History written by the i like to say to the winners go the history. Theyre the ones telling the story. All right . Unless theyre doing this in war. But this is the way it usually works. So you usually get their perspective. All right. Were going to see that a lot in this war where youve got a lot of patriots, American Revolution stuff. Had you read the spring chapter to get the british perspective. Their version is a little different. What other challenges do you run into . Kate . Uncertainty who won what battle and all that stuff. You do run into some uncertainties. Again, lots of different perspectives here. You may have some bias. Generals like to make themselves look good. Wars are nice for promotion. So, yeah. Got to be really careful about your sources. As historians you know not to take everything at face value and military guys, generals, officers doesnt mean theyre always right. Anything else . Other things . Okay. Also you have issues with, like, how, trying to reconstruct a
Different than duck hunting. So youve got to give the men practice. They would each get two flights before they were sent overseas as gunners but youd have women often flying these planes this is a shot of two women flying this b17 while it shoots at the target of the other plane. This is live ammunition, of course. It is no good to use fake. Live ammunition, color coded bullets. They did this with a wide variety of different planes. These women served as civilians until the 1970s when they started a Grass Roots Campaign to be recognized as veterans. Its an incredible campaign, and they finally were given veterans benefits. This is at the congress after they testified. This is 1977 when president carter finally recognized them as veterans in the United States. All of their papers are here if you want to serve as interns in the womens collection, we have that. And you can work with their papers directly. But again, we could have an entire semester on women in war and this is just a quic
Secretary and chief and i will have a little chaff about the defense strategy. About their president s budget request that just came out. As well as the emerging concept. We will save about 15 minutes at the end to take questions from the audience here. First, i want to throw it over to the secretary and chief to give some opening remarks. Thank you, suzanne. The closest to switzerland. As we discussed in the green room, wonderful opportunities for us to try to talk about how we are trying to transform the army. We are in year three on a very aggressive effort of transforming the army and not only how we train the force, modernize and ultimately help our people reach their maximum potential. Emphasizing through a year of massive restructuring like we have not been in over the years in the army, creating an organization specifically to modernize the force, but staying against the fundamentals. We use reform as a tool to finance and help us evolve. On the readiness standpoint, we are nor
Military history and political history and so, here is the thing. There are certain challenges when we study military history these are things we will encounter what are some things you can see that historians have problems with . So, the winner goes with the history, because what they end up doing is they are the ones who will tell the story. But, this is the way it usually works, so you usually get their perspective and you will see this a lot in their war were you have a lot of the patriot and American Revolutions tough and one of the reasons you had to ring the spring chapter to get the british version because this version is a little different so what are the challenges . Theres a lot of uncertainty with you one what battle and all that stuff. Again, there are many different perspectives here, you may have some bias, generals like to make themselves look good and so, so youve got to be careful about your sources and as historians you know that and you know you dont take everything
And british forces. This is just over an hour. When we last met, you all declared independence. So that means we have to go to war. And so in order to do that, we need to refer to our troops, train them, drill them, arm them, all those sorts of good things. Before we do that, i want to talk just briefly about military history in general. Were going to set aside our political history for now. Next couple of weeks, its military history all full go. So heres the thing. Theres certain challenges that folks who study military history are going to encounter. Like what . What are things you can see them have problems running into . History being written by the witnesses. Yeah. I like to change it up and say to the winners goy to history because what they end up doing is they are the ones who are going to tell the story. Unless youre doing the civil war. But this is the way it usually works. So you usually get their perspective. Were going to see that a lot in this war where youve got a lot of