[crowd noise] we are going to get started here. Thank you all, for joining us. Director of the project on military and diplomatic history here. We formed this to understand how history can help us understand current issues. With historians and that includes our speaker today, and we also like to promote interaction between historians and policy experts. And we have one of our own csi s csis policyts experts here with us. October 10 we are going to have carter talk about his book. On october 18 we will have Lawrence Friedman on the future of his book to talk about his and we will also talk about the history of foreign interference in our elections. You can sign up on our mailing signup to our mailing list, on our website. One of the virtues of history is that it provides us with rich, contextual understanding. If you country if you study a country for years and years as historians do, you learn how institutions interact in a way that you otherwise would not understand. Viewearn also, ho
In washington dc, this is one hour. October 10 we will have the victory. Illusions of coat the future of war, a history. The historye have of the foreign interference in elections. If you are not on our mailing list, it can sign up for it on our website. History isvirtues of that it provides us with rich contextual understanding. If you study a country for years as historians do, you learn how individuals and groups interact you way that otherwise would not understand fully. You would understand how peoples views of their own history shapes their worldview. You find out how these countries are different from others. Problems withding our recent interventions is we did not pay enough attention to history. With the iraq war, people talked about how we could democratize iraq because we democratized indonesia. He studied the history of those countries, you would know they are quite different. We need to be careful. We saw similar problems but we went into libya in 2011. There was not the f
Were going to get started here. Thank you all for joining us. I am mark moyar, the director of the project on military and diplomatic history here at csis. We formed this center last year to help inform both the policy world and also the public on how history can help us understand current Foreign Policy issues. And we would like to especially promote historians who also do work in the policy world, and that includes our speaker today. And we also would like to promote interaction between historians and policy experts, and we have one of our own csis policy experts today, alice friend, who ill introduce later in the event. Ill give you a couple other events coming up for those who may be interested. We have october 10th, were going to have carter malcasen talking about his book, illusions of victory, the anbar awakening and the rise of the islamic state. On october 18th, well have Lawrence Friedman on his book, the future of war, a history. And october 24th, we have Calder Walton talki
Beverly so, we will go ahead and get started since the moment has arrived. Others may trickle in from lunch, but thank you and welcome here to this panel on the Church Committee at 40. My name is beverly gage. I am a history professor at yale. And i will be up here mostly timekeeping and asking some questions. Before i introduce the panelists, i just wanted to say a few words about the genesis of this panel, the idea behind it and some of the issues i hope we are going to be able to address. So this year, 2015, marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most important congressional committees certainly of the 1970s. And i think arguably of the latter half of the 20th century and that was the Church Committee. The Church Committee which was chaired by Senator Frank Church began its work in the spring of 1975. And for the 16 months between the spring of 1975 and when they delivered 14 volumes of reports in 1976, the Church Committee held hearings, performed investigations, dug into Backgro
Historians hosted this 90minute discussion at their annual meeting in st. Louis. We will go ahead and get started since the moment has arrived and others may trickle in after lunch. My name is beverly gage. Im a history professor at gail and i will be here mostly chairing and timekeeping and asking some questions, but before i introduce the panelists , i just wanted to say a few words about the genesis of this panel, the idea behind it, and some of the issues i hope we will be able to address. This year, 2015, marks the audience anniversary of one of the most important congressional committees, certainly, of the 1970s, and i think arguably of the latter half of the 20th century, and that was the Church Committee. The Church Committee was chaired by idaho Senator Frank Church and the committee began its work in the spring of 1975, and the Church Committee held hearings performed investigations, dug into Background Materials on the American Intelligence Services this was the first mass s