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It is about an hour and 50 minutes. Tonight speaker is sam watson, professor of United States and military history at the United States military academy at west point where he has taught for 18 years. He is author of jacksons sword, and peacekeepers and officers, about the borders and frontiers between the war of 1812 and the war with mexico. It was published by united press of kansas, which together won the distinguished book award from the society for military history. Incidentally, of which we are a part. Professor watson is coeditor of the west point history of the societych won for military history George C Marshall Foundation Prize for the use of Digital Technology teaching military history. He is a coeditor of the west point history of the civil war, which won the Army Historical foundation distinguished writing award. Coauthor of the west point history of the american revolution. Forthcoming from simon and schuster this auto. Autumn. He teaches courses on 19th century warfare,
Academy professor. It is titled the army before and afterandr aft after Andrew Jackson. This is about an hour and 50 minutes. Tonights speaker is sam watson, professor of United States and military history at the United States military academy at west point. He has taught for 18 years. He is author of jacksons sword and peace keepers and conquerers on the nations borders and frontiers between the war of 1812 and the war with mexico. It is published by united press of kansas which together won the distinguished book award for the society of military history. Incidentally it is which we are part. He is coed to of the west point history of warfare which won the society for military history he is coed to of the history of the civil war which won the Army Historical foin dags writing award. She also coauthor of the west point history of the american revolution. He teaches on 19th sefcentury warfare and about the american frontier. Ladies and gentlemen, tonight, sam watson. [ applause ] than
Were going to get started here. Thank you all for joining us. I am mark moyar, the director of the project on military and diplomatic history here at csis. We formed this center last year to help inform both the policy world and also the public on how history can help us understand current Foreign Policy issues. And we would like to especially promote historians who also do work in the policy world, and that includes our speaker today. And we also would like to promote interaction between historians and policy experts, and we have one of our own csis policy experts today, alice friend, who ill introduce later in the event. Ill give you a couple other events coming up for those who may be interested. We have october 10th, were going to have carter malcasen talking about his book, illusions of victory, the anbar awakening and the rise of the islamic state. On october 18th, well have Lawrence Friedman on his book, the future of war, a history. And october 24th, we have Calder Walton talki
Now from the colby military writers symposium in vermont, retired colonel Robert Dalessandro describes strategies countries developed during world war i. Good morning. Good morning. And for those of you new to the occasion for this session, welcome to the 22nd annual colby military write is sim bose yum. This year we embark on a multiyear discussion of world war i. As one continuous half century of hostility. We call this years installment, won the war, lost the war. Centennial legacy of world war i, to establish this symposium theme to suggest its direction. This morning it is my particular honor to introduce colonel Robert Dalessandro. Connell Robert Dalessandro, is among relatively small group of world war i historians in america today, having written extensively on American Expeditionary force in the great war. Currently, colonel dalessandro is acting secretary of the American Battle Monument Commission and former director of the United States army center of military history. Colon