most recently, haroon ullah was on the planning staff at the state o department teaching at georgetown university and is a member on the council of foreign relations. and as a presidential scholar and the fulbright fellow. what else is there to say? he is here to speak of his fascinating new book, "digital world war" the floor is yours. [applause] the floor is yours. [applause] i am thrilled to be with you here today to talk about something i am very passionate about which is the information battlefieldd that is not either well understood or well thought of with national security. starting off with o the story for my book doing a lot of work with interviews there is going to be a data driven approach. there is a database of defectors.ta and i wanted to think carefully about what are the reasons t that young people are attracted to this propaganda or that make somebody join or fan boys support their ecosystem. so a defector had come back recently. so with a one word identification so i thought about the one word answer that we would give which would be horrendous or horrific or murdered