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DeM Banter: Something we have been asking here at The Mastermind Century Group for a good while now. What do you want the military to do? Answer that question... and remain true to that answer...and you will have your budget. "The audience is listening..." Washington Times February 26, 2013 Pg. B1 Sending the unprepared is …
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DeM Banter: Welcome to the Information Age... how we doing with adapting? New York Times February 25, 2013 Pg. 1 News Analysis WASHINGTON — When the Obama administration circulated to the nation’s Internet providers last week a lengthy confidential list of computer addresses linked to a hacking group that has stolen terabytes of data from …
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DeM Banter: Welcome to the Information Age... how we doing with adapting? New York Times February 25, 2013 Pg. 1 News Analysis WASHINGTON — When the Obama administration circulated to the nation’s Internet providers last week a lengthy confidential list of computer addresses linked to a hacking group that has stolen terabytes of data from …
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DeM Banter: we do live in interesting times...repeat of the 1970s, 1990s, now 2010s...see a trend? This will be a challenge to work through, we do need cuts ...all over the federal government, and now is a time to think different in regards to how we do business...further we need a deeper dialog on the …
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innovationexcellence.com / view original DeM Banter: Yes, I know I have the penchant for being a bit of a geek... come on man, I have light sabers in my office! But there is much truth in the article below and we see it day to day in our organization. We also see it in the individuals/future leaders …
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DeM Banter: always enjoy Gen Welsh's thoughts, words, and vision...odd note for him to end on, ...And at some point in the future, the Air Force “will be the best Air Force in the world.” Would like to see that transcript... AirForceTimes.com February 21, 2013 ORLANDO, Fla. — Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark …
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DeM Banter: Interesting piece. A couple thoughts, if we assume RPAs are the scalpel of warfare, we can then assume we will see more drones employed. We are hearing UAE will purchase several "unarmed" Predators...of course these can be modified... news reports the Chinese using drones to hunt drug dealers in China with armed drones. …
It has been several years now that I have been interested in pulling apart the Crisis, Complexity and Confusion (C3) we increasingly find ourselves living in. About the best I have come up with in doing so is to engage in Communication, Collaboration, and Creative thinking (3Cs). I see much of the C3 in the …
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DeM Banter: always love a good historical analogy...this is a good one. Welcome to the information revolution and the new lines of logistics... Politico.com February 19, 2013 Opinion Contributor To state the painfully obvious, Washington is not a town filled with much unanimity these days. But on one subject there is common ground: the recognition …
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DeM Banter: “Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.” -SunTzu Great points below...Col (ret) Andrew Bacevich points out...“There’s a fundamental need to have a conversation about what kind of military we need to have and what we should expect it to do.” The cuts in …
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