President Obama -- an effective turnaround He inherited a depression, and what did President Obama do with it? 1. Infused the economy with money wherever he could stabilizing the...
Intelligence has not been well defined lets start with some definitions.A strategy specifies goals, their desirability and, at what likelihoods to take what actions on what (set of) conditions.Strategizing is Deviseing a set of strategies. Devising strategies consists of...
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Before IDG was born, I was publisher of Infosystems Magazine, the Magazine for Information Systems Management. That was in the 1980’s and I think I was one of the industry pioneers. I witnessed a lot and...
The Afghan Mission and Strategy is Flawed. When did it leave the original Objective? A liberal friend and former AP reporter asked me for my thoughts on the Afghanistan Mission yesterday. He wanted to...
The German strategy: keep a lid on wages to ensure that it could export its way to growth with competitive, nimble firms producing the cars and machine tools the world’s economies. Renewing manufacturing America...
This is the introduction to a story that I wrote on Examiner.com concerning governor Schwarzenegger's recent inaccurate disparaging comments about the TEA Party Movement. " This is my response to a pair of news...
Karsai predicts 5 years Obama 2 and its the money problem that rears its ugly head, how does Afghanistan pay for it new large army. Well there is black gold and plenty of gas, dig deep and they can find gold. I...
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Only two days after the President's speech at Westpoint Military Academy, the Secretary of Defence Robert Gates has acknowledged that there is no deadline in the troops withdrawal from Afghnistan. Gates...
Since President Obama's speech on Tuesday evening at West Point, there has been a lot of speculation and confusion as to the Administrations interpretation of the announced withdrawal strategy. President...
President Obama announced his strategy for Aghanistan and Pakistan last night in a speech at West Point: The strategy in a nut shell is as follows: 30,000 troop surge to fight the counter insurgency, with emphasis...
Yep of course and he said hey we are going to use 50.000 afghanistan troops and shove them on the front line, Allah is great. " President Barack Obama has spoken to his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai about the...
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Tonight at 8pm EST, President Obama will be unveiling his strategy for Afghanistan. President Obama was burning up the phone lines yesterday briefing his allies. It is widely believed that President...
Sitting on my bunk at Ft. Polk Louisiana in 1969, I was reading China on the Eve of Communist Takeover, Arthur Doak Barnett, Praeger, 1963, a book that I was assigned to read in Political Science class before...
According to White House and other officials, General Stanley McChrystal and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry have been asked to be prepared to testify before Congress as early as next week. President Obama is expected...
Plagued by accusations of fraud and ballot stuffing during the recent Afghan election, President Hamid Karzai was not seen as a viable partner for peace and cooperation in Afghanistan, The US Administration...