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
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In washington, d. C. This is an hour. Technology we will talk about today has impacted the political environment in a sway where who knows what further opportunities these technological advances bring. They may transform the Logistics Sector and that is we are interested to learn more about richard whittles research. Equally important, however, is the fact that richard and i have been close personal friends for a little more than 30 years. We have worked together on a number of projects. I am delighted and this is a real privilege i can welcome our author, richard whittle, and you are interested in his work product, and this most recent book on the development of drones. Richard whittle is a global fellow at the wilson center. And a Research Associate at the national air and space museum where we finished writing this book as a fellow during the Academic Year 1314. Richard has written about the military for more than 30 years including 22 as a core correspondent for the dallas morning
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