School, scott green, is here tonight. Scott, can you waive your arm . Thank you. [applause] mark in uniform at the back of the room. This lecture series, which is about great military events, great commanders and sometimes great controversies in the art of war, has been ongoing since almost the beginning of my tenure 15 years ago. It has been our great series on the library. This is probably my last introduction because i have been drafted by the president so if you can identify with that, to go to washington to save the republic, which as you know needs saving. Say, thealways like to command school is the intellectual center of the army. It is selfcritical, selfaware, it plays no favorites and is the best place to learn from the experience and history of the battlefield and with extraordinary teaching and technology, to learn from todays battlefields and commanders. It is also a school for our allies and partners, and the future military leaders from around the world, a place where th
Tonight, we will be talking about the 75th anniversary of the battle of the bulge. Tonight is also probably my farewell introduction, if that isnt a contradiction in terms, for the ongoing signature series with the History Department of the general staff college. The director of the command school, scott green, is here tonight. Scott, can you wave your arm . Thank you. [applause] in uniform, at the back of the room. This lecture series, which is about great military events, great commanders and sometimes great controversies in the art of war, has been ongoing since almost the beginning of my tenure 15 years ago. It has been our great series on in the library. This is probably my last introduction, because i have been drafted by the president , so, if you can identify with that, to go to washington to save the republic, which as you know needs saving. But as i always like to say, the command school is the intellectual center of the army. It is selfcritical, selfaware, it plays no favori
And that suggests titling it manpower and morale after tet rather than in vietnam, that something changed. After the 1968 tet offensive, the media documented a growing crisis, frequent stories of malaise, challenges to authority and reports of scandals and atrocities, the most infamous of which was the mai lai massacre. And internal military documents tell much the same story. So in thinking about what happened after the tet offensive, we are thinking about we suggested that things were different before 1968. As we Start Talking about post tet, i thought it would give you i thought i would give you a really quick picture of pretet. The most common claim that originated within the military and circulated through the press is that in vietnam the United States had fielded the besttrained, bestequipped, bestdisciplined force in its history, a force of very high morale. Here is general westmoreland speaking in 1966, their performance is exceeding my expectations. I have the journalist peter
Mildred bliss, who was a great friend of hers. She could let her hair down a bit and explain all the things that were going on in her life. But i think the garden notebook, which is a very important document, takes us through all the things she went through and her spot on comments about maintenance, design flaws. From the beginning, she have this incredible i think that was the most important thing that she brought to her Landscape Design career. That gavecial context her clients, but she would have been nowhere even with both clients she did not have that incredible insight into design and criticism. When i was looking at the program, when they first presented it to me, i had to learn about a little bit of the history. I did not want people to think we had the Beatrix Farrand garden all the way up which was then removed for the Justice Kennedy guarded. Just close, i will give you a little capsule of what happened between the two of them. Because actually, in the 1920s, and this is ve
People spread across 318 square miles for a density of about 400 and 60 per square mile, which is pretty sparse when you get down to it. We are roughly 30 africanamerican, 11 latino, 5 various mixes of immigrants and cultures there. The rest, caucasian. Kansas city has a variety of neighborhoods and an extremely sophisticated purpose and culture, things people might not expect. We have tremendous sports teams, great art. It is a place of variety, music, and barbecue. One thing i can tell you is all cities have similar problems. We have issues to deal with crime. Too many guns on the street, too much gun violence, too many homicides. We have to deal with that by educating kids. One thing we know is seldom do you have phds shooting each other on street corners. People who are under educated have fewer options and feel hopeless. When you feel hopeless, you feel angry. When you feel angry, you lash out. And we happen to have easy access to guns. The things that hold me close to kansas city