Committee meets today to consider general Charles Brown to be chief of staff of the air force, the undersecretary of defense. Thank you for being here. All of you have brilliant careers. Some of these things are necessary. I have to ask you the required question. I want to have inaudible yes or no. You have conflicts of interest, will you ensure your staff establishes requested communications including questions for the record in hearings . Yes, sir. Yes. Will you cooperate in providing witnesses and briefs in response to congressional requests . Yes, sir. Will those witnesses have to do with testimony and debriefings . Do you agree in the affirmative you testify for this committee . Yes, sir. Do you provide documents for forms of communication in a timely manner when requested by duly constituted committee with the committee in the basis of the delay or denial in providing the occupants . Yes, sir. Have you assumed any duties or undertaken any actions which appear to be presumed outco
Andy hird is a special assistant to the noras university provost, he talks about expanding to students so that you may learn what it is like to travel abroad. He has done a tremendous amount of things, part of that has to do with him being stationed here for rotc and his hopes in helping each of you become better leaders and meeting here today is moderator of this panel. His bio is extensive. I could spend a lot of time writing about the things he has done but i will keep it short. He is retired, United States air force, went to the air force academy, university of north carolina. s. Eric career includes 3 commands. For those that will be aviators, 6000 flying hours and combat missions in four conflict. Please welcome colonel andy hird. [applause] or smack thanks, travis. Thank you for attending the North University military writer Symposium Panel of warfare in the 21st century. Future battlegrounds. My name, andy hird. You and i are privileged at the peace and war center to organize t
Casts. More now about the 2007 surge of troops in eric with a foe cuss on the planning by the Bush Administration. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. My name is stef, it is my great pleasure this afternoon to introduce our distinguished panel of speakers. We have ambassador edelman who has served in the department of state and the white house, and u. S. Ambassador to finland, turkey, and was Vice President dick cheneys deputy assistance. He has a department of defense medal for distinguished public service. From the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and a distinguished service award. To my far left we have general lute, he retired in 2017, previously he had a distinguished 25 year career in the u. S. Army and he served for a total of sick years in the white house under both president s, george w. Bush, and barack obama. And in 2007 he was named to coordinate the wars in iraq and afghanistan. It was both on the joint staff in washington dc and on the United States central
Studies, Johns Hopkins university, in d. C. Ambassador edelman has served in senior positions at the department of state and defense as well as the white house. Hes served as u. S. Ambassador to finland and turkey and was Vice President dick cheneys Principal Deputy assistant for National Security affairs. Ambassador edelman has received several awards including a department of defense medal for distinguished public service, a distinguished civilian Service Award from the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and a president ial distinguished Service Award. Then to my far left, we have general doug lute. General lute has served most recently as the United States permanent representative to the north atlantic council, a position in which he retired in 2017. Previously general lute had a distinguished 35year career in the u. S. Army. He also served for a total of six years in the white house under both president s george w. Bush and barack obama. And in 2007, president bush named him dep
Welcome to the u. S. Holocaust memorial museum. We decided to look closely at americans role in this history. That goes back to our founding charter, which mandated that the museum look closely at the americans role in this history. This museum is not an answer, its a question. The questions that frame this exhibition are what did americans know and what more could have been done. You will see what they try to do is try to show the context of american history. That context includes our isolationism in the aftermath of world war i, xenophobia, fear of immigrants, racism, jim crow america, antisemitism in the United States. Then we are responding to nazi is him amid the context of the Great Depression and war. In the exhibition, we are always trying to keep that context front and center. The opening film of the exhibition shows the context of the United States between 1918 and 1932. What you see is americans response to world war i. Americans mourning at graves of fallen soldiers. You se