Good evening. Its a pleasure to introduce our speaker tonight. Colonel gregory a. Daddis is an Academy Professor in the department of history at the United States military academy at west point where he currently serves as the head of the American History division. A west point graduate, hes veteran of both Operations Desert Storm and iraqi freedom. He holds a ph. D. From the university of North Carolina at chapel hill and is author of no sure victory, measuring u. S. Army effectiveness and progress in the vietnam War Oxford University press, 2011. His newest book westmorelands war, reassessing american strategy in vietnam, Oxford University press, 2014, was recently selected for inclusion on the chief of staff of the armys professional reading list. Colonel daddis is also an important important to this organization as liaison between the society for military history, region two, and the new York Military affairs symposium. Welcome, colonel daddis. [ applause ] thank you, robert, for t
I think we could have won without patent. I think we could have one without lemonade i dont think lemay. The greeks wouldve even thought or without dallas stars, the emperor would not have recovered much of the western part of the byzantineroman empire. I dont think there was a Union General allies who couldve taken atlanta at the cost that we took it, very small cost compared to was going on in virginia i dont know anybody who couldve done what Matthew Ridgeway and i wish i couldve said they were american generals, not very many couldve done what David Petraeus did. I was trying to look at unique individual struck history chronologically to try to remind us that even the therapeutic, sociological and of hightech that the human qualities remain constant across time and space. Few readers and few historians would dispute that some of the people that you select were indeed saviors for the country. And i think theres a great example undoubtedly, he said the greek city states. They might a
During the second world war, there was fighting in korea. The u. S. And the soviet union jointly occupied korea. They agreed to divide korea. Now, northern korea, that is what we call today north korea was very much communist influenced. Southern korea, which we now call south korea, it was a very different situation. With the assistance of the un, they sponsored elections in south korea and the South Koreans elected a democratic government. North korea wanted to unite under its terms. It sends insurgence into south korea to try to overthrow the government. They failed to do so. Then in january of 1950, the u. S. Secretary of state made a really significant error. In a speech talking about the areas of influence and positions that were vital to the United Statess interest, he mentioned japan and the philippines and omitted south korea. North koreans interpreted that as a statement that the u. S. Wouldnt go to war to defend south korea. In june of 1950, armed with soviet equipment and a
Students on topics such as who killed homer the origins of the west and what happened to history. He is the martin and Ellie Anderson senior fellow at the Hoover Institution focusing on classics and military history. He is also the wayne and marcia buskey distinguished visiting fellow in history at Hillsdale College and he combines the very rare ability to be one of the foremost scholars in his field of classics, but also to be a popular pundant who regularly appears on fox news and rights of weekly column with National Review as well as american greatness. He has received a ba in classics from university of california santa cruz. He was a fellow at the American School of classical studies in athens and received his phd from the university of stanford and his book the dying citizen how progressive elites tribalism and globalization are destroying the idea of america is this years conservative book of the year. Please join me in welcoming, dr. Victor david hansen. Can you hear me . Okay
Invite up our keynote speaker tonight, dr. Victor david hansen as the winner of this years henry and annucci book prize. Dr. Hansen is a longtime friend of isi. He was a faculty associate going all the way back to the 90s as i mentioned earlier. He actually wrote an isi book in 2002 called bonfire of the humanities rescuing the classics in an impoverished age. He also has lectured to isi students on topics such as who killed homer the origins of the west and what happened to history. He is the martin and Ellie Anderson senior fellow at the Hoover Institution focusing on classics and military history. He is also the wayne and marcia buskey distinguished visiting fellow in history at Hillsdale College and he combines the very rare ability to be one of the foremost scholars in his field of classics, but also to be a popular pundant who regularly appears on fox news and rights of weekly column with National Review as well as american greatness. He has received a ba in classics from univers