General Staff College faculty of the department of military history for since 1992. For 11red the department years. During that time, he has come to i quote from the front page of the New York Times 10 years or so ago as the intellectual center of the army. At the, he put set bottom of his email signature puts that at the bottom of his team else. Its required . Ok. Well, its appropriate in his case, because no one has done more to make that true. He is the author of the book great commanders. His origins are a series of historiansat command have given at the library. He has run about the tet offensive and the bottle of analog, etc. Written about the tet offensive and the battle of lock. He is on the Editorial Board of himself history but is no armchair historian. He is the general of the Army George C Marshall chair of military history at the u. S. Army command and general staff at the college of Fort Leavenworth, which is, by the way, the longest title you can hold as an historian out
Broadcasting because of those hearings. Now that being the news hour and everything else. You can watch this and other American History programs on our website where all of our video is archived. Next, a panel of five vietnam war veterans selected by the u. S. Army command and general Staff College at Fort Leavenworth discusses their experiences during more. This event is hosted by the Kansas City Public Library as part of a National Endowment for the arts series on the vietnam war. This is about one hour and 15 minutes. Tonight, we have a distinguished panel, and jim wilbanks will introduce them in a moment. I proud to introduce jim wilbanks. He served 23 years in the army, retiring as lieutenant colonel. He was an infantry advisor to a 70gument during the 19 sev offensive in vietnam. He has a ba in history from texas a m. He has an ma and phd from the university of kansas. He has been on the command and general Staff College faculty of the department of military history for since 199
Officers and soldiers they covered. Among the speakers were former abc news nightline anchor ted koppel and yasutsune hirashiki, author of on the frontlines of the Television War a legendary war cameraman in vietnam. This event at the National Archives in washington is about 90 minutes. Now it is time to introduce our moderator terribly irving terry irving. He went into a career in television news, spending for decades covering wartime and political disasters throughout the United States. E has one and number of awards ladies and gentlemen, please welcome terrier thing in our distinguished panelists. Terry irving and our distinguished panelists. [applause] terry good evening. I should explain that none of these people are terry irving, but i am. [laughter] younow, we have here see, this is what you come prepared with everything you have ever written. We have barry who reported on virtually every Major International event, wars, policies of seven u. S. President s. Barry covered the fal
Roughly half of all syrians, are displaced and the assad regime bears overwhelming responsibility for this destruction and extremism it has spawned. However, none of this would have been possible without the support of iran and russia, both of which intervened on assads behalf to extend influence in a region and counter the u. S. And its partners. With the support of the u. S. And Coalition Partners, the Syrian Democratic forces succeeded in sweeping isis out of raqqah in october. Of course, despite losing much of its territory in syria and iraq, isis remains a major threat. And theres also the ongoing danger posed by al qaeda, syria, and affiliates which maintain significant influence in oppositioncontrolled areas. So its worth highlighting two recent developments. First, the u. S. , russia, and jordan signed a memorandum of principles on november 8 maintaining the administrative arrangements in oppositionheld areas in southwest syria. Yet iran and its proxies have deepened their foot
Guys, can you push up a little bit . Thank you, everybody. Were just here to support the general and all of the generals. We are here to support our countrys military. If the country shuts down which could very well be, the budget should be handled a lot differently than its been handled in the last long period of time, many years, but if for any reason it shuts down the worst thing is what happens to our military. Were rebuilding our military. Were bringing it to a level that its never been at and the worst thing is for our military. We dont want that to happen. Im here to support our military. Our military has to be the best in the world by far, and as you know, its been depleted over the last long period of time, and when we finish there wont be anything like it. We need that now almost more than at any time in the past. So im here for our military. Im here to support our great, great and very powerful military, and were going to keep it that way, but were going to make it much bett