Out of an abundance of caution during the covid19 pandemic, there is no in person audience today and certain ceremonial elements have been prerecorded. Please welcome the official party to the stage the secretary of the army, the honorable ryan b mccarthy. Chief of staff of the army, general james c mcconville. Sergeant major of the army, michael a grinstead. Director of the National Museum of the United States army, ms. Tammy call. Accompanied by acting secretary of defense, the honorable christopher c miller. And chairman to the joint chiefs of staff, general mark a. Millie. Now presenting the colors is the third United States infantry regiment the old guard, accompanied by the old guard fife and drum corps. The National Anthem will be performed by Sergeant First Class jesse meeks from the United States army band, pershings own. Present. O say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming . Whose broad stripes and bright stars through t
Please welcome the official party to the stage the secretary of the army, the honorable ryan b mccarthy. Chief of staff of the army, general james c. Mcconville. Sergeant major of the army, michael a. Grinstead. Director of the National Museum of the United States army, ms. Tammy call. Accompanied by acting secretary of defense, the honorable christopher c. Miller. And chairman to the joint chiefs of staff, general mark a. Millie. Now presenting the colors is the third United States infantry regiment, the old guard, accompanied by the old guard fife and drum corps. The National Anthem will be performed by jesse meeks from the United States army band, pershings own. Present arms o say can you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight , oh the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming . And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our
He also talks about russia, the Iran Nuclear Deal, brexit. This is just under one hour. [applause] host welcome everybody to the heritage foundation. Im delighted to introduce sebastian gardner. This is on the topic of defeating terrorism in the age of trauma. Gorka is a National Security strategist and a nonresident scholar. He recently served in the white house as Deputy Assistant and strategist to president donald trump. Also as Vice President for National Security support and professor of strategy under regular warfare. He has also served as the nose group ofe guest instructor at the United States Army Special Operations command at fort bragg. At theassociate fellow special operations university. He received a doctrine at the university of budapest and is the author of the New York Times defeating jihad the winnable war. Please help me to introduce Sebastian Gorka. Sebastian i like to thank john as well, especially at former for making the whole series possible and most widely of a
Welcome everybody to the Heritage Foundation. Im delighted to introduce Sebastian Gorka. He will deliver the first Daniel Morgan lecture at the Heritage Foundation on the topic of defeating terrorism in the age of trump. Gorka is a National Security strategist and a nonresident scholar. He recently served in the white house as Deputy Assistant and strategist to president donald trump. Also as Vice President for National Security support and professor of strategy under regular warfare. He has also served as the chairman of the nose group of guest instructor at the United States Army Special Operations command at fort bragg. Nose group of guest instructor at the United States Army Special Operations command at fort bragg. At theassociate fellow special operations university. He received a doctrine at the university of budapest and is the author of the New York Times defeating jihad the winnable war. Please help me to introduce Sebastian Gorka. Sebastian i like to thank john as well, espe
Once in a while. R] [inaudible] okay. Testing, one, two. And he has written several wonderful books. In harms way about the singing of the indianapolis. Horse soldiers, about the first batch of american troops who went into afghanistan after 9 11 on horses. Soon to be a Motion Picture which we might talk about a little later. And his new book, the odyssey of echo company which is about a subject thats been part of my life as well, the vietnam war. So im delighted to have a conversation about that and also about writing tonight. So doug, why dont we start, just sort of with how this idea sort of washed over you in the first place, for this book. Thank you for the nice introduction. Thank you everyone for being here this evening. The idea for the the odyssey of echo company came to me in afghanistan, which would have been our most recent foray into counterinsurgency in the 21st century with vietnam obviously in thevi 20th. I was standing in a a helicopter trying to go to the Pakistani Bo