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Wars have enjoyed an essential role in defining america and its place in the world. No one is better outfitted to investigate this subject comprehensive than retired US Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark - decorated combat veteran, creator, Rhodes Scholar, and previous NATO Supreme Commander. In this program, Gen. Clark explores the full range of America's armed issues, from the France and Indian Warfare in the mid-18th century to the Global Warfare on Terrorism in the 21st. These 24 absorbing half-hour lectures graph the remarkable growth of america from a colonial backwater into the most powerful country on Earth, thanks in large part to its skill for growing to the occasion when called to conflict. Pulling on his years of analysis and military experience, Gen. Clark sheds light on the practices and strategy behind such famous battles as Yorktown, New Orleans, Gettysburg, D-Day, Inchon, and Operation Desert Storm, among many others. He also recounts his own experience in combat during the Vietnam Warfare, which he scarcely survived. This display is the closest most listeners are certain to get to studying conflict the way military officers do - with every challenge offering as a textbook for possible paths to victory. Among the countless examples, you learn that the ideal time to strike is when an opposing power is separated, sidetracked, and disorganized scheduled to crossing an obstacle such as a river, as occurred to British Gen. Edward Braddock's troops while fording the Monongahela River during the France and Indian Warfare. Additionally you learn that the fall of Fort Donelson during the Civil Warfare was scheduled to incoherent strategy by the Confederates, combined with brilliant practices by Union Gen. Ulysses S. Give, who continued to win the conflict for the North. In another of the previous lectures, Gen. Clark provides perception into his own technique for halting Serbian ethnic cleansing during Operation Allied Drive in 1999, when he was the general in charge.
