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But when the cold war ended and particularly when the war in terror began, it moved so drastically away from focus on russia that i think it lost its ability to conduct operations even in conducting basic analytical work about it. There is still very good people there who deal with russian and who are experts in russia. But its drastically shrunk from what it was. And i think now that russia is seen as much more of a threat over the last couple of years, particularly because of its activity military activities in ukraine, is that there will be some respectificati firectif thereby more effort and more personnel devoted to trying to understand russia. Did you have something . Just really quickly, you know it takes time and as mark said, if you focus on it now, it takes years to develop expertise and if you are talking about human intelligence penetrating russia and putins inner circle so it will take a while. Even if theyre doing it now. Thank you very much, thank you for coming. Please ....
Museums and historic places. Next, we traveled to new orleans to visit the National WorldWar Ii Museum and learn about their road to berlin exhibit. This is the first of a twopart program. Mr. Huxen hello, my name is keith huxen, and i am senior director of research and history here at the National WorldWar Ii Museum in new orleans. We are standing in the road to berlin exhibit, which opened in december 2014 after years of development. Our mission is to tell the American Experience in world war ii, why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today. The building we are in tells what i call the war part of the series. So here we are in the first gallery of road to berlin and behind me, you will see ....
Leaders of the axis and the ally powers, the lineup, if you will, of the two sides that will engage in this great struggle. When our visitors arrive in this gallery, we believe that they will know that pearl harbor has already occurred due to exhibits on the other side of the street in our museum. So with the country already at war, we have a video that introduces them to the five major Strategic Elements that the United States and our allies must master in order to win world war ii. These five key Strategic Elements include arsenal of democracy, building a greater war machine than our enemies. Technology, its not enough just to outproduce our enemies. We have to make better equipment and weapons. Control of the sea lanes. Control of the air. And then the last strategic element, mastery of amphibious landings, whi ....
Winston groom will talk and rear about half an hour and then take questions for 15 or 20 minutes more. We encourage questions, we just need you to ask them from the microphone over here both so everyone can be involved and also for our cspan awed yes, sir. Its great to audience. Its great to welcome kin son bloom winston bloom back to washington d. C. Histories including a storm in flanders, shiloh 1862 and tonights book, the generals. One of Winston Grooms gifts is his ability to flesh out the characters of these three influential but different leaders, giving us insights regarding how their experiences shaped their personalities and choices in the Second World War. Another gift is style, so please welcome Winston Groom. [applause] first, id like to thank everybody for coming out to hear me on this lovely saturday after ....