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The Pentagon's chief budget officer is ringing the alarm bell about looming budget cuts that could destroy the department's new defense strategy and force the defense industry to face "absurdities" as defense programs are shuttered. "This is not the way to do defense planning and budgeting," said Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter. Carter was speaking …
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by J. William DeMarco EPIC FAIL! Is that always a bad thing? Sitting here on my XX birthday… I ponder all the successes and the EPIC FAILs in life. Success does not mean avoiding failure… it is all what you do with the EPIC FAIL. Do you learn, do you get stronger? All of us …
view original / wagner.nyu.edu blogger's note: Something I have been pondering for years... and honestly generational issues truly fascinate me. Culture tells the story of YOUR time, YOUR history, what impact a generation as we grow and mature. In the military, politics, and I am sure in business...we are at a juncture...Baby Boomers staying loungers, but retiring, Gen …
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view original / terrystarbucker.com Blogger's note: Been following Terry Starbucker for a while... highly recommend (go ahead, click the link above...come on). I came across this the other day and thought...how simple...and how true. I have been jotting things down for about 7-10 years now and have all the notebooks on shelves--probably need to review those books …
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Boston Globe May 27, 2012 After a decade of 'mission creep'--into diplomacy, agriculture, even energy policy--the Department of Defense has become America's default tool for dealing with the world. Where does this leave the next president? When President Obama and Mitt Romney cross swords on defense policy, it can sound like a schoolyard fight: Who …
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John Nagl Friday, May 25, 2012 In every presidential election since 1992, the candidate with the less distinguished military résumé has triumphed. Bill Clinton defeated war heroes George H.W. Bush and Bob Dole; National Guard pilot George W. Bush beat Vietnam veterans Al Gore and John Kerry; and Barack Obama was decisively elected over John …
view original / the-diplomat.com 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 …
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view original / TAMMY ERICKSON / blogs.hbr.org 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 …
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View original / Foreign Policy Think of it like an iceberg: The top lies in plain sight, but a lot more hides beneath the surface. In its annual appraisal of the Chinese military published last week, the U.S. Department of Defense seems to be describing an object it finds both familiar and mysterious. The report …
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TheAtlantic.com May 24, 2012 It's fine for a military office to play the role of professor -- but not if that means allowing 'special arrangements' that corrupt intellectual freedom. In 1951, American conservative William F. Buckley published God and Man at Yale. In his book, Buckley slammed Yale's faculty for turning American liberal ideology into …
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