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Were going to get started here. Thank you all for joining us. I am mark moyar, the director of the project on military and diplomatic history here at csis. We formed this center last year to help inform both the policy world and also the public on how history can help us understand current Foreign Policy issues. And we would like to especially promote historians who also do work in the policy world, and that includes our speaker today. And we also would like to promote interaction between historians and policy experts, and we have one of our own csis policy experts today, alice friend, who ill...

We like to promote interaction between policy experts and we have one of our own policy experts here today. Ill give you a couple of other events coming up for those who may be interested. October 10th well have him talk about his book, illusions of victory and the rise of the islamic state. October 18th well have lawrence freedman, the future of war, a history. October 24th talking about the history of foreign interference and elections. If youre not already on our mailing list you can sign up for it on our web site. One of the virtues of history is that it provides us with rich understanding...