Conversations with History - Thomas E. Ricks
"The Military and the Iraq War"
Thomas E. Ricks, Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Thomas Ricks for a discussion of his work as a writer and journalist. Reflecting on his career, Ricks discusses his two books on the Iraq War, Fiasco and The Gamble, offering an analysis of the failures of the first years of the war and the changes in strategy engineered by Generals Odierno and Petraeus. Reviewing the conduct of the Iraq War, Ricks analyzes the weaknesses and strengths of America's political and military leaders, the long term consequences of the conflict for the military, the unanwered questions about the future of Iraq, and the possibilities of a new American strategy for the Middle East under President Obama.
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The opening score is lit.
Excellent. Very informative.
@xanatax1844
2 жыл бұрын
Ricks seems incredibly legit. 💜👍
Makes alot of sense to me.
I love how at 10:30 the interviewer's reaction to Thomas Rick's utter condemnation and dismissal of all of journalism is to say "uh huh" and to change the subject.
Cant wait for his next books.
"News is what people who don't care much about anything read" -Evelyn Waugh
@johnr.mcdonald2452
11 ай бұрын
Prepare Ye The Way.- JRMcD.
@johnr.mcdonald2452
11 ай бұрын
Prepare Ye The Way! JRMcD
Super interesting.
16:12 he sounds and looks like Socrate in 2000.
So what happened CPL Armando Rodriguez & Perris Island ? 🙂
38:18 min ... "mired in an unproductive wasteful approach" ... that's a fantastic sentence, given by Thomas E. Ricks.
@darbyheavey406
9 ай бұрын
Shakespeare it’s not. Churchill would have written a shopping list with greater grace.
Ricks is brilliant
@shanemedlin9400
2 жыл бұрын
Ricks also believes the Pentagon was struck by an airliner.
43:00 the German had the same problem with French resistance and got the same involving of counter-insurgence... WW2
0:22... Cheezz this music from late 70`s
14:56 - Poor dude's about to experience a *third* political awakening from seeing the Taliban firing captured M4 carbines into the air as the last C-13's leave Kabul
@xanatax1844
2 жыл бұрын
I really want to hear his next big lecture!!! This is getting really interesting! 💜
@claudeyaz
2 жыл бұрын
Yeh we need all the generals gone. Anyone who did not oppose the abandonment of the easily defendable base! And didnt fight to save our soldiers..equippment..and more. As this guy has said. P.c. smith..and his preparedness saved the soldiers at chosin!! Yet none of our generals made any sort of fuss about HAVING NO WITHDRAW PLAN.. OR ANYTHING. ALL too busy playing politics. America is doomed. We could have the largest military ever..but with no good generals..we are doomed
@XiangYu94
2 жыл бұрын
@@claudeyaz As an allied Canadian, I’d counter by saying that America is a lot more than just its military. I wouldn’t worry too much, because American hegemony isn’t 100% supported by military power (though it does make up a hefty 60-70% chunk)
I'm on the fence with this guy. He's brought up good points in a lot of war subjects, but armchair quarterbacks have 20/20 hindsight
@viking956
2 жыл бұрын
Well he's an historian. Historian's by nature are looking backwards instead of forward and in that respect he MUST HAVE 20/20 "hindsight".
@jessestrobel2
2 жыл бұрын
Are you the former operator of Morrisound Studios, or are you a different Scott Burns?
@xanatax1844
2 жыл бұрын
he lived in Afghanistan, as a jounalist has been embedded with the troops, and loves books. 😘 No that doesn’t make him the “perfect” expert on the subject. It does make him very interesting, and he definitely has lived experience to speak from.
Tom Ricks speaks with deep knowledge and understanding of the topics he has covered. The interviewer on the hand is operating from extremely little knowledge and nearly pure ideology. He cannot even think about the military without tripping over his preconceived notions. Very Bay Area college mentality.
@kingkonut
6 жыл бұрын
Morria1962, I disagree. I see this a lot on KZread - 'So and so PUNISHES interviewer' etc. I didn't see any egregious display of ignorance on the part of the interviewer here. Firstly, if the interviewer knows so much, why not just a speech by the interviewer? Then the interviewee becomes unnecessary. Secondly, and more valuably, I believe it is the purpose of the interviewer to ask questions that are meant to be exploited by the interviewee in order to provide greater knowledge. The interviewer is supposed to provide an intellectual vacuum which the interviewee is supposed to fill. This is a function of this kind of dialectic which this interviewer seemed to fill well. If you appreciate the value of the answers, you cannot deride the questions. Thirdly, it is the purpose of the interviewer to represent the ignorance of the more ignorant sections of the audience in order that they might be better enlightened. All that said, I am sympathetic to your view of 'bay area mentality'. There is much arrogance in these pretentious groups which conceal damaging ignorance.
@Dadecorban
4 жыл бұрын
@@kingkonut I didn't see the interviewer interjecting his own beliefs anywhere. I'm entirely puzzled.
Ricks most important thing in the world is Ricks.