Sitrep September 18th 2014

In today's Sitrep.....

 

Obama says no boots on the ground in Iraq but his military chief says otherwise – who’s right?

 

How the military is trying to contain the Ebola threat.

 

And find out why Hitler’s desk is on display at a military museum in Dorset.

 

PRESENTER: Kate Gerbeau

 

STUDIO GUEST: BFBS defence analyst Christopher Lee

 

OTHER INTERVIEWS: 

 

Michael Stathis,Professor of Political Science and
International Relations at the University of Southern Utah, on US strategy in Iraq.

 

Fawaz Gerges, Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics, discussing the brutality of Islamic State.

 

Hamish De Bretton Gordon, a former British army chemical weapons officer, talking about the Ebola threat and military involvement.

 

BFBS reporter Tim Cooper reporting from the Keep Military Museum in Dorchester on  one very unusual object:

 

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