If you're in the DC area on Wednesday night...

... you can meet the people responsible for the book that I keep on lauding, America's Defense Meltdown -- plus get a free copy of the book, by coming to a book-launch reception. You have to pay for your own beer, but it's at a place I have been many times and whose beer quality I can vouch for.

Details: Wednesday, December 3, 6pm, at the Officers' Club at Fort Myer, across the river from downtown Washington in Rosslyn, Va. This same site has for several decades been the location for weekly beer sessions among the defense-reform community that originally featured the famous, late Col. John Boyd. Further info about the event, including instructions for RSVPs, at the Center for Defense Information site here. I'd be there if I weren't on the other side of the world. Have a beer and get a book for me.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2008/12/if-you-apos-re-in-the-dc-area-on-wednesday-night/9135/