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Transforming the National Security Culture. A Report of the Harvard Kennedy School s Defense Leadership Project
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1 Transforming the National Security Culture A Report of the Harvard Kennedy School s Defense Leadership Project
2 center for public leadership 2 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The team would like to express its tremendous gratitude for everyone who contributed to this project. Paulina Perepelkin, this project would not have been possible. We are especially indebted to our guest speakers who came to Harvard to discuss these issues freely and candidly. Their keen insight offered an education that only deepened what we received in the classroom. General David Petraeus demonstrated his personal commitment to developing the next generation of leaders speaking with us via teleconference from Iraq during one of the most trying times of the war. Sir, we are profoundly grateful for your time. We would also like to thank the Department of Social Sciences at West Point for its guidance, Donald and Betsy Dixon and the Center for Public Leadership for their generous financial support; and Professor David Gergen for his unflagging encouragement. A special thanks to the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College for their kind assistance with research. Last, but by no means least, we would like to thank the men and women who serve daily within the national security community. For the Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Marine, and Coast Guardsman, to the intelligence officer, strategist, diplomat, development worker, and federal agent, we offer this simple report in the hope that a few of its ideas might make your jobs easier, safer, or more rewarding.
3 Transforming the National Security Culture A Report of the Harvard Kennedy School s Defense Leadership Project Contents Preface 3 Foreword 4 Executive Summary 6 Introduction 9 The Questions Defined 10 Leadership Implications 16 Internal Obstacles 20 Policy Recommendations 26 Student Biographies 36 Distinguished Guest Panelists 41
5 Transforming the national security culture Preface 3 April, 2009 General Edward C. Meyer, former Army Chief of Staff, has compared our best leaders to diamonds. Just as the diamond requires three properties for its formation carbon, heat, and pressure successful leaders require the interaction of three properties character, knowledge, and application. We at the Harvard Kennedy School seek to foster an environment in which our student leaders can develop their character, expand their knowledge, and launch into promising career trajectories through the application of newly polished skills for the benefit of our nation s security. The Harvard Kennedy School Defense Leadership Project is a proud example of the work that can be produced in this environment. As we seek to generate and promote more effective leadership in national security policy, we are deeply committed to bridging the gap between leadership theory and practice. Supporting collaborative thinking among experts in the field is critical to this objective. The student-generated Defense Leadership Project aptly sought to address a critical shortfall in national security leadership through its collaborative endeavor. As this report attests, the Defense Leadership Project specifically created unprecedented opportunities for reflection and discovery for students and prominent practitioners from different disciplines, sectors, and cultures to elicit proactive solutions to tomorrow s challenges. Well-trained and equipped leaders sharing collaborative mentalities are paramount for successfully preserving our national security. The combined support of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, and the Center for Public Leadership speaks to the shared belief in the importance of this initiative, and the associated recommendations. We applaud the students involved in the Defense Leadership Project and the energy this team put into organizing guest speakers and writing this report. We hope our nation s leaders might draw from their informed and insightful findings. David Gergen Center for Public Leadership Sarah Sewall Carr Center for Human Rights Graham Allison Belfer Center for Science and International Security
6 center for public leadership 4 Foreword When the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School brings together graduate students and national security students at Harvard military veterans, homeland security officials, intelligence officers, private security contractors, and others in a Defense Leadership Project, one expects powerful results as they work with distinguished guest panelists. After all, it s Harvard, the Kennedy School, David Gergen s Center for Public Leadership, and our own country s security leaders. We have great expectations. Rarely do results of such an intellectual engagement provide the call to action that this report delivers. Not an academic treatise, this is a tough report by people on the ground, across the sectors, examining every aspect of the defense community, and this is the powerful result. And it s all about leadership, the leaders of the future required right across the national security community, to lead, respond, mobilize, inspire, build the alliances and partnerships an uncertain future demands in the emerging security environment. The formal recommendations the panel makes in this report are sobering and illuminating and fall into four categories: Finding critical talent Transforming talent into institutional capability Reforming the existing organization to promote balance and interoperability Accelerating generational change. Three powerful messages flow through the recommendations, the rationale, and the call to action in this report: A massive need for change in the national security organizations and community to prepare our leaders to meet future threats Emerging leaders, the new generation of national security professional workers, will generate the change essential to meet evolving challenges The inspiring ideas will come from bright young minds committed to our security establishment who know change is the leadership imperative of our time.
