As we sit here and wrestle with budget cuts and the way forward... I have to fall back on the above statement... Vision is everything. Even with budget cuts or a change in mission... if the leader has a clear vision of where he/she is going... you can still get there...and your leaders will follow …
Air Force Makes Cuts To Help Mitigate Sequestration Threat By Valerie Insinna
DeM Banter: don't know how many have seen the memo....we are living in interesting times... National Defense Blog (ndia.org) January 15, 2013 Air Force leadership sent a directive to the service's major commands on Jan. 14 to enact funding cuts in advance of sequestration. The guidance directs the commands to freeze civilian hiring, cancel nonessential …
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The Unaffordability Of The All-Volunteer Military By Walter Pincus
DeM Banter: interesting Mr Pincus quotes Arnold L. Punaro, chairman of the board, a former top staffer on the Senate Armed Services Committee as saying “The all-in cost of the all-volunteer force is one of the time-ticking bombs that could explode our defense capabilities if not dealt with responsibly.” Wouldn't the same apply to a …
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Value, Praise, and Rewards: DeMarco Banter
We spend a good bit of time in the office sorting through records. Records of accomplishment... sometimes these are HUGE accomplishments...sometimes they are life and death type accomplishments--and sometimes NOT. Sometimes we suffer from the "everybody gets a trophy" syndrome. How in the world did we get here? I am not an expert, but can …
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Building A Better Drone Policy By Keith Ellison
DeM Banter: You Reap What You Sow...Everything that you do has repercussions. It comes back to you one way or another, somewhere around Gal 6:7-9...not to get too biblical. The Congressman's line..."The heart of the problem is that our technological capability has far surpassed our policy," sums it up. The United States will not always …
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9 Loves and 7 Hates of Leadership: DeMarco Banter…
I came across a couple article over the past few days that I thought were most interesting... as they were polar opposites... sort of a love and hate type theme... The first was more football than anything else... it was from Brian Dodd on Leadership. Picked some of the highlights below... agree 100%! In the …
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Strategic Resolutions (in three words or less): DeMarco Banter
Okay... I know... I'm about 2 weeks late on this one... but we have been talking about New Year's Resolutions amongst friends and I started to ponder the problems with said resolutions... it's not that they are too big... it's they are too small...let me introduce strategic resolutions. Strategic: important in or essential to strategy. Resolution: a resolve or determination By NO means …
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An Army Of None Why the Pentagon is failing to keep its best and brightest. By Tim Kane
DeM Banter: not sure I'm buying it...it's all about the personnel system? Might not be seeing the forest for the trees...I fall back on DeM rhetoric, it all about leadership, vision, and strategy...everything rises and falls on leadership and this is a leadership problem at multiple levels for all branches. ForeignPolicy.com January 10, 2013 As …
SEC. DONLEY: WHY THE AIR FORCE CAN’T DELAY MODERNIZATION By Michael Donley
DeM Banter: Sometimes... you have to spend money to save money over the long haul....no airline could operate the AF tanker fleet...yet the USAF does so seamlessly, the jets have a very high reliability rate on the backs of huge maintenance cost...the amazing work of USAF maintainers keep these old aircraft in the air, but …
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Sec. Donley On Readiness: Air Force Must Shrink Or Go Hollow By Michael Donley
DeM Banter: more from the SECAF...wondering if the series of articles is having the desired effect... AOL Defense (defense.aol.com) January 10, 2013 Exclusive Michael Donley is Secretary of the Air Force. This is the third of four op-eds Sec. Donley wrote exclusively for AOL Defense on the future of the Air Force. Today's piece deals …
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