Good evening everyone and welcome to the New York Historical society. I am Louise Mirrer the ceo and im thrilled to welcome all of you two are beautiful auditorium. This Evenings Program is presented in conjunction with our exhibition vietnam war in 1945 to 1975 which i hope you had a chance to say but if not it is on view through april 22, so i hope you will return during regular museum hours to see it. Our program Edward Lansdale and the american tragedy in vietnam is the petraeus lecture on leadership. We created the series five years ago as a permanent way to honor two great americans roger hertog and David Petraeus who both won our history maker awarded 2013 that like to thank mr. Hertog for his incredible leadership and support and now as chair and marriages of New York Historical and general petraeus for his leadership and for his generous participation over the past four years and this illustrious lecture series. Thanks so much to both of you. [applause] i would like to thank a
American warrior. In the book, he discusses a Controversial Television interview he gave when he criticized army leadership. This is one hour. Your new book, about face, it is cowritten by julie sherman, she is a woman. Why is back . Guest a lot of people over the 18 years that i have met, a lot of authors have contemplated writing it. I waited for the right one. The horrible result about that war is that it took the lives of young men and it took the lives of young women as well. Women give life. I felt that if we could discuss war, with a sensitivity of the depth and feeling of a woman, we could tell the complete story. Cspan how many times did you consider writing the book series weight . Guest probably a halfdozen times. The qualified people that came to me, i wanted to put out a message that was going to be good and clear. To put out vindictiveness and maliciousness. The need to even the score. Cspan at the end of the book, he said evening to you have the anger out of your system.
Former CENTCOM Commanders David Petraeus and Anthony Zinni discuss the military aspect of the Israel-Hamas war and lessons learned from U.S. involvement and operations in the Middle East.
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