7 Transforming the national security culture 5 Peter Drucker once said, I never predict. I simply look out the window and see what is visible but not yet seen. At Harvard, our Defense Leadership Project team performed an essential function, essential if we are to sustain the democracy. They looked out the window and in their report describe what is visible to them, not yet seen by most. It is a call for the transformation of our National Security establishment not by outside critics, but by the people of the system, within the walls, called to serve, committed to the mission, determined to provide the greatest security system in the most cohesive security community. It is a call for massive change. A civilian honored to be writing this preface is grateful to the young men and women, the emerging leaders of the security establishment, who bring this report to us, grateful that action will follow their vision of the future of our country s security, the future of our country. May I end with a message of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, quoted in this report, that closes with, An unconventional era of warfare requires unconventional thinkers. Delete warfare and we have another great battle cry for all of us: an unconventional era requires unconventional thinkers. And, we would add, requires principled leaders of the future at every level of every institution if we are to sustain the democracy. The Defense Leadership Report and the Defense Leadership Project team lead the way, and we are grateful. Frances Hesselbein Chairman, Board of Governors, Leader to Leader Institute
8 center for public leadership 6 Executive Summary The Defense Leadership Project was an innovative study group sponsored by Harvard Kennedy School s Center for Public Leadership. It was formed by combining the energy of national security students at Harvard University with the wisdom of distinguished guest panelists from senior levels of government and academia. The graduate students who initiated the program were deeply concerned that leaders within the defense community were increasingly ill-equipped to understand, visualize, or respond effectively to the modern security environment. Composed mainly of midcareer students with fresh operational experience, the group included military veterans, homeland security officials, intelligence officers, private security contractors, and many others. While the diverse backgrounds certainly produced many differing opinions regarding national security, this team of rivals unanimously agreed on the need for more adaptive, strategically minded leadership in our defense community. To this end, they asked themselves: How can the defense community develop leaders at all levels capable of operating effectively in the emerging security environment? Specifically, what policies can be undertaken to promote a culture within the national security community that recruits, develops, and promotes leaders who are adaptable, interagency-minded, and comfortable operating across complex ethnic, religious, linguistic, and socioeconomic borders? The panel explored the trends shaping the security environment. We face a an Era of Persistent Conflict, in which local and regional frictions, fueled by the economic disruptions and demographic shifts of globalization, are exploited by extremists to damage U.S. security interests abroad. At the same time, however, conventional threats and peer competitors are vigorously developing technologies that are leading to new threats in space and cyberspace. Bearing in mind this emerging environment, the panel identified several key leadership factors that will become increasingly important for our national security leaders to acknowledge. Specialized, multidisciplinary knowledge The lack of a monolithic enemy and the complex cultural terrain involved in irregular warfare will likely force individual leaders and operators to learn or rapidly access a high degree of specialized, but multidisciplinary knowledge. Understanding of Norms vs. Procedures The threat of catastrophic terrorism and the difficulty in predicting a future threat with any degree of certainly will require ad hoc task forces and working groups from various institutions that can work together effectively based on established norms rather than bureaucratic rules and regulations. Police Investigative Skills The threat of catastrophic terrorism has placed ever greater importance on the early disruption of terrorist networks and the effective processing of criminal evidence from disparate sources; these demands have shifted much of the burden of traditional police work onto nonpolice actors such as the military and private contractors.
9 Transforming the national security culture 7 Language and Culture The importance of language and culture in counterinsurgency and irregular warfare makes it critical that these skills be institutionalized in existing combat units through regional specializations. Media savvy The 24-hour news cycle, the growth of the new media, and the expanded access to television and internet within the developing world are causing a seismic shift in the importance of media savvy and information operations throughout the national security community. Corporate Social Responsibility The ever-expanding reach and interconnectivity of the global marketplace will force our multinational corporations to become de facto informal ambassadors, and will require an understanding of the private sector s informal public diplomacy potential. Individual Adaptability, Creativity, and Intellectual Capacity Leaders at the lowest level must be trusted to receive strategic guidance with minimal details and be able to apply their own creative reasoning and judgment to meet the strategic end-state. Building upon these leadership requirements, the panel developed the following policy ideas: Finding critical talent: recruiting, retaining, and promoting the right leaders Develop new recruiting criteria for stability, reconstruction, and irregular warfare-intensive jobs. Move away from a ticket-punching, careerist mindset and allow for specialization and/or crossover if desired. Reform the existing report card scheme for leaders and incorporate 360 evaluations. Investigate individualized benefits packages to retain high performers. Enlist the help of academia, stateside institutions, and centers of excellence. Expand the number of viable paths to public service for promising individuals. Transforming talent into institutionalized capability Develop institutionalized regional expertise. Implement a system for early language/culture designation for new military personnel. Increase opportunities for graduate-level study among junior/midlevel military officers. Reinvigorate strategic thinking at the junior leader level. Expand situational cross-training opportunities with local law enforcement, anthropologists, criminologists, border patrol, etc. Support the concept of a National Public Service Academy, or a similar institutionalized education program for the interagency.
