I think weve have you here every year since then. We are thrilled to have you. His newest book it was released late may in addition to authoring over 30 books. A columnist and media commentator. And a researcher in the developing world. To the childhood and during the wars centennial. He is working on a novel set during the cold war and is a contributor to the Hoover Institute on the publication or military history in the impact on world affairs. It is terrific, thank you for coming. Many of you would not want to be in this airconditioning you want to be out in the 95 degrees heat. I was also a very bad musician. I was talking about darkness in the new book. In the sense the talk today might have been titled chancellor bill although it has been and is as the latest operational triumph nonetheless that victory was a very expensive one. And i will just give you a couple of fine points right now and then we will do more of the background and the battle. We are at gettysburg after all. The
The civil war in the east from gettysburg appomattox. His newest book is darkness at chancellorsville it was released late may. In addition to offering over 30 books, ralph has been a u. S. Army enlisted man and career officer, a columnist and media commentator, a strategy and security analyst, and a researcher in the developing world. His fascination with the study of our civil war dates back to his early to his childhood entering the wars continue. At the present he is working on a novel set during the cold war and is a contributor to the Hoover Institute publication on military history and its impact on world affairs. Without any further introduction, i give you ralph. Thank you. [applause] its always good to be back here. Its terrific. Thank you for coming. I know many of you would much rather not being this condition him and would much rather be out in the 95degree heat but thanks for making a sacrifice. Tammy, in covering my biography, left out one very important thing. I was als
Is in an archive called the archive of the center for documents and research of the holy defense. Alhamdulillah, since mr. Naaini came and took over the responsibility there, i have not seen anyone tampering with it and going there. Ok, and he couldnt get it, but the use of these documents has a secret in itself. You can see that these tapes were cassette tapes, which were very popular at that time, and now they have become digital. But the same reduction came in digital , nothing happened, now it has improved a bit, for example, you see if you give a onehour tape to someone, for example the young man who is there now is working , you can see that he is reading four pages from his heart. For example, when mr. Hossein behzads tape is placed in his hand and he implements it , he gets 40 pages of pristine material from it, material that, as we say , can be put to good use. The Document Center says that those who have the experience of being their own narrators can do these things they tak