve this goal. With wonderful sunday morning here in moscow and youre watching our international. Im your host donald quarter. Welcome to the weekly on our team traction. We begin this news hour with the latest from the ukraine conflict. One person has been killed and 2 others wounded in ukrainian shelling of a village in russias belgrade region thats according to local authorities. Thats while another deadly ukrainian shelling attack was reported by authorities and the danielle peoples republic on saturday. A warning you may find the following images disturbing. Ah, this footage from done yet shows some of the victims and the devastation caused by at least 6 rounds of shelling over 4 hours. Local authorities have reported 4 People Killed and 8 injured with fragments of french howitzer shelves found at the scene are corresponded there, got caught in the upcoming fire for a while. Reporting on location was lose Ukrainian Forces resumed their shellin
This goal. With oh, youre watching the weekly on our, to international on donald quarter. Welcome to the program. We begin this news hour with the latest from the ukraine conflict. One person has been killed and 2 others wounded and ukrainian shelling of a village in russias belgrade region. Thats according to local authorities, and thats also while another deadly attack by key f was reported in the done yet peoples republic on saturday. A warning you may find the following images disturbing. This footage from done yet shows some of the victims and the devastation caused by at least 6 rounds of shelling. Over 4 hours. Local authorities have reported. 4 people were killed and 8 injured with fragments of french howitzer rounds found at the scene. Our correspondent there got caught in the incoming fire while reporting on location was a lose of Ukrainian Forces resumed their shelling on saturday. We can see an injured woman here. She is getting medical help right now. This is in the city c
With variable welcome. This is the weekly here, one off the international with the latest world news updates along with a round up of the stories the shapes the week is good to happy with it. Now we begin this new sound with the latest from the ukraine conflict. One person has been killed and 2 others wounded in ukrainian shelling of a village in russias belgrade region, not according to local authorities, without as officials from the low down peoples republic reports new strikes on the town. All the spouse of a say in caves force is launched multiple rockets when we do s applied high mol system. We heard from a journalist who was staying at a local hotel when it came on the fire. I guess so show within an hour there was a strike and then just a few minutes later, a 2nd one. It seemed that our hotel had been purposely targeted, but it was almost empty. It was severely damaged in the attack. Almost destroyed was so i was very lucky. Im okay. The attack was very weird because besides me