Physical and psycho logical trauma that our veterans faced after the war and continue to face today. In the bitter and sometimes hostile reception that they received from their fellow americans. And to guide us in this exploration are three experts. Your panelists. The first is dr. Grace liam galloway. Dr. Galloway has spent over 40 years dedicated to the care and welfare of the underprivileged, veterans, the homeless, and children with food insecurities. From 1967 to 1970, dr. Galloway was a medic at the third Field Hospital in cue chi and vong to you mass units in the republic of vietnam. Today, she is a Nurse Practitioner at the Community Free clinic in concord, New Hampshire north carolina. Mr. Jan scruggs is a decorated veteran of the vietnam war where he served as a corporal in the 199th light Infantry Brigade of the u. S. Army. And he went on to become the founder and president of the Vietnam Veterans memorial fund, the catalyst for the memorial known as the wall on the mall on
Time magazines political columnist, awardwinning journalist and the author of seven books including payback, five marines after vietnam. His weekly time column in the arena covers national and International Affairs and he has won two National Headliner awards for best magazine column. He is also a member on the council of foreign relations. Please help me welcome your panel and your moderator joe kleine. Welcome. [ applause ] good afternoon, everybody. This is the second time that i have been privileged and honored to sit on this stage. Both times the topic was veterans. The last time i was accompanied by three spectacular young veterans of the iraq and afghanistan wars. And my most recent book is charlie mike which means continue the mission, was about the veterans of those wars. To me it is very interesting to spend time with them as i have. I embedded in iraq and afghanistan with them. And to spend time with veterans of my era of the vietnam war. They have had, hard to say this sinc
This would be the traditional notion of Foreign Affairs and national security, the isis has been able to use new capabilities and new technology, but thats only consistent with and complementary to the massive amount of land that they now govern in parts of the world. So first of all describe how those two pieces of ice is work to make as successful as it is, and can challenge me on that notion that land, that im in the 20th century world. Well, landed both isis strength and a vulnerability because it means that it is possible to attack them in a way that wouldnt be possible if they didnt have a location. The reason land is so important to this group is its i noticed it, and organized criminal ring extraordinarily successful at criminal activities. In fact, it was founded by a secular fog who found religion thug. Its important to them because their most important source of revenue is what they call taxation, and what we would call just that. Protection. Yeah, yeah. So that is one of th
Will open it up to discussion at the end. Their books will be on sale at the end and they will be available for a picture and discussion. To start with my good friend doctor Jessica Stern and she has spent a career in counterterrorism and thinking about the threat that this nation and world faces with government physicians and academic ones and she is now a lecture at harvard university. One of Time Magazine theories innovative winners and is the author most recently of isis and thats a book she will talk about today. Bruce schneier is the security technology. His latest New York Times bestseller is data and goliath and in the house the collection of data. He is also a fellow at the Berkman Center at Harvard Harvard law school and many of you probably know about that center and his work in technology and innovation and Gabriella Blum is a professor of humanitarian law at Harvard Law School where she focuses on international law, negotiation and the law of conflict and is also the facul
Take his own life, he has a moment of serenity. He goes to his family and says, im fine. He goes down and kills himself on his enemy sword. Metaphor for what happens at the end of his life. One thing that both people have noticed is that there is a tendency to crash when youre back home alone after having done this. You do this exhilarating thing where you are helping people acting as a military unit and not firing anybody or worrying about taking casualties. Didnt you go home and crash. And both groups have turned to the Organization Give an hour which is an organization of 6000 psychiatric counselors and psychiatrists, psychologists in the country who give in our own wheat to iraq and afghanistan veterans. Because of charlie mike, because the proceeds of charlie mike the our kids and our Staff Members on both the staff of the Mission Continues and team rubicon. When you buy the book you are supporting that particular effort. Yes. Could you just say your name . I live in the area and