Welcome back to the Madeleine Paul hilliard Conference Center here at the higgins hotel. I hope everybody enjoyed their lunch. We spent this morning doing some pretty high Level Analysis of the political and strategic situation that existed amongst the allied leaders. But as we all know, wars are fought on battle feels, not in board rooms, and these summits, though they dictated much of what would happen on the ground, they wouldnt have mattered much if we didnt have armies in the field. So our next session will look at how yalta affected the execution of the closing months of world war ii. To do this, we asked our very own rob citino, dr. Citino is the executive director of the institute for the study of war and democracy as well as the Museum Samuel and mary stone Senior Historian at the National World War Ii Museum and ill beat him to the punch line and say hes got the longest title on staff. Hes an Award Winning military historian, published ten books, primarily on the german army.
Much if we didnt have armies in the field. So our next session will look at how yalta affected the execution of the closing months of world war ii. To do this, weve asked our very own rob citino. Dr. Citino is from the institute of war and democracy, swlt the Museum Senior historian at the National World War Ii Museum, and ill beat him to the punch scompline say hes got the longest title on staff. Hes an awardwinning military historian. Hes published 10 books, primarily on the german army. Hes taught for three decades, including stints at west point, u. S. Military academy, and the u. S. Army war college. He first came to the museum in 2012 for our International Conference. Then he came in 2013 for our International Conference. Then he was one of our featured tour historians at the 70th anniversary of dday cruise. Then he came to our 2014 International Conference. But as he always reminds me, did not come to our 2015 International Conference because we didnt invite him that year. Bette
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University distinguished professor in the arts, humanities and social sciences at the university of cincinnati. Hes the author of seven books on the civil war era. This sbook won the Tom Watson Brown prize. We are delighted to welcome today professor phillips. [ applause ] good afternoon. Thank you for inviting me to speak. Ive long wondered why another ohioillinoisan that ive been summoned east to the mother state. After hearing garys opening talk, i know now. Its to give the naughty talk. After asking kerry about topics to which she replied whatever you wanted to talk about, that sounded a little to me like asking me how long the condemned want the hanging rope to be. I have 30 minutes and the hanging wont take too long but true to naughty form, ill start with a vignette to introduce the western lay of war. An idea that garys union war actually inspired. There, gary, tis the benefit of batting last. Ive got a lot of ground to cover because the west is a rather large theater and i hav
Katrina perry in washington. This is bbc world news america. Niger who leaders have closed the airspace and neighboring regions prepared to convene to find a solution to the crisis. A plan to assassinate ukraines president awarded and dramatic thwarted. And dramatic video of the moment a home in alaska was swept away. Why glaciers are to blame. Katrina welcome. We begin with a Major Political crisis in west africa which continues to unfold after last months in niger. Military leaders have closed the airspace and say they are british to defend themselves, claiming they have information that a foreign power is preparing to attack. A statement from niger were face intervention from west african countries. They will hold an emergency summit in nigeria on thursday. Meanwhile, malley and burkina faso said they would send officials to niger to express solidarity with the coup leaders. They are in contact with the nigerian president. A state Department Spokesman says following the military cou