Up next sean mcfate and associate professor at the National Defense university and former mercenary talks about the use of mercenaries in ports around the world today. He says we are headed toward a future that will resemble the middle ages by hiring mercenaries to fight in wars was the norm. Thank you for hosting us and thank you for making it out today on a less than auspicious weather day. This book is about the return of private military force in International Relations today and i wrote this not simply as an International Scholar but also as a practitioner. I work for a Company Called national for several years in africa and i saw while i was working there many press reports, many think tank reports reports, a lot of leftwing and rightwing kneejerk reactions that simply did not get what i thought the industry right. So the genesis of writing this book was not in any way a whistleblower etc. Book it was to pass salience around the clinical issue. That is the origins of why wrote th
I unfortunately have to bring this to a close now but you can join us afterwards for conversation and a reception outside of this room. The book is available for purchase and i suspect citing as well. I would invite you all to come back next week when Heather Cox Richardson of Boston College will be speaking on march 2 on her new book to make men free a history of the republican party. My thanks to our audience and thanks to professor spero for a very engaging talk. [applause] thank you. With congress on their spring recess this week we are featuring booktv in primetime. Heres a look at whats ahead. Next well look at the use of mercenaries in wars around the world today followed by former navy s. E. A. L. Sniper and iraq war veteran scott taylor on his book trust the trade and later the biography of former National Security adviser brent scowcroft. Thank you peter Atlantic Council for hosting this and thank you for making it out today on a less than auspicious weather day. This book is
National Defense University and former military mercenary talks about the use of mercenaries in wars around the world today. He says that were headed toward a future that will resemble the middle ages when hiring mercenaries to fight in wars was the norm. Thank you peter. Thank you to the Atlantic Council for hosting this and thank you for making it out today on a less than auspicious weather day. This book is about the return of private military force in International Relations today. And i wrote this not simply as an International Relations scholar, but also as a practitioner. I worked for a company for several years in africa, and i saw while i was working there many press reports many think tank reports, a lot of leftwing and rightwing knee jerk reactions that simply did not get what i thought was right. So the genesis around this book was not in any way a whistleblower book etc. , it was really to pack some salience around a very policemen call issue. Polemical issue. I want to so
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Regulatorss ability to adapt and strengthen protections for consumers. Otherwise, well limit regulatorss ability to keep up with Technology Change and reserve a private right of action for consumers and for Financial Institutions to ensure that affected entities and breach victims have further recourse. Further, consumers must be consistently provided with clear disclosures of the rights and remedies available to them so they are aware of the various ways in which they can protect themselves from Identity Theft and fraud and other cyber crimes. Mr. Chairman efforts to guard against Cyber Threats are critically important and shouldnt deval of into the same partisan fault lines seen on far too many other issues before this committee such as the basis attacks on watchdogs like the cfpd and blocking efforts to reauthorize the charter of the import export bank that expires in 22 legislative days. With that, i look forward to hearing from the witnesses today, and i yield back the balance of