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Washington Post May 22, 2012 Pg. 13 Fine Print Retired Marine Corps Gen. James Cartwright aired some fresh ideas about U.S. defense policies last week. About the same time, the House was preparing to pass next year's Pentagon authorization bill and, in the process, illustrating Cartwright's point that the nation isn't downsizing correctly. The former …
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Miami Herald May 22, 2012 Pg. 3 A change has been made in how the U.S. determines which terrorists should be targeted for drone attacks. Associated Press WASHINGTON — White House counterterror chief John Brennan has seized the lead in choosing which terrorists will be targeted for drone attacks or raids, establishing a new procedure …
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view original / my.psychologytoday.comBloggers note: You all know 'em, you all have worked for them, anything to add? Guilty of any? Many of us remember our worst leaders and for some of us we still are working with them.Below are 7 signs to find out if you are reporting into a bad leader. Feel free to respond …
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Washingtonpost.com May 18, 2012 Checkpoint Washington: Reporting on diplomacy, intelligence and military affairs Drum roll, please. The House, for a second year in a row, has approved a measure limiting Pentagon spending on military bands next year to only $200 million. An amendment by Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, …
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Washington Times May 21, 2012 Pg. 1 The Washington Times For Pentagon planners, automatic spending cuts slated to begin in January have become the $600 billion contingency they can’t plan for. Military planners are under strict orders not to devise scenarios for meeting the demands of “sequestration,” as the automatic, across-the-board spending reductions are called. …
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By J. William DeMarco Read a great article from Inc.com this AM on humility: Inspire People to Follow: Practice Humility by John Baldoni ...maybe I should be listening. For me personally it is hard not to be humble when I see all the great people in the USAF, but many times our actions might not reflect our feelings. I am …
view original / leadershiptraq.com Blogger's note: So many great points in this post...huge for organizations to understand, give space, and time to think... Create a space inside your organization to create, to build, to innovate. Also realize not everyone is a creative...and that's okay. There's a tension between efficiencies and effectiveness that has to be addressed...but innovation …
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Blogger's Note: Crisis, Complexity, and Confusion (C3) Washington Post May 20, 2012 Pg. 23 Perhaps when Chinese leaders began to speak over the past several years about a new “Beijing Consensus” and the triumph of the “China Model,” that was a warning that the bubble was about to burst. And we’re seeing that hubris play …
Blogger's note: interesting there is no talk of tankers here. USAF carried the alliance in tanking during Libya operations, but better planning, sharing of resources, communication, collaboration, and a bit of creative thinking: 3Cs...we (NATO/remember the US is PART of the alliance) can solve that. Sounds like a job for the European Air Refueling Center …
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