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View original Battleland (Time.com) September 13, 2012 Battleland: Where military intelligence is not a contradiction in terms Fiscal restraint is en vogue and increasingly the cover many are using to push other agendas. Republicans spent a week in Tampa monitoring America’s mounting national debt at their recent convention. Democrats included a call for “tough” spending …
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It's all about the Team! By J. William DeMarco I have been lucky to work with some amazing teams. It's always a sad day when it is time to pack it up...move on and leave a powerful team, but in the military...we do that often. We talk a ton about Communication, Collaboration, and Creative Thinking...and …
Los Angeles Times September 11, 2012 Pg. 13 Shrinking defense budgets in the West are a warning sign for the U.S. When it comes to "hard power," the West is in steep decline. Virtually every nation in Europe is cutting its defense budget. Japan refuses to spend more than 1% of its gross domestic product …
DeM Banter: anything new here? ForeignPolicy.com September 12, 2012 FP National Security Foreign Policy sat down on Sept. 12 with Air Force Secretary Michael Donley, who took office four years ago after his predecessor, Michael Wynne, was fired over the service's mishandling of nuclear weapons. Donley took over an Air Force that then-Defense Secretary Robert …
view original / navytimes.com DeM Banter: Research matters.... I think... interesting to see if anyone cares besides the military... thoughts? On the last night of the Democratic National Convention, a retired Navy four-star took the stage to pay tribute to veterans. Behind him, on a giant screen, the image of four hulking warships reinforced his patriotic message. …
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DeM Banter: USAF PA just might be missing the show... Wall Street Journal September 11, 2012 Pg. 3 Armed Services Training Is Back After Exiting Some Schools Over Vietnam War BOSTON—At colleges and universities across the country, Reserve Officers' Training Corps battalions often are seen doing drills on campus. But there was nothing routine about …
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forbes.com / view original / Mike Myatt DeM Banter: Always enjoy Mike Myatt's work... love the line: "Leadership is about giving credit not taking it, breaking down barriers not building them, destroying bureaucracies not creating them, bridging positional and philosophical gaps not setting boundaries, thinking big and acting bigger, being able to focus on short-term objectives without losing …
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One of the greatest gifts I have ever received was from Senior Master Sergeant Andy Aupiu. On his retirement from the USAF he passed to me The Maxwell Leadership Bible. Doing some reading through Proverbs today.... I came across some Maxwellian concepts on powerful leaders and how they think...just thought I would share. 1) BIG: …
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Danger Room (Wired.com) September 7, 2012 Should the U.S. actually take Benjamin Netanyahu's advice and attack Iran, don't expect a few sorties flown by a couple of fighter jocks. Setting back Iran's nuclear efforts will need to be an all-out effort, with squadrons of bombers and fighter jets, teams of commandos, rings of interceptor missiles …
DeM Banter: I struggle with how long someone of such a nature can be effective...but there are the leaders mentioned below that have made the concept of being a jerk a leadership brand....so be it. These leaders would appear to be the exception, not the norm...but they do seem to get the press. Gen Patton …
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