Feel free to come forward if you would like. Good afternoon. Im peter bergen and peter bergen and i run into National Security foundation and its my great pleasure to introduce my colleague and friend Michael Waltz who has this wonderful new book out warrior diplomat a green berets battles from washington to afghanistan which really outlines mikes unusual career both being someone who is creating policy in the white house and the south asia adviser to Vice President cheney and carrying out the policies and the field as a special forces officer. Mike is also running a successful business. Hes a fellow here at the new America Foundation so he is going to outline the big ideas and some of the interesting stories in the book and then we will open up to question after session. Thank you. Mike. Thank you peter and thanks everyone for coming out today. I will just take a brief moment and talk about some of the broader Strategic Issues that i have tried to address in the book and really underl
All for joining us. [applause] youre watching 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on cspan2s booktv. Television for serious readers. At the new America Foundation. It is my great pleasure to introduce my colleague and friend, mike waltz who has this wonderful book out today warrior diplomat a green berets battles from washington to afghanistan, which really outlines by quite unusual career as both been somebody who is creating a white house with Vice President cheney and also carrying out the policies in the field as a special forces there. Mike also runs a successful business. If the fellow here at the new America Foundation and so he is going to outline kind of the big ideas in some of the interesting stories in the book and then well open it to a question with everyone. Thank you. So, thank you, peter. Thank you for coming out today. Lets take a brief moment and talk about some of the broader Strategic Issues that im trying to address in the book and really underline a lot of m
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Coming back for more. And well show you the challenges some japanese people are facing just ahead of local elections. Japans emperor and empress have offered prayers and flowers in the western pacific nation of palau. They paid tribute to people who died in fierce fighting during world war ii. Reporter Emperor Akihito and empress visited the island of palau. They paid their respects at the memorial of war dead. They placed a bouquet of white chrysanthemums brought from japan to those who lost their lives. Peleiliu is one of a string of islands. The kun are country was under japans control for about 30 years until the end of the war. U. S. Forces attacked peleliu in september 1944. The island was home to a Strategic Air field. U. S. And japanese troops fought for control of the island for more than two months. The battle of pelau claimed the lives of about 10,000 japanese personnel, more than 1,000 americans died. Only 34 japanese survived. Visiting palau has been a wish of the imperial
Survivors of the my grant boat disaster pay their respects to those who lost their lives. I am kim v. Nell in london. There has been an attack on an al shabaab based on a town in the somali coast according to somalia intelligence officials who arrived by sea although turkey and the u. K. Involve any involvement. Al shabaab says one of its fighters was killed weeks after al shabaab attacked a Shopping Mall in nairobi. Under the control of al shabaab, attacked last night by wide wrest earn forces. They targeted a house on the beach. They came from the sea but all forces were ready and started shooting at them. There was heavy fight that lasted for an hour and a half. When they realized they failed, they fled toward the sea and took fast boats that were waiting for them. There were wide western fors. After an investigation, we can confirm they were british and turki turkish. We have inflicted heavy losses on them. We have confirmed that we have injured 5 of them and killed one. The one wh