We will be back to where the army was when i came in. My platoon sergeant was a combat veteran. My First Sergeant and the battalion commander. Then later the Brigade Commander and everybody else was not. So weve got to maintain that expertise and continue to learn from those lessons as we go forward. One of the challenges in terms of the Regional Peace is getting the social, cultural familiarization for our troops. I wont say we have mastered that but we recognize the problem and were working out ways to do it more effectively and hopefully more efficiently. Three quick thoughts. Maybe this is a debate outside the confines of the panel, but among us, the issue is inhuman. Its coming. Its whether we consider it separate or not. Theres not a push to limit that. So in many ways its a little bit like a religious discussion, but thats the part to me, the success, ironically, of the Strategic Plan Power Task Force is when the concept is woven into the other partners that are not up here on s
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Good morning, everyone. Welcome to brookings. Peter singer and i are the scholars here who work with the 20th century federal security on intelligence. Peter runs that. I am a senior fellow. Today, we have the pleasure hosting a great group of army and rain course specialists on the broad subset subject of the future of land power and warfare. Todays news bulletins and the initial leaks on where the defense review and where the president posses new Budget Proposal will go are helping us create obvious links to the importance of the issue. Sudden, weref a hearing the future of the u. S. Army in particular may be further curtailed with the possibility of even even deeper cuts depending on what happens to the budget in the next couple of years. We know from two years ago the pentagon put out a defense strategic guidance, which basically argued the future of land warfare is changing and that large scale missions of the type the nation recently led in iraq and afghanistan are coming to an e
There will be a book sale. All three books will be available at the end of the program and just reminder also that a portion of the sale of each book goes into the virginia festival of the book program itself. The sessions are being recorded so during the question and answer period this is important because of the reporting of the programs. Please raise your hand and one of the volunteers of the festival will hand you a handheld microphone so your question can be heard and paid for however it hits the broadcast. The reason we have a wonderful program, features jan herman, the author of the lucky few the fall of saigon and the rescue mission of the uss kirk. This will be the order of their presentation. Second to speak will be general ira hunt, losing vietnam, how america abandoned Southeast Asia. He is a retired Major General and moderated his last book at the book festival. The chief medical historian, Frank Leith Jones, has offered offered 7 books for military history. And finally, F
The direction alone doesnt tell us much about what his objective is here but poncho pass does tell us something. This is the view that pike would have from his Christmas Day camp and for several days before and after. Poncho pass is a low spot in the mountains a little bit to the southwest of the city of saliva and if pike looked south he would have found it very inviting place to cross the mountains. His mission is to get to santa fe. This is as good a place as any to try and do it. If he stands in the same spot and looks to the left he is going to see the high peaks of the northern end of the Crystal Mountains and he will realize if i want to cross its never going to get any better than this so he doesnt. He continues downstream which is exactly the behavior somebody who believed he was on the red river and intending to head home. Decides to cross this andres there would be two men behind on the arkansas. The horses are shot in the plan is to leave a couple of men behind but the hors