Im hoping this thing will come across. If cspan cant hear me, im sure they will make mention. The background. Initially i was asked to come and hear my midst of american armor talk. If you want to hear it go find it. I took some common conceptions. I said, look, these are the common conceptions and they are wrong. Because i had already given the talk, well modify it a little bit. Instead of how good is the tank. Thats the theory behind this. I dont know your knowledge level. Some of the speakers ive heard you here on the podcast are very high end. Every now and then its good to just go back to some of the low levels and make sure fundamentals are still good. Audience participation question number one. The rifle is the m1. What was better as a rifle . Pretty much nothing. You can make an argument but that wasnt as common. What was the better fighter than the mustang. A better carrier than the essex . We had the best. No other country had it. Some people say it won the war. Some say the
The way quickly so im going to try to do that. I would like to welcome everybody to Daniel Morgan graduate school of National Security. A great school we have here and a nice opportunity for us to have the latest in a series of speakers at the National Security area, and also thanks to cspan3 people who are here today as well. I started off as a Clandestine Services in the cia in the soviet division, and we were always curious as to what the military people were doing on the other side. Today i get to find out at long last. Jim stejskal is here, our speaker. He has a new book special forces berlin, clandestine cold war operations of the u. S. Army elite from 19561990. Jim has someone who came out of nebraska, the midwest, and did a few stinlts in a very special place, in special forces. And then onward to some work with ngos and over to the cia, where he served as an Operations Specialist with quite a career, military historian and conflict archeologist. I would like to hear what that
Some of you know me. Im ron marks. I head up the Intelligence Program here. Before we begin our session, and talk about our speaker and everybody gets to sit down, i would like to make sure there is q a at the end, if everybody would be so kind as to shut off your cell phones. Frank fletcher, who is our head of Public Affairs here, has a very large and heavy mike. Hell run to you and get you. So be careful. Were dealing with dangerous people here. The best thing someone who introduces can do is get out of the way quickly so im going to try to do that. I would like to welcome everybody to Daniel Morgan graduate school of National Security. A great school we have here and a nice opportunity for us to have the latest in a series of speakers at the National Security area, and also thanks to cspan3 people who are here today as well. I started off as a Clandestine Services in the cia in the soviet division, and we were always curious as to what the military people were doing on the other sid
If everyone would be so kind as to shut off your cell phones. Frank fletcher has a very large and heavy mic and if he hears the phone, he will run to you and hit you on the edhad. Be careful. Were dealing with dangerous people. The best thing someone who introduces can do is get out of the way quickly. So im going to try to do that. Well kmnt to Daniel Morgan graduate school of National Security. We have a latest in the series of speakers in the National Security area and thank you to cspan people here as well. Im an old spy i started in cia in the soviet european division. And today i get to find out at long last. James skasal is here today, our speaker. Special forces berlin clandestine cold war operations of the u. S. Army elite from 1956 to 1990. Jim is someone who came out of nebraska, midwest and did a few stints in some very special places as special forces. And then onward to work ngo where he served as an operation career. A concrete archeologist, id like to hear what that is.
Before we begin our session and everybody gets set down, id like the make sure there will be q and a at the end. If everyone would be so kind as to shut off your cell phones. Frank fletcher has a very large and heavy mic and if he hears the phone, he will run to you and hit you on the edhad. Be careful. Were dealing with dangerous people. The best thing someone who introduces can do is get out of the way quickly. So im going to try to do that. Well kmnt to Daniel Morgan graduate school of National Security. We have a latest in the series of speakers in the National Security area and thank you to cspan people here as well. Im an old spy i started in cia in the soviet european division. And today i get to find out at long last. James skasal is here today, our speaker. Special forces berlin clandestine cold war operations of the u. S. Army elite from 1956 to 1990. Jim is someone who came out of nebraska, midwest and did a few stints in some very special places as special forces. And then