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Me just emphasize that we are at the Wilson Center, the nations nations memorial to 28th president and one of the nations key now Public Policy form here at washington dc. You are add to the washington history seminar, and activity since 2010 we have ten we have jointly sponsored with the National History center. Its represented here by date kennedy comments director and the associate director. Amanda along with pete in the back help us get organized for the sessions sessions that we hope will provide a forum for bringing Historical Context to Public Policy and to invite historical perspective...

Up of a higher percentage of what their call war fighters are warriors and a smaller percentage of people were doing things like logistics. Indeed, largely logistics has been outsourced. Those computer programmers are very few actually relative to the amount that there were in the 1980s were actually still in the military. If you talk to officers who are in logistics they will tell you frankly that they can do very little without military contractors i most of the people they might be supervisors might be contractors. So since the outsourcing there is actually less of a convergence between civ...

Important topics. That is coming up in october. We have a giant delegation, both government and civil society, planning to go. If youre interested, youre all invited. Certainly lots of topics important to us will be discussed. So back to open data and the United States. I mentioned that in 2013, president obama issued an open order eo, executive order, for default information. Accompanying that was the open data policy, which we refer to as m1313 for you government nerds in the room. That directs agencies to manage information as an asset. And of course that doesnt happen overnight, right . Fo...

Waste from brazil reaches the atlantic russia steps up a Bombing Campaign in syria, in what activists call the heaviest strikes since 2011. Its targetting the eastern region. Most of the province, including the capital is held by i. S. I. L. Russias military actions have been so intense na on saturday lebanon rerouted flights over the eastern mediterranean, at moscows request. We are joined from the syrian border. Talk us through what the targets are, hashem ahelbarra. Basically the russian fighter jets and cruise missiles filed from the sea, targeted i. S. I. L. , oil and military installatio...

First ever president ial runoff. The word out of france is that its aircraftcarrier will be operational in the fight against isil monday. The announcement was made a week after the attacks in paris. The nuclear power, Charles Degaulle is the biggest warship of them all in western europe. Planes and helicopters stationed in the eastern side of the mediterranean pretty close to syria. Russias intensifying its bombing campaign, warships in the caspian sea right away across syria. Activists say these strikes some of the heaviest they have been since it all kicked off in syria in 2011. In an interv...