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On War # 313: War of Exhaustion or War of Maneuver?

Posted in Strategy, tagged , on August 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »

William S. Lind
25 August 2009
The war in Afghanistan appears to have settled into the category Delbrueck called “wars of exhaustion.” If it remains there, the U.S. cannot win. The American people will become exhausted long before the Pashtun do. In this respect America’s situation is similar to that Germany faced in World War I. Germany [...]

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This month’s top leader award goes too…FEMA’s Craig Fugate

Posted in Adaptability, Leadership, Learning Organizations, tagged , , on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200909/fema
Once a month, I will post something about a great leader, someone who by their selfless service, hard work, intellegence, and foresight, are contributing to our society.
The month of August’s leader is the new FEMA leader Craig Fugate. This was one of the President’s good appointments. Unlike, and in contrast the one he made for [...]

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Best article I have seen on Health Care issue.

Posted in How to develop adaptability, Learning Organizations, tagged , , on August 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »

My apologies for being absent for a while. After a lot of travel to push ALM at different locations, I returned home to assist my wife in readying for major surgery this Monday the 31st of August to clear blockage from her Aerota, and put stints in her two legs so she can walk without [...]

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Auerback Trilogy: Is Weimar America About to Auger In?

Posted in Strategy, tagged , , , , on August 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Auerback Trilogy: Is Weimar America About to Auger In?
That more an more people are becoming fed up with the incestuous let-them-eat-cake politics of Versailles on the Potomac and Versailles on the Hudson raises the possibility of some kind of insurrection, be it from the left or the right or both. In the August 14-16 edition [...]

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Droning On — Remote-Controlled Mayhem Does Not Win Wars

Posted in Uncategorized on August 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Lind is right about the Pentagon being a bank. It’s a really brilliant formulation.
However, Lind misunderstands the nature of current conflict. What is happening in Iraq or Afghanistan does not fit into some new, nifty paradigm whether called “hybrid war” or fourth generation war or any other loaded term. Contemporary military interventions in the name [...]

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Back to West Point to be part of the OBTE and ALM Workshop…

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on August 3, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I love going up to West Point, NY this time of year, but anytime. I am so blessed. This is my fifth trip in the last year.
I have now made friends up there, as well as love working with the leaders and cadre of the Department of Military Instruction (DMI). Also, my friend and [...]

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Out of Iraq by Next Year?

Posted in Strategy on August 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

The New York Times hosts a series of vignettes on the now-famous memo by Col Timothy Reese.  Contributors run the range of opinion from Tony Cordesman and Stephen Biddle, who advise a prolonged occupation, to retired Army COL Doug MacGregor, who supports Reese.

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Why Wall Street is a bigger threat to the U.S. than the Taliban

Posted in Strategy, tagged , , on August 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »

http://kunstler.com/blog/2009/07/evil-syndicated.html#more
Evil Syndicated by James Kunstler
By now, everyone in that fraction of the world that pays attention to something other than American Idol and their platter of TGI Friday’s loaded potato skins knows that Goldman Sachs has been caught at another racket in the stock market: front-running trades. What a clever gambit, done with the help [...]

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