Hi, Bill Crystal here from the Bullwork with Bullwork Sunday Live with Mark Hurtling.

My colleague now, very honored to have you abroad, I guess is the right to say that.

And Mark obviously retired as Lieutenant General in 2013.

It's become one of our leading military commentators, very useful and important for those of us who don't understand all these

matters of military affairs and national security. And so thanks for joining me today, Mark.

It's great to be with you. Always good on a Sunday morning to talk about these kind of things.

Yeah. Okay. Well, if it's not too upbeat, people can take a break and go watch a football game to cheer themselves up and then come back to worry about the real world.

We were talking before about your book, which I think was just announced that is available for free order.

Say a word about it because it is so interesting.

Yeah, I was kind of skeptical when the publisher said they wanted to start pre-orders in November.

And I said, boy, it's not going to be delivered until late February or early March.

And it says, well, it'll give us a feel for how it's going to do.

And it seems to be selling quite well, especially with the caveat that anyone that orders

the pre-order will get a signed copy.

So that's going to be fun.

I'm really excited about it.

It's a book that dives deeply into

reflections and a journal from Desert Storm. And then what happened over the next 35 years

that the Army adapted, the nation adapted. So it's, I was really glad our son kind of talked to

talk me into doing it. That's great. And the name and the name so people can.

The name is if I don't return a father's wartime journal. Wow. Well, that's great. I look

forward to a few order, but I haven't gotten it yet, but obviously no one's gotten it until February

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