For those watching on zoom some housekeeping remarks. You are an attendee of our zoom event tonight, that means you do not have video or audio privileges but you can interact with our moderator and guest by writing your question in the q and a box. The moderator will be reviewing those during the question and answer session which will conclude tonights program and to introduce the moderator it is my pleasure to pass the program over to doctor robert citino. Doctor robert citino, Senior Historian at the National World War Ii Museum in louisiana, we have a special guest with us tonight. A friend of the museum. My friend and a wonderful writer and author, ian toll, one of those people who doesnt need an introduction as we like to say. The introduction, he is extremely accomplished scholar and writer. He is the author of the epic story of the founding of the u. S. Navy as well as a trilogy called the pacic war, the third volume of which has just been released called twilight twilight of th
Volume series on the pacific during world war ii. In our the doolittle raid of 1942 that were carried out in response to japans bombing of pearl harbor. Welcome to the National World war ii museums evening presentation webinar. My neighbors Jeremy Collins and for those of you watching on zoom, some brief housekeeping remarks. You are an attendee of our zoom event tonight. That means you do not have video or audio privileges but you can interact with our moderator and guest i writing your question in the q a box. The moderator would be reviewing those during the question and answer session which will conclude tonight program. Now to introduce the moderator its my pleasure to pass this program over to dr. Rob citino. Thanks, jeremy. Dr. Rob citino here, seeing history of the National World war ii museum, beautiful new orleans, louisiana. We have a special guest with us tonight, a friend of the museum, my friend and a wonderful writer and author, ian toll. Welcome. Iq, rob. Ian toll is on
Over from france is putting pressure on the government in london which promised to take back control of the borders after breakfast. And infamously the football byron munich were aiming to bounce back from a rare loss with the help of robert love and bosky and he did not disappoint. By bryan thomas great to have you with us today u. S. President all trump has returned to the hospital after briefly leaving it in his motorcade to wave to a crowd of supporters gathered outside the surprising move appear designed to signal that his health was improving after he was hospitalized friday recovered earlier the president posted a video from the president ial suite at the Walter Reed Medical Center where hes being treated so its been very and. Interesting journey i learned a lot about. I learned by really going to school this is the real school this is a lets read the book school and i get it and i understand it and its a very interesting thing going to be letting you know about it. For the role
An officer. He spent one year in iraq as a platoon leader and later a oneyear tour in afghanistan. Nicholas moran is also a graduate of the u. S. Army command and general staff college. Hes been working as San Francisco bays war gaming americas in the house tanker and historian since 2012 and has the nickname of the chiefton. Might want to remember that. His first book on the development of Tank Destroyers is scheduled for release in the first half of 2018. Nick is known for articles and reviews of tanks inside and out. Lots on youtube called inside the chief tans hatch. Or there is there is this video cast on spanns American History tv. Ladies and gentlemen, nicholas moran. [ applause ] thats about as high as it goes. Good evening oh, boy. Todays talk is whitey sherman as it was. Thats not a very good title but it was the best i could come up when i was asked, hey, will you give us a talk. So im going to do the obligatory shoutout. The people who paid for me to come out here. We alrea
Admiral blair serves as a member of the Energy Security leadership council, the National Bureau of Asian Research, u. S. China relations in the atlantic council. Previously served as director of National Intelligence from january 2009 to may 2010 and prior to retiring from the navy he was after 34 years commander of u. S. Pacific command, admiral blair will provide testimony on the drivers of chinas development of expeditionary capabilities. After admiral blair we will hear from kristin, chief executive officer of Vantage Point asia llc, a consultancy that provides expertise on the Indo Pacific Region with a focus on Chinese Foreign policy and Security Issues. She also holds a position of abject senior policy analyst at asd, formally she served director of the navy asiapacific Advisory Group at the pentagon. And was a senior project director for Chinese Military writtenrity, she has extensively on Chinese Foreign policy security and military affairs. She will address how bri furthers t