DeM Banter: Increasingly having to go to foreign papers for data... or maybe it is just me...and then there's this...as we leave the AOR...what will be the US legacy? Islamabad, www.telegraph.co.uk / View Original / October 22nd, 2013 Amnesty International says US may be guilty of war crimes over its use of drone strikes after finding evidence of civilian deaths …
U.S.: Spying on French raises ‘legitimate’ issues : UPI
DeM Banter: If it is all about taking care of your friends...allies...this has me scratching my bald head... http://www.upi.com / View Original / October 22nd, 2013 PARIS, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Spying on millions of French phone calls raises legitimate issues for U.S. allies, the White House said ahead of a U.S.-French meeting on the matter in Paris.Secretary of …
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‘Iron Man’-style suit in early stages of development By Army News Service
DeM Banter: Maybe we need a Tony Stark right about now...??? Not sure he comes with the suit..... http://www.defencetalk.com / View Original / October 21st, 2013 U.S. Special Operations Command wants its operators to be protected with what it informally calls an Iron Man suit, named after the fictional superhero. In September, U.S. Special Operations Command, known as SOCOM, made …
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Iran Outwits the U.S. By Micah D. Halpern
DeM Banter: Interesting take on what appears to be a very real trait in what we have come to call "foreign policy." Honestly...who would not take advantage of the crisis of leadership in DC. We are on the world stage and not for the greatness of our system, but for the folly. Interesting times to …
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“The Hero Movement”…taking leadership to new levels… DeMarco Banter
"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost." — Arthur Ashe One thing I have noticed over the years, is that we all have this sort of funky relationship with the word "hero." It probably came up …
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Doomsday: what inspired a ‘loss of trust’ in the man who oversaw the nation’s nuclear arsenal? By Matt Stroud
DeM Banter: Is this a leadership issue? A cultural issue? A training issue? A selection of senior leadership issue? All of the above? Or simply just someone (one of many as of late) that messed up? Alcohol on a TDY, I doubt he simply "turned it up" on night and got busted. Thoughts? View Original: …
Four Budget Practices That Are Destroying America’s Defenses by Loren Thompson
DeM Banter: Crisis of leadership...vision...AND strategy...wonder what we will remember of this era 20 years from now....assuming we get better, and we don't remember these days as the GOOD 'ol day... View Original: Four Budget Practices That Are Destroying America's Defenses (Forbes) 15 Oct 13 … The United States has spent trillions of dollars since …
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25 productivity secrets from history’s greatest thinkers By Amanda Green
View Original / theweek.comDeM Banter: It's always a good thing to ponder out rituals and how to get more out of them...and who better to learn from? Want to get stuff done? Try these productivity tips from some of the most influential minds in history, as compiled by Mason Curry in Daily Rituals: How Artists Work.1. Like many of us, …
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Six Creative Leadership Lessons From The Military In An Era of VUCA And COIN By David Slocum
DeM Banter: I always find it fascinating what the civilian world thinks of the military and what the military thinks of the civilian world... View Original / Forbes.com As part of a long-term research project examining the guiding tenets of creative leadership, Doug Guthrie and I have interviewed dozens of leaders of creative businesses. Many of these …
GLOBAL PERILS OF POLITICAL DYSFUNCTION By Gerald F. Seib
DeM Banter: There are so many 2nd, 3rd, and 4th order effects of this... it is honestly hard to even track them all. A failure of leadership at the highest levels...how can any entity focus on the strategic when they can't get passed the very tactical issue of surviving and funding the day to day …
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