intends to use a nuclear weapon, but it raises two possibilities. one, the thing that their system is supposed to prevent, i launch ordered by accident or miscalculation. and, second, if putin starts chooses war, if he would find himself into a corner with no way out, he could resolve to a russian strategy called escalate to de-escalate. i was wrong about in military journals where they would use a nuclear weapon first, to indicate the seriousness of the situation, and then try to get the west to back off from any further actions to contain russia s assault. so, all of this is very scary. none of it is certain. i should emphasize the risk of nuclear u.s. still quiet low. but it is not zero. and under the current circumstances, that should terrorize us. terrorize us. ambassador, could there be something symbolic here in
it took the forces in korea by surprise and they hadn t heard anything until after it was announced women had the secretary of defense heading to the region and going to china first and then here to south korea and on to japan. it is clearly going to be something that will be talked about while he is here in seoul. he will be meeting the defense minster. they have postponed or suspended military journals that were supposed to be coming up in august. they had large drills that will be asked about from many people and we had officials in seoul that they needed to learn more. they were not given a heads up since then. we heard from the foreign minster from south korea saying it is something they were thinking about as well. it did take people by surprise. george? paula han cox, thank you for the report.
ind indication. the days of tol raierating bs i this white house are over. trump has a lot of weird affinities for different things. but his sort of fetsish for military generals, he just loves, obviously, generals is maybe the one really good, of all his i would say respect as oppose to fetish. except mcmaster. of all his quirks his reverence and respect for military journals may be our saving grace. let s look at what sarah huckabee sanders said about the scaramucci comments. i don t know if he has an opinion on what they should do between the two of them. the president as always enjoys healthy competition and he sees that as such. not so much anymore, i guess. bob costa from the washington post tweeted out earlier that he heard that the people in the family, presumably
university of wisconsin, madison, mary louise roberts. i was fascinated seeing your book on the list for the new york times, you talk in the book about how sex was actually used as part of incentivizing for troops, especially in the invasion of france. yes. thank you, lawrence, first of all, for allowing me to be on the show. it is a pleasure to be here. yes, i mean, for soldiers in the pacific, it was very easy to get them to fight because our country had been invaded by the japanese, but in the case of europe it was much more difficult because the american gis didn t know the french, didn t know france, so what i found when i looked in the military journals, stars and stripes, was a great deal of the
pacific, it was very easy to get them to fight because our country had been invaded by the japanese, but in the case of europe it was much more difficult because the american gis didn t know the french, didn t know france, so what i found when i looked in the military journals, stars and stripes, was a great deal of the way they motivated soldiers was the stereotype of france as a kind of sexy country where women were just waiting to kiss them and welcome them and be rescued and reward them for their efforts. and you come from a military family, your father was military, this was not something you were eager to be discovering, but you came across it in your french history research, and the book portrays after the american invasion of france some very powerful sexual aggression on the part of american troops to the point the french started to wonder how