it is true to the current time you don't really have resources you depend on eucom for almost everything. is that correct? >> we've got a little more resources in the last year and a half to include a special forces commanders for and we've also got a couple of neighbor forces. we also do compound a lot of yukon capacity. >> i think you do. other things that like the al ra specifically. you inherit resources to help put up the powers. however, with the the restructuring, the european infrastructure consolidation, are you concerned about how that might effect what resources may be available when called upon? >> right now from the european infrastructure consolidation most of the news from the south and east to help the awesomeness of eucom forces it poured centcom and africom. the ones that got a knack that i agree with, air. >> i don't know where you were when we put together before that in three different commands and eucom nhs centcom. that was a wise thing to do. we were all promoting the year that it should actually be -- the cotton and is so huge. we and what happened politically at

. >> eucom onto this and other programs at booktv.org. >> booktv on c-span2 continues. forty-eight hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. next allison hobbs examines the lives of african-americans who chose to pass as white between 18th and 19th centuries. she reports on the political and social ramifications which included greater rights and opportunities and also isolation and disregard from the greater african-american community. >> our topic for today is a chosen exile. by allison hobbs. she is an assistant professor in the history department at stanford university and she graduated from harvard university magna cum laude and received a phd with distinction from the university of chicago. she has received fellowships from the ford foundation and the institute for general research and the center for comparative study of race and ethnicity at stanford. she teaches courses on american identity and african-american history, women's history and 20th century history. she has won numerous awards including the teacher award for phi beta kappa and she gave a ta