Learn more about christmas traditions tonight on American History tv. John allen shares with young military academy studentss Lessons Learned about the duties of being an officer. Hes dressed as the importance of understanding military history, and respecting americas constitutional principles. This talk was part of the American Veteran Center Annual conference in we are indeed and again fortunate to see stars today, lots of them, 4 across each shoulder. We are privileged to have general john allen, United States marine corps retired, fourstar general, former commander of Nato International Security Assistance force in afghanistan. It is my great pleasure to general john allen, United States marine corps. [applause] got an ambush and already this morning. [laughter] cadet kim was going to introduce me. I think we have got all the introduction we need outoftheway. It is an honor to be with you and incredibly humbling to come in behind a couple tuskegee airmen. Be a bad asked. I am not s
Have general john allen, United States marine corps retired, fourstar general, former commander of Nato International Security Assistance force in afghanistan. It is my great pleasure to introduce you general john allen, United States marine corps. [applause] got an ambush and already this morning. [laughter] cadet kim was going to introduce me. I think we have got all the introduction we need outoftheway. It is an honor to be with you and incredibly humbling to come in behind a couple tuskegee airmen. Be a bad asked. I am not sure how you do better than that. Badass. I am not sure how you can do better than that. I would like to do some q a. We will talk about major points. One. Your oath of office. This is a moment where our constitution is constantly in peoples minds. It is an issue being debated, what the intent of the framers was. There is no doubt about where it fits in the context of the oath of office of those of you who will lead our troops in combat. Speaking about the oath o
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is eli cohen, im the dean. Its my pleasure to welcome you to the rosof lecture on International Affairs with general David Petraeus. Before i introduce general petraeus, i would like to talk a series. Re about the charles rostof was a hopkins alumnus an was a dedicated supporter of the universitys efforts to improve our understanding of the world. And that, of course, is the mission. And were particularly glad today that we have with us charles daughter terry and his son gene and his wife heath tore be with us for this event. I want to express my gratitude to you and to your family for making it possible. So David Petraeus is one of those people who literally doesnt need a whole lot of introduction. Its not going to be that long. Hes currently been affiliated ith the k. K. R. Institute which supports k. K. R. s investment company. Portfolio hes known for his 37 years in this country in the United States army to include command of the surge
Congratulations and thank you for joining us today. Your book, we will cover a lot of ground talking about communist chinas fight for global supremacy. So first of all why did you decide to write the book quick. This is my eighth book and in 2000 and i wrote a book called the china threat which is a play on the china threat theory and it was amazing that it really predicted the emergence of a major threat posed by communist china. Ever since i wrote that book , i have tried to do another china book and every publisher i approached said we will not write a single topic china book you can have chapters but not a single topic. Why is that quick. I dont know i dont know if it was concerns if they would sell that finally i dug in my heels and said its time to do another book on the threat from china as it is becoming greater than it was way back when the china threat was published in 2000. Your book is very timely. But let me ask about this title and then you go on inside communist chinas d
First of all why did you decide to write the book quick. This is my eighth book and in 2000 and wrote a book called the china threat that was called the china threat theory it was amazing that it predicted the emergence of a major threat posed by communist china ever since i wrote the book i tried to do another china book in every publisher that i approached we wont write another single topic. Why was that quick. I dont know with their concerns if it was cell then i dug in my heels to say its time to do it. Another threat from china as it is becoming greater back when the china threat was published. Your book is very timely. Let me ask you about the title. Deceiving the sky. Talk about the second half is very clear and understandable but where does deceiving the sky quick. They are steeped in ancient strategy and many people know of the famous strategist who comes from the warring states air. Theres also a book called the 36 strategies whose author is not quite clear but a compendium o