Soldiers armies bombs. And this discusses non kinetic forms of warfare do you think the media and society as a whole has an awareness of the importance of permission warfare and use of media and influence operation campaigns or as part of the goal of the book to raise Awareness Among the public. This is the point i make in the book. We are under and in flirt information assault. They are largely in the dark. That includes our government as well as the public at large. As you might recall in a recent hearing that you are the chair of one of the witnesses testified about the russians in their propaganda outlet in an official told them they would have no audience in the United States if the u. S. Media were doing its job properly. In a sense what has traditionally been the role of the American Media that is to provide both education and information has really fallen off. Right now were seen a politicization of the media into general liberal and conservative camps. And they are not really