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c-span.org/history for more information. >> author sean mcfate is next on booktv. the associate professor at the national defense university and former military mercenary talks about the use of mercenaries in wars around the world today. he says that we're headed toward a future that will resemble the middle ages when hiring mercenaries to fight in wars was the norm. >> thank you peter. thank you to the atlantic council for hosting this and thank you for making it out today on a less than auspicious weather day. this book is about the return of private military force in international relations today. and i wrote this not simply as an international relations scholar, but also as a practitioner. i worked for a company for several years in africa, and i saw while i was working there many press reports many think tank reports, a lot of left-wing and right-wing knee jerk reactions that simply did not get what i thought was right. so the genesis around this book was not in any way a whistleblower book etc., it was really to pack some salience around a very policemen call issue. -- polemical issue. i want to sort of lay out a few disruptive facts from a decade of war. first is u

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send an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org. tweet us at booktv or post on our wall, facebook.com/booktv. >> you would think they tried to portray it as the violent group but it has to do with trends in the region. one of the trends i talk about, another trend is our young people when they were -- revolted against the government, they revolted against the fiscally and the religious elite. isis is actually about rebellion against the religious of the. is anticlerical in that sense, against authority. there is the word people use to describe the attitudes of young people, rejection of intellectual monopoly or intellectual control. when anyone tries to message against isis, the messageing you are talking about all the time, isis isn't immune to these things. people talk about moderate discourse, isis is immune to that by nature. you might prevent people going to isis before that. once someone starts to bite into isis ideology is almost too late to reverse it. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> here's a look at up