please give a warm welcome to robert latiff. [applause] >> let me thank nancy and the savannah book festival for having me here. this is really an awesome event. first of all i appreciate your interest in my work. also i don't know if any of you saw the savannah morning news, there was a really nice review of an interview she had with me. as a retired military person, which i'll get to, i probably have done a thousand speeches. standing up in front of a group talking about a book is kind of like talking about your kids. harder. but this is a really important topic, probably more so than it's ever been. i know if you read the news you hear all this talk of war. actually saw an article yesterday or the day before in one of the publications talking about drifting toward war, very much like we did before world war i. and so i think it's a frightening time and probably a very timely time to talk about my book. i'll talk about, a a little bit about why i wrote it and how i came to ride which i think is really a cool story. i always li

first up retired air force major general robert latiff on the future technology of war. >> good morningd i am delighted to welcome you to the 11th annual savannah book festival. it's presented by georgia power, david and nancy cintron, mark and pat soon.