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... pay you the big bucks to know when to disobey them. I hear often that we can't expect "x" out of our junior officers or we can't do ... but let's accept it as true for the sake of argument. Now's the hard part...if the junior officer corps perceives that the general ...

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

... Note : Forgive us Chesty for we have sinned. Re: Now Hear This... (Bumped) Thank you so much for jumping in to help the ...

Blog post - Nov 6 2009 - 10:28pm - 17 comments - 0 attachments

... is not a torture, so future torturers in other countries now have an American legal basis to perform the acts. Every hostile ... about the comfort and welfare of these men, I rarely ever hear an acknowledgment that they are indeed evil, savage human beings who ...

Blog post - Oct 31 2007 - 2:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

... one thing only, Return on Investment. And in a world now driven almost solely by economics and finance we need look outwards to this ... many venture capital investments fail. We don't hear about the ones that don't succeed, but let's not forget that lots of seeds ...

Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 62 comments

... visual, flying good formation, and studying the 3-1. But now I know that senior leadership matters, and what my leadership is showing me ... what our national objectives are? It is dishartening to hear CAS called "boring meaningless holes in the sky" when every single TIC in ...

Blog post - May 14 2012 - 4:55am - 41 comments - 0 attachments

... and well-defined the idea, the more reductive it is. Now, the state of theory when it comes to material causation is much better ... to the choir---just not sure the choir is ready to hear it. Example---we have literally thrown millions of dollars at the ISR ...

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

... revolution.   Groups like The Council will now provoke new tensions in Iraq with the American withdrawal.  This ... occurred in late 2005 and early 2006 that we do not hear much about---there was massive pressure placed on Casey to "thin" down the ...

Blog post - Jan 24 2012 - 3:29pm - 41 comments - 0 attachments

... by Stephen Van Evera (Political Science, MIT), I think by now published as a book chapter (I'm not sure, but finding it should be pretty ... for more important parts of the elephant uncomfortable to hear from the one holding the tail some keen insight that requires changes to ...

Journal Article - Apr 9 2012 - 5:00am - 61 comments

... Private Danny Chen, who took his own life in Afghanistan this past October after being physically and verbally abused by up to 8 fellow ... There are many "mini revolutions" going on right now in the Army: learning, resiliency, creative thinking, etc. Counseling, ... in the article and in the comments section. If I do not hear the Nazi comment I am sure I will at least hear something like, our ...

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

... military pressure (2011 US spend on military operations). This is more than six times the entire GDP of Afghanistan and equates to $3.4 ... to have any chance of being sustainable we must now focus on three key areas; the first is the economy, the second is the ... narrative after 2008. It's still frustrating, though, to hear pundits and so-called national security experts talking with complete ...

Journal Article - May 21 2012 - 5:48am - 29 comments