On the website and cspan tv for those in house we would ask that courtesy that our mobile devices have been silenced or turned off for those watching online or in the future, youre welcome to sending questions or comments simply emailing, speaker at heritage. Org and, of course, we will post todays program on the heritage home page for everyones future reference as well. Leading our discussion today is daniel coaches, and danielle is our policy analyst and european affair and Margaret Thatcher center for freedom and focuses on transare Atlantic Security issue and writings featured in real clear world fox news. Com and breitbart. Com and provided expert analysis in over 100 regular and radio and television appearances. Hes also served as a imaginist at the transatlantic in belgium and provided parliamentary evidence to the United Kingdom house of Lord Select Committee on the arctic. Prior to joining us here at heritage and Thatcher Center he ed at a nonprofit in washington, d. C. As ana
Our policy analyst in European Affairs and the Margaret Thatcher center for freedom, he focuses on transatlantic security issues. His writings featured in real clear world, foxnews. Com, breitbart. Com and hes provided analysis in over 100 radio and television appearances. He has also served as a panelist at the transatlantic think tank conference in brussels belgium and provided parliamentary evidence to the uk house of Lords Select Committee on the arctic. Prior to joining us at the batter center he worked at a nonprofit in washington dc as a policy analyst as well as on the Advisory Board of a company as both a Research Associate and associate director. Join me in welcoming daniel coaches. [applause] thank you john and good morning everybody on this beautiful wednesday in washington. We are honored to be joined by mark moyar whose book oppose any foe the rise of americas special Operations Forces was described by National Review as an invaluable and highly readable overview of speci
A source called me to tell me that soldiers had beaten a man to death. He also told me it was too dangerous to go to charkh, so i drove as close as i could to the provincial capital. This is the video i shot just days after the operation. At first it seemed like another footnote in the war. But after i returned home to copenhagen, more details began to emerge from my contacts in charkh. Then six months later the un came out with its 2014 report citing civilian casualties. I found a short reference to the operation in it. The operation resulted in 28 civilian casualties 15 deaths and 13 injured . Fifteen dead. How could fifteen civilian deaths from a joint us and Afghan Military operation go by almost unnoticed to the outside world . The report said that the international and Afghan Security forces denied civilian casualties. I knew i needed to go back to afghanistan if id any chance of finding out the truth. In 2009, eight years into the war in afghanistan, the United Nations started t
A source called me to tell me that soldiers had beaten a man to death. He also told me it was too dangerous to go to charkh, so i drove as close as i could to the provincial capital. This is the video i shot just days after the operation. At first it seemed like another footnote in the war. But after i returned home to copenhagen, more details began to emerge from my contacts in charkh. Then six months later the un came out with its 2014 report citing civilian casualties. I found a short reference to the operation in it. The operation resulted in 28 civilian casualties 15 deaths and 13 injured . Fifteen dead. How could fifteen civilian deaths from a joint us and Afghan Military operation go by almost unnoticed to the outside world . The report said that the international and Afghan Security forces denied civilian casualties. I knew i needed to go back to afghanistan if id any chance of finding out the truth. In 2009, eight years into the war in afghanistan, the United Nations started t
I was in afghanistan at the time of the operation. A source called me to tell me that soldiers had beaten a man to death. He also told me it was too dangerous to go to charkh, so i drove as close as i could to the provincial capital. This is the video i shot just days after the operation. At first it seemed like another footnote in the war. But after i returned home to copenhagen, more details began to emerge from my contacts in charkh. Then six months later the un came out with its 2014 report citing civilian casualties. I found a short reference to the operation in it. The operation resulted in 28 civilian casualties 15 deaths and 13 injured . Fifteen dead. How could fifteen civilian deaths from a joint us and Afghan Military operation go by almost unnoticed to the outside world . The report said that the international and Afghan Security forces denied civilian casualties. I knew i needed to go back to afghanistan if id any chance of finding out the truth. In 2009, eight years into t