And of course are on the revolutionary generation. Todays lecture is going to be on military aspects of the revolutionary war, mostly in the north and south. Next week, when we have our guest speaker she will talk about some of the western campaigns in more detail. We have that coming up. That will be exciting. There are other aspects of the war at home, financing the war womens participation in the war that we will not get to date today, but we will before future classes. I want to start by one of the best books on the revolution is a book called the men who lost america. In this book, it is argued that british generals are often described as incompetent or indecisive, but the author argues that they were smart competitive men accomplished professionals, military professionals, and the reason why they failed is not due to psychotic character fails, but because they faced insurmountable obstacles in trying to fight a war in america. I will lay out some of those obstacles, and they will
Defense and how was applied to war. He also describes the attitudes of generals before and after the war. This was hosted by the emerging civil war blog. Ladies and gentlemen. Good afternoon. I am glad thatl, you are not stuck in traffic right now. Im sure some of you have enjoyed that in the past. Im glad to have you here for this event. Introduceivilege to my cofounder and friend. Education manager at the civil war trust, and that basically has turned the civil war into his playground across the country. One tobeen going from the next to the next. He wants to contextualize this symposium. Great defenses of the civil war. We will talk a lot about great title field defenses. Successful, nonsuccessful. We also want you to think about defense in a broader context as well. To help us get our gears turning, it is my pleasure to chrisuce my friend wright. [applause] thank you, everybody. Thank you for coming out to the Fourth Annual civil war symposium. Been fantastic. His wife jenny who is
Korea, as well as defense related spending bills. The senate is dealing with health care legislation. Watch live coverage of the house on c span and the senate on c span 2. And watch anytime on c span dot organize and listen on the free c span radio app. Next, arkansas senator tom cotton talks about russia and europes current military strategy. He spoke last week at this event hosted by the center for strategy and international staud i see. Its close to an hour. Im a senior fellow here on the National Security program and i run the Missile Defense prompt here at csi s. Todays event is entitled the russia challenge in europe, implications for the inf treaty and Army Modernization. This is a joint event between the Defense Industrial initiatives group and the Missile Defense prompt which i run. And before we get started at bigger events like this we just ask folks to kind of familiarize themselves with the surroundings just in case you have to exit or Something Like that. Take the stairs
Policy alliance and Advocacy Group that works to decriminalize drugs will discuss plans by the Trump Administration to crack down on the growing, selling and use of marijuana. And National Affairs contribue r or university of Pennsylvania Law School professor amy wax will talk about her piece looking at disadvantaged youth in the United States. Washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on saturday morning. Dr. Kurt newman on his book, healing children, a surgeons story from the frontiers of the pediatric medicine. The conversations i hear are about conduct things like medicaid, and cutting the nih and doing all of these things when were on the cusp of such terrific discoveries. And when you think about half of the, half of the people that are on medicaid, half, of the beneficiaries are children so whos going to get hurt. Why do we want to do that . Were not doing that to the elderly on medicare. We ought to double down and really put more into our children. Watch the entire progra
Policy alliance and Advocacy Group that works to decriminalize drugs will discuss plans by the Trump Administration to crack down on the growing, selling and use of marijuana. And National Affairs contribue r or university of Pennsylvania Law School professor amy wax will talk about her piece looking at disadvantaged youth in the United States. Washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on saturday morning. Dr. Kurt newman on his book, healing children, a surgeons story from the frontiers of the pediatric medicine. The conversations i hear are about conduct things like medicaid, and cutting the nih and doing all of these things when were on the cusp of such terrific discoveries. And when you think about half of the, half of the people that are on medicaid, half, of the beneficiaries are children so whos going to get hurt. Why do we want to do that . Were not doing that to the elderly on medicare. We ought to double down and really put more into our children. Watch the entire progra