Here are some programs to look out for this saturday and sunday. For a full schedule of authors and books this weekend visit us at booktv. Org. Up next, author and military strategist bing west, the former assistant secretary of defense talks about counterinsurgency, the wind down of the war in afghanistan and current foreignpolicy. The council for relations member and former rand analyst is the author of six nonfiction books including the village, the strongest tribe war, politics and the end game in iraq and his 2011 release the wrong war grit, strategy and the way out of afghanistan. Why did you call the Afghanistan War the wrong war . Guest we had a strategy that was misplaced for the war. We shouldnt have had a strategy of trying to build a nation with 31 million tribesmen going headlong into the ninth century. That was too much. It was the wrong war for the strategy we chose. Maybe you could do that in japan or germany after world war ii but doing it in afghanistan which is a pil
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February 1, 2021
Several virtual events are planned this month as part of the University of Wyoming’s Black History Month celebration.
“The Death of Black Wall Street and the Myth of the American Dream” is the theme of Black History Month, sponsored by UW’s African American and Diaspora Studies (AADS) and the Black Studies Center. Events are free and open to the public.
“This year’s theme reckons with the 100th anniversary of one of America’s most catastrophic events,” says Fredrick Douglass Dixon, the Black Studies Center’s director and an assistant professor in the UW School of Culture, Gender and Social Justice. “Each event examines the layered nuances of the economic, political and social impacts of Black Wall Street’s death.”