so to my immediate left is gregg brazinsky, who is professor of history and international affairs at george washington university, a historian, u.s. and east asian relations, east asian international history. he's the author of winning the third world and nation building in south korea. steven casey is professor of international history at london school of economics and political science. he's a professor of foreign policy and the author of several, including selling the korean war and when soldiers fall how americans have divided combat casualties world war one to the war on terror. marielle dusek is the asa griggs candler of law at emory university, a leading scholar of legal history in the united states in the world is the author of wartime an idea its history and its consequences and her next going to war an american history is under contract with oxford university and is very eagerly anticipated by some of us in this room. so as a saw, as a historian, i'll for myself as a historian, i like to start at beginning. and if we start at the beginning, maybe we could talk and today wit