Call michael talks about his book the war for the common soldier how men throught, fought, and survived in civil war armies. This is one hour. It is my honor and pleasure to introduce somebody who at this point probably needs very little introduction to most of you. Peter carmichael is a director of the Civil War Institute and the robert c professor of civil war professors at gettysburg college. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and essays as well as several books including one published in 1998 and the lost generation Young Virginians in peace, war, and reunion published by unc press in 2005. His most recent book, the war for the common soldier how men throught, fought, and survived in civil war armies was published by unc just last year in 2018. And he was a recent recipient of the 2018 civil war book award from the new York Military affairs symposium. Please welcome peter carmichael. [ applause ] thank you. I am not dehydrated. I just have as you can tell a scratchy th
Can you hear me . Thank you so much, nadia and thank you to the Hudson Institute for having me here today. I think this is one of the most important topics confronting our nation today. I wanted to spend some time today talking about about the economic threat from china in general and to the nation, and what that threat means to the American Military and intelligence. Then i have a fairly specific proposal i would like to talk about to begin improving our economic defenses. Some are referring to this as a new cold war. Its as much economic as military. The economic nature of this cold more is new for america. We havent faced a competitor with near the economic power they have since we faced the british. Nor have we ever faced a competitor that has the economic agility we pride ourselves on. This economic competition is going to require that we have fundamentally new ways of thinking about defense and National Security. Chinas gdp is on track to surpass americas. As measured by purchasi
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Group thats been on the front lines of social, racial and Economic Justice forever and to be here at a time of historic importance for the group because youve just called for the impeachment of donald trump. [ cheering and applause ] i read the Mueller Report the day it came out i read into the afternoon on the night and the next morning and when i got to the end, i did not stick my finger in the air and asked about the politics, i did not hesitate, i read it, i knew what is said and i concluded first that this is a man who has broken the law and he should be impeached and i said so on that very day. I come to at a moment of great crisis in this country, crisis at a time when americans are working better and better for a thinner and thinner slice at the top of that would leave everyone else behind. The simple question of my lifes work is what is happening to working families in america, why is the road getting so much rockier and deeper and for families of color, even rockier and even
Briany Justice Centers kelsey discuss efforts to legally challenge labor unions. And we will take your calls, and you can join can join the conven facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is friday, june 14, 2019. Welcome to washington journal. It is flag day, President Trumps birthday and he considered continues to regardingiticism information on political information coming from a foreign country, information on a political opponent. We will play you the president s comments in a moment. How concerned are you more broadly on the issue of foreign meddling in campaign 2020 . If you are concerned, the line to call is 2027488000. If you are not all that concerned, the line is 2027488001. Already a number of tweets on the issue. We will read some of those in a moment. That is cspanwj. We welcome your posts on facebook as well. Front page this morning of the analysis ofes, and the story with the headline three words revive fervor over trumprussia ties. With s