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lieutenant tom was there. tom served as a platoon leader with the army's 24th division. tom, tell us what the defense around the perimeter was like. >> the defense around the perimeter consist ised mostly of a plugging action. in other words, moving a division into the perimeter to fill up gaps penetrated by the enemy. we did not have enough money to completely -- men to completely fill up a complete rectangle or a perimeter so, therefore, we had to plug up the gaps by moving the men around. >> uh-huh. when trouble started, you moved men right in there. >> that's right. >> what were these attacks like, tom? >> well, these attacks were constitutedded mostly by the preparation of a mortar fire by the enemy. they were very good at this mortar fire, and they outnumbered us i would say approximately 5 to 1. they had a mass of men, and also they infiltrated in between our lines dressed as civilians and altogether just harassed us by that type of movement. >> tell us about the breakout, tom. what were the preparations for it like? >> well, the preparations consisted of getting
lieutenant tom was there. tom served as a platoon leader with the army's 24th division. tom, tell us what the defense around the perimeter was like. >> the defense around the perimeter consist ised mostly of a plugging action. in other words, moving a division into the perimeter to fill up gaps penetrated by the enemy. we did not have enough money to completely -- men to completely fill up a complete rectangle or a perimeter so, therefore, we had to plug up the gaps by moving the men...
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on that note, tom, what thank you. tom. what was your favor, your good friend? yeah, i have a sry. just something i'd like to share. you know, this narrow tive tt, you know, you can kill someone. you know, it's not the guns, it's the peoe who kill. and that you can kill someone with a hammer, with a knife and even a frozen ham. i've heard now, while it's ue, technically there's a superficial truth to it can kill somebody with fists and so on. i'm not aware of any mass killings with a frozen ham and, you know, all you have to do is talk to some surge in and there's a mountain of evidence. it's one of the areas you that i've looked at for 30 years of research with no exception that i'm aware of, no credible exception. there's never been a study that i've seen that hasn't shown that when you use a firearm let alone an ar 15, but even a pistol to attack someone, the likelihood is much greater 3 to 5 times greater that there will be a death. the vtim die than when you use a knife and many more times greater than when you use some other you know. and you know, i think important to point
on that note, tom, what thank you. tom. what was your favor, your good friend? yeah, i have a sry. just something i'd like to share. you know, this narrow tive tt, you know, you can kill someone. you know, it's not the guns, it's the peoe who kill. and that you can kill someone with a hammer, with a knife and even a frozen ham. i've heard now, while it's ue, technically there's a superficial truth to it can kill somebody with fists and so on. i'm not aware of any mass killings with a frozen ham...
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tom knows abbas well. in fact, we spent an afternoon, sal and i, mansour abbas, because for our book, because of an tom brokered and an mansour bus basically told this member of his knesset of his party, get out. i want you out of the party and out of the knesset. you e not going to deny what happened. and so i, i think the's stuff happening again. i tend to be my wife always tells me too optimistic. you're too optimistic. don't be so this about everything, by the way, not just is, but. but i am. but i think there's i, i don't know if hamas brought israel tother. we can get into that. but i do tnk hamas may have d an impact on the israeli arab community, or at least some of them. well, you know, i and i know we have to, but literally today at 4:00, i got a from mansour. there you go see. and he said i have a sponsor or i have a i have a letter for you. this guy is i'm fan boy. i a i have a letter. i need you to give to president biden. well, i said i'll start call the president, read to him. and in a lette
tom knows abbas well. in fact, we spent an afternoon, sal and i, mansour abbas, because for our book, because of an tom brokered and an mansour bus basically told this member of his knesset of his party, get out. i want you out of the party and out of the knesset. you e not going to deny what happened. and so i, i think the's stuff happening again. i tend to be my wife always tells me too optimistic. you're too optimistic. don't be so this about everything, by the way, not just is, but. but i...
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tom: excellent. we have covered a lot of territory and topics. anything you want to close out on or that we have not hit on yet that you want to? gen. flynn: i appreciate this venue. it is long overdue and i am thankful that we have this strategic land power dialogue here at csis and i am thankful for the opportunity to be able to come up here and have this platform to share some of my thoughts on what is happening. tom: thank you for your time and your leadership and please join me in thanking general flynn. [applause]
tom: excellent. we have covered a lot of territory and topics. anything you want to close out on or that we have not hit on yet that you want to? gen. flynn: i appreciate this venue. it is long overdue and i am thankful that we have this strategic land power dialogue here at csis and i am thankful for the opportunity to be able to come up here and have this platform to share some of my thoughts on what is happening. tom: thank you for your time and your leadership and please join me in thanking...