10 center for public leadership 8 Reforming existing organizations to promote balance and interoperability Re-examine the coordination mechanisms, laws, and patterns of interaction between multinational corporations and U.S. embassies abroad. Develop a program for community education and participation: Build a neighborhood watch on steroids. Reform contracting within federal agencies and the national security industrial base. Accelerating generational change Expand the Army s Center for Lessons Learned concept across agencies. Expand regional/cultural learning opportunities. Implement a system for manual override in promotion boards and key assignments Implementing these changes will not be easy. There are significant internal obstacles that the national security community must overcome in order to effect credible change. These recommendations are only a beginning, and not a complete solution. Above all, the purpose of the project was to stimulate thinking, generate new ideas, and seed the debate over future policy. The task now falls to senior leaders to consider these proposals, promote change, and explore the limits of what is possible.
11 Transforming the national security culture Introduction 9 In late winter 2007, a small group of veterans attending Harvard University decided to challenge the status quo. Frustrated by their experiences overseas and what they perceived as a lack of innovative leadership within their own organizations, they sought to develop new ideas. They wanted to create something the business world would call a skunk works, an autonomous group of creative thinkers, charged with working on advanced projects. Enlisting the help of three separate research centers at Harvard the Center for Public Leadership, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy (which also had played a role in the publication of the Army s new counterinsurgency manual), and the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs the students took their proposal to the larger student body. At a special reception for all Harvard graduate students who had served (or were serving) within the national security community, the students announced open applications for an initiative they called the Defense Leadership Project sponsored by the Harvard Kennedy School s Center for Public Leadership. The response from the crowd which had been full of veterans returned from combat tours, homeland security officials, intelligence analysts, private security consultants, and others was overwhelming. Applications poured in, and after selecting the most talented, experienced, and creative individuals, the panel set to work defining its mission. The students almost immediately came to realize that most of their frustrations were rooted in leadership and organizational culture. In their eyes, the national security establishment was facing a major crisis: leaders at all levels were routinely ill-equipped to understand, visualize, or respond effectively to the modern security environment. The problem was one of adaptation: decades of Cold War doctrine and thinking had left behind a sense of unassailable institutional inertia. Despite the undeniable rise of asymmetric threats such as insurgents, terrorists, militias, and other nonstate actors, the defense establishment had continued to invest overwhelmingly in preparations for traditional, conventional warfare. While many blue ribbon panels and study groups have been convened since 9/11 to develop recommendations for the security establishment, few have focused on the role of the individual leader. New organizational models and next-generation technologies may improve our nation s readiness, but in the humble opinion of the students success or failure would be defined by the ability of individual leaders to operate effectively with minimal guidance, adapt, and collaborate across traditional institutional stovepipes. In other words, victory will not be gained by overwhelming our enemies with brute force, but by empowering our leaders to innovate faster than the enemy can respond. The panel s methodology would be simple: Invite senior level defense leaders to Harvard for closed door, nonattribution, and brutally honest discussions. Combine the enthusiasm and on the ground perspective of the students with the strategic outlook of decision makers and experts. Develop bluesky solutions, record notes for every session, and eventually, write the proposals into a report intended for senior policy makers. This booklet is the end result of our efforts. We respectfully submit these recommendations for your consideration, in the hope that a few of the ideas might prove useful or inspire further inquiry.
