Announcer ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. As we get into this next session, im sure you noticed on the official program that were one speaker short for this panel. Dr. Raymond callahan due to circumstances beyond his control could not be with us today so today. So, were sorry that we are missing him today, but, you know, his friends here in new orleans are certainly thinking about him. To lead this session, we have called on one of the most distinguished military historians that were very fortunate to have right up the road here at the university of new orleans, dr. Allan millett. His career has not only filled many bookshelves, but he has also fill the ranks of military history phds by overseeing the most doctoral candidates of anyone in the country. Its hard not to find one of his students around. To talk about one of the most important battles in june of 1944 and the war as a whole, its my pleasure to call on dr. Alan millett and Hiroyuki Shindo to discuss the battle in the chin
One speaker short for this panel. Dr. Raymond callahan due to circumstances beyond his control could not be with us today, so were sorry that we are missing him today, but, you know, his friends here in new orleans are certainly thinking about him. To lead this session, we have called on one of the most distinguished military historians that were very fortunate to have right up the road here at the university of new orleans, dr. Allan millett. His career has not only filled many bookshelves, but he has also fill the ranks of military history phds by overseeing the most doctoral candidates of anyone in the country. Its hard not to find one of his students around. To talk about one of the most important battles in june of 1944 and the war as a whole, its my pleasure to call on dr. Alan millett and Hiroyuki Shindo to discuss the battle. With that, allan, its all yours. [applause] prof. Millett im a pale substitute for ray callahan, i can assure you. When i wrote about the berma campaign i
You have a hard act to follow. Believe me, this is the guy to follow it. Because what we have done is now we are following it up with maybe our favorite programming partners, the u. S. Army command and general Staff College in fort leavenworth. For the better part of the past century, it seems, we have been trying to figure out our relationship with china. Are we allies, adversaries . Sometimes it seems we are both at the same time. Worlds two biggest economies. Right now, we see china as a linchpin in what might happen with north korea. We are fortunate to have with us one of the foremost authorities on u. S. China relations. He will examine a key 50 years in the relationship of the two countries, in this case from 1900 and 1950 that really set the stage for a lot of what was to come, including south korea, the korean war and the vietnam war. Its a period hes looking at the started with american involvement in conjunction with the boxer rebellion of 1900. This of course was before xi
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With the n. S. A. The n. S. A. Tells us they are not doing something and then we found out they are totally doing it. [ laughter ] for instance, nobody is listening to to your telephone calls. Jon turns out they are totally listening to your telephone calls. They storing them in this giant utah fortress of surveilitude. Next. With respect to the internet and emails, this does not allow to United States citizens. Jon go on. The Obama Administration quietly won permission a couple years ago from a Surveillance Court to have the n. S. A. Search for the communications of americans intercepted phone calls and the like. Jon on the bright side, under this plan, if you like your n. S. A. Spy [laughter] you get to keep your n. S. A. Spy so that is something. [ laughter ] but of course the government his no idea we could keep our same spy. That is shock and delightful. [laughter] but of course the government couldnt get away with doing things that they swore they werent doing because of strictne