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Enclave meteorite his book predator the secret origins of the drug revolution is the book wes are discussing today. Ere he cut his teeth that us a rallied observer and in moving over to defense. I happen to be a fan of hisitteb earlier book called the dream machine and he had written this book predator both of which i wouldar contend are remarkable biographies. A remarkable book. Into mine left the author just recently two weeks ago a received an award of the most outstanding englishlanguage john ford affairs given by Foreign Policy magazine in university of toronto and global affairs. I remember staffer my time at the Naval Academy rating for the Baltimore Sun troyring a number of issues like the breakup of the soviet union in his most recent book is about the assassination so we start with the origins of thears to a technology of the drone warfare in the way andin the lastly that is for thehe drawer where fault warfare that is another tremendous book. A true academic serving as an ad
Im going to start on my immediate right in introducing them. After my introductions, im enclave meteorite his book predator the secret origins of the drug revolution is the book wes are discussing today. Ere he cut his teeth that us a rallied observer and in moving over to defense. I happen to be a fan of hisitteb earlier book called the dream machine and he had written this book predator both of which i wouldar contend are remarkable biographies. A remarkable book. Into mine left the author just recently two weeks ago a received an award of the most outstanding englishlanguage john ford affairs given by Foreign Policy magazine in university of toronto and global affairs. I remember staffer my time at the Naval Academy rating for the Baltimore Sun troyring a number of issues like the breakup of the soviet union in his most recent book is about the assassination so we start with the origins of thears to a technology of the drone warfare in the way andin the lastly that is for thehe draw
Cspan2. Booktv live coverage of the Annapolis Book festival continues. Starting now a panel on drone warfare. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the Annapolis Book festival. We will be Getting Started in just a minute. This is being broadcast on cspan booktv. We ask that you silence yourself and then remain quiet during the discussion. It is my distinct honor to share the stage with these tremendous authors. Im going to start on my immediate right in introducing them. After my introductions, im going to let each of them talk for about ten minutes, then im going to take the power of the chair and ask a few questions and then open up to the audience for questions. On my immediate right is richard whittle. His book, predator the secret origins of the drone revolution, is the book well be discussing today. Richards a career journalist, he cut his teeth at the raleigh news and observer, then on to the Dallas Morning News where he covered defense issues for a numb
She coauthored the smartest guys in the room about the fall of enron, but more important than that, she actually foretold it a few years earlier when she started asking questions, is enron overvalued x is it transparent. Actually, when she says there may be another issue brewing, we probably ought to sit up and listen. To my left, ben strauss, hes written in depth on College Athletics, but hes really dived into the very rich and multidimensional Human Interest stories behind College Athletes and athletes around the world. Actually, hes got my sons dream job. Frankly, my dream job. So its really great to have you here, and thank you pote for coming both for coming to this years Annapolis Book festival. American dream, american greed, you know, its a very provocative title. And i think today were in for a real treat. Were going to try to have a very lively 30minute discussion, and im going to try to leave room for about 10, 15 minutes of audience questions before we break, and we have a