Welcome. I want to thank you for joining us today. I am cliff may, fdd founder and president and we are pleased to have you here today joining us this event, cohosted with the center for new american security. To mark the release of Michael Gordon excellent new book degrade destroy. Because michael has had exceptional access to top u. S. Officials and military commanders and because of his extraordinary firsthand reporting from battlefields hes produced a must read book on this historic conflict. We were very proud to have michael with us inhouse at fdd while he was working on the book and we understand you also spent time at cns during the same. Are all happy to see it on the shelves today. Its available for purchase all major booksellers, online info that you here in person in the back of the room at the conclusion of todaysen events. Michael gordon currently serves as as a National Security correspondent for the wall street journal. In addition to his latest book he is the coauthor
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