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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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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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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 …
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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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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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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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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online.wsj.com / view original DeM Banter: Wow... nice article and very apolitical...facts are facts, no spin (please correct me if I am wrong). I used to encourage folks in the 100th to watch the History Channel 13 part series, the Story of Us...great series on how America became America...entitlements were not part of it. We …
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SmallWarsJournal.com September 1, 2012 In my Foreign Policy column, I explain why missiles, technology, and budget problems are now conspiring against aircraft carriers. For decades, aircraft carriers have been the tool-of-choice for crisis response. Policymakers in Washington and four-star commanders in the field invariably have turned to carriers when they needed to signal U.S. intentions, …
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Washington Post September 4, 2012 Pg. 1 Instead of pushing changes, defense chief emphasizes consensus For most of the past year, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has stressed that the vast military complex over which he presides is at a "strategic turning point." A decade of grinding guerrilla war is drawing to a close. Defense …
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