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
Years, including as commander of the field army. General lamb is a renowned on crisisleadership, planning, and counterinsurgency. He served in Senior Leadership roles in iraq and afghanistan alongside the u. S. Generals betray trays, crystal, eus, crystal, petr and mattis, further cementing that special bond that connects the United States and united kingdom. Graham 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 general jim mattis, United Statesthe secretary of defense following a storied career in the United States marine corps. Theral mattis rose over course of four decades, was commander of u. S. Central command, and while all of that is probably well known, what might not be well known is that gwen graham was teaching at when graham was teaching at yale, he ask our students to lay out their strategy for afghanistan, and as a prize, he told the students he would
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.
Hello. This is bbc news with Lukwesa Burak. Well be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. First, the headlines more than 16,000 new Coronavirus Infections are recorded in the uk in the past 2a hours, with the number of covid linked deaths rising to 150. Millions of people are now living with tighter coronavirus restrictions in england. Lancashire moves into the highest alert category, but theres still a stalemate over greater manchester. French police say samuel paty, the history teacher who was beheaded in a suspected islamist attack, had been threatened for several days. New zealands Prime Minister, jacinda ardern, and her labour party have won a second term in office with a landslide general election victory after campaigning on their success in handling the coronavirus pandemic. Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are nigel nelson, the Political Editor of the people and sunday mirror, and the political comme