Tonights program is a history of americas exceptional idea is part of our Eileen George speaker series. Its great generosity has allowed us to bring so many great speakers to the states i want to thank our chairman councilmembers who were in attendance this evening and thank you for your great support which enables us to do our work. Tonights program will last about one hour and it will include a questionandanswer sessionti. You should have received a note card and pencil as you enter the auditorium this afternoon this evening and if not my colleagues are going up and down the aisle with no cards. Following the program there will be a book signing and are storing s copies of the book wil be available for purchase. Tonight we are thrilled to welcome Richard Brookhiser back to the New York Historical society produces senior fellow at the National Review institute a Senior Editor at the National Review and an author of numerous books including Jon Marshalls the man who made the Supreme Co
I would like to say a couple words about the revolution and the history of intelligence. This is one subject that is vastly underrepresented in historical literature. Most of us went through school and learned about the revolution. Even at the college level, we do not delve into the importance of intelligence during the american revolution. This is quite problematic. If you look at the advantages of the british over the americans, the british at almost every advantage. They had a modern professional army that had been battle colonies didas the colon not. The americans had a small Continental Army that could not really be counted on. The british of the greatest navy in the world. The americans did not have a navy to speak of. We have privateers. Pirates, essentially, that we gave the ability to steal and pillage for their pay. Most americans did not actually support independence. Less than half of continental americans support independence. Thousands fought for the british. And many of
Most of us went through school and learned about the revolution. This is quite problematic. If you look at the advantages of they had every advantage. They had a modern professional army that had been bottle battle tested. Had a smalls Continental Army that could not really be counted on. The british of the greatest navy in the world. The americans did not have a navy to speak of. We have privateers. Pirates, essentially, we gave the ability to steal and pillage for their pay. Most americans did not support independence. Less than half of continental support independence. Thousands fought for the british. Others wanted to be left alone. Thats not to mention the british soldiers in the native americans. The british have be worlds greatest economy. We had no central bank. We had a very hard time raising money. So, how did we win . Its not that after he got his masters, he served in the United States marine corps and then joined the cia. Today hes a cia Operations Officer. From 1969 to 20
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