Thanks, and welcome everyone. When we held our First Virtual Discussion Forum six weeks ago, i dont know if we would have imagined this would become, as it has, such a wonderful ongoing series. We are incredibly fortunate to be able to draw upon a network here at jackson of our senior fellows, faculty, and our friends. One such former senior fellow is sir general graeme lamb. Graeme has taught at jackson for number of years, is a retired army officer who served for 38 years, including as commander of the field army. General lamb is a renowned expert on leadership, on crisis planning, and counterinsurgency. He served in Senior Leadership roles in iraq and afghanistan alongside the u. S. Generals petreus, crystal, and mattis, further cementing that special bond that connects the United States and united kingdom. Graeme is a dear friend and i am grateful he has taken the time, along with your friends over your right shoulder, in the cool helmet, to join us. We are delighted today to be jo
We are fortunate to draw on a network. Who has taughton at jackson for a number of years , retired army officer who served for 38 years, including as commander of the field army. He is a renowned expert on planning, andisis counterinsurgency. He served in iraq and afghanistan alongside the u. S. Further cementing that special bond that connects the United States and united kingdom. I am a dear friend and grateful he has taken the time, along with your friends over your right shoulder to join us. We are delighted today to be joined by general jim mattis. General mattis over four decades was commander of u. S. Central while all of that is well known, what might not be well known is that when he was teaching at yale, he ask our students to lay out their strategy for afghanistan, and he told the students he would send the best essays to general mattis to grade, which he did. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for your service to our country, and thank you for grading those papers.
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Intelligence discusses his book. Festival, liveok saturday, august 31 at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on book tv on cspan2. House democrats, including therity leader briefed majority on hr eight, a gun background check bill. The measure passed the house and is waiting action in the senate. This runs about 45 minutes. Good morning. My name is steny hoyer. Im the majority leader of the house of representatives. We have been out for just a few days on summer recess. During that time it, we have confronted great tragedy. Sadly, continuing tragedy. How may americans will lose their lives or their loved ones to ramp it gun violence before the United States Senate Takes Action . So far this year, more than 9000 americans thats in seven months have been killed by gun violence. That includes those killed and more than 250 Mass Shootings. Mass shootings this year in america. The attacks in el paso and dayton and gilroy, california and the violence all within about seven days of one another, of 50han the
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