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Russia / Putin's regime are described as a black box, a collection of characteristics with no insight on the how or why of their perspective. I attended many or Dr Joseph Wieczynski's Slavic History classes at Va Tech and am very interested.
Hm.. Shinseki was brutally honest and was fired for his efforts- the vast majority of the military leadership were not honest to Bush & co, and got to keep their jobs.
Interesting talk, but this gentleman should have gone to someplace where his connectivity was a lot better!!! Yeez!!! If you're going do something on line, you really do need high speed internet.
I can't make sense of this lecture ? My understanding is ,. That there was a ceasefire agreement which was broken on the 7th ? And Israel took the attack on the 7th as an act of war .? And then started eliminating it's enemy . I'm not a Jew nor an Arab . I have seen the video clips released by Hamas and the clips of the bombings in Gaza . And to be honest the clips by Hamas are sickening . And I found it hard to believe that they Hamas are human. The second woman talking is not what I would expect from a neutral voice . This whole lecture just used oxygen.
They are a huge supplier of drugs and illegal weapons, and a lot of the large opium shipments from the area are processed into high-grade heroin they make meth and other large scale product for the triads and narco militias in the area
Everybody lost. Good intentions gone wrong for America and patriotism corrupted for Viet Nam. Sure wish I hadn't taken a bath in those Dioxin laced bomb craters out by the Cambodian border. DEL Lymphoma. So, in the end I lost.
Yes, I was a kid in the winter of 42 hearing the dark talk around the table and see the black headlines of one defeat after another. But I also heard an anger, a determination that Japan would would be crushed and humiliated.
Enough ships of sufficient throw weight, with sufficient logistics and quality, To maintain control of the seas against 2 foes. The one we know and the OTHER.
The army needs to be a cadre of rapid deployment and technical arms that can be rapidly expanded. The Navy/ Marines are the routine caretakers of USA interests in time of undeclared war. The Airforce is the final solution against strategic threats hitting the opponents ability to wage war.
So want to start off by saying I think it is great that these two professors could give their presentations as an American and anyone saying they shouldn't have been allowed to should be ashamed of themselves. That being said, I disagree with a lot of Professor Lane's conclusions and I think Professor Alvi's presentation is mostly useless and was given from an incredibly niche academic perspective. I want to stipulate a few things below. 15 years of policy experience in defense and international relations in both the Congressional and Executive branches. Extensively traveled to Israel, the occupied territories, and throughout the MENA region. 1. I believe the Israeli people deserve a secure state 2. I believe the Palestinian civilian population that has spent decades being the political pawns of a variety of groups since 1948 also deserve a state of their own where they can live freely and go about their lives 3. I think this is an intractable conflict on multiple levels. Moral, cultural, political, and on security. I do not think it will be solved and I think the mowing of the grass will continue. 4. I think the United States is in the process of getting out of the entire region at all levels and the last step that will happen in the next decade will be the weakening or outright snapping of our alliance with Israel. Leaving the region to an alliance of Iran and militant groups vs an Israeli-Arab alliance to fight over with Turkey likely being the deciding factor. I do not think it is in the United States interest to continue to be a mediator in the region or of this conflict specifically. 4. I think people, including Professor Lane, are fundamentally misinterpreting the discord in Israeli society as some kind of objection to the general principles that are at the core of Netanyahu's approach. They may hate him politically. They may think his coalition is dominated by religious nuts. They do not support a Palestinian state and they generally think the approach to getting rid of Hamas is correct. If they had an election today it would be Benny Gantz who would win and while he would change the rhetoric a bit and you would not have the Ben Gvirs, he would likely prosecute the conflict in Gaze very similarly. As for Professor Lane, I think a lot of the historical overview is accurate and people in the comment section are mostly in their feelings about vocabulary that imo does indicate a bit of bias and a lack of belief in agency. The implied defense of the rise of the influence of Islamist groups across the MENA region as civilians turning to them as a last resort was definitely an interesting way of framing it. That being said, mostly accurate. As for Professor Alvi, all due respect but she clearly has views here and also pretty clearly analyzes the world not from the perspective of nation states that have their own interests and are constantly weighing them. The fact she thought the President of the United States was going to go to Israel a week after 10/7 and call for a ceasefire tells you how high up above the world the tower room she resides in is. Also, neither Israel nor Rome are a party to the Rome statute for a reason. Both countries disagreed with where the provisions ended up. People seem to forget Operation Meetinghouse. People seem to forget the Allies bombing civilian infrastructure to try to starve Germany of resources and freeze their citizens to death in the winter. People seem to forget that current US doctrine indicates our first response to an invasion of China would be to plant a carrier group in the Indian Ocean and watch as the lights turn out, the trains stop running, and the second largest country in the world experiences the largest famine since the Great Leap Forward within a few months. That is in fact what war looks like when one side of the equation decides they want to fight to win and not the sanitized version that we sometimes try to convince ourselves exists because we have drones. I disagree that Israel is just out for revenge. The debate everyone should be having is was the complete elimination of Hamas a legitimate security goal. Because that is what they are pursuing and what we are seeing is what the pursuit of that goal would always look like. Every NatSec professional with half a brain could have told you this is what it would look like last November. You have urban combat in one of the most densely population areas in the world with a guerilla force embedded in the civilian population and nowhere for the civilian population to go to. God speed. Precision munitions don't matter at that point. You are going to have to sweep the area and you are going to kill thousands of civilians. So debate if that is a legitimate Israeli security goal after October 7th. That is a debate worth having.
I wonder if she has noticed that, over the last 500 million years, there is almost no correlation between co2 and global temperature, or that as we come out of the Little Ice Age, warming is slowing.
A polished and masterful presentation. When I was looking at some kind of real estate open house, I noticed a fellow listening to an audiobook. I asked him what it was and he said oh it’s military history, you probably wouldn’t be interested. It’s about midway. I asked: “shattered sword?“ Then commenced a lively discussion. 39:35 interesting story about the genesis of “Shattered Sword.”
Do you actually think they lost the Cold war. Or do you think war showed up to keep the administration business cycle quiet so others could turn around and participate the other way in their own country
