Trumps approached afghanistan compared to the Prior Administration . Guest President Trump was talking about leaving afghani stan throughout his candidacy. President trump announced pretty much an openended engagement that would be conditionsbased rather than timelinebased. The other major difference was the singling out of pakistan. We will no longer be an even broker between pakistan and india. The last issue is nationbuilding, which President Trump came out strongly against. Host some criticism of his approach seems to be people think it is like tweeking at the margin. Is a big enough shift in strategy to bring about a different approach . Guest i think its a very good start. The problem i have with the Trump Administration is that the single speech does not cut it. The issue is whether there can be sustained attention to the problem in an administration that seems to go from topic to topic to topic with little focus. The other concern is regarded troop numbers. You have two bit opt
Resident scholar at the American Enterprise institute to talk about President Trumps approach in afghanistan. What you see as the most significant shift in President Trumps approached afghanistan compared to the Prior Administration . Guest President Trump was talking about leaving afghani stan throughout his candidacy. President trump announced pretty much an openended engagement that would be conditionsbased rather than timelinebased. The other major difference was the singling out of pakistan. We will no longer be an even broker between pakistan and india. The last issue is nationbuilding, which President Trump came out strongly against. Host some criticism of his approach seems to be people think it is like tweeking at the margin. Is a big enough shift in strategy to bring about a different approach . Guest i think its a very good start. The problem i have with the Trump Administration is that the single speech does not cut it. The issue is whether there can be sustained attention
Resident scholar at the American Enterprise institute to talk about President Trumps approach in afghanistan. What you see as the most significant shift in President Trumps approached afghanistan compared to the Prior Administration . Guest President Trump was talking about leaving afghani stan throughout his candidacy. President trump announced pretty much an openended engagement that would be conditionsbased rather than timelinebased. The other major difference was the singling out of pakistan. We will no longer be an even broker between pakistan and india. The last issue is nationbuilding, which President Trump came out strongly against. Host some criticism of his approach seems to be people think it is like tweeking at the margin. Is a big enough shift in strategy to bring about a different approach . Guest i think its a very good start. The problem i have with the Trump Administration is that the single speech does not cut it. The issue is whether there can be sustained attention
Is testimony to its success, said thank you very much. It is my distinct honor to introduce dr. Faulkner, one of the primary historians of the American Experience in world war i. Is a graduate of that other university of kansas that i will not mention, but as the author of two books of the American Experience in world war i, the first call the school of hard knocks about, experience and the second, which was just published called pershings crusaders, a 1917 andexamination of 1918, and you are about to get a presentation on some of the faced when they arrived in france about how to get across that protected area so they could get to the enemy and force a decision. Please join me in welcoming dr. Faulkner. [applause] good afternoon. I would like to thank the Dole Institute for providing me an opportunity to lecture and for their continued support of the series. This room gets easily depressed, this is probably not the briefing for you. We are going to talk about some ugly things, ugly as
He spent 227 days in combat in world war ii. You arrived in june, just after dday and fought literally to the very end, some of the fiercest battles. You were in the thick of the fighting in normandy, the breakouts possibly the bloodiest and most costly conflicts for american soldiers in world war ii. And then of course the battle of the bulge. The photographs that you had taken, january, 1945, 22,000 other americans killed in europe the bloodiest month of world war ii for americans. And then you ended up among the axis of the third reich and stayed there. From my point of view, and having written about the g. I. From the foxhole and also having having talked to robert cap her the most famous war photographer tony a very good friend of mine. Alex i am honored and delighted to speak with you. I cannot think of anybody else who spent as long as you did in war actually taking photographs. You were there all the time. I just want to move to the first photograph now. Tony, can you see what