Now David said on that day, "Whoever climbs up by way of the water shaft and defeats the Jebusites...he shall be chief and captain..." Then David dwelt in the stronghold, and clled it that City of David. - 2 Samuel 5: 8-9 Another piece of Maxwellian wisdom from this mornings reading... in this world of …
What America Should Have Learned From Imperial Britain’s Afghan Defeat
A new history of the disastrous, 19th century British invasion of Afghanistan reveals more about the current war than we might like to think. By SETH G. JONES: author of In the Graveyard of Empires: America’s War in Afghanistan, is a senior political scientist at RAND. From 2009 to 2011, he served in various positions …
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Ignoring Sequestration Won’t Make It Vanish
Washington Post March 13, 2012 Pg. 13 By Walter Pincus Let’s think about the unthinkable -- sequestration. On Jan. 2, 2013, it will kick in if Congress can’t reach agreement before then on $1.2 trillion in cuts or added revenue over the next 10 years. Sequestration will be avoided if Congress passes legislation that President …
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The ‘Dayton’ Lesson For America’s Shrinking Military
Wall Street Journal March 13, 2012 Pg. 13 Three years into America's post-World War II drawdown,not a single U.S. nuclear bomber could hit a large, undefended target in Ohio. By Warren Kozak It was simply called the "Dayton Exercise" and for obvious reasons it was kept secret for decades. It was also one of the …
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Great advice....gotta go find the performance helpers.
Strategy: An Executive’s Definition by Ken Favaro
Strategy-business.com March 5th 2012 The question “What is strategy?” has spurred numerous doctoral dissertations, countless hours of research, and hearty disagreement among serious management thinkers. Perhaps this is why many executives also struggle with it. Nonetheless, decision makers seeking to steer a business to sustained success need a succinct and pragmatic response. After all, it …
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Military Points To Risks Of A Syrian Intervention
New York Times March 12, 2012 Pg. 10 By Elisabeth Bumiller WASHINGTON — Despite growing calls for the United States to help stop the bloodshed in Syria, senior Pentagon officials are stepping up their warnings that military intervention would be a daunting and protracted operation, requiring at least weeks of exclusively American airstrikes, with the …
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Great work Gwyn, thank you
The other day, while channel surfing, I caught a glimpse of Spencer Tracy playing Santiago in Ernest Hemingway’s, The Old Man and the Sea. It didn’t register much at the time because as you may know, when one channel surfs, the little grey cells kind of take a nap. Later though, I began to think about that story and the lessons it has to teach us.
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For those who are unfamiliar with the story, Santiago is an old fisherman living in a village not far from Havana. Fishing is his livelihood and yet he has failed to catch any fish in eighty-four days. The young boy, who usually goes out with him, is instructed by his father to stay away from the old man. He is bad luck. So Santiago goes fishing alone.
On the eighty-fifth day, he decides to go out further than he…
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The Lords of Discipline (a few quotes and thoughts)
"He who lives without discipline dies without honor." Icelandic Proverb It would appear that discipline is one of those things in that the minute you might believe you have it... you have lost it. It is a life's pursuit. I can not help but harken back to a quote attributed to Margaret Thatcher... something like... …
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No Good Answers: US stuck with Mideast mess By Victor Davis Hanson
New York Post March 10, 2012 Pg. 19 Americans — left and right — are sick of thankless Mideast nation-building. Yet democratization was not our first choice, but rather a last resort after prior failures. The United States had long ago supplied Afghan insurgents, who expelled the Soviets after a decade of fighting. Then we …
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