At some point come to stumble when im assembled leaders and you typed a lot about what is going to land in what is going to use. What can lose is for structure. All the Service Chiefs are grappling with this he dilemma. How do you modernize and made team for structure at the same time . 80,000, 31,000 of them are all volunteers, coast guard auxiliary. Whatever you multiply by zero, you get zero. They provide millions of free manhours sorting Coast Guard Missions that dont involve putting themselves at risk, mostly Recreational Boating community, but i cant come for structure. Maybe make difficult decisions about operations do not cut appeared with always defined itself by love and Statutory Mission and some pages get rid of one of those missions. Each one of those has a mundane line when you divest of omission, all you have at the end of the day is a smaller coast guard. 100 years ago was when the coast guard first came into being. The first commandant of the coast guard was under atta
The ability to resuscitator rehabilitate i always give the president the benefit of the doubt. The president deserves his team. General David Petraeus is a good choice. Got remember something about the army or the service. The Foreign Service like many of you, the war is not general David Petraeuss war, it is the president s war and the military, all the people who work in the government follow the policy of the elected civilian government. They can give their opinions and they need to end military leaders would have more forcefully given their opinions over the last five years, might be a lot better. I have not made any secret that i am very disappointed in some of these people. I have said publicly some of these guys in my opinion wouldnt be corporals in miami and some are four star generals. Nevertheless i am not the president. On the face of that they deserve their commanders. General David Petraeus is qualified. We will take yours and be real quick. I hope this is not too philosop
Im delighted to see you here to talk about my new book dinner with churchill policymaking at the dinner table. Since my book is all about the importance and dinners be assuredly not make you late for your own dinners. I will be brief. I want to whet your appetite so youll buy my book. You want to i have lived with wrurnlg Winston Churchill for four years. It was wonderful. Even though it took place in churchill college. Im asked where i got the idea to add to the thousand already written. I have read many books about the man and notice many of the important accomplishments were achieved at dinners. Sometimes at luncheons. So i began to wonder why that was so. Why most of the deals that were struck at the Famous International conferences held during world war ii were made at or facilitated by dinners at which the leaders were more relaxed in a formal session. So i began digging in to the churchill archives. Not do i find more famous dinners with president roosevelt and truman and stalin
See what they have, talk to the people. These are your maybe the neighbors. These are your neighbors. For more information on booktvs recent visit to santa fe, new mexico, go to cspan. Org localcontent. And now, general Stanley Mcchrystal discusses his memoir, my share of the task. In the book the former commander of u. S. Forces in afghanistan recounts the major turning points in his 34year military career which ended in 2010. This is about an hour. [applause] well, thank you very much. Thanks for coming out. I think this is a wonderful opportunity. The gentleman sitting next to me is kind of a big deal. [laughter] for anyone who is, pays attention to American Foreign policy and military affairs, you know that ever since the attacks on this country on 9 11 the United States has had to evolve militarily, in our intelligence community, in many ways to meet the challenge of this new enemy. And more than anyone that i can think of, general mcchrystal has been responsible for shaping that
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