Lot of strength about 4. 7 percent what the typical place weve strengthened the cities and strengthened the financial and professional services weve got 60 percent of jobs in the local industries in the city that are a size typically in the United States the sector of our economy is the weakest performing were losing jobs in a typical city of our size would have the relative performances that is a key finding i think in the study goes a long way for the demographics of San Francisco the way it does that the type of jobs it supports in job i apologize for the jair in the corner what we wanted to look at was for each industries how do the jobs line up in terms of the education that you need to work in the industry or the employees in that industry typically have and how much do necessary pay one the key finding the industries that are doing well in San Francisco the creativity cluster and the other clusters either provides high paying scombrobz for people or provide low paying jobs gener
And i think from at least my prospective and the commissions prospective 23 we can identify those miss matches well make bettered informed decisions and being latter soft or strong commissioner richards relations e. R. Mentioned in a comment about market rate housing and whats the balance are we offer ballot things about Office Allocations and the 3 legged stool and the Affordable Housing and job creation im interested to see and the gentleman mentioned the next steps but really where we take this data and digest it now weve got to here and make a plan of action Going Forward to try to bring other groups that have stake and hue to get them on board at least 80 percent to say the r right direction so im curious to hear with the other commissioners say and commissioner antonini. Very interesting report very well done i want to comment when we were talking about how to work with businesses and individuals it help them with their needs its important it is on existing recipe and businesses
General ham let me start with you. Sort of going in proposition with africom in many ways is youre not going to have large amounts of american troops under your command on the ground, if any. Did you feel at times that you were a general in charge of the contractor army . No, not at all. There is a proper role i think for the contractors but theres also a proper role for the uniformed military. Like the other Combatant Commanders and the Service Chiefs i was part of a discussion with the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and secretary of defense that yielded the defense strategic guidance of 20 to which was approved by the president , and conduct with regard to advocate says they will seek a light footprint innovative and it reads lowcost, approach to africa. Not only because i was part of that discussion but i think that is the right approach. I dont think there is a need for a large standing u. S. Uniformed military presence in africa. But there is a role and there are places whe
Author sean mcfate is next on booktv. The associate professor of the National Defense university and former military mercenary talks about the use of mercenaries in wars around the world today. He says we are headed towards a future that will resemble the middle ages hiring mercenaries to fight in wars is the norm. [applause] thank you. Thank you to Atlantic Council for hosting us and thank you for making at out on a less than auspicious weather day. This book is about the return of private military force International Relations today. I wrote this not simply as an International Relations scholar but also as a practitioner that i work for a Company Called dyncorp national for several years in africa and while i was working there i saw many press reports, many think tank reports, a lot of leftwing and rightwing kneejerk reaction to simply did not get what i thought the industry was right. The genesis of writing this book was not in any way a whistleblower book. It was really to paxton s
At the scowcrofts school of diplomacy i think it is called. So there is certainly that. What effect they have had so far is hard to know and i dont explore that but he feels very fortunate to have lived a life a life that he hasnt feels that he has to pass these down and has one daughter, one granddaughter. He is intent on trying to nurture especially at the Aspen Strategy Group the Atlantic Council and getting people and meant touring them. Most of these people are probably still fairly young 40s tops 40s tops with maybe the exception of the hadleys and gates but there is some of that absolutely. Our last question here in the back against the wall. You talked a little bit about how were the conditions that he thought extremism and terrorism sort of come about or i forget the word. Can you talk a little bit about his thoughts on extremism or how it comes about . I did not really talk to him about that. I did not talk about the roots of that. I came one of my concluding comments because