and nawua al dasari, director of partners for democratic change in yemen. to my right, admiral steverides and johanna mendelssohn, former senior associate at the center for strategic and international studies. admiral steverides, i loved that picture of the hospital ship in quarinto. in the 1980s we were mining, now we're sending hospital ships there. it was a lovely distillation of change that we've asked our military to make in the post-cold war generation. have you had to take on skills as a fighting force that really you weren't taught much about in academy? >> exactly right, ray. and i think the force has adapted fairly well to this. we are always working hard to try and improve our ability to work across the spectrum of activity from, as we talked about in that last slide, from the hospital ship, which is sort of a pure example of soft power, to our occasional and significant role in combat. the key is to move across the spectrum and take on intelligence information, security, logistics, the medical piece we talked about. another thing militaries can