Accidental admiral . Guest what a great question at a certain level all of our lives, you can choose to steer a particular course but the sea will come, the wind will come and you will go in a different direction. It comes from a period in my career when i was a four star admiral just finishing up at us Southern Command in charge of all military activities south of the United States and i was very hopeful in going to the pacific as commander of us Pacific Command which is a senior position, robert gates, called me up and said forget about the specific we are going to send you to nato so i became the first and thus far the only admiral, supreme allied commander in nato and it was an accident that did that. From the nato perspective i was be accidental admiral who became the supreme allied commander. Host the navy was an accident as well. Guest somewhat. I grew up in a marine corps family. My father fought in korea and vietnam. I grew up in that environment and went to Quantico High Scho
8 00 on cspan 2. U. S. Air force Academy Professor chuck steele talks about the state of the british grand fleet and the activity of german submarines prior to the u. S. Entering the war. He argues that the actions of admiral william sims helps to keep the forces united. His class is just over 50 minutes. Out the lesson today by talking about william sims, one of the more neglected figures in military history as per the article i sent you, kind of comes off, you know, a distant second to pers hchling if that and so today this is a sea power class, well talk about the significance of sims and, you know, possibly get in to arguments as to who really made the more relevant contribution. That is sims, as you guys know, from being looking at the article. The painting is return of the mayflower. That shows the first group of american destroyers after we had entered the war arriving in ireland to begin operations against the german submarines. So its sort of the most important figure for us i
8 00 on cspan 2. U. S. Air force Academy Professor chuck steele talks about the state of the british grand fleet and the activity of german submarines prior to the u. S. Entering the war. He argues that the actions of admiral william sims helps to keep the forces united. His class is just over 50 minutes. Out the lesson today by talking about william sims, one of the more neglected figures in military history as per the article i sent you, kind of comes off, you know, a distant second to pers hchling if that and so today this is a sea power class, well talk about the significance of sims and, you know, possibly get in to arguments as to who really made the more relevant contribution. That is sims, as you guys know, from being looking at the article. The painting is return of the mayflower. That shows the first group of american destroyers after we had entered the war arriving in ireland to begin operations against the german submarines. So its sort of the most important figure for us i
Okay. So were going to close out world war i talking about the american contribution and close out the lesson today by talking about william sims, one of the more neglected figures in military history as per the article i sent you, kind of comes off, you know, a distant second to pershing if that and when we think about americans and the first world war. So today this is a sea power class, well talk about the significance of simms, and possibly get into arguments as to who really made the more relevant contribution. That is simms, as you guys know from looking at the article. The painting is the return of the mayflower. That shows the first group of american destroyers after we had entered the war arriving in ireland to begin operations against the german submarines. So its sort of the most important figure for us in terms of getting those ships in to place. Of course, unlike the other figures that weve discussed, simms isnt actually going to operate operational control. Hes going to h
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