Good afternoon. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation and to our auditorium. Please welcome those are joining us on all of these occasions honor heritage. Org website, for those inside in the house. Please make sure cell phones are turned off. We will post the Program Within 24 hours honor heritage home page for your further reference as well. Hosting where the debate is doctor bucci, director of our center for Foreign Policy studies. He previously served heritage a Senior Research fellow for defense and homeland security. Is wellversed in the special Area Operations and cybersecurity areas as well as defense support to civil authorities. He served for three decades as an Army Special Forces officer in july 2001 coming assume the duties of military assistance to secretary rumsfeld and worked daily with the secretary for the next five and a half years, and then upon retirement from the army continued at the pentagon is Deputy Assistant secretary of defense, homeland defense, and America Se
After that we will open up for q a. You will see one fixed microphone there and another vocal microphone for the site of the house. If you wish to join q a, get up and stand behind the microphone. We have to do it this way because they are so mobile is for recording cspan and we do want your questions and answers to be an integral part of this broadcast. So there we go. Without further ado, ill begin my brief introduction. So heres the book. There we go. For those of you who know peter, you know this is unusual. Peter tends to write short books. You think to yourself, this is serious. Im not going to get into the details. Im going to see general things about the book at the first one is this book marks Peter Andreas thugs at because its wellwritten and is actually enjoyable. Its quite readable and clear and utterly devoid of jargon and it contains a powerful political message. The second reason to like this book is that it is not devoid of theoretical hats, pretension. Tijuana sociolog
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