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Blog post - Feb 16 2012 - 5:17am - 0 comments - 0 attachments

... civilians in an unfamiliar environment. Instead, the DoD should be partnering with our nation’s preeminent institutions and ... (O-5's) and Captains (O-6's) begin to praise Rickover at briefings brought home the message of the value of a disruptive thinker who was ...

Journal Article - Apr 5 2012 - 4:36am - 94 comments

... slide presentations, charts that show improvement, and briefings with sexy photos of the damage; gun footage becomes "SOF porn." -but ... that surprised me (maybe also due to a lack of manpower vs DoD and they have to get more done or be more adaptive in their approaches than ...

Journal Article - Aug 7 2011 - 12:30pm - 83 comments

... Abstract Despite numerous briefings and mental health programs in response to the record number of ... resolve the issue, rather than a concerted effort across DOD.  Like any military mission, unity of effort and a common strategic ...

Journal Article - Feb 16 2012 - 9:25am - 3 comments

... broken. Unfortunately it's not alone, it's all through DoD and your Congress is responsible for much of that. Congress and the ... of micromanagement, risk-aversion, politically-correct briefings to CYA top leaders and commanders instead of honest discussions about ...

Blog post - Dec 23 2011 - 1:44pm - 88 comments - 0 attachments

... and it becomes self reinforcing. The Congress and DoD are not blameless in all this but the bulk of the blame -- a word of choice ... ever been with "busy work" (making slides for worthless briefings), and the busy work is distracting leaders from they should be doing. ...

Blog post - Jun 26 2011 - 7:33am - 101 comments - 0 attachments

... primary purpose of metrics unfortunately is to facilitate briefings to people who will have no impact on your mission. Got it, you have ... Unfortunately we don't have elements outside of DOD that are capable of doing this at the grass roots level, so of course the ...

Journal Article - Sep 4 2011 - 7:55am - 11 comments

... to develop TTP; the information was available in the DoD system. The problem lies far above the TTP level, however. Egos and the ... thinking about all of this in the first place. In all the briefings that I received before shipping out, I was told that, "Pashtunwali" ...

Blog post - Mar 12 2010 - 5:09pm - 91 comments - 0 attachments

... on what might be done to prevent future suicides. Those briefings occur on a monthly basis, and I attend every one of them. Let me ... account for all of the different branches of service, DoD civilians, or family members. I work hard to help others who find ...

Blog post - Jun 26 2009 - 9:03am - 9 comments - 0 attachments

... ("pictures exist") were leaked. Transcripts of those briefings and a few CNN stories are still available online. By April '04 ... via FOIA requests, and in fact is now hosted online at a DoD site here . More interesting (IMHO) than the report itself are the ...

Blog post - Aug 12 2009 - 2:00pm - 67 comments - 0 attachments