DeM Banter: we do indeed live in interesting times.... Washington Times April 10, 2013 Pg. 1 A key symbol of the jet fighter culture vanished in 2011 from Nevada's Nellis Air Force Base, the hub of air-war strategy and tactics, when senior Air Force officials ordered the "Home of the Fighter Pilot" sign to be …
Cuts Spur Air Force To Idle Part Of Its Fleet By Julian E. Barnes
DeM Banter: Argh! Once again... pondering the next 3-5 years, always interesting... Wall Street Journal April 10, 2013 Pg. 4 WASHINGTON—The U.S. Air Force is idling one-third of its combat air fleet because of across-the-board spending cuts, a move officials said would reduce readiness to respond in the event of a global crisis. The Air …
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Reduced Flying Hours Forces USAF To Ground 17 Combat Air Squadrons By Brian Everstine and Marcus Weisgerber
DeM Banter: And... I think that is all I should say about that... DefenseNews.com April 8, 2013 The U.S. Air Force will begin grounding combat air squadrons Tuesday in response to forced spending cuts that have eliminated more than 44,000 flying hours through September, according to internal documents obtained by Defense News. The Air Force’s …
10 Things Every Leader Should Challenge by Mike Myatt
forbes.com / Mike Myatt / view original DeM Banter: Another great article by Mike Myatt...click the above link to read the entire article. Just listed the 10 points below...really wish we had more leaders challenging the status quo...now more than ever. 1. Challenge The Foundation – Bad things happen when your foundation is shaky. If the core values, …
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HOW WE’VE WASTED OUR TIMEOUT By Thomas L. Friedman
DeM Banter: Wasted time out? Yup, it would seem so (one could probably add the entire decade of the 1990s as well)....but we would have to know what game we were playing to properly use said time out... and that would require some thought. We are in a game of wack-a-mole without a plan. Anyone …
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What the Cuban missile crisis teaches us about facing down North Korea. By Michael Dobbs
DeM Banter: If we would only listen and learn from history... ForeignPolicy.com April 5, 2013 How To Stop A Nuclear War As he ponders how to respond to the military bluster of North Korea, President Obama is learning a lesson that was driven home to John F. Kennedy during the Cuban missile crisis: When it …
Hagel Channels Eisenhower By Gordon Adams
DeM Banter: Gordon... really? Ike? Don't see it here in your article..."Strategy and planning have to follow the money, not the other way around." What is your desired end state, shouldn't that be the question? Ways, ends, and means...it is really an equation where money is a factor, but not the end state. I guess …
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More Cuts Ahead For Pentagon, Hagel Says By Craig Whitlock
DeM Banter: Do we cut and then develop a strategy/plan or do we develop a strategy and then cut to meet it? Wondering Where the Lions Are...and...that's all I am going to say about that... Washington Post April 4, 2013 Pg. 1 Defense secretary warns that military must rein in soaring costs Defense Secretary Chuck …
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Game of Drones by Victor Davis Hanson
DeM Banter: interesting piece on the history, timelines, and controversy over RPAs... For a risk-averse, budget-cutting United States, the new technology offers an ideal way forward in the fight against terrorism. The biographer Plutarch tells an anecdote that, in the fourth century B.C., the Spartan King Archidamus, at the sight of a revolutionary new catapult, …
Priorities: How’s the Family? DeMarco Banter
I recently started a new part-time gig...teaching online courses in Leadership and Command for the USAF's Air Command and Staff College. We have an intro where students introduce themselves and I am always impressed when they place their qualification as a husband, wife, mom or dad in their remarks...so we get things like C-17 Globemaster …
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