Remarkable that i could certainly, i think, speak for both of us. We felt privileged to be able to tell those stories. So i would have one thing and i know we probably have to get out of here soon, but the sand tom mentioned in the men we write about and its all men because of the wars the grit in my almost two decades downrange in hellholes around the world, i see the same and the same grit in the men and now women who are fighting for us today and have fought for us since 2001. And we should all be very proud of that. So i guess that ends it. So thank you very much. Welcome to International Security studies at Yale Universitys Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Im ted whittenstein and i want to extend the special welcome to some of our zoom participants as well as cspan folks tuning in. Its wonderful to magnify the reach of everything exciting. Were doing here on the yale campus which of course includes professor kennedys wonderful new book victory at sea naval power and the trans
westad. so as a reminder, you can silence your devices in the room if you re on zoom you can submit your q&a using the q&a feature. you have your volume and video muted, but we re recording this session and we ll extend and circulate a copy for the benefit of everyone. so we re delighted to kick it off. i m gonna hand it over. to professor arne westott, he s yale s elehoo professor of global affairs and history. he s the director of international security studies and he s a very close colleague of ours and as well as paul s who s been a colleague and mentor to so many over the years at jackson and at yale. so thank you and over to you arnie. thank you very much ted. it s wonderful to be sharing this session with my colleague and friend professor paul kennedy. now of course here at yale pull doesn t need any introduction. he has been the mentor to many of us who are here to generations of undergraduate students and and graduate students. he built up an environment for internat
if you re on zoom you can submit your q&a using the q&a feature. you have your volume and video muted, but we re recording this session and we ll extend and circulate a copy for the benefit of everyone. so we re delighted to kick it off. i m gonna hand it over. to professor arne westott, he s yale s elehoo professor of global affairs and history. he s the director of international security studies and he s a very close colleague of ours and as well as paul s who s been a colleague and mentor to so many over the years at jackson and at yale. so thank you and over to you arnie. thank you very much ted. it s wonderful to be sharing this session with my colleague and friend professor paul kennedy. now of course here at yale pull doesn t need any introduction. he has been the mentor to many of us who are here to generations of undergraduate students and and graduate students. he built up an environment for international history and global history at yale. that is unrivaled. i thin
with our moderator professor westad. so as a reminder, you can silence your devices in the room if you re on zoom you can submit your q&a using the q&a feature. you have your volume and video muted, but we re recording this session and we ll extend and circulate a copy for the benefit of everyone. so we re delighted to kick it off. i m gonna hand it over. to professor arne westott, he s yale s elehoo professor of global affairs and history. he s the director of international security studies and he s a very close colleague of ours and as well as paul s who s been a colleague and mentor to so many over the years at jackson and at yale. so thank you and over to you arnie. thank you very much ted. it s wonderful to be sharing this session with my colleague and friend professor paul kennedy. now of course here at yale pull doesn t need any introduction. he has been the mentor to many of us who are here to generations of undergraduate students and and graduate students. he built u
two. we ll introduce professor kennedy in just a moment along with our moderator professor westad. so as a reminder, you can silence your devices in the room if you re on zoom you can submit your q&a using the q&a feature. you have your volume and video muted, but we re recording this session and we ll extend and circulate a copy for the benefit of everyone. so we re delighted to kick it off. i m gonna hand it over. to professor arne westott, he s yale s elehoo professor of global affairs and history. he s the director of international security studies and he s a very close colleague of ours and as well as paul s who s been a colleague and mentor to so many over the years at jackson and at yale. so thank you and over to you arnie. thank you very much ted. it s wonderful to be sharing this session with my colleague and friend professor paul kennedy. now of course here at yale pull doesn t need any introduction. he has been the mentor to many of us who are here to generations o