The administration approaches it is often times who want to get the language right. Im not sure there is the same commitment to the policy follow through on the language. You need to set the language so you can set the bar. Abrams is probably the best person i have seen a government being able to set the language in government. What feels to me to be happening is in a lot of cases, theres a lot of focus on exactly what the language is in the policy doesnt always follow to it. A few months ago, in many ways, with the speech on isis. Sure they are doing as well as they need to understanding strategically where they need to go. They had a big middle east policy review and notably, nobody involved was outside the white house and nobody had ever lived in the middle east. Talking about communicating. Youve done a lot of work on this. Juliana has become kind of our expert on jihadist social media. It is amazing how sophisticated they are. Isis has its own media arm. The are behind a lot of sa
The book tells about the privatization of Americas National security and exposes where the industry came from, how it operates and where its heading in the journalist that has been a staff writer at the wall street journal and writing at northwestern and columbia her previous book a wild ride, ransom, beyond the river and savage beast. Please joining me in welcoming her to cramer books. [applause] thank you sarah. Its great to be here. Its especially great to be here because im honored by the presence of another writer on this topic David Isenberg is sitting in the front row and some familiar faces, people ive known for a long time that ive come to this event. The invisible soldiers as sarah said is the story of the privatization of defense and security. Its a narrative Nonfiction Book that is a trajectory telling the story from the mercenary renaissance of the second half of the 20th century into the age of drums. Its basically the story of the rise of a new industry, an industry of m
Vietnam through which he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 and parenthetically the gratitude of this young lieutenant in the United States army. Thank you mistress. Other honors include the president ial medal of freedom, the middle of liberty and the National Book award for history for the first volume of his memoirs in the white house years. His new book world order is a comprehensive analysis of the challenges of Building International order in the world of differing perspectives, violent conflict, Urgent Technology and ideological extremism. You learn about the westphalian peace and be led on a fascinating exploration of european balance of power from charlemagne to the present time. Islam in the middle east, the u. S. And iran, the multiplicity of asia and the continuing development of u. S. Policy. They are often more important than the answers and secretary kissinger has some brilliant one such as what do we seek to prevent no matter how it happens and even if we have to do it a
Wasnt mentioned tonight. And i wonder where can we learn how to be better statesman unaware is statesmanship being talked anyplace in the country that you can sit on as fulfilling that role that was developed in your own writing over the years that reflected on this book. Thats a very important question because statesmanship consists of helping to lead your society from where it is to where it hasnt been switched me the combination of courage and character and above all since the trends of the period our society is extremely pragmatic and continuous problemsolving rather than the reflection of the historical revolution as its principal objective. There are two other obstacles were two other problems we face. Our process is getting so complicated and so expensive that leaders have to spend so much of their time on the process and raising money and answering questions on Television Shows that there isnt enough time to reflect about the direction of the future. If you look in the 19th cen
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