Coming up ne3 coming up next, the guggenheimlehrman military history awards. You can watch the event live on booktv. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. My name is joe seiyu bunting. I am awfully happy to welcome you to this gathering into this event. Stephen ambrose once said that he had been struck by how many Army Veterans of the campaign in europe, in 1942 through 1945, how many have become teachers. He made the obvious link, which consider the chronology. If you were a 20yearold rifleman in the forest, you were born in 1924, you are now 90 years old, and if you have become a professor or a teacher, you have probably left the active practice of your profession around 1975 or 1980, give or take a few years greater education was underwritten by the g. I. Bill and yours was a generation hospitable, at the very least, to the study of war and military history. A successor generation of men and women in the later 1950s and 1970s whose experience may or may not have included service
History awards. You can watch the event live on booktv. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. My name is joe seiyu bunting. I am awfully happy to welcome you to this gathering into this event. Stephen ambrose once said that he had been struck by how many Army Veterans of the campaign in europe, in 1942 through 1945, how many have become teachers. He made the obvious link, which consider the chronology. If you were a 20yearold rifleman in the forest, you were born in 1924, you are now 90 years old, and if you have become a professor or a teacher, you have probably left the active practice of your profession around 1975 or 1980, give or take a few years greater education was underwritten by the g. I. Bill and yours was a generation hospitable, at the very least, to the study of war and military history. A successor generation of men and women in the later 1950s and 1970s whose experience may or may not have included service in vietnam, people in their 60s and 70s have earnest a large
The decade assuming Human Rights Concerns begin to impact foreign policy. In 1979, citing the i mean in uganda, the Washington Post differentiated between rogue regimes and near dictatorships. How does the International Community deal with rogue regimes, those that under the color of National Sovereignty commit unspeakable crimes against their own citizens, it asks. Among diplomats, terrorism became an increasing concern. In 1979, forced by congress, the state department began identifying and labeling state sponsors of terrorism. The Islamic Revolution in iran underscored the notion that in the middle east at least, all bets were off. The next years were rocky. President reagan, for example, called libyan leader moammar get off the the madman of the middle east and described him as part of a new International Version of murder incorporated. And years before george w. Bush would describe an axis of evil a confederation of terrorist states becaus but it was the cln administration that ma
Enough to write a vast symphonic work, to inspire a magnificent novel and bring down a great emperor. On this day of battle more russians died than were killed or would die of illness in the whole of the war of 1812 on all sides. This really was a titanic clash of two emporers and two vast armies numbering close on 200,000 men each. The war of 1812 would not be fought by armies of 200,000 men. In fact, it wouldnt be fought by 200,000 men all told. As 1813 began James Madison knew that napoleon had lost. His army was in full retreat. Indeed, it was in complete collapse. He had taken his country to war on the premise the french would win. They had lost. Now what was going to happen . This also took the pressure off brittain and it released naval reinforcements from the british fleet in the baltic which had been keeping it open for trade the previous five years. Those ships and key personnel were moved across to the north american station. The british picked out the right ships and the ri
Considerations. He was well aware of balancing the different branches of the government and he never lost site of his state as all politicians of his generation took the same ground. He had a much more flexible conception of the constitution. Especially when the nation faced difficult conditions that demanded solutions. He understood are that the federal system was fragmented. And preserving the union required negotiation. The war of 1812 was as we said an example of the competing interests in different parts of the union. And in many ways it didnt succeed. Westerners made off better than the other regions they didnt get additional land from canada but as john stag mentioned they did get a lot of land from native americans. The english did not end impressment of sailors because of any pressure the United States had put on them they did it when they chose to do so. The war are had been waged by a union of regional republics with a loose allegiance to a different government, distant gove