and a special thanks to arcade publishing, publisher, my agent keith cornyn, to the wonderful vero beach book center which people should come from all over florida to this to replace, especially if they want to buy a copy. [laughter] and obviously a special thanks to my wife for putting up with all of this. thank you so much. have a great evening. [applause] to learn more about prioleau alexander, visit his web site at www.southernfriedwriter.com. >>> the author of armed humanitarian is the rise of the nation builders. mr. hodge, defined nation-building. >> it's one of those tricky terms nobody ever really wants to own a and that's one of the reasons i chose to write about it. i'm not using it as a political science to the development sense. using the replete george tebeau bush, barack obama or david petraeus would have used it was just describing the kind of mission of armed nation building but we are involved in that sort of been described in ways as the armed social work and i am trying to describe the phenomenon to the reader that might have this idea that when they look at the news