Good morning. Im mark moore, director for the center of military and diplomatic history here csis. We are delighted to host sir Lawrence Freedman this morning. I see some familiar faces as host of new ones which is great. As most of you in this got i think understand well, the idea of forcing the future in principle holds great appeal, so much of what we do in washington in terms of allocating resources, developing capabilities and dividing strategies is based upon our expectations of the military environment of the future. The trouble of course is that prediction is difficult. Some would even say impossible. Of course in reading this trip the book i was reminded of a saint by a chinese philosopher that those of knowledge did not predict, and those who predict did not have knowledge. Philip tadlock, the author of the bestselling book super forecasting contested active prediction is not impossible, at least in the shortterm, but he also emphasized that humans are extremely gullible when
The grounds and exhibits to learn about the lives of escaped slaves, abolitionist, civil war spy and suffragist, Harriet Tubman. Welcome to Harriet Tubmans underground railroad state park. Here we highlight Harriet Tubmans early years. She was born about three miles east of here in the town of madison and spent a lot of time in this area. It was here in this area where she learned the skills that were vital to make her a successful conductor on the underground railroad. Skills such as reading the landscapes, reading the stars, foraging for food, and being comfortable outdoors by herself. I would like to highlight our Visitor Center. This building is lined in cedar which is a reference to her time in the timber fields spent with her father. These last three buildings are lined in zinc. The idea is that after you visit our Visitors Center, your ignorance about Harriet Tubmans life and the underground railroad will fade, as well. We have a vegetative roof on the flat surfaces, you can see
And the academics in the policy community are always behind the curve. They are always behind the curve. Eventually after we really have screwed up, they catch up and by the time we screwed up, they understand how to do things differently but it takes an awful long time to get there. Thats the second third of the book is that story of the developing attempt which a lot of good work is being done to understand intervention and consequences of intervening in how these things can be made of counterinsurgency. The final third of whos next in terms of the threat and tries to address these things have cyberand Autonomous Vehicles and things people really want to look at in the future of war which is really not where words come from, but the book on those wars and the fiction which is one of the threats of the book the good fiction writers have been able to imagine things differently. I always think one of the great advantages in this field, the only chance you get to write about sex. Not in
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