Depending on who is sitting where and your background, you might find some comments controversial. I have read all the books today and enjoyed all three of them. Happyk you will be very with them. Don, we have a long leash and ship. Started off. We have a long relationship. Start it off. He convinced me i needed to know more, so thank you for being here. Teacher and friend, thank you. I appreciate you being here. Command is not a doctrine, a philosophy. Why i would the book. Why i wrote the book. I think the u. S. Military has great people and recruits well but it continues to remain in the Industrial Age in management and development. I will not use the word training, because training is one aspect of learning. Mulkey, ioes got into his papers. The main thing people keep saying, why do use germans as an example . I get the typical american response, we beat them in two wars. They wrote more in more detail than any country on how to develop people. I want to lead off with a Chuck Richa
Spent good evening everyone so glad to see you here in the auditorium tonights program give me liberty is a part of the shorts distinguished Speakers Series and thank you for your great generosity which enables us to bring so many fine speakers to the stage. I also want to think the Chairmans Council member who is in attendance and thank you for your support which enables us to do our work with that question and answer session as you enter the auditorium my colleagues are going up and down the aisles. Following the program there will be a book signing and they will be available for purchase. We are thrilled to welcome Richard Brooke kaiser at the National Review institute and the author of numerous books including Alexander Hamiltons americana. As our chief historian curator the blockbuster show Alexander Hamilton from 2004. We were way ahead of our time but it caught up with us. Richard Brooke Kaiser was is awarded the National Humanities metal in 2008 his newest book is the exception
A discussion of military and civilian National Service programs, from the Brookings Institution, this is just over an hour. 30 seconds. 30 seconds was particularly effective. It is my happy duty to introduce and moderate the second panel. I will begin by introducing myself briefly. I am bill gault, senior fellow in the government studies program at brookings, delighted to be a small cog in the Service Share alliance. And two people in particular, mel sawhill conceding the stand working tirelessly for six months and also john allen, for letting his vast appearance and events moral authority to our enterprise this morning and i think it is a sign that brookings is spiritually aligned with the National Service movement. Let me introduce the question this way. If National Service is the answer, what is the question . And we have heard and i think will hear three very different kinds of answers to that question. It is useful to keep them secret. The first test to do with service as an avenu
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