Welcome back to the Madeleine Paul hilliard Conference Center here at the higgins hotel. I hope everybody enjoyed their lunch. We spent this morning doing some pretty high Level Analysis of the political and strategic situation that existed amongst the allied leaders. But as we all know, wars are fought on battle feels, not in board rooms, and these summits, though they dictated much of what would happen on the ground, they wouldnt have mattered much if we didnt have armies in the field. So our next session will look at how yalta affected the execution of the closing months of world war ii. To do this, we asked our very own rob citino, dr. Citino is the executive director of the institute for the study of war and democracy as well as the Museum Samuel and mary stone Senior Historian at the National World War Ii Museum and ill beat him to the punch line and say hes got the longest title on staff. Hes an Award Winning military historian, published ten books, primarily on the german army.
Pivotal meeting between british Prime Minister winston churchill, president franklin roosevelt, and soviet leader joseph stalin. Welcome back to the metal and Paul Hilliard Conference Center here at the higgins hotel. I hope everybody enjoyed their lunch. We spent this morning doing highlevel analysis of the political and strategic situation that existed amongst the allied leaders. As we know, wars are fought on battlefield, not in boardrooms. These summits, though they dictated much of what would happen on the ground, they would not have mattered much if we did not have armies in the field. Our next session will look at how yalta affected the execution of the closing months of world war two. To do this we have asked rob citino. His executive director of the museum of democracy as well as at the world War Ii Museum. He is an awardwinning led terri historian. Military historian. He has published 10 books, primarily on the german army. He has taught for three decades including stints at
Cspan3, American History tv. Patrick thank you, steve. let me begin with the origin of the National Rifle association. How did the organization come about and why . Patrick it came about during the civil war. There was poor marksmanship, so two officers decided to form the nra based out of new york with two purposes. Facilitate, build, and grow longrange rifle ranges , and the other was to assist the state National Guards in marksmanship. The nra initially, just so you know, was kind of working to get appropriations from the government and they started off with one organization. They grew to 1700 by 1929. They also are, just so you know, built on, there was an english National Rifle association. In 1859. A predecessor this is supposed to be the american version. The only thing that differentiated the two to start off with was the franchise like model where you could build a rifle club, statewide and you were a nra affiliated rifle club and those rifle clubs within compete in state, loc
National war college. Thats us down there in in the lower corner. Were housed at Theodore Roosevelt hall on fort mcnair in washington, d. C. , a scant two blocks away from the Washington Nationals ball field, which makes getting home sometimes an interesting challenge all the we just a word about the college we actually occupy a building that was built the cornerstone was laid in 1903 by president roosevelt. It was the home of the Army War College until World War Two started. And after the war, the Army War College moved up to carlisle, pennsylvania, and president truman and worked hard get the National War College established as a joint college. Its been a partnership primarily between the military and the state department for the last 75 years and we educate senior Lieutenant Colonels and colonels and equivalent in the state Department Intelligence community and other federal agencies in National Security strategy. So i get to come to work in that building day and we have a number of
So im dr. Mike bell, the executive of the jenny Craig Institute for the study of war and democracy here at the National World war two museum in new orleans. Its great. Have you here tonight in the Madeleine Paul hilliard Conference Center . Of course, paul was a marine two at the museums own higgins hotel. And for those of you that watching live stream and on cspan, thanks to you for joining us. We sure do share links and spread the word about tonights wonderful program. So, you know, its going to be great. Now, id like to carry on the museum tradition first by acknowledging any World War Two veterans, homefront workers or Holocaust Survivors that we may in person or watching online another online. So lets give them a round of applause. You know, next as part of our tradition, if you know, id like to acknowledge any veterans of any era or any active duty service members, if you would please stand to be recognized for your service to our country. And ive got ive got a little adjustment