[applause] thank you. This lecture series has been ongoing almost since the beginning of my tenure 15 years ago. It has been our great series in the library. This is probably my last introduction because i have been drafted by the president. Some of you can identify with that. To go to washington to save the republic, which needs saving. Say, theys like to command school is the intellectual center of the army. It is selfcritical, selfaware. It plays no favorites and is the best place to learn from the experience and history of the battlefield. And with extraordinary teaching and technology, to learn from todays battlefields and commanders. It is also a school for our and futurepartners military leaders from around the world. A place where a future chief of staff of the Pakistani Army might rub shoulders with the future defense minister from india were a future commander of the Israeli Defense force might meet the future commander of the arab legion. Communication has been incubated. It
Civil war scholar james morgan discusses the battle of balls bluff that occurred in virginia. Five during the first year of the war, he argues this union was loss was due to misinformation and miscommunication among the officers. This event was part of pamplin historical parks big battles, small battles, big results symposium. Are forced speaker today is james morgan. Long civil war enthusiast and current president of the new fort sumter civil war roundtable in charlston and recently joined the border of the fort sumter historical trust. Jim was also a cofounder and chairman of the friends of falls isff, his tactical study widely considered to be the definitive work on that subject. Lets welcome james morgan. [applause] good morning. Everybody hear me ok . Im going to be moving around. We are good on the sound . Ok. Topic is smallur battles and large results. Balls bluff meets that criteria. A very small battle. 1700 men on each side. The numbers were almost dead even. Makes it amusing
The yemeni shore is being shelled at those going to there are not only negotiation platforms, which is why they are already using Ballistic Missiles with a hint, if the bombing does not stop, israel will collect ships, despite warnings from the state department we will strike back at the coalition. Already the port of eilad is paralyzed on the waiting list, a bulgarian container ship is captured, three more ships are damaged, the houthis ultimatum, either give the gas food and medicine, or we will continue. The blows are thrown together marked on the maps, spilling the gate from the stern story as one of. A new chapter is unfolding in this terrible conflict, as he claims, approximately 2 3 of the victims are civilians, this is truly unprecedentedly staggering, but it turns out that the episit is sobering in the cnn report key, maybe this is going back to where. It started, because he made his name reporting on the invasion of iraq, when his great war reporters, starting with peter arne
In fact, have the courage. Burning the quran or killing the caricature of the holy prophet or other issues that muslims are facing in umm salal today, they do not have the courage to do such a thing because they know that if we do such a move, we will have to pay a very heavy price. Enemies, friends, are ignorant people who do not recognize that in an issue, if there is a simple difference , it is secondary, there are no principles of religion but the basis of religion. Let us come and endanger the basis of religion. They really have no sense. They really do not care what they are doing and what is wrong. And harm to the islamic ummah and to they introduce islam, the enemies of the wise are the ones who are actually planning the chinese , they are planning the same things that i have said, the same things are brought up in their thinking room as an infidel, and one person calls himself a muslim. One becomes a shia and one becomes a sunni. They discuss these issues and provoke the feeli
As steve smith wrested back all the momentum at the end of day two. Thanksjohn and darren bett has all the weather temps dropping a bit . It will be cold and things changing gcioss it will be cold and things changing across the weekend, i will tell you about that in a bit. A choir of people who cannot read but making music together. The eu has formally agreed to move to the next phase of talks on brexit. Theresa may welcomed the move as an important step on the road to ensuring a smooth and orderly brexit. It is always a little bit chaotic toward the end of an eu summit, a bit like a feeding frenzy, all of these journalists running back bit like a feeding frenzy, all of thesejournalists running back and forward to different press conferences. There have been press conferences. There have been press conferences from Emmanuel Macron and ankara merkel and everyone reacting to the idea that the negotiation should move on to the next phase. The test of sufficient for progress has been met a