War and its machine. Together they form the big picture. Welcome to the big picture. Im captain Carl Zimmerman. The big picture is a report to you from your army, an army committed by you, the people of the United States, to stop communist aggression wherever it may strike. The big picture traces the course of events in the Korean Campaign through firsttime reports of our combat veterans and through film taken by combat cameramen. These are the men who daily record on film the big picture as it happens, where it happens. Today our big picture brings into focus the turning of the tide. Youll see our fight to hold on to the perimeter. Youll see air support from our carriers, the invasion and the march of seoul. And youll hear a firsttime report from a lieutenant, a platoon leader with the armys 24th Infantry Division. Now, lets go back to august 1970. On 10 august after 47 days of fighting in korea, the tide of battle is ebbing and flowing for both sides. United nations forces are dug in
Teams to participate in International Tournaments. Let me remind you that this decision was made on september 26. All matches of russian teams were to be held without the countrys flag, anthem, National Playing uniform and not on russian territory. In the end, uifa stated that they could not find a technical solution that would allow russian teams to play. Well , the independent newspaper earlier, citing its sources, reported that the uefa president was under pressure because of the decision to allow russian youth. Teams. Meanwhile , the russian adult Football Team held a Training Session at the base in novogorsk as part of a Training Camp. Our Football Players will play two friendly matches, the results of which will count towards the International Football federation rankings. We will find out all the details from our correspondent stas radikultsev, he is in direct contact with the studio. Stas, greetings, who will our team play against . Yes, daria, greetings, but first of all, on o
Hell to pay. We are very appreciative of that. For agoing to talk to you little bit. [applause] d. M. Giangreco great to be here. Start off to test with some interesting quotes i have heard recently. Navy mind of the waters off of northern japan to keep the russians from invading first. Quote, still and prepared to seize the northern end of hia nshu, from their his Armored Divisions would sweep down towards tokyo leaving postwar japan a divided nation like germany. Was nothing to stop the soviets from invading before the americans and seizing all of northern japan. Well ok. Much like fantasy football alternate history can be an enjoyable diversion from trotting and read trotting the same old ground. What is interesting about these overheard quotes is that they were all uttered as statements of fact by educators and serious historians, and while they and similar ideas have bubbled up for decades, virtually all of these comments were made within the last year during the runup to the 70th
Good morning. Im Christopher Prebble the Vice President for against and Foreign Policy studies at the cato institute. Thank you for being here and thanks to our outstanding conference staff who do a terrific job organizing our many events. Welcome to those of you watching on cspan and online at cato. Org. Following the september 11th terrorist attacks in october 2001 the United States initiated combat operations against al qaeda targets inside of afghanistan and against the taliban government that had harbored the terrorists there. In the ensuing 16 years u. S. Goals have changed marginally but they typically include defeating al qaeda and other terrorist groups with global reach, strengthening the Afghan Government and Security Forces to prevent the taliban from retaking political power and denying terrorists a safe haven. Assessments of our progress to date are mixed at best. In june secretary of Defense James Mattis stated, quote, we are not winning in afghanistan right now, unquote
If you will take your seat please. Good afternoon i am peter carmichael. I am the director of the Civil War Institute and its my pleasure to welcome vienna dean fiona dean halloran. Arrival she spent four years teaching 19thcentury American History at Eastern Kentucky university, as well as several years in the history departments of ucla. She finished her phd at ucla and studied under joan law. Many of us are familiar with joan. She has spoken here on a number of occasions and the author of a superb biography of ulysses s. Grant. An, fionas dissertation became thomas nast the father of modern political cartoons published in 2013. It is my pleasure to welcome fiona. [applause] fiona hi. I want to thank you for inviting me here and actually for all the help she provided as i prepared to come and spend this hour with you. Im here to talk about thomas nast. What i will do is introduce him to you broadly at first, and then talk more specifically about what the civil war did for thomas nast