DeM Banter: anything new here? ForeignPolicy.com September 12, 2012 FP National Security Foreign Policy sat down on Sept. 12 with Air Force Secretary Michael Donley, who took office four years ago after his predecessor, Michael Wynne, was fired over the service's mishandling of nuclear weapons. Donley took over an Air Force that then-Defense Secretary Robert …
Russian ships displayed at DNC tribute to vets By Sam Fellman
view original / navytimes.com DeM Banter: Research matters.... I think... interesting to see if anyone cares besides the military... thoughts? On the last night of the Democratic National Convention, a retired Navy four-star took the stage to pay tribute to veterans. Behind him, on a giant screen, the image of four hulking warships reinforced his patriotic message. …
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ROTC Returns To Harvard By Jennifer Levitz
DeM Banter: USAF PA just might be missing the show... Wall Street Journal September 11, 2012 Pg. 3 Armed Services Training Is Back After Exiting Some Schools Over Vietnam War BOSTON—At colleges and universities across the country, Reserve Officers' Training Corps battalions often are seen doing drills on campus. But there was nothing routine about …
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A Leadership Job Description by Mike Myatt
forbes.com / view original / Mike Myatt DeM Banter: Always enjoy Mike Myatt's work... love the line: "Leadership is about giving credit not taking it, breaking down barriers not building them, destroying bureaucracies not creating them, bridging positional and philosophical gaps not setting boundaries, thinking big and acting bigger, being able to focus on short-term objectives without losing …
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Top 10 BIG Leadership Thoughts –DeMarco Banter
One of the greatest gifts I have ever received was from Senior Master Sergeant Andy Aupiu. On his retirement from the USAF he passed to me The Maxwell Leadership Bible. Doing some reading through Proverbs today.... I came across some Maxwellian concepts on powerful leaders and how they think...just thought I would share. 1) BIG: …
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U.S. Attack On Iran Would Take Hundreds Of Planes, Ships, And Missiles By Noah Shachtman
Danger Room (Wired.com) September 7, 2012 Should the U.S. actually take Benjamin Netanyahu's advice and attack Iran, don't expect a few sorties flown by a couple of fighter jocks. Setting back Iran's nuclear efforts will need to be an all-out effort, with squadrons of bombers and fighter jets, teams of commandos, rings of interceptor missiles …
Do jerks make better leaders? by Bob Staake
DeM Banter: I struggle with how long someone of such a nature can be effective...but there are the leaders mentioned below that have made the concept of being a jerk a leadership brand....so be it. These leaders would appear to be the exception, not the norm...but they do seem to get the press. Gen Patton …
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How Resilient Is Post-9/11 America? By Thom Shanker and Eric Schmitt
DeM Banter: There is so much more going on here...Schmitt starts off and it looks like we are going somewhere and we stop. So... I can only imagine this is to push or tease their new book, “Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America’s Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda.” If not...I am stuck thinking... and... why... …
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Geography Strikes Back by Robert D. Kaplan
DeM Banter: how soon we forget or think we have stepped beyond history...only to be yanked right back into it... Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. Winston Churchill Wall Street Journal September 8, 2012 Pg. C1 The Saturday Essay To understand today's global conflicts, forget economics and technology and …
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This Week At War: The Pentagon Doesn’t Have The Right Stuff By Robert Haddick
DeM Banter: Hence the reason strategy is so important...especially strategy during time of financial reductions and strain... What do we, as a nation, expect our military to do? We might should fund that... FP National Security (ForeignPolicy.com) September 6, 2012 Small Wars The Navy can't 'contain' Iran -- even if we wanted it to. Gen. …
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