During these two years and its importance today . Julie yeah, so, the mexican expedition and the border needs to be understood in the context of the mexican revolution. That is a conflict begins in 1910 with the ouster of a longstanding dictator of mexico. He is ousted by a man named francisco madero. He himself is killed soon after, and after he is killed, several revolutionary factions emerge from that. One of the factions that emerges is a faction under a man that is called the constitutionalist. One of the people who is aligned with the constitutionalist is Francisco Pancho villa. Now, by 1914, the contitutionalists had become successful. They have largely managed to control a large part of the country. And at this point of success, pancho villa breaks with the constitutionalists. He is successful militarily against carranza for a long time, but during 1915 he actually has a series of military reverses against the current government. So he goes from having an army that is about 30,
Context. What was happening during these two years and its importance today . Julie the mexican expedition and the border needs to be understood in the context of the mexican revolution. The conflict begins in 1910 with the ouster of a dictator of mexico. He is ousted by a man named francisco madero. He himself is soon killed and after he is killed, several revolutionary factions emerge from that. One of the factions that emerges is a fraction under a man that is called the constitutionalist. One of the people who is aligned with the constitutionalist is Francisco Pancho villa. By 1914, they had become successful. They have largely managed to control a large part of the country. And at this point of success, he breaks with the constitutionalists. He is successful militarily against carranza for a long time, but during 1915 he has a series of military reverses against the current government. He goes from having an army that is about 30,000 to 50,000 people operating nor sleet in the bot
Julie yeah, so, the mexican expedition and the border needs to be understood in the context of the mexican revolution. That is a conflict begins in 1910 with the ouster of a longstanding dictator of mexico. He is ousted by a man named francisco madero. He himself is killed soon after, and after he is killed, several revolutionary factions emerge from that. One of the factions that emerges is a fraction under a man that is called the constitutionalist. One of the people who is aligned with the constitutionalist is Francisco Pancho villa. Now, by 1914, the contitutionalists had become successful. They have largely managed to control a large part of the country. And at this point of success, pancho villa breaks with the constitutionalists. He is successful militarily against carranza for a long time, but during 1915 he actually has a series of military reverses against the current government. So he goes from having an army that is about 30,000 to 50,000 people operating mostly in the nort
, zi mbabwe, slovenia, and ecuador. From the four corners we come to you. And here at the atlantic council. Into welcome Us Government officials to have a question and answer session this richness is enhanced by the superlative interviewer. Tom friedman needs no introduction and with Foreign Affairs in the New York Times and thrice won the pulitzer prize. To be focused on the middle east and one of which is a favorite of jerusalem is the textbook as an undergraduate. Now let us turn to the man of the hour. A long resident senior fellow at the Career Center for the middle east in addition to reading his work on the website you can read on his own blog 25 years in florence one Foreign Service in the last overseas posting the deputy chief of mission in yemen and in 2003 during the iraq war serving as Department Spokesperson at Us Central Command from the university of beirut and phd in Political Science from the university of new york the published articles of leadership and development a
Our gathering today is ambassadors and representatives including the ambassador from tunisia and iraq, jordan, morocco, iraq, jordan, morocco, turkey, a , zi mbabwe, slovenia, and ecuador. From the four corners we come to you. And here at the atlantic council. Into welcome Us Government officials to have a question and answer session this richness is enhanced by the superlative interviewer. Tom friedman needs no introduction and with Foreign Affairs in the New York Times and thrice won the pulitzer prize. To be focused on the middle east and one of which is a favorite of jerusalem is the textbook as an undergraduate. Now let us turn to the man of the hour. A long resident senior fellow at the Career Center for the middle east in addition to reading his work on the website you can read on his own blog 25 years in florence one Foreign Service in the last overseas posting the deputy chief of mission in yemen and in 2003 during the iraq war serving as Department Spokesperson at Us Central