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Author and military strategist Bing West spoke about his life and career. The former assistant secretary of defense. former RAND analyst, and current member of the Council on Foreign Relatio…

Bing West argues that a reliance on counterinsurgency strategy has led the U.S. astray in Afghanistan and says that we need to shift the responsibility for the fighting over to the Afghans a…

Military Analyst Bing West talked about his National Review article, “The Last Field Commander,” and he responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. The piece is about General…

Panelists discussed the situation in Pakistan, the Afghanistan War, and al-Qaida. Among the topics they addressed were regional security challenges, the transition to Afghan control, the pot…

Bing West talked about Afghanistan’s presidential election, and he responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. Mr. Bing recently spent a month in the region with Marines, Afg…

Bing West, former assistant defense secretary in the Reagan Administration, talked about his recent trip to Afghanistan where he spent more than three weeks assessing the military situation …

Bing West talked about the tactical, operational, and strategic variables in the Iraq War. He said that the most important variable . He spoke about the causes of the sectarian conflict betw…

Bing West, who returned this weekend from his 15th trip to Iraq since the beginning of U.S. military action, shared his observations on U.S. military in Iraq, his meeting with both U.S. and …

Bing West, former assistant secretary in the Department of Defense under President Reagan, was interviewed about his book No True Glory: A Frontline Account of the Battle for Fallujah, publ…

Bing West talked about alternatives to U.S. policy in Iraq. He has made three trips to Iraq during the year - 14 since the beginning of military action - to observe U.S. military action. The…

Mr. West talked about his 13th trip to Iraq to observe U.S. military action. While there he talked with military officials and also saw first-hand the effects of the increased U.S. military …

Mr. West talks about U.S. policy toward Iraq, including reports of moving U.S. troops from Anbar to Baghdad to quell escalating violence there.

Panelists talked about levels of U.S. military deployment in Iraq, suggestions for phased withdrawal from the region, security concerns associated with troop pullouts, and the abilities of I…

Former Assistant Secretary West and Mr. Fisk talked about the war in Iraq and debated the issue of what the U.S. should do now. The authors also discussed the history of Western involvement …

Panelists participated in a forum on the future of the U.S. Marine Corps. Participants focused on operational challenges facing the Marine Corps, lessons learned from military operations in …

Bing West talked by remote link from Boston about U.S. policy toward Iraq and the latest on the situation in Fallujah and Iraq. He has recently returned from his 7th visit to Iraq since the …

Former Assistant Secretary of Defense, Bing West, joined C-SPAN’s Washington Journal and talked about the situation in Iraq. He had just returned from five weeks in Baghdad and Fallujah with…

Mr. West and General Smith (Ret.) discussed their book, The March Up: Taking Baghdad with the 1st Marine Division, published by Bantam. The story is a first-hand account of the 1st Marine Di…