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The russian military to get control of ukraine. this is a fairly major city, maybe the fourth largest in ukraine. more important, though, it is centrally located between northern cities, like kyiv, the southern regions, like crimea, and it still has not been hit until friday friday was the first time. the overall thinking, benning militia, is what the military can do, the russian military could come up and come down from both sides and basically call create a barrier, a line of defense using the nipa river which that city is on and other cities are on. and isolate the ukrainian military on east side of the country, basically cut them off from supplies, cut them off from connections with the western part of the country.
Western-ukraineNew-york-cityControlRussian-militaryLargestImportantHitKyivCitiesMilitaryTimeThinkingTo rebuild the army and they did so in a period of time in the 80s and early 90s, and it was shown their efforts were shown during just cause in panama, desert storm. these were the individuals that really looked at how to modernize an army, change the doctrine, change the training, change the personnel. it was just phenomenal and certainly he was a guy that experienced, i m going to go back to the racial discrimination in his book, his autobiography, he talks about reporting as a new lieutenant to ft. benning, georgia, where they couldn t get housing on post because he was an african-american. the army transpired and transformed through those years into the great organization it is today and as wolf also said, he developed the powell doctrine, which we should really relook today which says don t go into a war unless you have overwhelming force, number one, and number two, you have an exit
IndividualsArmyGulf-warEffortsPanama80s-and-early-90s9080GuyDoctrineBookPersonnelWould always say, sort of like my parents would always say, only in america could something like this happen and it was always so meaningful to me to hear that coming from someone who was chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, retired four-star general, someone who was later secretary of state and it was a true american, a true world leader who commanded such great respect so that s why this is a sad day for all of us who got to know him over the years ago. wolf, his life, his career was a demonstration of racial progress. general mark hertling commanded forces in iraq following the invasion. he made this note this morning, which i thought was quite telling. he said he went from being unable to get base housing in ft. benning to becoming the first african-american chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and of course first african-american secretary of state. that is a remarkable lifespan. he could not because of his race
ChairmanSomethingSomeoneJoint-chiefs-of-staffParentsOnly-in-americaFourSecretary-of-stateWallRespectUsWorld-leaderFinally in january the war began. by the end of february it was over, kuwait had been liberated and i remember his words when that war started in january, 1991, he said first we re going to cut it off and then we re going to kill it. he was so powerful, so smart, and such a wonderful human being. i m sure, like so many other journalists who covered him, i m very sad to hear the news that s now passed away, and my deepest, deepest condolences to his loving family and his friends, and as we say, may he rest in peace and may his memory be a blessing. his contributions as a trailblazer, wolf, are going from as we just heard from general hertling unable to get housing on post at ft. benning because he was black to being the first black secretary of state, the first black chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. this is someone who cleared the road for so many behind him
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