6th and 7th on cspan2s book tv and on American History tv on cspan3. Working with our cable affiliates as we explore america. Appearing in his Beverly Hills home library, Academy Award winning actor and world war ii bomber pilot James Stewart uses models, animation, and archival film, to describe how the u. S. Air force missile and jet arsenal was used as a deterrent in the cold war. Mr. Stewart who also describes his World War Ii Service in a b24 liberator was promoted to Brigadier General in the u. S. Air force reserve in 1959 and flew a 1966 vietnam bombing mission. Evening. I hope youll excuse all this, but ive been taking some time off from my job to look into something important to all of us. That seems to be pretty well confused. What i mean is, missiles, High Performance airplanes. Why do we have so many . Why do we need both . Where are we going with all of this . A fellow asked me that question in london not very long ago. It is not a simple question, and i couldnt get him a
The way quickly so im going to try to do that. I would like to welcome everybody to Daniel Morgan graduate school of National Security. A great school we have here and a nice opportunity for us to have the latest in a series of speakers at the National Security area, and also thanks to cspan3 people who are here today as well. I started off as a Clandestine Services in the cia in the soviet division, and we were always curious as to what the military people were doing on the other side. Today i get to find out at long last. Jim stejskal is here, our speaker. He has a new book special forces berlin, clandestine cold war operations of the u. S. Army elite from 19561990. Jim has someone who came out of nebraska, the midwest, and did a few stinlts in a very special place, in special forces. And then onward to some work with ngos and over to the cia, where he served as an Operations Specialist with quite a career, military historian and conflict archeologist. I would like to hear what that
Good evening. I hope youll excuse all this. But ive been taking some time off from my job to look into something important to all of us. That seems to be b pretty well confused. What i mean is missiles, High Performance airplanes. Why do we have so many . Why do we need both . Where are we going with all t s this . A fellow asked me that question in london not very long ago. You know, the its not a simple question and i couldnt give him a simple answer. Thats the reason for all this homework. It seems to me weve got to understand what were building, how each of these add to our deterrent strength and why weve developed them and what we do. Id like to tell you what i wish id be able to tell that fella in london not long ago. Some of you may remember i was a bomber pilot in world war ii. Back when the air force inventory was a relatively simple one. There were long range heavy bombers like this one. I flew one of these. B24. This is some of my handy work as a model airplane builder. Kids
Some of you know me. Im ron marks. I head up the Intelligence Program here. Before we begin our session, and talk about our speaker and everybody gets to sit down, i would like to make sure there is q a at the end, if everybody would be so kind as to shut off your cell phones. Frank fletcher, who is our head of Public Affairs here, has a very large and heavy mike. Hell run to you and get you. So be careful. Were dealing with dangerous people here. The best thing someone who introduces can do is get out of the way quickly so im going to try to do that. I would like to welcome everybody to Daniel Morgan graduate school of National Security. A great school we have here and a nice opportunity for us to have the latest in a series of speakers at the National Security area, and also thanks to cspan3 people who are here today as well. I started off as a Clandestine Services in the cia in the soviet division, and we were always curious as to what the military people were doing on the other sid
If everyone would be so kind as to shut off your cell phones. Frank fletcher has a very large and heavy mic and if he hears the phone, he will run to you and hit you on the edhad. Be careful. Were dealing with dangerous people. The best thing someone who introduces can do is get out of the way quickly. So im going to try to do that. Well kmnt to Daniel Morgan graduate school of National Security. We have a latest in the series of speakers in the National Security area and thank you to cspan people here as well. Im an old spy i started in cia in the soviet european division. And today i get to find out at long last. James skasal is here today, our speaker. Special forces berlin clandestine cold war operations of the u. S. Army elite from 1956 to 1990. Jim is someone who came out of nebraska, midwest and did a few stints in some very special places as special forces. And then onward to work ngo where he served as an operation career. A concrete archeologist, id like to hear what that is.