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By Scott Bowden Sir John Arbuthnot (Jacky) Fisher, 1841-1920. At the end of the 19th century, the Royal Navy was the most powerful and well-respected naval force in the world. For the previous 100 years, numerous attempts to challenge the Royal Navy’s supremacy at sea had failed and had left Great Britain with an empire that …
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We’ve all had bosses we were proud to follow. People we’d do anything for. Even run through brick walls. On the other hand, most of us have also had bosses we follow only because, well, they’re the boss. So what separates the leaders we want to follow from the leaders we have to follow? The answer lies in the …
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BY JAMES TRAUB | FEBRUARY 24, 2012 In the summer of 1798, U.S. President John Adams faced the gravest crisis of his time in office. Hostilities with the revolutionary, expansionist regime in France had been rising since his election, with French privateers seizing American merchant ships off the Atlantic coast. Adams's effort at diplomacy had …
There are some things in leadership that I could honestly say I despise. Perhaps you have your own list, but this is mine. Here are 10 things that drive me crazy in leadership: Responsibility without authority – If you ask someone to lead something; then let them lead. Small-mindedness – I like big dreams and …
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(Notes from a message given 19 Feb 2012, RAF Mildenhall, with credit to Rob Bell as well...but come on, anytime you can work The Matrix, The Ramones, and Clausewitz into a message...it's got to be something, eh?) Encase you were not familiar… the clip above is from Matrix…The term red pill and its opposite, blue pill, are …
NATIONAL SECURITY By CHUCK SPINNEY | February 20, 2012 The first three chapters in Sun Tzu’s timeless classic “The Art of War” describe how to make net assessments by comparing your strengths and weaknesses and those of your adversary and how to formulate strategy. Near the end of Chapter 3, he sums up his advice, saying, “Know your enemy …
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New York Post February 23, 2012 Pg. 25 Reports last week have Team Obama considering cuts in our strategic nuclear forces -- by as much as 80 percent. Not good. These accounts say the Pentagon has been ordered to study the possibility of reducing the number of deployed nuclear warheads to several levels -- 1,000 …
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Washington Post February 24, 2012 Pg. 9 By Karen DeYoung LONDON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that Syrian opposition forces will become “increasingly capable” of carrying out offensive operations against the government of President Bashar al-Assad. “They will, from somewhere, somehow, find the means to defend themselves, as well as begin …
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February 23, 2012 (found this post and thought it worth "curating") Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. She recorded their dying epiphanies in a blog called Inspiration and Chai, which gathered so much attention that she …
One thing I will never tire of is learning from my boys. Luke posted this on Facebook this afternoon and I have to say…it should get us all to stop and think about how and what our great country was founded on and for. LYRICS Halfway across the globe And we're standing on new ground …
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