Up of a higher percentage of what their call war fighters are warriors and a smaller percentage of people were doing things like logistics. Indeed, largely logistics has been outsourced. Those computer programmers are very few actually relative to the amount that there were in the 1980s were actually still in the military. If you talk to officers who are in logistics they will tell you frankly that they can do very little without military contractors i most of the people they might be supervisors might be contractors. So since the outsourcing there is actually less of a convergence between civilian employment and military service. We are running out of time so lets take two final questions. In the back the blue sweater and then to want to take the final question. Verse the lady in the blue sweater. You didnt have a question . Actually couple of couple points, it seems, im with the American Museum of american history, very briefly unfortunately, one is that the historical depth of your
And through a variety of other things. Today i see the echoes of it and the emphasis on resilience. So we could talk more about that because i think we are running out of time, i think it is a very important theme in military social welfare. On that note we have to draw this to a close, the conversations can continue at a reception afterwards. Please note that the book is available outside for purchase. Please please join us next week for our final session of this years washington seminar with albert jones of Saint Anthony college talks about crimes against the security of the nation, world war ii the cold war and the evolution of mexicos laws. Thank you thank you to our audience, thank you to jennifer [applause]. Thank you. [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] on capitol hill tomorrow the Senate Judiciary committee looks at the balance between national security, privacy, privacy, and Civil Liberties in a hearing on the intelligence act. Thats life
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Overturn the democratic legislatures. Host anna harvey, professor of politics at New York University and the author of this book, a mere machine the supreme court, congress, and american democracy. Thank you. Guest thank you. Next we talk to patrick egan about this book partisan priorities in new york city. In the book professor eagan looks at the issues that the majority of americans agree with better handled by one party or the other and discuss what this means for politics. This is about 20 minutes. Host patrick egan, what do you teach at New York University . Guest i am in the Politics Department in the wagoner school. Host what classes do you teach . Guest i am on sabbatical which is a professors joy. But we do love our students. I teach Public Opinion courses and Qualitative Analysis to our ph d students. Host what is Qualitative Analysis . Guest is is numerical analysis of politics. Host what do you do an a sabbatical . Guest you write another book. Or that is one of the things