And drop his las vegas show facade. Vinny how we doing, guys . Im the coconut man. Ukulele and the hat and the coat and the beads. Hey, its not just some schtick. Lemonis are you aware that some people see it as that . Im marcus lemonis, and i risk my own money to help businesses. I love investing in american businesses. These people are here because they care. Its not always easy, but i do it to create jobs, and i do it to make money. Do we have a deal . Vinny we have a deal. Lemonis lets rock and roll. Man yeah lemonis this is the profit. Vinny fresh coconut we got fresh coconuts right here lemonis in 2016, Vinny Zaldivar launched cocotaps, pioneering a new way to get the juice out of a coconut. Its extremely popular with the las vegas vacation crowd, including me. Vinny open it. Drink it. Its really good for you. Lemonis but i want to see if this is a product that will appeal to the mass market. The coconutwater craze is huge, and if i can tap into this, well, i can make a ton of mo
Discussion will be at the end. So please write down any thoughts you have, questions, responses, that would be good. The jazz age, the period from 1919 to 1929 reminds me of the opening lines of a tale of two cities by charles dickens. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Well, it wasnt exactly the best of times, but for many people it was certainly good times. It was a great age of literature, of the golden age of sports, music, jazz. The 19th amendment to the constitution, which allowed women to vote in National Elections for the first time, radio was becoming popular. It was the early days of hollywood and certainly the age of the automobile, the model t. And automobiles were for almost every budget. Those are the good times, which we will discuss, and it wasnt exactly the worst of times, although there were some very bad times. And the failures of that decade led to the worldwide depression in the 1930s and helped the rise of fascism in europe. So lets begin with ta
And drop his las vegas show facade. Vinny how we doing, guys . Im the coconut man. Ukulele and the hat and the coat and the beads. Hey, its not just some schtick. Lemonis are you aware that some people see it as that . Im marcus lemonis, and i risk my own money to help businesses. I love investing in american businesses. These people are here because they care. Its not always easy, but i do it to create jobs, and i do it to make money. Do we have a deal . Vinny we have a deal. Lemonis lets rock and roll. Man yeah lemonis this is the profit. Vinny fresh coconut we got fresh coconuts right here lemonis in 2016, Vinny Zaldivar launched cocotaps, pioneering a new way to get the juice out of a coconut. Its extremely popular with the las vegas vacation crowd, including me. Vinny open it. Drink it. Its really good for you. Lemonis but i want to see if this is a product that will appeal to the mass market. The coconutwater craze is huge, and if i can tap into this, well, i can make a ton of mo
And drop his las vegas show facade. Vinny how we doing, guys . Im the coconut man. Ukulele and the hat and the coat and the beads. Hey, its not just some schtick. Lemonis are you aware that some people see it as that . Im marcus lemonis, and i risk my own money to help businesses. I love investing in american businesses. These people are here because they care. Its not always easy, but i do it to create jobs, and i do it to make money. Do we have a deal . Vinny we have a deal. Lemonis lets rock and roll. Man yeah lemonis this is the profit. Vinny fresh coconut we got fresh coconuts right here lemonis in 2016, Vinny Zaldivar launched cocotaps, pioneering a new way to get the juice out of a coconut. Its extremely popular with the las vegas vacation crowd, including me. Vinny open it. Drink it. Its really good for you. Lemonis but i want to see if this is a product that will appeal to the mass market. The coconutwater craze is huge, and if i can tap into this, well, i can make a ton of mo
A fellow here at hudson and a director for center of american seapower. I hope you have a monograph, the subject of our discussion today. And if you do not, i believe we still have copies at the front desk. By all means, pick up a copy on your way out. We are very fortunate to have with us today, brian graff, this man, my friend and coauthor was also a retired naval officer, formal Deputy Director for american seapower. A prolific writer and also managing director, its a National Security and defense consultancy. Its also a pleasure to welcome david, this man. Also a retired naval officer and defensive uses best writer. I will offer some thoughts based on our monograph. Brian will follow. Then the three of us will discuss, we will conclude with questions and some answers. To the untrained eye, modern military Technology May seem to have eliminated the thought of war that defined premodern battlefields. Victory in historic conflicts relied on the coincidence of skill and luck. The great