Your friends so they can join, too. Tonights meet the author Event Features a great friend of the museum, someone whos become very involved with us in the last year or so, james holland, who, last week, published the second book in his trilogy on world war ii in the west, the allies strike back. Before i get to the introductions, i do want to follow a tradition we have here at the museum. I dont know if we have any world war ii veterans with us tonight that i can recognize. If not, id like to recognize veterans from all eras of service. [applause] thank you for your service and sacrifices. This evening, well have on stage together two of the biggest names and most prolific writers in the world war ii field. I was just thinking to myself this afternoon, if this was like boxing or something, this would be like a payperview match or something that we would have on this stage tonight. So we have our own senior historian, rob citino, who published his 10th book this month and hell be interv
the breakup of yugoslavia a civil war. so let s begin with something. i usually stay away with stay away from rather my day-to-day podcast and that is what s happening on the ground. we want the podcast to survive forever not become dated, but i am curious as to what you think about why russia s invasion? has gone so poorly at least from a russian perspective not achieving any major objectives yet. well, i think there are a couple of factors it begins i think with a ambition that was unrealizable from the beginning in this ambition was to dominate entirely the country of ukraine to knock out its government. to put in a puppet really to take control in some way. maybe not over all of ukrainian territory. but over most of it now, it s a country. that s roughly the size of texas a population a bit less than 40 million people and the russians came in with a with an army of 200,000 soldiers. so it just wasn t proportional from the beginning and there was great overconfidence on th
historian. michael kimmage. welcome michael. thank you for having me. good to have you here. you are a member of the state department s policy planning staff 2014 to 2016. your portfolio was russia and ukraine. so you bring a lot of expertise to the subject. we re going to talk about today. you are an expert on us russia relations, and that is the road to war in eastern europe. how did we get to this point where europe is seeing its first major land war since world war two the possible exception of the breakup of yugoslavia a civil war. so let s begin with something. i usually stay away with stay away from rather my day-to-day podcast and that is what s happening on the ground. we want the podcast to survive forever not become dated, but i am curious as to what you think about why russia s invasion? has gone so poorly at least from a russian perspective not achieving any major objectives yet. well, i think there are a couple of factors it begins i think with a ambition that w
department s policy planning staff 2014 to 2016. your portfolio was russia and ukraine. so you bring a lot of expertise to the subject. we re going to talk about today. you are an expert on us russia relations, and that is the road to war in eastern europe. how did we get to this point where europe is seeing its first major land war since world war two the possible exception of the breakup of yugoslavia a civil war. so let s begin with something. i usually stay away with stay away from rather my day-to-day podcast and that is what s happening on the ground. we want the podcast to survive forever not become dated, but i am curious as to what you think about why russia s invasion? has gone so poorly at least from a russian perspective not achieving any major objectives yet. well, i think there are a couple of factors it begins i think with a ambition that was unrealizable from the beginning in this ambition was to dominate entirely the country of ukraine to knock out its govern
today catholic university historian. michael kimmage. welcome michael. thank you for having me. good to have you here. you are a member of the state department s policy planning staff 2014 to 2016. your portfolio was russia and ukraine. so you bring a lot of expertise to the subject. we re going to talk about today. you are an expert on us russia relations, and that is the road to war in eastern europe. how did we get to this point where europe is seeing its first major land war since world war two the possible exception of the breakup of yugoslavia a civil war. so let s begin with something. i usually stay away with stay away from rather my day-to-day podcast and that is what s happening on the ground. we want the podcast to survive forever not become dated, but i am curious as to what you think about why russia s invasion? has gone so poorly at least from a russian perspective not achieving any major objectives yet. well, i think there are a couple of factors it begins i th