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the key is what tom said. getting this conversation to be less of an extra block that you have to check and more getting it to be habit. this is a thing that you have to be conscious of and be working on all the time. i want to talk about risk assessment. it cannot just be a box that you check at the office before you go off to location for your assignment. something we've been working on a lot. the fully foundation curriculum touches on this. it is pretty impressive. risk assessment continues once you get to the location of your assignment. we have people in israel now and we have had to continually check in with our people to remind them as you are moving around my do that assessed. israel is required by law to have a bomb shelter. from the is is one to you and know where it is at all times. check all those boxes. it's absolutely ongoing process. the smallest details make a difference. best example i can give is about a year, year and a half ago, our correspondent in south sudan was called to cover an antigo
the key is what tom said. getting this conversation to be less of an extra block that you have to check and more getting it to be habit. this is a thing that you have to be conscious of and be working on all the time. i want to talk about risk assessment. it cannot just be a box that you check at the office before you go off to location for your assignment. something we've been working on a lot. the fully foundation curriculum touches on this. it is pretty impressive. risk assessment continues...
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- tom. i appreciate the introduction and i want to thank you and the coalition to stop the flu and folks from the center for disease control and others for joining me again this year. i want to thank these panelists as well for joining us. i joined you last december, seasonal flu was raging in washington state. where i'm from. and certainly across the country. and sadly, during the 2022-2023 flu season, it was the deadliest flu season in five years in washington state. claiming the lives of 262 adults and children. the c.d.c. estimates, as tom mentioned, as many as 50,000 americans died last year from the flu. now, that is more than the number of americans who died in motor vehicle accidents. additionally, it's as many as 640,000 americans were hospitalized for flu as well. now, i never lose an opportunity to talk about how i'm on the transportation committee, because i do a lot of work on the transportation committee. but it's especially relevant because as the lead democrat on the transpor
- tom. i appreciate the introduction and i want to thank you and the coalition to stop the flu and folks from the center for disease control and others for joining me again this year. i want to thank these panelists as well for joining us. i joined you last december, seasonal flu was raging in washington state. where i'm from. and certainly across the country. and sadly, during the 2022-2023 flu season, it was the deadliest flu season in five years in washington state. claiming the lives of 262...
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thank you, tom the hardest working man in publishing, everybody, tom via. a decade ago we had the rare, spectacular privilege of dreaming up a new literary award. one of our owners, mark winkelman, came up with an idea for a kirkus and our other owner, herb simon, agreed to fund it this year will mark $1.5 million awarded to authors and illustrators through the kirkus prize. but i have to tell you when we first announced that the owner of kirkus was going to give away $150,000 a year to recognize achievement in literature, people were pretty surprised the news had all the big papers. the new york times, the washington post, losnges times. but my favorite headline was from a.v. club. they wrote new literary awards kirkus to pay actual money. ten years later, the kirkus prize is still one of the richest literary awards in the world. that's when we set out to establish what our award would be, what could be the staff editors at kirkus defined our top three priorities. first, we said if we're going do this, let's go big. let's give away enough that it'll make a
thank you, tom the hardest working man in publishing, everybody, tom via. a decade ago we had the rare, spectacular privilege of dreaming up a new literary award. one of our owners, mark winkelman, came up with an idea for a kirkus and our other owner, herb simon, agreed to fund it this year will mark $1.5 million awarded to authors and illustrators through the kirkus prize. but i have to tell you when we first announced that the owner of kirkus was going to give away $150,000 a year to...
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tom clancy was an insurance salesman and reagan mentioned it and tom clancy not only became a best-selling author that there is a hold tom clancy franchise and jack ryan is portrayed by half a dozen actors on various tv shows and movies. in some ways that was launched by ronald reagan. >> let's talk a little bit about movies. we just had a panel on presidents and movies. you right in the book that the presidents like to present an idealized version of themselves. that makes sense from a political perspective and you said that movies help to do this. trust me examples of what you mean by that. >> will not that franklin delano roosevelt was paralyzed by polio and in a wheelchair throughout his presidency. he was depicted in movies perhaps more than any other president. partly because they wanted to ingratiate themselves with the roosevelt administration and they depicted him on screen. no hollywood movie was roosevelt as president ever depicted in a wheelchair until a movie in 2001, 55 years after his death. they did present this guy, roosevelt, but never the roosevelt in a wheelchair. and t
tom clancy was an insurance salesman and reagan mentioned it and tom clancy not only became a best-selling author that there is a hold tom clancy franchise and jack ryan is portrayed by half a dozen actors on various tv shows and movies. in some ways that was launched by ronald reagan. >> let's talk a little bit about movies. we just had a panel on presidents and movies. you right in the book that the presidents like to present an idealized version of themselves. that makes sense from a...
