He is known for his work in peace and conflict studies. Hes director of the duke program, an american grant strategy. From june 2005 to july 2007, feaver was on leave to be the strategic adviser for planning at the white house where his responsibilities included National Security strategy, regional strategy review, and other political military issues. Hes written widely on such matters as National Security, military civil relations, and the military cost of war. It will focus on the larger politically and public dynamics and how these dynamics impinge on policymakers decisions. Each panelist will present we said five minutes, but they may bleed over their particular matters, and then well have an exchange where they apply to one another. Then well have a qa open to the audience. Without further delay, lets start with laura donohue. First, id like to thank don its a wonderful opportunity to come together to discuss these issues and id like to thank my fellow panelists in advance. There
Also in march, the virginia us rulebooks it features several authors as well. Does the booktv. Org for more on the television schedule. Military historian Patrick Odonnell recounts the u. S. Army at second ranger battalion d co. A. K. A. Dog company. The group was composed of 68 men whose military campaigns during world war ii included landing on the beaches of normandy and the s and to Pointe Du Hoc. It is about 40 minutes and starts right now on booktv. It is great to see so many friends here. This is a situation where things of come full cycle, but today is the anniversary of the battle of Volusia Fallujah where i was embedded as a combat historian. We went through an aid station that was an al qaeda aid station. There was blood on the floor, cots, quite a situation that was interesting. I will never forget i look on the side of the wall and the light had changed. There was obviously a person who was running next to me on the other side of the wall. I had this sense of foreboding. S
San Francisco Mayor ed lee is putting pressure on both sides to avoid a second bart strike. Theres an opportunity here to reach an agreement. Negotiations should not be prolonged. They should definitely come to a conclusion with an agreement that both sides can live with. Governor brown shares the concern of mayor leigh and the other Public Officials that we do not need yet another bart strike. We dont expect them to leave the bargaining table without an agreement. How about the bart passengers . They have been there before. And theyre not too happy about it, either. Irritating because then it makes life harder when bart isnt running. Its frustrating. Now that its looming i might have to get caught in that next week, its really upsetting. Not again. Its like, you know, how many times are they going to have to do this . They have had plenty of time to negotiate. A bart Board Meeting is going on in oakland as we speak. Both sides will head into negotiations very soon. Kpix 5s cate caugir
Towards downtown oakland. They are scheduled to pick up some overnight roadwork southbound 880 by fifth, embarcadero, by about 5 00 this morning but it obviously looks like its still out there at least in the clearing stages because again even northbound is a little backed up. So bart is running this morning. So far everything is on time. They have 34 trains now systemwide on schedule. Of course that could all change if theres a bart strike monday morning but for right now everything is quiet including over at the bay bridge. They should have just picked up that upper deck roadwork heading towards San Francisco. Eastbound 80 roadwork lanes are blocked until 6 00 this morning. That is traffic. Back to you. New this morning, a motorcyclist is dead after a multivehicle accident happened in oakland. Police say they got a report of an accident on adeline street and as they approached the motorcyclist who was down, two other vehicles crashed. Went over the curb, flipped over the motorcycle d
Leaders. My money is on tecumseh as the greatest. He was just remarkable. Brock was incredible and brock felt tecumseh was the best. Tecumseh was remarkable and he felt brock was the best. There are letters from some of the officers that went tecumseh would meet some of the other british officers he would say be gone go put your petticoat and dress on. Youre not a man and when he meets rock he says now here is a man. They were both cheerleading one another. Guess when we have read back in history we always need to be careful of the folks who say the fish with this big. When i was in high school i walk 30 miles through the snow to school. But there are so many accounts of William Henry harrison who was tecumsehs enemy for years. William Henry Harrison says its one of those men that comes along once in a century that changes times and creates revolutions. The documents that survived history are consistent about those two. They are all the same. Can i ask a question not associated with ba