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.Washington Times June 13, 2012 Pg. B4 West has more to lose than gain by intervening As the Syrian government makes increasingly desperate and vicious efforts to keep power, pleas for military intervention, more or less on the Libyan model, have become more insistent. This course is morally attractive, to be sure. But should Western …
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National Journal June 9, 2012 Need To Know: National Security The United States is advertising its pivot to Asia, and the subtext -- containing China -- isn’t lost on anybody. But how much containing does China really need? There’s a great line from the movie Master and Commander,” Defense Secretary Leon Panetta declared on a …
view original/ricks.foreignpolicy.comBest Defense department of PME reformThe Scales and Kuehn discussion on PME has piqued a long-running interest of mine in the failures of professional military education (PME). While obviously I am more with Scales in my overall assessment of the system, I think Kuehn's piece helps frame the debate because it highlights some of the confusion over the purpose of PME. …
Washington Times June 4, 2012 Pg. B3 Aging Air Force infrastructure impacts readiness The U.S. Air Force celebrates the 50th birthday of its youngest B-52 Stratofortress this year. This historic warrior and its counterparts predate the Cuban missile crisis, Vietnam War and Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon. The fathers and grandfathers of today's …
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The Economist June 2, 2012 Robotics: From reconnaissance to bomb-defusal to launching attacks, military robots are on the march, raising knotty ethical quandaries In the early afternoon of August 18th 2008, a reconnaissance unit of about 100 French paratroopers, accompanied by a small number of Afghan and American soldiers, was ambushed by a similarly sized …
view original / the-diplomat.com For the last several years, myself and others have penned a number of articles here on The Diplomat concerning China’s Anti-Access/Area-Denial or A2/AD strategy. How the strategy would work on a theoretical or practical basis has therefore been well documented. But one aspect of this strategy that hasn’t been explained in as much detail, outside sometimes stuffy …
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view original / my.psychologytoday.comBloggers note: You all know 'em, you all have worked for them, anything to add? Guilty of any? Many of us remember our worst leaders and for some of us we still are working with them.Below are 7 signs to find out if you are reporting into a bad leader. Feel free to respond …
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Great post Roger...a great honor to accompany you. Thank you for the invite.
By J. William DeMarco Read a great article from Inc.com this AM on humility: Inspire People to Follow: Practice Humility by John Baldoni ...maybe I should be listening. For me personally it is hard not to be humble when I see all the great people in the USAF, but many times our actions might not reflect our feelings. I am …
fastcompany.com / view original Processes are supposed to help organizations scale up, improve efficiency for new hires and existing employees, and so on--but they can quickly get out of control. In a study of U.S. and European companies, The Boston Consulting Group found that “over the past fifteen years, the amount of procedures, vertical layers, interface structures, …
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