War, military robotics, history of prisoners of war and a load of other topics. Cnn, npr, fox, the history channel, the National Geographic channel. He is really one of our most popular lecturers. Have asked him to speak on revolutions and military affairs, which will give you a quick survey of military history from the 13th century up until today. Sure youe hour, so im will enjoy it. Please welcome Paul Springer. Mr. Springer good morning. I would like to extend it a thank you. Wonderful organizations i support and love working with. It is a great opportunity to speak with you today. I can review terrified for the weekend with some military robotics information. I am an historian, by definition that means i have to backup way to far to tell you the beginning of the story. Before i get rolling, do not worry about reading the small disclaimer at the bottom. These are my views, not the views of the air force or the department of defense or the u. S. Government. They are solely mine unles
Im Walter Isaacson, and im Walter Isaacson and im with the Aspen Institute here and its our pleasure at the institute to be the host and the facilitator of the franklin project. The project began when general Stan Mcchrystal was out talking about the importance of National Service two or three years ago in aspen, and everybody related to it, and one of the things we try to do here at the institute is turn thought into action, so we said, well, if this is important, lets try to create a program around it. General mcchrystal agreed to chair it. He also thought to himself, im never going to raise another idea in aspen again. You get enlisted if not drafted to do something, but i think he was able to convey to us that this works on so many levels. I mean, this is an important thing that every kid in america could have the rite of passage that previous generations had. Secondly, the notion that theres an expectation and an opportunity to be able to engage in National Service. I think both a
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Co ban is a a tragedy but not the did he have tpheufrpbgts full measure of what is happening. Official in yemen said 70 peel were killed. A series of attacks across the country. Its some of the worse violence the country has seen in two years. We are confident that we have ability to be able to contain ebola. We have to work now so that this is not the worlds next aids. The potential economic damage from the out break would be catastrophic for the people of the west african region. Awarded to the french author for the art of memory. 69yearold explored life under nazi occupation. Wash, post says the white house is involved in a cover up. New information about the secret Service Prostitution scandal. The practice is be that a scandal that is by part san and the outrage is very partisan. We begin with the desperate fight against extremeism in syria. Americas barrage on carson last month did not cripple the group. The u. S. Fired 46 cruise missiles at eight of khorasans locations. The atta
Focusing on International Affairs and he is the author of a new book dont wait for the next war, a strategy for american gloeth and global leadership. Always good to have you with us. Thank you very much for joining us. Thank you. We will get to the book in a moment but lets start with isil taking over a third of kobane. Turkey has forces ready to go, tanks on the border less than a most likely away from where isil may be fighting. They seem to be going nowhere fast any time soon. What happens . Do we let isil get stronger . What i hope we will do is we will use this as a motivating factor to pull the coalition more closely together. You need several elements. U. S. Air power, the moderate Syrian Opposition. You need the Turkish Ground forces and you need the Free Syrian Army in there. But the Free Syrian Army right now is not capable of standing up against isis. So i would like to see us work on a threeway arrangement to be able to bring the Turkish Ground forces in. You have argued w