mark moyar as director for the diplomatic -- in washington d.c.. he has served as professor at the u.s. marine corps university and a senior fellow at the joint special operations university. he has advised the senior leadership of several military commands as well. he has a b.a.'s chromosome lot and the b.a. from cambridge. in addition to the book we are talking about today he has written a number of other works including building partner relations and partners are capital which i read in grad school. how president obama strong warfare and -- a question of command civil war to iraq triumph forsaken the vietnam war 1954 to 1965 and phoenix in the birth of prey counterinsurgency and counterterrorism and get him and without i look forward to your discussion and i will turn it over to you. [applause] >> thank you very much daniel for that kind introduction and thank you john for inviting me here to be back at the heritage foundation. i'm going to talk about this book a little bit. i can't cover the whole thing in this presentation but i'm going to hit

our author mark moyar is director of the center for military and diplomatic history here in washingtonand he has served as professor at the us marine corps university and a senior fellow at the joint special operations university. he has advised the senior leadership of several us military commands as well. he holds a ba, summa complot from harvard and a phd from cambridge. in addition to the book that we are talking about today he also wrote a number of other words including: building partner nations and ending poverty through human capital that i read in grad school, strategic failure how president obama is a drone warfare defense cuts and military amateurism have imperiled america, a question of command counterinsurgency from the civil war to a rack, triumph forsaken the vietnam war, 1965 and phoenix and the birds of prey. with that said, i look forward to your discussion and i'll turn it over to you doctor randy carmack. >> thanks for that kind introduction. and thanks for inviting me here. it's great to be back at the heritage foundation. i will talk about the book a little bit, i