12 center for public leadership 10 THE QUESTIONs DEFINED This project focused squarely on leadership within the national security community. While organizations and processes will inevitably remain flawed and prone to weakness, if the men and women charged with protecting the country are individually capable of in the words of Harvard s Ronald Heifetz stepping onto the balcony to view their stovepiped organizations and institutional charters from a bigpicture perspective, then a unified effort is still possible. The problem then becomes developing leaders who can see beyond their own parochial interests, break away from established traditions, and make sense of the uncertain and dynamic operating environment. In other words: Cochairs of the Defense Leadership Project Paula Broadwell and Fernando Lujan, second and fourth from right, respectively, Carr Center director Sarah Sewall, and Center for Public Leadership director David Gergen participate in a video teleconference with General Petraeus from Iraq. How can the defense community develop leaders at all levels capable of operating effectively in the emerging security environment? Specifically, what policies can be undertaken to promote a culture within the national security community that recruits, develops, and promotes leaders who are adaptable, interagency-minded, and comfortable operating across complex ethnic, religious, linguistic, and socioeconomic borders? Before grappling with potential solutions, the panel first spent several sessions developing a greater understanding of the security environment. Almost immediately we realized that the nature of the threat faced by our nation is as much about internal bureaucratic politics as it is about shadowy, ruthless enemies. Our nation has become so overwhelmingly powerful at traditional warfare that no rivals dare compete on the same playing field; superior technology, firepower, and resources would make short work of any conventional enemy. Instead, our opponents guiding rule for years to come will be to fight us in places where our raw advantage in strength is meaningless: look for gaps in coverage, exploit the seams between our various agencies and among international partners, use low-cost technology to strike at our increasingly brittle (vulnerable to disruption) infrastructure. Our own massive bureaucracy, still largely structured to defend against major state-based threats, is a dangerous liability. To be successful, the next generation of national security professionals must be as competent at overcoming inevitable institutional obstacles as they are at understanding the enemy.
13 Transforming the national security culture IMAGINING THE THREAT 11 National security experts are virtually unanimous in predicting that the next several decades will reflect persistent conflict where local and regional frictions, fueled by the economic disruptions and demographic shifts of globalization and other emerging trends, are exploited by extremists to support objectives that are contrary to core national interests and the security of the United States. Other experts point to future space and cyber wars that could seriously affect the U.S. economy and key national infrastructure. The combination of new technologies and new tactical opportunities has fundamentally altered the international security paradigm, raising key questions for the next generation of US national security leaders. How has the threat changed? Does this change challenge or support long-held notions of military and interagency leadership? While we believe the threat has changed with the rapid pace of globalization, we recognize that the future threat environment will continue to present conventional challenges as well as asymmetric threats. The fight over how to fight seems a prevalent concern in the 21st century. Balance is today s watchword. The American military must continue to modernize and prepare for the possibility of a big war against a rising regional power sometime in the future. However, given today s realities, a major shift in emphasis is needed towards what military planners call stability operations and irregular warfare defined by the struggle for legitimacy and control over a population. In these types of campaigns, conflict is primarily political in nature and centers on winning the support of the people. Tanks, bombs, and next-generation fighters, while still important, are not the primary tools that will enable us to win in such environments. The human element is the most important in other words, the leader who understands insurgency, can speak the local language, can build rapport and work with peers in other agencies, NGOs, or from other countries. For the kinds of challenges America will face, the Armed Forces will need principled, creative, reformminded leaders men and women who want to do something, not be somebody. An unconventional era of warfare requires unconventional thinkers. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates April 21, 2008 The natural tension over which type of conflict to prepare for has created a generational divide in the American military between the old guard, which generally remains focused on all-out combat and overwhelming firepower, and a new guard, which has revived the study of counterinsurgency and predicted the rise of so-called Fourth Generation Warfare, characterized by a blurring of the lines between war and politics, soldier and civilian. Regardless of which camp proves to be more correct, this panel points to the rise of several trends that national security leaders should study and prepare to address. TRENDS Defense leaders who visited our group are on the right track, according to a future threats analysis. The following items were addressed during our panel discussions. The evidence cited leaves little room to question the persistent threat each presents. Globalization has blurred the lines between the foreign and the domestic and reduced the utility of military force as the primary instrument of national power. Increased global connectivity and technological advances will have dramatic and positive effects on global prosperity, but they can also be used to export terror around the world. Globalization has allowed nonstate actors to gain important capabilities in economic, informational, and even military and diplomatic positions that rival or even exceed those of nation states. These trends also create an increasingly diverse array of potential partners among NGOs and private firms.
