Tv we hurl from the National World war two the merica animals of world war ii. She highlights the meals, dogs, patients who are integral part of this war effort. Thanks for joining us today. Im really happy to talk about low forces. And he burns and i coauthored this book published in 2019. We did it after exhibition of a larger topic of animals at war that we have in the museum. And for the book we actually decided to narrow the focus a little bit, just to talk about the u. S. Military in their use of animals but the war. I am going to talk but for meat animals today, and if we have some time i will try to get in a couple of other fund topics as well. We are going to talk about meals, dogs, pigeons, and horses. We will go to the first flight here and mules. Although they are often looked down upon because of the stubborn an object nature,s freeze government mule is one a lot of us are probably familiar with. They are indeed hardworking and widely used and military before world war ii,
On september 12th, 19, 18 the American Expeditionary force launched their First Independent operation of world war i. We travel to northeastern france to visit a few locations and learn about a battle in a town just inside of bulge that the germans had occupied since 1914. To begin the story, here is a portion of a 1960 u. S. Army film that gives a brief sketch of the operation. In late july, 1918, pushing created the First United States Army under his command. Immediate steps were taken to concentrate American Forces on one point on the line. That point was saintmihiel. Had held a since early in the war penetrating the allied lines, 60 miles it enabled that enemy to harass operations. More than half 1 million first army troops assembled for the task to crushing it out of existence. 15 divisions were moved into division. By the end of the day, on september 11th, 1918, the first army was ready for its First Independent operation against the enemy. At dawn on the 12th, drizzling rain, th
4 trillion in debt. Going into debt, an additional million in an hour and a half. Its not the republicans fault, of course, and its not the democrats fault, and what im looking for is who did it. Now, theyre the two folks involved, so maybe if you put them together, they did it. The facts are, we have to fix it. Somewhere out there there is an extraterrestrial doing this to us, i guess. Everybody said they will take responsibility. Someone somewhere has to take responsibility for this. That was independent candidate ross perot during three separate debates in 1992 talking about one of his favorite issues, the u. S. Debt. In that election the texas businessman won 90 of the popular vote, the largest vote for an independent candidate sin since. Good night and thank you for being with us. Were doing this series as a way of looking at American History through the lens of president ial candidates who failed in the white house but had an influence on American History. Ross perot is one of 12
A sovereign territory thats point 1. 2 it highlights it for me yet again that there is a border area on the gaza site that gazans are not supposed to go into you know and that makes gaza even smaller than it is and that is of serious concern and number 3 and perhaps the most important point the miss some of this border area including where the tanks went in is actually actually some of the most fertile Agricultural Land and so the people that get most affected by this are the small scale agriculturalists that produce the food for gaza and that that is just not acceptable and i am not aware of a credible military or political reason for doing this. Well arguably the world doesnt know about what youre talking about it certainly wasnt much reported in the apparent scores of people dying in syria in the past few days from israeli airstrikes let alone the ones in iraq when if donald trump is watching from florida he might even be surprised that your there the aim of the Trump Administration
Going forward what lesson should policymakers learn from this recent rise of populism on both the left and the right . Today i were discussing these issues with two great guests, first Casey Mulligan is professor of economics at university of chicago and he served as chief economist for the council of economic advisers in the Trump Administration from september 2015 august 20 because most recent book released last month is your hired, untold successes and failures. Michael strain is a john scholar and director of Economic Policy studies here aei, the author of the American Dream is not dead but populism could kill it, released in february of this year. Heres how the event is going to go. To start up k she will speak for about ten minutes and then mike will offer a ten minute response and after that we will have a Panel Discussion for a while, and towards the end of the discussion about 10 45 we will do a q a so please submit your questions on twitter with the hashtag ask aei econ. With