 and it just so happens that uh... elliot ackerman has uh... served five tours of duty in iraq and afghanistan knows a thing or two about national security in the military just wrote a book with admiral james stavridis so uh... i'm curious to get his take on what's going on in the world and with the military he enlisted in the military and served in combat when you have to i don't know if you remember his father peter ackerman he died a couple years ago