14 center for public leadership 12 Fourth Generation Warfare blurs the lines between war and politics, between soldier and civilian. Technology serves as a double-edged sword when terrorists employ innovations that improve the quality of life only to destroy those lives. In this regard, we need to rethink command philosophy in the information age and how it relates to countering threats communicated through chat rooms, blogs, and new forms of media that allow for rapid dissemination of information. These advances are not just threats to our defense; they can also be opportunities for offense if we can adapt our existing structures and ways of thinking. At the same time, an increased reliance on technology in every sector of society creates new vulnerabilities to cyber attacks in which isolated individuals have the ability to seriously harm communications, air and ground transportation, banking, electricity delivery, and defense capabilities, with serious economic and security-related consequences. Demographic changes also influence the emerging security environment. Population growth will increase opportunities for instability, radicalism, and extremism as populations of some lessdeveloped countries will almost double in size by 2020 most notably in Africa, the Middle East, and South and Southeast Asia. The lack of jobs and sufficient government services created by this youth bulge will make vulnerable populations especially susceptible to anti-government and radical ideologies. At the same time, Europe s population will decline, thereby affecting the capabilities of our allies. Urbanization will be accompanied by chronic unemployment, overcrowding, pollution, poor health and sanitation, and a shortage of other basic services, which will add to population dissatisfaction and increase the destructive charm of radical ideologies. Population density facilitates the rapid spread of rumors among crowds ambivalent toward U.S. actions and intentions, magnifying our mistakes. As the battlegrounds move from fields to streets, precision in every sense of the word is becoming a tactical and strategic necessity.
15 Transforming the national security culture Resource demand for energy, water, and food for growing populations will increase competition and, potentially, conflict. Natural resources especially water, gas, and oil are finite; by 2030, energy consumption is expected to exceed production. Demand for water doubles every 20 years, and by 2015, 40 percent of the world s population will live in water-stressed countries, especially in the Middle East and Africa. The crisis in Darfur, according to the UN Secretary General Ban-Ki-Moon, is attributable to water shortage, while China s growing reliance on foreign oil props up problematic regimes in Khartoum and Tehran. In addition, America s reliance on foreign nations for its own fuel limits our options and makes energy security a major concern. Understanding resource demands and acting preventatively may reduce the future burden of responding to conflict and crisis. 13 Climate change, natural disasters, and public health threats will compound already difficult conditions in developing countries, causing humanitarian crises, regionally destabilizing population migrations, and the risk of epidemic diseases. Desertification is occurring at nearly thousand square miles per year. More than 15 million people die each year from communicable diseases, and these numbers may grow exponentially as urban densities increase. Natural disasters will continue to plague societies, with the potential for ever-greater loss of life and property. The massive cyclone causing tens of thousands of deaths in Burma demonstrated how politically charged even humanitarian aid delivery can be. Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction increases the potential for catastrophic attacks that will be globally destabilizing, thereby undercutting the confidence that spurs economic development. There are more than 1,100 identified terrorist organizations; we know that some of them, most notably Al Qaeda, are actively seeking weapons of mass destruction. Horizontal, interstate nuclear proliferation is another concern, as evidenced by ties between North Korea and Syria. With today s availability of information, chemical weapons can be relatively simple to make yet difficult to detect and trace. Advances in biotechnology will allow for new weapons capabilities, and in a relatively short time the civilized world may be confronted by nonstate actors armed with super-flu type biological agents. Space presents many unknowns along with the allure of a new horizon. Today, space weapons are again being considered by the United States and a few other countries because of a perceived vulnerability of critical space assets to possible attack by states with medium- or long-range missiles. However, there is widespread international opposition to the weaponization of space, and any advances by the U.S. in this area must be made carefully. As more states pursue and achieve space technology, America s competitive edge will diminish, but new opportunities for cooperative research will emerge. Terrorists and criminal networks, while operating among some of the same people and using some of the same methods, have very different goals and do not necessarily trust each other. Human, drug, and arms trafficking pose vigorous threats to America s security and values in terms of both their direct effect and the revenue they provide. Corruption is a threat to good governance and makes stability elusive in many parts of the world. Yet criminals driven by money are perhaps not as dangerous as those driven by ideology who are willing to target civilians directly via methods such as suicide bombing. Conventional threats remain. As the Pentagon tries to prepare the U.S. military for the future, many military planners are looking to China as the next potential large-scale threat to the United States. The Defense Department s most recent assessment of China s power raises concerns about China s military modernization and contends Beijing could one day try to dominate Asia or challenge [W]e imagine the brewing threats of perfect storms of failed governments, ethnic stratification, religious violence, humanitarian disasters, regional crises, and the proliferation of dangerous weapons. We see lagging economies, unintegrated and disenfranchised populations, transnational crime, illicit subnational power structures, and destabilizing bulges of uneducated and unemployed youth. Joint Operating Concept Irregular Combat manual
