by J. William DeMarco Remember when that phrase, decals, T-shirts, tennis shoes—were popular. I was totally jealous… I desperately wanted to come up with a cool phrase...sell it and make a ton of money off it! But… Looking through a few quotes today and I started pondering courage, fear…. and leadership... “The most striking thing …
Should The United States Use Military Force To Intervene In Syria?
Arizona Daily Star (Tucson) April 30, 2012 Yes: Our strategic goals depend on it; No: Negotiations are the best hope By Lawrence J. Haas; John B. Quigley Editor's note: Every Monday we offer pro/con pieces from the McClatchy-Tribune news service to give readers a broad view of issues. Yes: Our strategic goals depend on it …
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Who Needs The U.S.? By Jackson Diehl
Washington Post April 30, 2012 Pg. 13 For a year, a chorus of pundits has been proclaiming that the Arab Spring has ushered in a new era in the Middle East in which the United States no longer is the "indispensable nation" Bill Clinton once described. Syria has proved them wrong. To be sure, so …
New-Generation Flying Tankers Key In Bid For Saving Fairchild Base
Seattle Times April 30, 2012 Spokane-area leaders say the key to preserving the base may be landing the next generation of aerial-refueling tankers to be built by Boeing. By Nicholas K. Geranios, Associated Press SPOKANE — Fairchild Air Force Base is Spokane County's largest employer and has been a mainstay of the local economy for …
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Are You a Transmitter or a Receiver? By Scott Eblin
view original / eblingroup.com / One of the things I love most about leadership coaching is the opportunity to see lots of different executives in action. I get to see them in team meetings, in presentations, in one-on-one’s, and just walking around the plant or office. In addition to the first-hand observations, I usually collect …
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Flying Not Quite As High: Our threatened airpower. By Michael Auslin
Weekly Standard May 7, 2012 View Original / Michael Auslin / Weekly Standard The release of the Obama administration’s defense budget in January makes clear just how the president intends to reshape the U.S. military. For starters, the Army will shrink 14 percent by 2017, the Marines will decrease by 20,000, six Air Force fighter …
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To replicate Silicon Valley’s success, focus on culture by Victor Hwang
washingtonpost.com / view original / Victor Hwang Silicon Valley is widely regarded as the ultimate success as an incubator of start-ups and entrepreneurship. Yet most businesspeople, leaders and innovators around the world have learned the wrong lessons from it. They focus primarily on its ingredients — its obvious assets, like venture capital, skilled workers and universities. What they have largely ignored is …
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Strategy and Organization by Henry Kissinger Foreign Affairs (Apr 1957)
A bud of mine, Josh Zaker, passed this piece to me the other day. It was written for Foreign Affairs in the Spring of 1957... amazing at how relevant Dr Kissinger's words are still for us 55 years later. I have pasted the conclusion below and the article is at the link...great stuff. Kissinger Strategy …
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Air Force strategy legend dies at age 96
view original / af.mil 4/26/2012 - WASHINGTON (AFNS) -- A retired Air Force general who was known as the father of "strategy to task," and was instrumental in the development and implementation of new weapon systems during the last half of the 20th Century passed away April 25, at the age of 96. Retired Lt. Gen. Glenn A. Kent spent …
GREATER THINGS: Interagency Collaboration and Planning in the “New” Global Security Environment From The Industrial to the Information Revolution
By J. William DeMarco, Curt Rauhut, and Kurt Waymire Joint Forces Staff College, November 2009 The only constant is change, continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will …
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