Maybe you’ve seen it before, maybe you haven’t. Still bears viewing.
As important as one of the bases for the Maritime Strategy as it is for the local school board in building its strategic vision and mapping out budgetary direction.
“Washington should show its political will and stop playing with guns on China’s doorsteps. ‘Good fences make good neighbors’ the words of the American poet Robert Frost also hold true for this relationship.” – China Daily (27 July 2011) Last week the Taiwanese press revealed an incident that occurred on the 29th of June wherein…
The New Maritime Strategy is finally on the streets — download your copy here (PDF) or here. Some quick takes whilst reviewing (feel free to leave comments below): 6 Core missions (some of which had fallen out of favor in the past, or so it seems): Forward Presence Deterrence Sea Control Power Projection Maritime Security…
NASA and other satellites monitoring and measuring the extent of the seasonal contraction of the Arctic ice pack have observed the greatest single year contraction in almost thirty years of observations. Illustration (1) below is a plot of the last two years of the ice pack. Illustration two is a composite of this years’ survey (click on…
Ed. As many know by now, the new strategy was released earlier this past week at the Naval War College and has generated a good deal of discussion. The expectation is that the level of that discussion will elevate next week around the blogsphere. In anticipation of that I asked the author if he would…
(see yesterday’s aticle re.the ’07 end of summer Arctic ice pack edge shrinkage – SJS) RUSSIAN NEWS AND INFORMATION SERVICE 23 OCT 07) MOSCOW. (RIA NOVOSTI POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT MAXIM KRANS) … The Arctic is rapidly becoming a scene of "competition and conflict for access to natural resources." This is how it is defined in A Cooperative…
A couple of articles in the open press that reveal portions of VADM Morgan’s “Three Futures, One Navy, A Portfolio Analysis” thought piece on three different futures of what the navy might look like have spurred some pretty decent discussions – again – in the Navy blogsphere, particularly over at the usual suspects. Now we…
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I had seen this before. But it certainly doesn’t hurt to watch it again.
I have not seen this before so I offer a serious thank you.
I live in a flat world and knew it though I did not realize how flat until some recent reading.
In the past week I’ve resolved a technical solution speaking to competent engineers in India and Phoenix. I resolved another issue based on the experience of people from Russia, US, and Israel.
I’m designing a website based on a system developed by thousands from across the globe, with templating from a US online company with people in the US and abroad. I recommended web hosting to a lady in N.C. that was having problems with a server in Germany. I pissed off a borderline “Celebrity” with opinions on my website and we argued and talked and now I’m going to help him with a product which proceeds benefit sick children.
I almost bought a piece of software this week from a developer in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. A country that just 15 or so years ago was part of the Soviet Union but now has US Air Forces with a base and Russian Air Forces 22 miles away in the same country.
Until last June I managed the computers and network for a public school district in a town that contains a very forward thinking Navy base. I think these kids are in someways less globally prepared than with the education I received at a DODSS school in the 80s. I think we are failing our kids. I’ve seen with my own eyes.
The world IS getting flat.
It is happening exponentially.
We need to be better prepared.
I’m 39 years old and I have a foot in each camp, before the Internet and for the past 12 years, in the internet.
Ooops – gotta run – tech support call…