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but tom sawyer doesn't tell him till the end because tom wanted to have fun. i'm wondering from a historical standpoint and maybe some insight on what you think twain was doing,ou from a vantage point of the historical location of the 1880s? i think especially when you talk about the location and you talk about the importance of the mississippi, it's almost as if there'a duality in what he's sang. the idea of there in as much how can you in control when you're floating in a raft? on a raft, y know, this idea of the river will dohat the river will do. and i think that's like the macro view that therare things that will occur at are beyond your control and you just have to accept it. there are alities that are just larger than you and i together, but it's the you, 's the me, and it's that individual accountability, that indidual responsibility, this idea that in so mu as jim was free, there istill that that a level of accountability that that huck had that tom has in terms of how they're going to treat hi now, what does this mean with regards to reconstruction?
but tom sawyer doesn't tell him till the end because tom wanted to have fun. i'm wondering from a historical standpoint and maybe some insight on what you think twain was doing,ou from a vantage point of the historical location of the 1880s? i think especially when you talk about the location and you talk about the importance of the mississippi, it's almost as if there'a duality in what he's sang. the idea of there in as much how can you in control when you're floating in a raft? on a raft, y...
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tom brokaw, neighbors. tom brokaw. yeah. which book is it? do you have that book here? gleaves i have a i'm very proud to have a blurb from tom brokaw on the back of one of these books because grew up in south dakota, picks down, you know, he's supposed have a book coming out in the next couple of months about growing up south dakota. so watch out for that. he's a very, very nice guy. he is in real life, you know everything. he seems to be on tv. i would say i wanted to this may be a good way to end it. tom brokaw, when he retired, you know, he used to be on morning joe. and some of these shows. he would give his commentary in the morning. and then he officially retired about two years ago. and as he was signing off, one of the things he said and remember he was in new york was at nbc news. he was the nightly anchor. he was in the middle of everything for decades. and one of the things he said was that the news media and our culture in this country is completely dominated by the coasts and people then are in 30 rock beaming these news stories out to the rest. the countr
tom brokaw, neighbors. tom brokaw. yeah. which book is it? do you have that book here? gleaves i have a i'm very proud to have a blurb from tom brokaw on the back of one of these books because grew up in south dakota, picks down, you know, he's supposed have a book coming out in the next couple of months about growing up south dakota. so watch out for that. he's a very, very nice guy. he is in real life, you know everything. he seems to be on tv. i would say i wanted to this may be a good way...
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tom has gone way beyond the call duty and meeting my airline schedule on. godly hours, my career goes back to 1970, when tom and bob wood were the major of let me begin my presentation this afternoon by turning to september 18th 1931, when about 10 m. japanese railroad guards claim to have heard an explosion on e south railroad. the explosion took place about three miles north of the city. monckton, now known as young's ruin. the damage from this explosion was quite negligible. a train ran over the tracks soon afterwards. some call, though, the opening shot of world war two with the japanese army in manchuria, known as a quantum, an army using thincident to occupy manchurianity of modern it also occupied cities. 160 miles northet of marton, 120 miles south east of manhattan. the japanese prime minister immediately ordered his war minister to everything possible to stop the conflict. and the war minister did ask the quantum army to halt to make no further. moreover, he promised civilian cabinet he would restrain the japanese army, and he kept this pledge fou
tom has gone way beyond the call duty and meeting my airline schedule on. godly hours, my career goes back to 1970, when tom and bob wood were the major of let me begin my presentation this afternoon by turning to september 18th 1931, when about 10 m. japanese railroad guards claim to have heard an explosion on e south railroad. the explosion took place about three miles north of the city. monckton, now known as young's ruin. the damage from this explosion was quite negligible. a train ran over...
