Dave Wood happens to be one of my favorite journalist as well as a friend. Why is he one of my favorite and one of the best? Because he is out there with the Soldiers and Marines constantly walking the front lines, seeing for himself what the truth is, and then telling it. As I [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Force alone not way to win
Posted in How to develop adaptability, Learning Organizations, Professional Development, tagged Adaptive Leader Methodology (ALM), Combat Applications Training Course CATC, David Wood, Army Education and Training Revolution, Outcome Based Training on December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year…
Posted in Leadership, tagged Nation's challenges, President Obama's challenges, Public service, Serving our nation on December 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I wish all of you a great Christmas, and the best for 2009. I pray for our new leadership led by President-elect Obama, and that they put service to the nation above service to self. They have an incredible challenge to change the course of our nation and get it back on track. We will never [...]
HONORÉ AS THE HEAD OF FEMA
Posted in Adaptability, Leadership, tagged Decisive leadership, Katrina, Leadership crisis in America, Lieutenant General Russ Honore on December 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As you all know, I do not endorse candidates for political office. A friend of mine, though, asked if I’d publish his broadsheet campaigning to have the Obama administration appoint retired US Army General Russ Honoré to head the Federal Emergency Management Administration. I think it’s a great idea, and since one doesn’t run for FEMA head, [...]
On War #286: America’s Defense Meltdown
Posted in Learning Organizations, Professional Development, tagged America's Defense Meltdown, Center for Defense Information (CDI), Chuck Spinney, Reform Caucus, William S. Lind, Winslow Wheeler on December 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
by William S. Lind
15 December 2008
America’s Defense Meltdown is the title of a new book on military reform, edited by Winslow Wheeler and published by the Center for Defense Information. In it, some of the leading figures from the military reform movement of the 1970’s and ‘80’s update their work and relate it to today’s [...]
Two Cheers for Rod Blagojevich
Posted in Leadership, Learning Organizations, tagged Blagojevich, Corporate Greed, Corruption, Lack of Strategic leaders, Leadership crisis in America on December 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Why doesn’t our country learn? This post was forwarded to me by my mentor and friend, Mr. Chuck Spinney. Chuck demonstrated untouchable moral courage while posted in the Pentagon’s Fighter Weapons shop. He continually reminded the establishment of the death ride it was taking on the tail of high tech weapons programs. As long as [...]
The Aimless War: Why Are We In Afghanistan?
Posted in Strategy, tagged America's Defense Meltdown, Andy Bacevich Limits of Power, Chet Richards, Strategy, War in Afghanistan on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Time
December 22, 2008
By Joe Klein
“Things have gotten a bit hairy,” admitted British Lieut. Colonel Graeme Armour as we sat in a dusty, bunkered NATO fortress just outside the city of Lashkar Gah in Helmand province, a deadly piece of turf along Afghanistan’s southern border with Pakistan. A day earlier, two Danish soldiers had been [...]
That Was No Small War in Georgia — It Was the Beginning of the End of the American Empire
Posted in Strategy, tagged America's Defense Meltdown, American Empire, Andy Bacevich, Chet Richards, Limits of Power, War in Georgia on December 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
By Mark Ames,
Radar
Posted on December 13, 2008, Printed on December 13, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/112457/
(This article was published in the final issue of Radar magazine, which was bought out and shuttered just as this issue went to print. This is the first online publication of this article. It has been updated by the author.)
Tskhinvali, South Ossetia — On [...]
Your taxpayer dollars at work
Posted in Leadership, Strategy, tagged Afghanistan, Taleban on December 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From today’s of London:
The West is indirectly funding the insurgency in Afghanistan thanks to a system of payoffs to Taleban commanders who charge protection money to allow convoys of military supplies to reach NATO bases in the south of the country.
In case it’s slipped your memory, the strategy of the current Administration, and the [...]
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