Museum for the history of world war i. It is a global museum. We talk about all of the belligerents that were involved in world war i. It is not just about the United States during the war, but everything from the summer of 1914 to the peace treaty of june 1919. Our collection is the most comprehensive collection of world war i materials in the world. It is not the largest, but it is comprehensive in that we do deal with all nations that were involved in the war. Were not just centric to the country that were located in. In the museum when youre going through the exhibitions you see about 10 of the Museum Collection at any one time. The rest we use for research, for references, for loans to other institutions, and just to make sure that we have an encyclopedic collection of the war. When we are teaching about the history of it we want to cover everything from point a to point z. Where im standing right now is in front of a wall that depicts the various Shoulder Sleeve Insignia worn by
Museum for the history of world war i. It is a global museum. We talk about all of the belligerents that were involved in world war i. It is not just about the United States during the war, but everything from the summer of 1914 to the peace treaty of june 1919. Our collection is the most comprehensive collection of world war i materials in the world. It is not the largest, but it is comprehensive in that we do deal with all nations that were involved in the war. Were not just centric to the country that were located in. In the museum when youre going through the exhibitions you see about 10 of the Museum Collection at any one time. The rest we use for research, for references, for loans to other institutions, and just to make sure that we have an encyclopedic collection of the war. When we are teaching about the history of it we want to cover everything from point a to point z. Where im standing right now is in front of a wall that depicts the various Shoulder Sleeve Insignia worn by
Museum for the history of world war i. It is a global museum. We talk about all of the belligerents that were involved in world war i. It is not just about the United States during the war, but everything from the summer of 1914 to the peace treaty of june 1919. Our collection is the most comprehensive collection of world war i materials in the world. It is not the largest, but it is comprehensive in that we do deal with all nations that were involved in the war. Were not just centric to the country that were located in. In the museum when youre going through the exhibitions you see about 10 of the Museum Collection at any one time. The rest we use for research, for references, for loans to other institutions, and just to make sure that we have an encyclopedic collection of the war. When we are teaching about the history of it we want to cover everything from point a to point z. Where im standing right now is in front of a wall that depicts the various Shoulder Sleeve Insignia worn by
Braun, latinn american historian here at the university of texas. It gives me great pleasure to have read these papers and now meet the gentleman who have written these papers. I worked on the 1960s. I see certain similarities and what is going on in the 1960s with that which transpired between the United States and latin america in the 1980s as well any papers. What we would like to do is i contestantsce the excuse me, the presenters. We are going to have the two papers on Central America first. Then we will turn our attention to south america because it is two different things. South america is dealing with the end of military governments, longterm military governments. Then there is this act of newly installed leftist revolution in nicaragua that will take up our attention. We will do that first. Then we will follow along with on southn the america. Thatis interesting here is we have papers that are based upon u. S. Sources and also based upon sources from latin america itself. We g
Feel free to come forward if you would like. Good afternoon. Im peter bergen and peter bergen and i run into National Security foundation and its my great pleasure to introduce my colleague and friend Michael Waltz who has this wonderful new book out warrior diplomat a green berets battles from washington to afghanistan which really outlines mikes unusual career both being someone who is creating policy in the white house and the south asia adviser to Vice President cheney and carrying out the policies and the field as a special forces officer. Mike is also running a successful business. Hes a fellow here at the new America Foundation so he is going to outline the big ideas and some of the interesting stories in the book and then we will open up to question after session. Thank you. Mike. Thank you peter and thanks everyone for coming out today. I will just take a brief moment and talk about some of the broader Strategic Issues that i have tried to address in the book and really underl