S focuses on the vietnam war. Inability to the plans led to a battleground. This is about two hours. It is a pleasure to introduce our speaker tonight. Serves as the head of the American History division. A west point graduate, he is veteran of both Operations Desert Storm and iraqi freedom. No surethor of victory. His new book reassesses american strategy in vietnam, Oxford University press 2014. It was recently selected for inclusion on the chief of staff armys professional reading list. Welcome kernel welcome kernel datas welcome colonol daddis. Thank you for the kind introduction and bob for the invitation. Be here,only happy to given new york traffic, im also lucky to be here. As i watched the clock tick away not only on the palisades as we were driving down from west point but also in the cap tried to get us from the hotel to hear hotel to here, it was a close run. What i thought i would do would be to start with something that happened in the white house last week. There was an
Look at James Madisons role in creating the constitution. Next on American History tv, colonel Gregory Daddis discusses u. S. Military strategy during the vietnam war, featuring on William Westmoreland, he argues that the generals ideas were sound, but an inability to i implement them led to failures in South Vietnam. Its an hour and a half. Good evening. Its a pleasure to introduce our speaker tonight. Colonel gregory a. Daddis is an Academy Professor in the department of history at the United States military academy at west point where he currently serves as the head of the American History division. A west point graduate, hes veteran of both Operations Desert Storm and iraqi freedom. He holds a ph. D. From the university of North Carolina at chapel hill and is author of no sure victory, measuring u. S. Army effectiveness and progress in the vietnam War Oxford University press, 2011. His newest book westmorelands war, reassessing american strategy in vietnam, Oxford University press,
Good evening. Its a pleasure to introduce our speaker tonight. Colonel gregory a. Daddis is an Academy Professor in the department of history at the United States military academy at west point where he currently serves as the head of the American History division. A west point graduate, hes veteran of both Operations Desert Storm and iraqi freedom. He holds a ph. D. From the university of North Carolina at chapel hill and is author of no sure victory, measuring u. S. Army effectiveness and progress in the vietnam War Oxford University press, 2011. His newest book westmorelands war, reassessing american strategy in vietnam, Oxford University press, 2014, was recently selected for inclusion on the chief of staff of the armys professional reading list. Colonel daddis is also an important important to this organization as liaison between the society for military history, region two, and the new York Military affairs symposium. Welcome, colonel daddis. [ applause ] thank you, robert, for t
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