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but now there's this whole tom clancy franchise. there is jack ryan has been portrayed by about half a dozen different actors on various tv shows and movies. so that was all in some ways launched by ronald reagan and him reading this relatively obscure book. let's talk a little bit about the movies we just had, the panel on presidents and the movies. you write in the book that president like to present an idealized version of themselves that makes sense from a political perspective. and you also say that movies help them do this. so give us some examples of what you mean by that. well, we all know that franklin delano roosevelt was paralyzed as a result of polio. he was in a wheelchair throughout his entire presidency. he was depicted in movies, perhaps more than any other president in part because the hollywood moguls, people like harry warner, wanted to ingratiate themselves with the roosevelt administration. so they kept depicting roosevelt on screen. but in no hollywood movie was roosevelt as president ever depicted in a wheelch
but now there's this whole tom clancy franchise. there is jack ryan has been portrayed by about half a dozen different actors on various tv shows and movies. so that was all in some ways launched by ronald reagan and him reading this relatively obscure book. let's talk a little bit about the movies we just had, the panel on presidents and the movies. you write in the book that president like to present an idealized version of themselves that makes sense from a political perspective. and you...
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tom and i have talked to some news organizations around the country. reporters are talking about some of the basic ways that we used to report stories. if there is a murderer in a community, that is what happened in florida, you go to the family's home. the victim's home. reporters are concerned about knocking on someone's door because about the gun violence. i am not trying to be political, just factual. or even going into someone's driveway, people have gotten hurt. i wonder how you talk to your newsrooms about stories in the u.s.? how does that change or not change versus, compared with foreign correspondences? >> i will jump in. i will repeat mindset and have it a lot here today. i joined d.o.a. as a brand-new contractor required to go through standard orientation. i do a 30 or 40 minute presentation on journalist safety. i make this point right up front -- anywhere you go, including the national mall, is frequently the site for marches, rallies, protests. those events can turn hostile when emotions and tensions are high. you always run the risk fo
tom and i have talked to some news organizations around the country. reporters are talking about some of the basic ways that we used to report stories. if there is a murderer in a community, that is what happened in florida, you go to the family's home. the victim's home. reporters are concerned about knocking on someone's door because about the gun violence. i am not trying to be political, just factual. or even going into someone's driveway, people have gotten hurt. i wonder how you talk to...
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ited states war department decided to build a militar highway from rail's end at dawson creek medical, tom beer to fairbanks, alaska, to link up and supply these airfields and to provide emergency access to alaska for our troops and materiel. this highway would extend roughly. 1500 miles about the distance. from washington to denver. the frontier town of dawson creek saw the arrival. the first army engineer troops in march 42. here ty up a camp. enlisted men were trained in the ecial problems of maintenance and operation tractors in the north north. their work out themselves weather over the surrounding hills soon produced skilled cat skinners skinners. before the arrival of additional engineers, these first troops moved out over a trail broken the canadian department of transport to fort nelson where they established a base camp and began working north west. other regiments enred the yukon through skagway and established a base at whitehorse. they began working both west and south east. still, other regiments entered alka valdez and moved up to a point in the interior. from here they bega
ited states war department decided to build a militar highway from rail's end at dawson creek medical, tom beer to fairbanks, alaska, to link up and supply these airfields and to provide emergency access to alaska for our troops and materiel. this highway would extend roughly. 1500 miles about the distance. from washington to denver. the frontier town of dawson creek saw the arrival. the first army engineer troops in march 42. here ty up a camp. enlisted men were trained in the ecial problems...
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i'm tom hartmann and i appreciate the approach that you're taking here. it's a tragic situation right now, and we do have to get better understanding. but in the meantime we have people that help and, and if we're trying to help people that are have approach asylum and have one of the judges, as you said earlier, is down at the lower percentage job approval. could you recommend how what kind of process should we try to guide them through in order to see in order to avoid an immediate deport deportation? is there are there strategies that are for people that have that who have applied for asylum and are likely facing and you're touching on something critical which is unfortunately the vast majority asylum seekers don't have representation. and there's data that shows that if you're represented you have a 70% chance of winning. if you don't have represented and you have a 15% chance of winning. and so what is is a massive campaign to train and recruit more assistance. i argue in the book that that we ought to have a public defender's for immigrants and that
i'm tom hartmann and i appreciate the approach that you're taking here. it's a tragic situation right now, and we do have to get better understanding. but in the meantime we have people that help and, and if we're trying to help people that are have approach asylum and have one of the judges, as you said earlier, is down at the lower percentage job approval. could you recommend how what kind of process should we try to guide them through in order to see in order to avoid an immediate deport...
