Book tv recently visited l to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. I just finished reading dreadnought by Robert Massey about leading up to world war i and i would recommend it to anybody. Theres a lot of great parallels to what happened leading up to world war i with what we are facing right now. Admiral christmas of germany was the one who convinced bismarck to get into the navy business. They had a small navy until then and they use navy build up after bismarck and what that did was change the game and especially the pacific and there was something that came down shortly before world war i was germany pressured the uk and took the Solomon Islands away from them. Look like a small point at the time all of a sudden for the first time youve got germany with a base in the South Pacific and a large navy. We could be seeing the earth of that with the south china sea. Another book is american lion john meacham. I thought john meacham the other day and hes fantastic. H
At large take us back to august, 2015 and how you felt about the election. I was not optimistic. My coauthor felt quite differently and predicted trump was not only win but would go on to win pressure and he did that on the basis of the data that he was looking at particularly the large number of democrats in places like northeastern ohio that were pushing the registration for democratic to republican because they watched the first president ia first pree and realized he was thinking about issues that many of the democratic voters cared about. Trump is where the action was. I was much more skeptical though i did see something was happening i think you can trace the date to the election to ju july 102015 that was about three and a half weeks after he launched his campaign and he was kind of going along in the polls but met with the project. Trump showed empathy standing with his arms folded and almost never relinquished the lead. Showing them in general. I still thought Hillary Clinton
Committee will come to order. Last week, the Committee Held classified and unclassified sessions on the state of the world or more accurately, the state of the world environment in which the American Military must operate and u. S. National security must be protected. I was struck by the essential point general petraeus made that we face many threats and can overcome any of them except perhaps what we do to ourselves. Today, we turn to the state of the u. S. Military. I continue to be concerned and sometimes even disturbed by evidence that is accumulating on the damage inflicted upon our military in recent years and the stresses our forces are under. That damage comes from a variety of factors including budget cuts of 20 , continuing resolutions, the failure to recognize or at least admit and then address mounting readiness problems as well as the shrinking size of the force while keeping the tempo of operations high. There is certainly plenty of blame to go around between both parties
Committee will come to order. Last week, the Committee Held classified and unclassified sessions on the state of the world or more accurately, the state of the world environment in which the American Military must operate and u. S. National security must be protected. I was struck by the essential point general petraeus made that we face many threats and can overcome any of them except perhaps what we do to ourselves. Today, we turn to the state of the u. S. Military. I continue to be concerned and sometimes even disturbed by evidence that is accumulating on the damage inflicted upon our military in recent years and the stresses our forces are under. That damage comes from a variety of factors including budget cuts of 20 , continuing resolutions, the failure to recognize or at least admit and then address mounting readiness problems as well as the shrinking size of the force while keeping the tempo of operations high. There is certainly plenty of blame to go around between both parties
Committee will come to order. Last week, the Committee Held classified and unclassified sessions on the state of the world or more accurately, the state of the world environment in which the American Military must operate and u. S. National security must be protected. I was struck by the essential point general petraeus made that we face many threats and can overcome any of them except perhaps what we do to ourselves. Today, we turn to the state of the u. S. Military. I continue to be concerned and sometimes even disturbed by evidence that is accumulating on the damage inflicted upon our military in recent years and the stresses our forces are under. That damage comes from a variety of factors including budget cuts of 20 , continuing resolutions, the failure to recognize or at least admit and then address mounting readiness problems as well as the shrinking size of the force while keeping the tempo of operations high. There is certainly plenty of blame to go around between both parties