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To funding them to the support necessary to prevent attacks on the homeland. >> what do you make of the revelation that the generals did advise the president to keep a troop presence despite the president saying otherwise? >> the nation's top generals offered their expert advice on what was optimal for the military situation in afghanistan. but the commander-in-chief had to answer a bigger question. he had to answer the question what was optimal for international relations. he knew that another decade of a failed forever war was going to distract resources and attention from the true internati...

<p>In the Washington History Seminar, Mary Dudziak and Mark Philip Bradley discuss their edited volume of the work of Marilyn Young, the preeminent historian of war in the modern United States. Monday, October 11,&nbsp;</p>

Recommend senator gillibrand, please. >> are you aware of any internal audits within the department of defense over the execution of the war over the last 20 years? >> i am not, other than the aar activity that we will conduct within the department. >> what's that? >> after action review. >> what will that -- what will make up that review? >> we'll focus on, you know, the things that have occurred as part of this latest operation, but i think your initial question, was there review over the last 20 years. >> correct. >> the answer is no. >> do you think review of broad scope would be useful to...

Moving up the chain of command to where i was able to intervene in several cases. general milley and general mckenzie, some people said we're glad we've ended this war. is the war on terror over? general milley? >> absolutely not. >> yeah. general mckenzie? >> the war on terror is not over and the war in afghanistan is not over either. >> has the exit from afghanistan made the war more challenging for us or less challenging? with respect to continuing to try and protect the home land and u.s. interest broad. >> maez it more challenging. >> you agree? >> absolutely. >> related note, "wall stree...

Beginning one september if we stay past the 31st using military sources. >> you use that term, that's a descriptive phrase but we are talking about potentially hundreds of american lives, are we not? >> well, when we -- for us we were specifically talking casualties killed and wounded and our estimate, my estimate of the time, this is 25 august we are talking about, is if we go to war with the taliban on the 1st of september -- there were 56 check points and 6,000 held in kabul at that time, who would have to clear kabul and receives it by graham, the 36 miles of road between bagram in kabul t...