School, scott green, is here tonight. Scott, can you waive your arm . Thank you. [applause] mark 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 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. Say, thealways 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 allies and partners, and the future military leaders from around the world, a place where th
[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
One speaker short for this panel. Dr. Raymond callahan due to circumstances beyond his control could not be with us today, so were sorry that we are missing him today, but, you know, his friends here in new orleans are certainly thinking about him. To lead this session, we have called on one of the most distinguished military historians that were very fortunate to have right up the road here at the university of new orleans, dr. Allan millett. His career has not only filled many bookshelves, but he has also fill the ranks of military history phds by overseeing the most doctoral candidates of anyone in the country. Its hard not to find one of his students around. To talk about one of the most important battles in june of 1944 and the war as a whole, its my pleasure to call on dr. Alan millett and Hiroyuki Shindo to discuss the battle. With that, allan, its all yours. [applause] prof. Millett im a pale substitute for ray callahan, i can assure you. When i wrote about the berma campaign i
Session. Catherine has been involved with our museum for over a ecade and just two months ago, she helped organize a program where we had scholars from around the continent come for a daylong program. Catherines information is in your program. I point out that in addition to being a professor at Mississippi State university she is the author of two fine books, one entitled, the battle of kursk and the other, strategy and tactics. Ladies and jump in, dr. Catherine barbeeand liza mundy. [applause] good morning. Happy to see all of these nice faces outfront. This is a fantastic event and im excited about being part of it. I would like to introduce liza mundy, a journalist and author of four books and you can read her bio the program. She is going to talk to us about an amazing book, code girls the untold story of the american women code breakers of world war ii which i recently read and highly recommend. So im looking for to her presentation. [applause] liza thank you so much, dr. Barbier