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inc.com / view original DeM Banter: Really like Evje's work. Great article with some great points...all 5 are huge, I can see a few to work on. Not sure what Indy has to do with anything, but hey... he's cool You're the CEO of your company. But do you look and act like a leader? Here are …
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wired.com / view original DeM Banter: Really? We can't help ourselves can we? For the first time in over a decade, the Pentagon’s budget has to shrink, thanks to a deal to cut the deficit that Congress and President Obama struck last year. Yet a key Senate panel voted on Thursday to fund big-ticket hardware — ships, …
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view original / globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com Michael Rubin is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and senior lecturer at the Naval Postgraduate School. He also teaches Afghan history to deploying U.S. Army units. The views expressed are solely those of the author. More than a decade into the conflict, the Afghan war isn’t going well. Politically, Afghanistan …
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DeM Banter: Sounds like there are many assumptions here that may indeed prove false...how many times in the past century and a half have we correctly predicted the next conflict? Planning is important however...there is a fine line between planning, funding, and execution. Eisenhower is famous for saying..."Plans are nothing; planning is everything." Washington Post …
DeM Banter: It took a CSIS Study? New York Times August 1, 2012 WASHINGTON — An independent review assessing the Obama administration’s plans to move national security resources toward Asia and away from the Atlantic has criticized the Pentagon, saying it insufficiently explained how it would shift military forces to the region and how the …
entrepreneur.com / view original Fourteen months after starting her own insurance agency, Dawn Berry found herself surrounded by stacks of paper. Her inbox was brimming with more than 500 emails that needed to be answered or trashed. And just finding a pen on her cluttered desk became a challenge. Berry realized she needed to get smarter about managing time and making …
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view original / theatlantic.com DeM Banter: Just thinking... should not we be hearing talk like this during the election season? What are our candidates thinking? Where have all the strategists gone? This is indeed very difficult stuff, but isn't America grand enough to have a grand strategy? _________________ In the decade since September 2001, why is the …
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DeM Banter: Social issues will only get bigger... but I ponder how this bounces off the MANY social issues China faces as well. China has many issues stemming from the One Child policy. Not to say the US issues are rosy, but China has some big issues as well. Perhaps we can collaborate on those …
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Air Force Times August 6, 2012 Pg. 23 'We righted the nuclear enterprise' and emphasized importance of Air Force families" In the not-so-distant future, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz will leave the confines of his Pentagon office for the beaches of Hawaii to enjoy his retirement after four decades of service. Since …
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DeM Banter: exactly what we need as a nation today... In 1940, a war-weary Britain was on the verge of capitulation. Here's how Churchill turned it around--and what it means for you.. In 1940, when Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of Great Britain, the nation was in a state of severe crisis. Not only had …
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