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one of the most famous examples of this is round reagan who will read tom clancy's novel of the hunt for red october. now he was an unknown insurance agent. this book will become a sensation in part because he mentioned it and people knew that reagan had read that book and then tom clancy had not only become the best selling author, but now there's a whole franchise there and that jack ryan has been portrayed about half a dozen different actors on various tv shows and movies. so that was all in some ways launched by ronald reagan and him reading this relatively obscured book. >> let's talk a little bit about the movies. we just had the panel on the presidents and the movies. you write in that book that they like to present a version of themselves, which makes sense from that political perspective. you say movies will help them do this. give us some examples of what you mean by that? >> well, we all know that he was paralyzed as a result of polio in a wheelchair. he was depicted in the movies perhaps more than any other president. but in no holywood movie was he ever depicted about 55
one of the most famous examples of this is round reagan who will read tom clancy's novel of the hunt for red october. now he was an unknown insurance agent. this book will become a sensation in part because he mentioned it and people knew that reagan had read that book and then tom clancy had not only become the best selling author, but now there's a whole franchise there and that jack ryan has been portrayed about half a dozen different actors on various tv shows and movies. so that was all in...
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longworth referred to tom dewey, you know, had a little mustache. she he referred to him as the little man on the wedding cake. right. well, thank you. thank you so much, craig, for. greg will be signing books in the book signing tent. and i can't i couldn't recommend a book any more. highly. this book is so exhaustively researched, and it's it's really the read. thank you, jim. you've been a great moderator and thank you all for coming. i'm so touched. thank you. voters as mad is the name of the book on political irrationality. the author is george mason university professor bryan caplan. professor kaplan, what are you trying to accomplish with this? really? i'm just trying to share 17 years worth of essays, political rationality. i at this point, people have started to finally accept that there is a lot of political rationality in their opponents, at least a lot of what i'm trying to say is you're you're all right. both sides are correct. the other side is pretty crazy. but get a little more self-awareness and realize that the craziness actually i
longworth referred to tom dewey, you know, had a little mustache. she he referred to him as the little man on the wedding cake. right. well, thank you. thank you so much, craig, for. greg will be signing books in the book signing tent. and i can't i couldn't recommend a book any more. highly. this book is so exhaustively researched, and it's it's really the read. thank you, jim. you've been a great moderator and thank you all for coming. i'm so touched. thank you. voters as mad is the name of...
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not the the blliant genius i'd been sold in the marketing campaigns, where he was best friends with tom brady and he and gisele was there. esg advisor and it was it because that was clearly organic friendship there it was. it was absurd. it was i was in an absurd. you referenced the eeror's new clothes, which is the story that i use. i was reading my daughter, the story i decided to go down ts this wild journey and was because i saw myself as the child in that story. i'm the one going these naked and everyone else is going naked as is not everyone else. meaning the people in this room. i bet a lot ofolks saw something similar, but in the dia, if the story wasn't being told and i thought found the power of the and the power to build sam really, it was just insa anyway, the title of the chapter devoted to that interview was the emperor's badass naked. so that gives u a good idea. jonathan, do you want to talk about the or any of them? yes. i mean, i don't think any of them geniuses either. i mean, i think all very sure that they know where the world going. and you psychologists have this
not the the blliant genius i'd been sold in the marketing campaigns, where he was best friends with tom brady and he and gisele was there. esg advisor and it was it because that was clearly organic friendship there it was. it was absurd. it was i was in an absurd. you referenced the eeror's new clothes, which is the story that i use. i was reading my daughter, the story i decided to go down ts this wild journey and was because i saw myself as the child in that story. i'm the one going these...
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brant, had against george toms toms. i'm going to ask my polish brother to answer this only because you've been with the the capital civil war roundtable in and thas is buried in nearby. so that's another excuse. thanks. thanks. thanks for that. now i have thought about thi and as somebody who's written about the army, the cumberland pondered the career, military career of george thomas. i think there's a couple of things part of it's it thomas thomas's papers were were destroyed and there's not much out there will's biography thomas is probably the best thing going on, general, and it's very, very good. i don't nt to disparage that book in any way. i think it's outstanding with what the sources he had. i think it's a mixture of clashing, personal style, clashing personalities and professional jealousy. because if you think about the personnel cities of grant and thomas they are very there different people and you know with today here we are 160 years later trying to dissect the relationship of two men who have been long
brant, had against george toms toms. i'm going to ask my polish brother to answer this only because you've been with the the capital civil war roundtable in and thas is buried in nearby. so that's another excuse. thanks. thanks. thanks for that. now i have thought about thi and as somebody who's written about the army, the cumberland pondered the career, military career of george thomas. i think there's a couple of things part of it's it thomas thomas's papers were were destroyed and there's...