Chris is a former staff director for the Senate Armed Services committee and the senior policy advisor for senator john mccain and held other positions in the government and right now working privately for those companies that build for Homeland Security thank you for being with us today. Its great to be here. What led you to do this book . On the Armed Services committee as a policy advisor. And that that genesis. Its a great question. But it was two things. These were a product of the many years working on these issues thinking of this stuff on a daytoday basis but the first was the growing realization that we had a problem and that they didnt appreciate to lose competitive advantage and from the operational standpoint but it was mostly the sense there wasnt the urgency to get after that problem and in some respects how far behind the problem we are. So the thinking i had been doing what are we doing about this . And those that are presented by a competitor like china with technology and the importance of the emerging technologies and to enhance americas competitive advantage from a military standpoint there werent concrete answers what do i do with this new technology . And then to operate in different ways to create competitive advantage for the United States military so with a sense talking about these technologies to layer them on top of what we always have ed operated and to living at the nexus from the technological standpoint it with the emergence of these technologies in the operational problems and the discussions with department of defense so my view is there a way to help bridge the divide what it is we think we might do or want to do differently so what will this look like . And that is an attempt to get my head around these problems and here is the contribution to it they look like. Thats how we deal with the problem that pretty much any high tech competitor that the legacy military or change how that has postured with those new technologies to become available. s one thing you are focused on that theyve been around for a few years and changing the way we will fight in terms of the operational context talking about human commanded machine control that makes it seem like them and an unmanned system is on par with one another and if they come back together they will team up again that is not a correct way to characterize or consider Autonomous Systems. How do you think of the new way of operating with the advent of the Autonomous System as an added element . To give credit where credit is due. In encapsulated and with the manned and unmanned that they are equals. And somehow on equal footing and the other piece is there is a tendency to believe the new technologies are fundamentally new and different the way we thought of control of military operations with norms and procedures and the governments are thrown out the window because this is different. Will be much more from that continuum from a brandnew era and it does come back to the question of command and control and it helps to take the system out of it. In the performance of the military task. And you will still have superior actors controlling subordinate actors. And them to go get those subordinates. And with those more mundane and repetitive tasks that take time in the military right now with tens of thousands of humans that are processing information as one example. Meant to be a more intelligent and autonomous machine