The dot.com revolution had begun transforming global commerce and culture, and military thinking was infected with viral ideas about how wireless networks might change warfare.
Old military thinking about numbers has been overtaken thoroughly by events.
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Staff Sergeant JASON RICHTER (U.S. Marine Corps): They've had a lot of exposure to the Soviet style and philosophy of military thinking, which is very different from Western style.
Boosting troop numbers to deter illegal logging and ranching would thus be a return to two old modes of military thinking: defending the forests from invaders and extending the reach of the state.
The military thinking behind a cruiser such as the Ticonderoga class is to create an offensive warship that will also provide defensive firepower for a carrier group or amphibious operation under air or sea attack.
During World War II and the Cold War the military thinking was that, should an invasion happen, tens of thousands of infantry would sacrifice themselves defending Switzerland's borders, perhaps even only for a short time, while the rest would withdraw into vast bunkers in the Alps, from where they would fight on.
If lessons learned then had been incorporated into military and political thinking, it would have injected a much needed dose of realism at an early stage.
The speech was billed as just one in a series questioning the thinking of the military services, but in retrospect it was something more: the opening salvo in a public debate about the future of the Marine Corps.
Of course the military came away from the war thinking it was a jolly good system.
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Later, as President and CEO of Bacardi North America, I found that the military ethos remained a part of my thinking and managerial approach.
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NATO, which has spent half a century preparing for war, how much more true of the European Union, whose culture of horse-trading (my fish quota for your opt-out on social policy) is poorly suited to the sober, decisive thinking needed to run a military campaign.
It covers the basics and includes a section about financial aid for students thinking about pursuing careers in the military, as well as veterans and their dependents.
They help strengthen our relationships by harmonizing our thinking and our assessment of threats and military requirements.
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Mr. MORRIS: Vecchione joined the Army in 2001, and was thinking of making a career in the military.
They are forward-thinking decision makers in banks, the military, government, health, robotics, space exploration, marine biology and many other categories.
Incredibly, the fact that this might still be an "important" objective of the old Soviet military-industrial apparatus is as absent from the thinking of senior Clinton Administration policy-makers as it was from their predecessors' during the Bush-Gorbachev years.
It would be equally unwise for Mr. Sharif to try forcing rapid change on the military, another person familiar with the army leadership's thinking said.
But so will his enthusiasm for the UK and the rest of Europe to take the lead in some parts of the world, with Libya as a precise example of the way he is thinking - France and the UK to the fore of military action, the US deliberately hanging back.
The idea of military tribunals worries many of America's European allies, including those thinking of extraditing terrorist suspects.
So when Jill and I launched Joining Forces and we first started thinking about how to improve health care for our veterans and military families, it was very clear that we needed to call on all of you -- America's nurses and nursing students.
Allen's thinking described Ms. Kelley as a wealthy socialite who was friendly with many top military commanders in Tampa, home of the U.S. Central Command, which Gen.
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But when concerns with those kinds of statements could no longer be ignored, DOD responded by issuing a narrowly focused, technocratic, and purely defensive position that fails to demonstrate any serious thinking about the nature of cyberpower and how it relates to the other elements of military and national power.
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The report noted Pakistan's "fresh thinking" in combating terrorism, hailing President Pervez Musharraf's cooperation with the United States in its military campaign against the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
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