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Gettysburg won the james j. Roberts award for best civil war book that year and his book on confederate goliath earned the prestigious award on Civil War History given out yearly from the new york city civil war roundtable. Lets give rod gragg a warm welcome. [applause] thank you. Pleasure for me to be in a room full of historians and i say that seriously because i have learned that i may write a lot but the folks who really know the civil war are those of you who read a lot. And i appreciate that. Before i begin, if you dont mind, id like to tell you the story about the young history major what decided after he got a bachelors degree in history, he probably ought to get a masters degree in business so he could earn a living. So he was accepted, enrolled in a distant Prestigious School of business and wondered soon after he got there if he made the right decision because he failed his first exam and so did everyone in the class. Now, the professor was notoriously irrascable, he came in
Crestcom bank center for military studies. Graggs work on battle of gettysburg won an award for best civil war book that year and his history of fort fisher earned a prestigious fletcher pride award for Civil War History is thats given out yearly from the new york city civil war roundtable. Lets give rod gragg a warm welcome. [ applause ] thank you. Thank you. Pleasure for me to be in a room full of historians and i say that seriously because i have learned, i may write a lot but the folks who really know the civil war are those of you who read a lot. And i appreciate that. Before i begin, if you dont mind i would like to tell you the story about the young history major who decided after he got a bachelors degree in history that probably ought to go get a masters degree in business so he could earn a living. [ laughter ] so he was accepted and enrolled in a distant Prestigious School of business. And wondered soon after he got there if he made the right decision because he failed his f
I think we will get started here. Thank you so much for joining us at the heritage foundation. I was told we dont necessarily have to talk about silencing cell phones, but i am going to say that anyway. We usually have a robust online audience and we want to minimize distractions. Thank you for joining us. We are going to talk about a new report on rebuilding the army. Its actually the third paper out, the first talked about how to think about the future, and we released one in the marine corps. This is a major paper on the army, and how to think about its relationship with National Security strategy and how the world is changing, and some recommendations for the path of the army needs to go down with a look out to a 30 year timeframe. We will follow up with a paper on the air force which is coming up next month, wrapping up by the end of the year with a paper on the navy so we have all four Services Covered and thinking about preparations for the future. These papers are meant to give
All right, i think well get started here. Thank you so much for joining us here at the heritage foundation, release of a major paper, which will be the focus. I was told we dont necessarily have to talk about silencing cell phones. We have a robust online audience, and, you know distractions, we want to minimize that here. Thank you for joining us here. Were going to talk about a new report on rebuilding the army. Its one of a series, actually the third paper thats out. The first one talked about how to think about the future, the one released one on the marine corps, this is a major paper on the army and how to think about its relationship with the imperatives of the National Defense strategy, National Security strategy, how the world is changing, and some recommendations for what the army needs to be and the path it needs to go down to get to where it needs to be with a look out to about the 2030 year time frame. Well follow up with a paper on the air force, which i think is coming o