16 center for public leadership 14 U.S. hegemony. Others insist that such talk is self-fulfilling and that our thinking of China only as a threat will cause China to see the U.S. the same way, thereby increasing the likelihood of war. In this sense, factions and ambiguity within the U.S. government, in addition to the sometimes divergent interests of contractors, may threaten the United States ability to send proper signals to the international community. At the same time, Russia s recent invasion of Georgia has left many analysts far more uncertain about the region s trajectory. Will we see a return of the old U.S. Russia rivalry? Without undermining the need to prepare for conventional war, we must prepare for the security threats inherent in failed or failing states, such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Somalia, or Burma. According to the 2007 Foreign Policy Failing States Index, failing states dot every continent. Governments of both megacities and nation states are finding it increasingly difficult to provide effective support to growing populations. Unable or unwilling to maintain control over their territory, failed or failing state governments will cede control over populations and territory to preserve their own hold on power. These compromises can provide safe havens in which global or regional terrorist groups prepare, foment, and export terror. At the same time, our group does not believe that tipping the capability balance to fighting small wars exclusively will serve as a panacea. It is already clear that the interaction of new challenges ideology and irregular warfare, environment and ethnic conflict, energy resources and conventional war is increasingly broadening the scope of most security challenges beyond the purview of any single US agency. In order to confront these threats, the US national security establishment will have to operate more effectively in coordinated, multidisciplinary operations that draw from multiple agencies and departments. The challenge of interagency coordination is exacerbated by the fact that the planning, funding, culture, and traditional core missions of government agencies vary widely. There have been successful efforts to integrate government at the margins notably USSOUTHCOM but there is no coherent, national-level effort to harmonize the full range of resources available to national security officials. It remains difficult for the military, State Department and USAID to plan and cooperate on the ground. There is still need for decentralized leadership both, the ability to make decisions in the field and having leaders who can delegate that authority, but with sufficient coordination to ensure that every agency is working toward the same long-term goal.
17 Transforming the national security culture Vignette: The Importance of Media and Civic Engagement Strategies 15 In early 2006, before mainstream media had fully begun to report on Iran s pervasive influence within Iraq, a coalition civil affairs team was planning a large opening ceremony to celebrate the completion of a new water purification plant. The plant, situated in the Iraqi border town of Al Kut, had been several months in the making and came at a considerable cost in labor and funding. The ceremony, which was to be held in the morning, was expected to have hundreds if not thousands of attendees present, and the coalition had gone to great lengths to hang banners promoting the project s sponsors. However, when the time came for the ceremony, only a handful of people showed. The Iraqi governor and mayor gave their speeches, and the coalition officers present assumed that perhaps security concerns had scared away other civilians. The real reason behind the lackluster showing was much more discouraging and insidious: the morning ceremony was never intended for the public. Only a few hours later, after the coalition forces had left the site, the governor and mayor returned to hold a second ceremony this time with a crowd of over a thousand present. However, instead of the pro-coalition banners, Iranian flags and posters hung from the walls. The entire project was credited to the Iranian government, which had ostensibly invested on behalf of its humble neighbors. Regardless of subsequent attempts by the coalition to discredit the ceremony, in the minds of the populace, Iran built the plant. The fact that coalition dollars paid for the materials and labor was irrelevant. This type of multiecheloned, well-coordinated propaganda and reconstruction operation by Iran is unfortunately not a rarity it is merely a sign of things to come. And bombs, guns, tanks, and jet fighters are utterly ineffective against it. A few months later, Hizballah another Iranian proxy provided an even clearer example of the protean insurgent enemy s stunning potential. During the July 2006 Tammuz War, Hizballah reacted with incredible effectiveness to every major kinetic attack launched by the Israelis. In the words of one participant, Every time Israel dropped a precision-guided bomb, Hizballah s media arm al Manar was there to film the supposed atrocity. Their social services arm was there to dispense a stipend to the families of the martyrs. Their medical arm was there to care for the wounded. Their recruiters were there to enlist new volunteers. Only months later, the party s construction arm had already begun rebuilding new, beautiful buildings out of the craters. Yellow Hizballah flags were hanging from every scaffold. They simply turned Israel s brute strength into their own advantage. One can scarcely think of a more prescient warning about naked military force in the new security environment. Even the most effective, textbookperfect military raid can be turned into a strategic defeat by a savvy enemy. Future military campaigns will routinely require an accompanying media and civic engagement strategy and the collaboration of many nontraditional actors.
