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Author sean mcfate is next on booktv. The associate professor of the National Defense university and former military mercenary talks about the use of mercenaries in wars around the world today. He says we are headed towards a future that will resemble the middle ages hiring mercenaries to fight in wars is the norm. [applause] thank you. Thank you to Atlantic Council for hosting us and thank you for making at out on a less than auspicious weather day. This book is about the return of private military force International Relations today. I wrote this not simply as an International Relations scho...

Leadership that we quite often consider quite acceptable because they are usually quite effective. They create the kind of units that perform according to the standards at the end of the day. Why should we fire them if theyre effective as officers. While actually they are producing unit cultures that in the end may become really problematic. Some experiences with the worst cases of units misbehavior leading to crimes or war crimes, for example. We have the business literature out there supporting us more and more. That doesnt mean so much, though. Because, again we are looking at combat that d...

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Try to keep any kind of evaluation out of this. So the marine corps has done a bunch of different studies and research. They began with a actually, they began with the infantry officer course which they opened to women in 2012 and asked for volunteers. Women, if you want to come to try out the infantry officer course, youre invited to attend. At the same time that they were doing that, they also began developing a set of combat proxy tests. The combat proxy test, they were six largely upper body based i should say Upper Body Strength based proxy tests that they evaluated the performance of 409...

There are a few here who are from there as well. Its hard to listen to you talk about ashley. I see people getting emotional in the audience. And im like hold it together. I did the vso mission. I would now start with you because youre most recent and then i would just work out. What attracted you to the mission and who first told you about it . Initially i heard about it with cst2 was the first time i heard about it. And i had wanted to go then and my commander wouldnt let me and my commanders wouldnt let me and it was just because you needed lets explain to the audience. You needed to get be...