On the council. I want to say a few words of thanks and welcome. Let me thank marissa shannon, laura bresnehan and alex grigsby for helping put this together. We want to thank pwc, which has provided funding to help us run this and a number of other programs in the digital and cyberspace policy program. Like many of the other think tanks, we are doing more and more work in this space. Just this month we published a cyber brief giving some policy recommendations on how they can counter russian operation information if you havent seen that, please take a look. Its available on the website. Last month we ran we rolled out a Cyber Operations tracker. Thats the website you might have seen when you walked in. It is a list of publicly revealed state Cyber Operations back to 2005. We have approximately 200 known incidents. And the plan is to add more as they happen and as they become more known to us. Please check that out. Its updated every quarter. If you have an incident that we dont know a
[inaudible conversations] thank you. I appreciate you all coming. Im going to ask to talk about two books. Originally i was asked to talk about 30 day in september which i will do. But since i was invited to this conference, another book of mine has come out, a collection of my articles on terrorism, called the terror years. And so i will first talk about peace, and then ill talk about terror. And seems like a natural progression, right . I guest the best way of beginning this is telling you how i got started with 13 days. Gerald, jimmy carters media adviser in the white house, called me up out of the blue and asked if i would be willing to write a play about camp david, and his pitch was, a bornagain christian, an orthodox jew and a pious muslim go behind closed doors for 13 days and emerge with the only durable peace in middle east. So pretty good pitch. And it was affecting to me because my wife and i had lived in georgia when jimmy was governor, and when he ran for president. We ha
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