Next up five talks about the special Operations Commands Cultural Support Teams. Its a program that puts women on the battlefield to conduct culturally Sensitive Missions in afghanistan that require contact with women and children despite women being officially banned from combat. Hello. Good evening. Welcome to book passage in san franciscos historic ferry building. I want to thank you all for coming out tonight to support independent bookstores and independent thinking. I also want to thank our future cspan viewers. We have cspan here with us tonight so know that you are on camera. So when we go out for the q a we will have a mic around to capture your questions for cspan. But we are very honored tonight to welcome author and journalist Gayle Tzemach lemmon a senior fellow at the council of Foreign Relations as well as a contributor to the atlantic defense fund where she reports regularly on issues of National Security and foreign policy. She is also the best selling author of the dr
Leadership that we quite often consider quite acceptable because they are usually quite effective. They create the kind of units that perform according to the standards at the end of the day. Why should we fire them if theyre effective as officers. While actually they are producing unit cultures that in the end may become really problematic. Some experiences with the worst cases of units misbehavior leading to crimes or war crimes, for example. We have the business literature out there supporting us more and more. That doesnt mean so much, though. Because, again we are looking at combat that doesnt apply because warfare is something completely different. You can always dismiss that. Thats very clear, though. We are seeing the same thing within diplomacy and negotiations and humanitarian affairs that if you have gender lenses. Youll do it more effectively. One might assume that applies to the military affairs and intelligence gathering, as well. Unless its so unique that it doesnt, agai
Try to keep any kind of evaluation out of this. So the marine corps has done a bunch of different studies and research. They began with a actually, they began with the infantry officer course which they opened to women in 2012 and asked for volunteers. Women, if you want to come to try out the infantry officer course, youre invited to attend. At the same time that they were doing that, they also began developing a set of combat proxy tests. The combat proxy test, they were six largely upper body based i should say Upper Body Strength based proxy tests that they evaluated the performance of 409 women and 379 female marines against and what they found from this combat proxy test was that about well not about, but 66 of the very good performers were men and 34 were women, and then the highest performing categories, it was 92 were men and 8 were women. So this initial Screening Test that they developed showed that there was certainly a percentage of women that fell into the good and the ve
Isis. Residents paid a terrible price for their freedom. Caught my surprise baltimores Police Commissioner says there was no warning that six of his Police Officers would be charged and admits his department has been part of the problem in the city. And held in north korea, a u. S. Student detained in the north is speaking out for the first time about his capture and his treatment. Well have an exclusive report live from the communist capital of pyongyang. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Isis is claiming its first attack inside the United States. The terror group now says the gunman who attacked a Prophet Muhammad event in texas were its soldiers and brothers and warns that future attacks will be worse. Both of the american gunmen were shot dead at the scene. One of them did have social media tie to isis. And right now the United States is investigating how much of a role isis may have played in the attack. That comes as if u. S. Offers hugh rewards for information on fou
Requesting to meet with the woman claiming little rights that she is a russian citizen. Garrett tenney is live in huntington with the explanation. Class eligible us Officials Say 60 Russian Diplomats kicked out actually intelligence operatives working under diplomatic cover. Despite that this afternoon russias ambassador to the us senate diplomats are not abut are our friends. He says they want to move past this done better relations with the us. We are still confident that only close interaction with our countries can help International Strategic stability and find mutually Beneficial Solutions for global and regional interest. We want everybody to understand that we are destined to become friends again. It is important to remember what prompted the us in nearly a dozen other countries to spell Russian Diplomats. Earlier this of the former russian spy living in england with his daughter were attacked with poison. The uk, the us and others determined that moscow was behind the attack.