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Made the case, the leadership case for more defense spending in reaction to, i think, a world of rising threats. The pentagons making the case that they need to tread water. Theyre not increasing. Is there anything we can do, the members of the electorate, people in different districts congressional districts, senatorial districts . Can we make any difference or are we just having the conversation so we can educate people for the next administration in is there something we can do right now . I ...

Would create a diplomatic relations and that was the original purpose in the book. No one believed including my publisher thank you dan simon, i started to doubt it myself. When it happened i had to rearrange the book and i was fortunate to update it. Its arts with a detailed account of how it happened on december 17th, the beginning of normalization. The rest of the book is about the preceding 55 years or 60 years and i interviewed for many hours a former leader of the cuban revolution and gove...

He dies under robert elys command and this is a devastating a devastating impact. He feels this loss very sharply. I am just curious how do they compare with characters today in washington . [laughter]. So i think he would find that interesting and i will take a pass on the question because it is just too hard because the civil war is just the meet period we can all agree that the country never has to undergo that again thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] ho...

Army special Operation Commands. Its a program that puts women on the battlefield to conduct culturally Sensitive Missions in afghanistan that require contact with women and children. Despite men being officially banned from combat. Hello, good evening. Welcome to book passage in san francisco. I want to thank you for coming out tonight to support independent book writers and independent thinking. I also want to thank i were cspan viewers so know that you are on camera as were taping tonight. As...

But also a lot of times we miss that and for things to go back to normal we need to talk about them and every time i speak about this in the Community Setting the families come out and talk about it in a way it gives us a sense of getting this off our chest because there are many around today that lost loved ones at the time but never spoke about it and now they have an avenue to talk about it. So this is Reagan Arthur and bonnie is a fabulous agent of bonnie the hill. U take due to take over . ...

Zealot as an atheist. And we just had so much time just joshing around like this. And same with all of this so yeah, i really got on with everybody, and i heard from quite a new people including admiral nora tyson saying how much she liked the book. And apart from the person who said i was creepy [laughter] anything ive heard has been really quite positive. And not i mean, the thing is about the book that its, you know, really, you know when im making a fuss about not liking the food, you know i...

People will live differently and work differently in the future so i hope we can get the national will to have the conversation to make this optimistic scenario come true. Host well lets move in with this book we will. Thank you dr. Cancer. Just go thank you very much secretary slater. You are watching booktv, 48 hours of authors and books every weekend. Next, gayle lemmon talks about the operation commenced Cultural Support Teams. Its a program that puts women on the battlefield to conduct cult...

Next up five talks about the special Operations Commands Cultural Support Teams. Its a program that puts women on the battlefield to conduct culturally Sensitive Missions in afghanistan that require contact with women and children despite women being officially banned from combat. Hello. Good evening. Welcome to book passage in san franciscos historic ferry building. I want to thank you all for coming out tonight to support independent bookstores and independent thinking. I also want to thank ou...

Try to think about how we can structure ourselves in a way that wourld be most e fisht going forward. And to try to project where were going to adequately respond. Thank you, chairman. I look forward to members of this committee to look forward to make sure that were set p properly to deal with this threat. Thank you, chairman. But before i asked the questions, just to thank you for your appearance today. And members to submit those questions and have those back before we go on the agenda. And i...

Exercise that kind of intellectual leadership on technological questions that deal with future threat. I think its part san that the pentagon is much larger. It has ever service dealing with new dock frin. I dont think congress is that inclined to challenge fundamentally the kind of weapon 178 that Defense Department proposes. I think you know, congress clearly does say we dont like certain things. But its often at the margin. We dont want this, we do want that. Its too early to cut the a10. Im ...