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These fine gentlemen here. For the first 30 minutes im going to be asking questions and im going to ask you to line up and asked questions and comments are welcome as well my name is bruce swartz and i am the head of the Academic Technology department here and i w i welcome you. Prior to making introductions for these gentlemen, i want to throw out points i would like you to consider as they are making their comments and you want to ask yours. According to an Internet Security company in 2014 in...

Todays lecture is going to be on military aspects of the revolutionary war in the north and south. Next week, when we have our guest speaker she will be talking about the western campaigns in more detail. There are other aspects of the war, financing the war, womens participation that we will not get to today that we will be leaving for future classes. I wanted to start by talking about one of the best recent books on the American Revolution called the men who lost america. He argues that britis...

Sits in a lecture with one of the Nations College professors. You can watch it next, Brooklyn College professor benjamin carp talks about the advantages and disadvantages for british and American Forces during the revolution. He describes how individual personalities, supplies, and timing influenced the outcomes. This class is one hour and 15 minutes. Benjamin hi, everybody. Todays lecture is going to be on military aspects of the revolutionary war in the north and south. Next week, when we have...

And of course are on the revolutionary generation. Todays lecture is going to be on military aspects of the revolutionary war, mostly in the north and south. Next week, when we have our guest speaker she will talk about some of the western campaigns in more detail. We have that coming up. That will be exciting. There are other aspects of the war at home, financing the war womens participation in the war that we will not get to date today, but we will before future classes. I want to start by one...

Aforementioned yahoo . They were just talking about it. Well get you ahead of all of the trades. Mandy has gone down to the heart of the action at the New York Stock Exchange. Hi mandy. Its a down day, as you said but being driven by a few stocks as you mentioned. Ibm and United Technologies for more than 100 points of the dows drop. Bob pisani joins us here on the floor of the stock exchange. We did not color coordinate ourselves. But it looks good. A happy coincidence. The important thing is i...

The committee is part of a major transition of American Military leadership. If confirmed as army chief of staff you will serve along side the joint chief of staffs new Service Chiefs for the navy and marine core. You will lead part of the volunteer soldiers and time and time over a decade of time in iraq. The army indured 70 of the casual casual casualties. As the nation confronts the most array of Global Crisis since the world war ii the next chief of staff of army is responsible for making su...

Center. We provide a wide variety of enablers that support special operation. We will keep the linkage that will not break. Thank you sir. I appreciate your commitment to making sure our military men and women are able to perform the missions they are given. Thank you, mr. Chairman, and thank you general for your service to our country and your familys support of the service. You and i have had a good conversation on things and i will ask you what i ask most of the people being pointed. What do ...

Seriously considered. Senator mccain has already referenced them. One is i think we have to take a hard look at overhead. The army but not just the army but the military across the board, all of the services to include department of defense are very very Large Organization with a big bureaucracy with a significant overhead. A second is acquisition. As already previously mentioned, theres a considerable amount of cost and in many cases waste in the acquisition process. We need to get that under c...

Commands you support as well. I have been concerned reductions across the services are going to impact the conventional source enablers that our specialop guys work with. How will you work with them on the reductions having on their capabilities . We are closely tied with the special operation committee. 80 of u. S. Special operations come from the army. So we are tightly closed. We are joined at the hip. One of the big Lessons Learned from the last 1015 years is conflict has been the synergisti...

That we made. Among the most contentious issues over the past two years involved the armys restructuring initiative. I understand the army has been put in a difficult position by budget reductions and over the past several years has been exploring a number of option to maximize come pat power while at the same time trying to combat costs. Congress has similarly been taking a hard look at this which is why the commission of the structure of the army was established in the ndaa. If confirmed will ...