Sometimes it's all about the benjamins...
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Schmedlap
How ironic that I, the guy who posed the first, and probably worst, question recommendation would now offer the following...
None of the questions posed led me to offer those points. It just crossed my mind as I rethought what would be a good question. I think that if I were given 30 seconds notice that I were meeting with him, I'd probably just ask him: "do you think this GWOT thing is gonna work out?" or "Can you recommend stock for any particular defense contractor?"
GE @ $9.06 :eek: below book value, it's getting very ugly out there and GE capital may still have some surprises hidden up its sleeve
:eek: again.
ODB,
Question-wise Janie Davidson, Operationalizing the Comprehensive Approach: The Military as “Enabler…”, has some good ones which I can't improve upon while eating a quick lunch and surfing SWJ.
I would say her observation about functional communication among all of the players is key to our success or failure and might be something that I would mention to the Admiral:
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Information Sharing: As the stability operations manual makes clear, a comprehensive approach requires a “3C’s” approach to “coordinate, collaborate, and cooperate.” None of this can occur without a 4th C: “communicate.” Unfortunately, a competing imperative for cyber security has meant that our ability to communicate with each other within the government – much less with outside agencies – has been stymied. In the Pentagon, flash drives are outlawed and encrypted messages are sometimes blocked by the State Department. This can send frustrated government workers to their personal emails to get their jobs done, thus undermining the efforts of the IT professionals. Although the cyber threat may be real, if we cannot find ways to communicate in these civil-military environments, our efforts to operationalize the comprehensive approach will be for naught.
As an aside, it's snowing in Beijing thanks to cloud seeding. One of my friends wonders about the cost/benefit ratio for Afghanistan's water woes...
Best,
Steve