That they currently exist in, were just going to have weaker product delivered later. I think we need to have some reform as the next round. And i think theres enormous potential there, not just in the military departments but between the military departments and osd, within osd, and further out into the headquarters in the field. Well, i thank you for that. And you are uniquely situated now to play a key role. And i agree with you. Just flatout reductions is just the first step. You have to its a little bit like sequestration in that its a meat ax when we need a scalpel and so i would look forward to having you play a role there given your unique background. Finally, the source of great frustration this committee, all of us members, is this continued cost overruns on weapons systems. Weve made some reforms. Were putting the Service Chiefs more involved. You are aware. But it still seems to go on. And every time we really need something, we use that expedited process, which we used for
Away. So with that, i will go ahead and open up for questions. And i actually have a take away for you guys here. This is a chronology here. So any yes, sir . [ inaudible ] the question is, the louisburg for the, is there another time it was taken and the answer is yes. So in the next war we come back and the british have to take it again. And you know, the fact that they took it in 1745 helps them a lot. When they take it again in 1758. So theres a definite knowledge and that kind of ties into that theme about how the military experience has gains. It is done once and surely we can do it again, british kind of thing. And we will look at that next week. And actually youre reading about it in andersons book. Yes, sir . [ inaudible ] the question is, hey, seems like the royal navy is kind of helpful, all right . Wouldnt the colonists want to Start Building up their own navy . And the short answer is yes. In fact, the very first navy we have the Continental Navy, right . So they do recogn
So what you have is the for mag of the stronger and carolinas and georgia comes closer together and in the new england colonies and all of the new england colonies provide troops and again, what is significant is you get to the midatlantic pennsylvania and new york. They didnt provide troops but they provide supplies and so theres the creation after regional identity. I think more strongly in this war than any of the other previous ones. Yes, sir . So when the when they return to the french, what did they hear . Mainly the french come back. British leave and follow you know, and is it more of a slight skirmish to regrab the fort . No skirmish. The british come in and they think it is theirs. They have been pounding walls down, right . And it isnt the greatest and so they are like, okay, now we captured the fort and so they start and they are, lobbing, you know, shells into the city. They start rebuilding everything. You can see it in this image. This is an image from the library at uni
Immigrant, probably poor, it was her way into the middle class. Ward,o find yourself in colorado, a small mountain town, bigger than boulder in those days. It had never had a school teacher. She was brought here by a guy who owned the mine and realize that the workers that he had were starting to have children and they were not getting any education. The story goes, she taught in a saloon. During the day they cleared out all the evidence of the revelry in the night and then after school was over things would be moved back in. She taught in ward a couple of years and then moved to boulder and was one of the first teachers in the school district. It is hard to speculate about hannah and her motivations. But you cannot help but imagine what it mustve been like to travel across the country, from iowa to boulder, shortly after the civil war. The train was a year from being completed to denver. By probably did not come train, which meant horses, some kind of stagecoach. A pretty darn big adv
It. In the 1940s, the idea of the panic thing was really the main scenario of what happened. It was not that at all. What implications do those two stories have for a potential future . Well, what they show right away is that the media is going to have a very big affect. In this case, these both originated in the media. That me to you one more case in history, which is real science. That is 1996, when nasa announced that they had found nano fossils, very small fossils in a mars rock. Mars rocks to explode off of mars on their hit by a meteorite and intersect the earths orbits and land on the earth. A dozen or so of these have been found. Studying one of these, nasa scientists believe that found fossils. The reaction to that was quite tremendous. The reaction was, first of all, that there were press conferences at nasa headquarters. President clinton at the time made remarks on the south lawn of the white house. Vice president gore later held a symposium with theologians and all kinds o