We, of course, welcome those who will join us on cspan booktv in the future. For those watching online, youre welcome to send questions or comments simply emailing us at speaker heritage. Org and, of course, we will post the program on our heritage home page for your future reference as well. Welcoming our guest today and leading our program is dakota woods, Senior Research fellow in our center for national defense. Mr. Woods served in the u. S. Marine corps as well as in an assignment in the office of net assessment. Upon retirement, he helped organize the national bio surveillance integration system. For five years he served as senior fellow at the center for strategic and budget tear assessments budgetary assessments. Please join me in welcoming dakota wood. Dakota . [applause] thank you, jon. Its a real pleasure to have you all here, but to have dr. Crane all the way down from carlisle where he took the hyperloop, was that it . The fastest run hes ever made to d. C. , so were glad