Thursday 11 January 2024
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR
9-915
#Ukraine:Italy says it is time to talk of ceasefire. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/10/ukraine-russia-war-belgorod-kharkiv-kremlin-kyiv/e
915-930
#NATO: Is Russia cooperating with Iran in the Gulf? Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/11/britain-set-to-strike-houthi-rebels-red-sea-yemen/
930-945
#Iran Piracy in the Gulf of Oman & What is to be done? #Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
945-1000
#Ukraine: Putin threatens NATO with tactical nuclear weapons. Putin threatens Kyiv over Belgorod. Colonel Jeff McCausland , USA (retired) @mccauslj @CBSNews @dickinsoncol
SECOND HOUR
10-1015
#Iran: Piracy in the Gulf of Oman: Blaise Misztal: Blaise Misztal is the Vice President for Policy at JINSA, the Jewish Institute for National Security of America.. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/houthis-launch-fresh-red-sea-barrage-as-blinken-tries-to-contain-gaza-war-91fed4fb
1015-1030
#Israel: The ordeal of the hostage families: Senator Kirsten Gillibrand from the state of New York, serving in the Senate since 2009. Recently returned from a trip to Israel and the region. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
https://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/news/press/release/at-united-nations-gillibrand-delivers-remarks-condemning-rape-and-sexual-violence-committed-by-hamas-against-israelis/
https://twitter.com/gillibrandny/status/1745170140172304572
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/01/02/congress/intel-senators-head-to-israel-00133455
1030-1045
#Iran: The source of the terror and horror & What is to be done? Jonathan Schanzer: senior vice president for research at FDD, where he oversees the work of the organization’s experts and scholars. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
https://www.timesofisrael.com/blinken-seeks-palestinian-reform-as-he-tries-to-rally-region-behind-postwar-vision/
1045-1100
#Qatar: Frenemy or enemy? Eli Lake is an American journalist,. He currently writes for the Free Press and his podcast is called the Re-Education.
https://www.thefp.com/p/texas-a-and-m-qatar-deal-iran-u-s-secrets
THIRD HOUR
1100-1115
1/8: The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 by James Holland (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Savage-Storm-Battle-Italy-1943/dp/080216160X
ollowing victory in Sicily, while the central command planned the spring 1944 invasion of France, Allied troops crossed into southern Italy in September 1943, expecting to drive Axis forces north and liberate Rome by Christmas. Italy quickly surrendered but German divisions fiercely resisted, and the hoped-for quick victory descended into one of the most challenging and protracted battles of the entire war.
James Holland’s The Savage Storm, chronicling the dramatic opening months of the Italian Campaign in unflinching and insightful detail, is unlike any campaign history yet written. Holland has always narrated war at ground level, but here goes further by chronicling events almost entirely through the contemporary eyes of those who were there on all sides and at all levels—Allied, Axis, civilians alike. Weaving together a wealth of letters, diaries, and other documents—from the likes of American General Mark Clark, German battalion commander Georg Zellner, New Zealand lance-corporal Roger Smith, legendary war reporter Ernie Pyle, and Italian politician Filippo Caracciolo—Holland traces the battles as they were experienced across plains, over mountains, through shattered villages and cities, in intense heat and, towards the end of December 1943, frigid cold and relentless rain.
Such close-up views persuade Holland to recast important aspects of the campaign, reappraising the reputation of Mark Clark himself and other senior commanders of the U.S. Fifth and British Eighth armies. Given the shortage of Allied shipping and materiel allocated to Italy because of the build-up for D-Day, more was expected of Allied troops in Italy than anywhere else, and, as accounts at the time attest, a huge price was paid by everyone for each bloodily contested mile. Putting readers vividly in the moment as events unfolded, with characters made unforgettable by their own words, The Savage Storm is a defining account of the pivotal months leading to Monte Cassino, and a landmark in the writing about war.
1115-1130
2/8: The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 by James Holland (Author)
1130-1145
3/8: The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 by James Holland (Author)
1145-1200
4/8: The Savage Storm: The Battle for Italy 1943 by James Holland (Author)
FOURTH HOUR
12-1215
#ScalaReport: #PRC: 18 fabs on line in 2024 & What is to be done?
1215-1230
#GOP: #DNC: #Pupulism: The infamous old Republicrats agree with each other. Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus Center
1230-1245
1/2: SCOTUS: The delaying strategy in the DC Court of Appeals and in SCOTUS. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/01/on-immunity-trump-dubiously-relies-on-the-impeachment-clause/
1245-100 am
2/2: SCOTUS: The delaying strategy in the DC Court of Appeals and in SCOTUS. @AndrewCMcCarthy @NRO @ThadMcCotter @theamgreatness
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/01/on-immunity-trump-dubiously-relies-on-the-impeachment-clause/