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Wall Street Journal July 5, 2012 With the heart of an infantryman, the president must feel what Churchill called 'stress of soul' for each of the wounded and the dead. In either 2013 or 2017, a new president will take office. The economy notwithstanding, the world will remain a dangerous place, and military intervention may …
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Blogger's Note: singing my song, but what are we doing to train our future leaders on how to create, formulate, and nurture strategic ideas? There are some ASG grads out there, I know....I would have to say we are not doing a great job, further...not sure it is considered a high value ability or commodity. …
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Los Angeles Times July 4, 2012 Pg. D4 Book Review The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King -- The Five-Star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea. By Walter R. Borneman. Little, Brown: 561 pp., $29.99 In his superbly reported new book, "The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King -- The Five-Star Admirals Who Won …
Blogger's note: highly contentious, but something I have pondered many times...many good things with the draft, but many bad as well, a ton of 3rd and 4th order effects as well...good and bad...something to think about on the 4th thecable.foreignpolicy.com July 3rd 2012 Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former top commander of international forces in Afghanistan, …
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view original / fastcompany.com July 3rd 2012 6:21 AM Now inscribed on the Library of Congress, James Madison's words are as true today as they were in 1829: “The happy Union of these States is a wonder; their Constitution a miracle; their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.” In forging such a nation, …
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Bloomberg.com July 2, 2012 Bloomberg News Overseeing a series of mandated U.S. budget cuts in the 1980s and 1990s, former White House official Barry Anderson was none too popular with agency officials as he insisted that the reductions be applied uniformly. Anderson recalls a minuscule 0.0013 cut to all domestic programs in 1991 that had …
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Los Angeles Times July 2, 2012 Pg. 13 Is there any organization outside of Hollywood more prey to intellectual fads than the Department of Defense? A decade ago the buzzword around the Pentagon was "transformation." Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld wanted to force radical change to take advantage of information technology. So the individual …
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Blogger's note: rebuttal to the 18 June Waltz piece. Boston Globe July 1, 2012 ARE YOU concerned about Tehran's drive for nuclear weapons? Political scientist Kenneth Waltz isn't. A senior research scholar at Columbia University and former president of American Political Science Association, Waltz writes in the new issue of Foreign Affairs that it's time …
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SmallWarsJournal.com June 29, 2012 This Week at War In my Foreign Policy column, I apply CSBA's latest report on coping with defense austerity to the Pentagon's current predicaments. The reality of defense budget "sequestration" -- the threat of an across-the-board 10 percent cut to most of the Pentagon's spending accounts -- is now beginning to …
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View Original / The Diplomat Failure to formulate a grand strategy will only further fuel talk of American decline. That's no more so the case than it is for Asia. It takes no great leap of imagination to realize the obvious: the world shows clear signs of increasing disorder. Consider recent events: thousands massacred in …
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