were in their height, the number of private security contractors outnumbered the us troops. how did that come to be? again, i think we are like that one of the unintended consequences of relying on the all volunteer force and allowing the country to slide into a condition of permanent war. we ended up with too much work, too few warriors and so policymakers and the pentagon turned to the notion of defense contractors to try to fill the gap. at a very high cost. at a very high cost and i would argue with little evidence that they that they were worth the money. i know you re going to stay around and sign some books i want to thank you, colonel, professor,. you know, we barely scratched the surface of this book, so i really encourage you to pick up a copy and you will have a very in-depth although somewhat pessimistic understanding of the wars of the middle east. thanks again. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] this is book tv on c-span 2, television fo
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the afghan government can stand up and be the ones that take care of things in afghanistan. i just want to add something to love this. when i saw the book, mrs. bush, i am honored as always to be around you and i m thankful to the u.s. afghan women s council s. they have done an incredible job. when i saw the book, it reminded me, took me back 14 years ago. i want to read something to you. the honorable mrs. bush, i would like to thank you on behalf of afghan men and women for all the work you have supported and the care you have given the afghan women and children. you even went to pyongyang. i went to those days. i gave my first speech in chicago in 2004. 400 americans is as men and women have had to convince many leaders with my speech to believe in afghan women capacity and to fund for the project. after a long speech, i ended with the following sentence with a lot of hope. this is what the afghan woman says. still after her pain she says i feel like the thunder, the da
terrific book on the end of the cold war, the triumph of improvisation. james also works for the state department, the historical office. and he s actually a leader of a team working on ukrainian-russian crisis. so he did not feel comfortable leaving that to come up. we should feel comfortable that he s at work, solving international crises while we figure out what s missing from the historiography. but in any event, we all missed having james here. with that, let me thank our panelists who are wonderful. i really want to thank them, because i had insisted they speak for 10 to 12 minutes each. fortunately, as is my life, they ignored me completely, and i think we all benefited from it tremendously. so thanks very much. this weekend on the c-span networks. friday night on c-span, native american history. then on saturday, live all day coverage from the national book festival science pavilion. saturday evening from bbc scotland, a debate on scotland s upcoming decision on wheth