An Anti-Access History Lesson By Harry Kazianis

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Image For the last several years, myself and others have penned a number of articles here on The Diplomat concerning China’s Anti-Access/Area-Denial or A2/AD strategy. How the strategy would work on a theoretical or practical basis has therefore been well documented. But one aspect of this strategy that hasn’t been explained in as much detail, outside sometimes stuffy academic journals or think tank reports, is why China has developed such a strategy. In this case, the why is just as interesting as the strategy itself.

Generation X and the Narrowing Career Path by TAMMY ERICKSON

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Bloggers Note:  Nice post from HBR below, but something I have been pondering for a long time…and not made any headway on a theory, but Gen X is just now entering the General Officer ranks in the military.  What will that do or not do for the DoD?  Will we see a shift in thought, theory, strategy?  Or has our enterprise been so entrenched in its ways that it can not move? Did the DoD change at all with the “Boomers?”  I think yes, but don’t have any facts.  Any thoughts?