Short. This year we will celebrate the centenary of world war i, which is a classic example of where everyone thought the war would be over by october, november of 1914. The problem in iraq in particular and it is true of both iraq and afghanistan that what began as a swift military victory quickly degenerated into long and grinding war. In the case of iraq it was always believed that it would be a shortterm commitment. I think that it would be interesting to ask those that were participants in the decisionmaking had they known in march of 2003 that the country would be at war in iraq for six or seven more years whether they would have made the decision they did. But this assumption that the war would be short or that its end was right around the corner affected the department of defense as badly as it did to Decision Makers themselves. And because everyone assumed that the war would be over quickly, there was a great reluctance inside defend to spend significant sums of money on equipment that might be needed to protect the troops but that might be useful only in iraq or afghanistan. As i describe in the book of the department of defense has organized a plan for the war not to wage the war and so the service dedicates all of their effort, pretty much all of their efforts to developing their longrange procurement plans and then defending those plans in the budget process regardless of what comes along. And so people were reluctant to, for example, find developed and fund the mine resistant ambush protected vehicles that save so many lives and limbs because that particular vehicle was not in any plan for the army or the marine corps spinnaker want to ask about that in just a moment. One of the key themes in that portion of the book it seems to me that the military planners inside the beltway simply didnt adjust or respond to it and they do not adjust to changing situations on the ground in iraq. Thats a fact i also write during the initial invasion there was a series of stunning bad decisions and mistakes. I think its all an evolutionary process. You grow into this world. Coke role and you never get comfortable if you are pushing for change and growth not just t just in the south but in the issues you care about. Youre never done so theres never a point in time where you feel like they are i am now here and i can do this the same way all the time. Its always changing. First Lady Michelle obama at nine eastern on cspan and cspan three also on cspan radio and cspan. Org. And critical race consciousness, professor gary peller argues black nationalists between the 1960s and 70s and he discussed his book at booktv at George Washington law center. This is a part of the booktv college series. Race consciousness reconsidering american ideologies of Racial Justice is the subtitle. The author is georgetown law professor gary peller. Professor, what is your theme and your goal in this