[VIDEO] Interview on Conversations with History (2005)
An interview as part of my being the Chester R. Nimitz Memorial Lecturer that year at the University of California -- Berkeley
This is a reader-supported publication. I give it all away for free but could really use your support if you want me to keep doing this.
I was the Chester R. Nimitz Memorial Lecture Speaker at California—Berkeley in 2005. It was a great honor. From the site:
Following is a list of the distinguished military and civilian leaders who have spoken at the UC Berkeley Nimitz Lecture series since its establishment in 1985.
2024 – Admiral James A. Winnefeld
2023 – Dr. Kori Schake
2022 – Janet Napolitano
2021 – H. R. McMaster
2020 – General Ellen Pawlikowski
2019 – Admiral James Stavridis
2018 – Admiral Dennis C. Blair
2017 – Vice Admiral Robert Thomas
2016 – Dr. David M. Kennedy
2014 – General James N. Mattis
2013 – General Norton A. Schwartz
2012 – Ahmed Rashid
2011 – Thomas E. Ricks
2010 – Nathaniel C. Fick
2009 – Ambassador Barbara K. Bodine
2008 – Mr. Michael Scheuer
2008 – General John P. Abizaid
2007 – Mr. Mark Steyn
2006 – Dr. Victor Davis Hanson
2005 – Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett
2003 – Mr. Max Boot
2002 – Dr. Albert C. Pierce
2001 – General Anthony C. Zinni
2000 – Admiral Charles Larson
1998 – Dr. Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
1997 – Admiral Leighton Smith
1996 – Colonel Harry Summers
1995 – The Honorable Tom Lantos
1993 – General John Galvin
1992 – General Fred Woerner
1991 – Dr. John Lehman
1990 – Admiral Thomas Moorer
1989 – Admiral Elmo Zumwalt
1988 – Dr. Hans Mark
1987 – Dr. Ed Luttwak
1986 – Admiral Bobby Inman
1985 – Dr. Sam Huntington
Good company, to say the least.
One of the tasks for the week-long engagement was to appear on a TV show called Conversations with History, which I present here:
