i'm john hamry here at csis welcome and thank you to all of you for coming. i feel like that groundhog movie, woken up again and here we are. this has been promised for several years, but it looks like now we're there, and the question is, are we going to do it better this time than we did the last time? you know of course everybody says we won't do that again, or are we going to make the same mistakes all over again. it isn't that people choose to make mistakes. it's that the dynamic that governs all of the complex actions that brings several hundred thousand people together to make choices, produces outcomes, and the question is, can we, with thought and direction, and intelligence, supersede that. and we're at the front end of trying to think that through. we need to think that through with all of you. we saw the first kind of details here yesterday. lots more yet to unfold. i think we're really just on the front end of this. we do see the large central direction, large central direction where this is heading, and it is grounded in strategy that i think ha