In washington dc, this is one hour. October 10 we will have the victory. Illusions of coat the future of war, a history. The historye have of the foreign interference in elections. If you are not on our mailing list, it can sign up for it on our website. History isvirtues of that it provides us with rich contextual understanding. If you study a country for years as historians do, you learn how individuals and groups interact you way that otherwise would not understand fully. You would understand how peoples views of their own history shapes their worldview. You find out how these countries are different from others. Problems withding our recent interventions is we did not pay enough attention to history. With the iraq war, people talked about how we could democratize iraq because we democratized indonesia. He studied the history of those countries, you would know they are quite different. We need to be careful. We saw similar problems but we went into libya in 2011. There was not the f
Were going to get started here. Thank you all for joining us. I am mark moyar, the director of the project on military and diplomatic history here at csis. We formed this center last year to help inform both the policy world and also the public on how history can help us understand current Foreign Policy issues. And we would like to especially promote historians who also do work in the policy world, and that includes our speaker today. And we also would like to promote interaction between historians and policy experts, and we have one of our own csis policy experts today, alice friend, who ill introduce later in the event. Ill give you a couple other events coming up for those who may be interested. We have october 10th, were going to have carter malcasen talking about his book, illusions of victory, the anbar awakening and the rise of the islamic state. On october 18th, well have Lawrence Friedman on his book, the future of war, a history. And october 24th, we have Calder Walton talki
Well, brad and i do our weekly blog together every week and we were hearing from a lot of customer i wasnt here that day. Was in new york, but we were hearing from customers, from our staff, people were worried issue would say, just about what this change was going mean, to a lot of what this book store stands for. So justing so just intended to acknowledge that and hear what we were hearing to hear and acknowledge what we heard from customers, from others in our community. Brad graham, what chose to book store stand for . It stands for the things that many independent book stores stand for. Can be sum up as a third place. A place that people can come to in digs do in addition to home and office, kind of refuge, place to connect with other people and a place to shop and browse for books. Do you have a political point of view here in the store . We try not to exhibit one. We say that were open to all different point of view. I mean, because we present ourselves as a kind of forum for th
Lissa muscatine, coowner of politics and prose, on november 9, you posted for the many politics and prose customers who expected and were looking forward to the election of Hillary Clinton why was that up on your blog post . Brett and i do a weekly blog together every week, and we were hearing from a lot of customers. I was and who the. I was in new york, but we were hearing from a lot of customers, we were hearing from our staff. People were worried i would suggest about what the change would mean to a lot of what this bookstore stands for. It was really just intended to acknowledge that and to hear what we were hearing come to hear an adult what we were hearing from customers come from others in our community. Brad kram, what does this bookstore stands for . It stands for the things that mean independent bookstore stands for. They can be summed up as a kind of third place. That is, a place that people can come to in addition to home and office, a kind of refuge, a place where they ca
Which iran denies any involvement whatsoever. President trump seems skeptical about the intent of the overnight strike, moving away from accusations that this was an act of war. Iran made a big mistake. This drone was in International Waters. Clearly we have in all documented. Its documented scientifically, not just words. I find it hard to believe it was intentional, if you want to know the truth. I think that it couldve been somebody who was loose and stupid that did it. But well be able to report back, and youll understand exactly what happened, but it was a very foolish move. And another big story we are watching right now, markets and oil prices, lets take a look at the markets as we enter the final hour of trading. The dow is closing in on record territory at lets go back to the big screen for a second, please. Lets go back to the big dow board. Lets go back to that big dow board. There we go. The dow is at 26,718. It is looking at last record close was october the 3rd, 26,828. N