the authors are our guests anthony davies and james harrigan. thanks forbeing on book tv . >> thank you. >> on a weekly author interview program "after words", retired lieutenant colonel wayne phelps offers his views on drone warfare . >> the biggest changes that we've seen with the employment of armed drones is that mental transition occurs on almost a daily basis. there are particularly within the air force for those piloted aircraft as they reach base near las vegas. so that mental transition occurs when you wake up at your house in the morning and then you drive to work, you basically commute to combat and you fly a combat sortie air combat mission on the other side of the planet. you might have to strike during that time and then you're basically transitioning yourself to return home at the end of the day so one of the people that i interviewed talk about this strange feeling that they often referred to as deployed in garrison where your connecting combat operations from home and you're doing these transitions on a daily basis. sometimes wo

. >> james harrigan is a political scientist so between the two of us we have all the bases covered between economics and political science and much ofthe politics that you'll see in the book come from james . >> he's at the university of arizona? >> he is at the university of arizona, he's a professor of political science and he and i have written together 200, 300 and over the past decade. we have a podcast words and numbers and probably several hundred videos on economics, public policy and governance and all of this in an effort to basically publish. whatever age you happen tobe from grade school till retirement . the key to building a more healthy society, to moving all the wonderful things the united states has done and progressing forward into the next generation, the key to it and it sounds trite but true. the key is an educated populace and i don't mean people who can go " shakespeare. i understand how a shared system works. because if they don't, they become fodder for politicians and politicians come along and say a lot to me and i will give you free. and everybody tears and says