especially great to be here because i am honored by the presence of another writer on this topic, david eisenberg is sitting in the front row and familiar faces of people i have known for a long time and came to this event. the -- "the invisible soldiers: how america outsourced our security" is the story of the privatisation of defense and security. a narrative nonfiction book that is a trajectory telling the story from the mercenary renaissance of the second half of the 20th century in to the age of drones. basically the story of a rise of a new industry, an industry of military in security companies, corporate evolution of the mercenary trade but as i have been saying on the road the word mercenary is loaded and i try from the very beginning to be raise it from the discussion because a mercenary has to be defined as an individual, a hired gun. it conjures the rather unsavory image involved in mercenaries in colonial conflicts. not that they don't exist anymore but to called these companies and this industry that you will read about in "the invisible soldiers: how america outsourced our security

i would say, david eisenberg who has been following this, says we are at an important crossroads at thisoint in terms of monitoring and transparency. we have a chance to going forward into new contingency operations. this is a moment in time that future historians might look back and say they should have learned a lesson in iraq and the turning point was 2014-15. >> we have to end it now. [applause] >> thank you. thank you very much. thank you for coming. >> i think we can all be grateful we have the facts so come up and support your independent bookstore so thank you and again. >> keep the bookstore alive. >> thank you. .. >> as well as books about the secrt service and the first family, feminism in the united states, confederate general stonewall jackson and much more. and for more information on this weekend's

especially great to be here because i'm honored by the presence of another writer on this topic, david eisenberg, who is in the front row, and some familiar faces who people i've known for a long time who have come to this event. "invisible soldiers" is the story of the privatization of defense and security. it's narrative nonfiction book that is a trajectory, telling the story from the mercenary renaissance of the second half of the 20th century, into the age of drones. it's basically the story of the rise of a new industry. an industry of military and security companies. some refer to this as the corporate evolution of the mercenary trade buts a i've been saying on the road, the word "mercenary" is loaded and i try from the very beginning to erase it from the discussion because a mercenary really has to be defined as an individual, a hired gun, it conjures the rather unsavory image involved in -- of old world mercenaries involved in post colonial, neocolonial conflicts and it's not that they don't exist anymore, but to call these companies and this industry that i'm telling you about, that you

there is i would say and david eisenberger who has been following me since they early 1990s i would say we are in a crossing point in terms of transparency. we have a chance going forward into a new contingency operation. this is a moment in time. historians might look back and say okay they should have learned x, y and z in iraq and the turning point across the 2014 and 2015. yeah. .. [applause] >> this weekend on the c-span networks, saturday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern, a town hall meeting on the media coverage of events and ferguson, missouri at the state university in st. louis. sunday evening at 8:00 p.m. on q&a, saturday night on "after words", commentator jake helprin and sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern, the 2014 southern festival of books and saturday night at a clock, on american history tv on c-span3, the life and legacy of this author. then, readiness operations between the u.s. and iran when the two countries were allies. funner television schedule a that c-span.org. send us a tweet or a message on facebook. join the conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> jo

david eisenberger who has been following since the early to mid '90s i would say we are as at an important crossroads at this point. we have a chance going forward into the new contingency operations base is a time that history in spite of look back and say we should have learned the lesson in iraq and the turning point was 2014 and 2015. >> we have to end it there. thank you so much. >> thank you for coming. we can all be grateful so i hope that you will come up and get a book and support your independent bookstore and author. thank you for coming. >> feed the author and keep the bookstore of life. [applause] >> author and speaker expert joan biskupic talks with the politics of court nominations and decisions and the justices whose lives she's explored. the former correspondent for congressional early, usa today and the "washington post" has written three biographies including saturday but o'connor and the 2014 release on justice so to -- sotomayor, "breaking into the >> host: joan biskupic in the recent book the rise of sonja sotomayor in politics of justice you will did someone is did s