Andy hird is a special assistant to the noras university provost, he talks about expanding to students so that you may learn what it is like to travel abroad. He has done a tremendous amount of things, part of that has to do with him being stationed here for rotc and his hopes in helping each of you become better leaders and meeting here today is moderator of this panel. His bio is extensive. I could spend a lot of time writing about the things he has done but i will keep it short. He is retired, United States air force, went to the air force academy, university of north carolina. s. Eric career includes 3 commands. For those that will be aviators, 6000 flying hours and combat missions in four conflict. Please welcome colonel andy hird. [applause] or smack thanks, travis. Thank you for attending the North University military writer Symposium Panel of warfare in the 21st century. Future battlegrounds. My name, andy hird. You and i are privileged at the peace and war center to organize t
Hes done a tremendous amount of things here and part of that has to do with him being stationed here and also for his hopes in helping each one of you to become better leaders and also today being the moderator of the panel. I could spend a lot of time reading about the incredible things hes done but i will keep it short. He is retired United States air force and went to the air force academy and university of north carolina. The Courier Logistics and airlift included three commands and for those that will be aviators, 6,000 flying hours in combat missions. [applause] thank you for attending the university military writers Symposium Panel at the 21st century future battlegrounds you and i are very privileged today at the peace and war center and organizefor center andorganizede with experts of the 21st century conflict. The experts on the panel are global thought leaders intimate with the battle both in planning and direct action. From their professional experience yours is to develop
So i do think theres a conflict there, but i dont think hes like giving up the idea of a claim to some sort of absolute. I just dont know what it is. What about that quotation which each of us gave a version of it, didnt we . In my version, he says the white communitys entitled to prevail politically because for the time being, anyway, the leaders of American Civilization are white. So he isnt saying theyre destined to be the leaders because of their whiteness. Hes saying at the moment they just happen to be. Thats right. In the version i have he says not that the leaders are white but that the white race is for the time being the advanced race which is a slightly different statement to make, actually. Thats right. You know, and for the time being and that gets into this whole thing im talking about. Again, i think its kind of a fantasy that segregation could be used as a way of imposing superiors for a way for the negro to evolve or come up out of this backwardness. You know, i just i
So i do think theres a conflict there, but i dont think hes like giving up the idea of a claim to some sort of absolute. I just dont know what it is. What about that quotation which each of us gave a version of it, didnt we . In my version, he says the white communitys entitled to prevail politically because for the time being, anyway, the leaders of American Civilization are white. So he isnt saying theyre destined to be the leaders because of their whiteness. Hes saying at the moment they just happen to be. Thats right. In the version i have he says not that the leaders are white but that the white race is for the time being the advanced race which is a slightly different statement to make, actually. Thats right. You know, and for the time being and that gets into this whole thing im talking about. Again, i think its kind of a fantasy that segregation could be used as a way of imposing superiors for a way for the negro to evolve or come up out of this backwardness. You know, i just i
Panel will. Now get to really ask the questions i wanted to ask all day. And you guys are in a captive audience. So know if anybody does have questions for the panel. We like to keep this open for us. But they spent a lot of their time doing research. So now time to make them a little more personal. So i would like to the first question i have for you guys is, do you weve studied outwards of the American Revolution in the national sphere. What made you decide to study this aspect, this niche . What was that defining moment, if there was one, ill take it. Ill start it off. So the easy answer for me, if i mentioned were doing an exhibition, this topic is a significant sound that that opens up. We knew that we wanted to do an exhibition about the stuarts. We thought we were going to do one about james. The first two, of course, is the namesake for jamestown, where we have one of our one of our museums. And then we realized that the exhibition would really be incomplete if we just focused