as the revolution in military affairs, and you were discussing the cover letter that our boss, andrew marshall, would sign to disseminate it. and you told the story in a couple of books, so i'm not disclosing anything. i was then working on what is china's grand strategy. and we realized we didn't have any books by chinese strategic thinkers, and that led to a major effort which today is more than a hundred books on chinese strategic thinking. but in the military sphere if you press me on what exactly would they do to counter whatever the u.s. is doing, to counter their at/ad, our word not theirs, they're playing a bigger game. they know they have a trillion dollars to spend for defense over the coming decade. there's a study by the rand corporation that derives that number. and that we are going to be trimming our defense budget by about a trillion dollars during that same period. if the budget control act is not changed. so in that pattern, they are thinking more on a global basis. a lot of china experts used to swear, on a bible as it were, that china will never develop two things because i