here to talk about this new book is major mark barkwart. welcome to the show. i want to say all the proceeds go to the fisher house, a very worthy charity. >> it does, correct. >> most captains don't write books like this. why did you write it? >> at the time it was me and a friend of mine. he was at the time a observer/controller and er/control evaluating units that were about to go to iraq. at the time i was a company commander and third id in fort stewart. we were both talking on a daily basis. he was talking about some units more prepared than others. i had just gotten a group of new lieutenants. i was trying to figure out a way to teach them how to do counterinsurgency. i remember we had read the book "the defense of duffer's drift" as lieutenants. through a series of six dreams, at the end of it he learns how to fight the mission correctly. we figured it was a good backdrop to be able to develop a lesson for counterinsurgency. that is how we kind of came up with the idea and created the new book. >> in hindsight, how well prepared were you before you were