The administration approaches it is often times who want to get the language right. Im not sure there is the same commitment to the policy follow through on the language. You need to set the language so you can set the bar. Abrams is probably the best person i have seen a government being able to set the language in government. What feels to me to be happening is in a lot of cases, theres a lot of focus on exactly what the language is in the policy doesnt always follow to it. A few months ago, in many ways, with the speech on isis. Sure they are doing as well as they need to understanding strategically where they need to go. They had a big middle east policy review and notably, nobody involved was outside the white house and nobody had ever lived in the middle east. Talking about communicating. Youve done a lot of work on this. Juliana has become kind of our expert on jihadist social media. It is amazing how sophisticated they are. Isis has its own media arm. The are behind a lot of sa
The book tells about the privatization of Americas National security and exposes where the industry came from, how it operates and where its heading in the journalist that has been a staff writer at the wall street journal and writing at northwestern and columbia her previous book a wild ride, ransom, beyond the river and savage beast. Please joining me in welcoming her to cramer books. [applause] thank you sarah. Its great to be here. Its especially great to be here because im honored by the presence of another writer on this topic David Isenberg is sitting in the front row and some familiar faces, people ive known for a long time that ive come to this event. The invisible soldiers as sarah said is the story of the privatization of defense and security. Its a narrative Nonfiction Book that is a trajectory telling the story from the mercenary renaissance of the second half of the 20th century into the age of drums. Its basically the story of the rise of a new industry, an industry of m
That is a look at the nonfiction titles quail ridge is most interested in being published this fall. You can visit the bookstore in raleigh, North Carolina or on line at quail ridge. Com. Ann hagedorn is next on booktv. She takes a critical look at private military contractors and argues that americans should be concerned about our dependence on them. This is a middle over an hour. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Thank you so much for coming. Hello. My name is sarah boleyn and im the Events Coordinator here at kramer books and on behalf of our entire staff i am happy to welcome you to kramers tonight for one of our first events in our event season which got started in Early September and i hope you havent already will take a moment and pick up one of our event calendars and if you havent already, please follow up on facebook, twitter and sign up for our email newsletter. Thank you for coming. I am pleased to welcome you. I am pleased to welcome ann hagedorn for her new book the
My question is whats needed politically to get European Countries to exploit their shale resources . If you were to encourage it how would you encourage it . The first thing i would find a way to reward the owners and all those that get affected by the shale production. But honestly this is not all. In spain, for instance we have a big debate. Its not old. But one thing i would do. The second thing, i think that for many years in europe there was this idea of dont touch, dont tell in terms of electricity generation, generation in general. So people dont know really. We went for renewables. This is fine. Dont miss understand me, this is fine. But people dont know what it costs in the end because i mean im not able to read the receipt of the electricity every month. I dont know what im paying for the renewables. People should know. I should know how. Its not a fatality that we are bound to be dependent on an importer. We need to develop our own resources and of course efficiency. And on
Partners to combat the greatest risk to Border Security National Security and public safety. And ygn ultimately the articles answer those big three questions. Why we changed how we changed and how to answer whether were winning or not. With that ill turn itb j n back over to stephanie. Thank you. Thank you both. Im going to exercise the moderators prerogative and ask each of our guests one question first before opening it up to the floor. The first question i have is for chief fisher, and that is regarding your hopes for this trilogy of articles. As i mentioned earlier ive been impressed with thought leadership and strategy and having authority for the border control. I can understand from an audience perspective im not in the Border Patrol i can take these articles using my own experience. But your hope for what folks in the field will take away from these articles what was your intent from a border e g patrolspecific perspective. Thank you stephanie. For the Border Patrol agents, my