18 center for public leadership 16 LEADERSHIP IMPLICATIONS As one DLP guest speaker iterated, strategic leadership involves getting the big ideas right. Future leaders, in this individual s mind, should focus efforts in the following areas: secure and serve the people understand the human terrain; hold areas that have been secured; employ all assets; pursue the enemy relentlessly; defeat the network, not just the attack; promote reconciliation identify/separate reconcilables from irreconcilables; seek sustainable solutions; manage expectations and be first with the truth; finally, prepare for and exploit opportunities. Regardless of what specific policy decisions are made in the future, the panel concluded that in terms of leadership these aforementioned trends, and an emphasis on exploiting strengths and capabilities as well as enemy weaknesses, place a premium on the following: Specialized Knowledge: The lack of a monolithic enemy and the complex cultural terrain involved in irregular warfare will likely force individual leaders and operators to learn (or be able to rapidly access) a high degree of specialized knowledge. Unpredictable future conflicts may suddenly require experts in an obscure language to be teamed with heavy construction engineers, regional intelligence analysts, anthropologists, historians, election officials, and many others. While some of this knowledge can be institutionally maintained within the existing national security apparatus, the unpredictable surge nature of this requirement suggests that traditional boundaries separating private sector from public sector, military from civilian, and academia from the battlefield will become less relevant. Getting talented individuals with the right skills and knowledge to the right place fast enough to influence the conflict will become more important than traditional troop deployments. Clearly defined norms instead of rules and regulations: To paraphrase a well-known quote, irregular warfare, like politics, makes strange bedfellows. Contractors, NGOs, IGOs, multinational corporations, the military, intelligence agencies, local citizens, the State Department, and dozens of other actors will frequently find themselves working in relatively ad hoc organizations, with unclear lines of authority, and often for different objectives. While many projects within the government are attempting to clean up this arrangement and minimize ad hoc collaborations, the panel finds it utterly unrealistic to believe that this phenomenon will ever be eliminated entirely. Future
19 Transforming the national security culture 17 crises can simply not be predicted well enough to prepare for every contractual and legal eventuality. A great deal more work must be done to establish norms rather than procedures for our institutions. In other words, what roles and missions should our respective professions be charged with? The proverbial elephant in the room is lack of civilian capacity. The past seven years have seen an undeniable growth explosion in the Defense Department s role, particularly in terms of development work and reconstruction. Simply put, no other agency was prepared to meet the overwhelming need in Afghanistan and Iraq. But as the new administration comes to power and the 111th Congress goes to work rebalancing resources (indeed, a new Foreign Assistance Act is already in the works), what should be our core capabilities? How has the so-called Civ-Mil relationship evolved in the face of Provincial Reconstruction Teams and interagency task forces? Moreover, once these normative concepts are developed via debate in our political institutions, the resulting ideas must be clearly conveyed and incorporated into the military and interagency professional ethic. Rather than consult complex legal codes and regulations in uncertain situations, leaders should have a firm grasp on the spirit of the law and their organization s fundamental role within the national security apparatus. Police/ investigative skills: The increasingly destructive potential of proliferated technology in the hands of terrorists is rapidly stripping away any margin of error. Much like the protagonists in the movie Minority Report, our national security professionals are placed in the precarious position of trying to disrupt terrorist plans before they can be executed, rather than gathering evidence after the fact. As a liberal democratic society, the U.S. cannot easily lower the burden of proof in such U.S. Special Operations Forces are experts at working by, with, and through the local populace.
20 center for public leadership 18 investigations without serious political and ideological costs. This environment places exceptional importance on investigative skills and the open flow of information. As one participant remarked, We can t even control a crime scene in Washington, D.C. How are we supposed to control one on a mountain in Afghanistan or a farm in East Africa much less expect that evidence to find its way across agencies to the right hands in the U.S., then be handled by people with the right clearances and the know-how to apply it properly. Put simply, more leaders need to understand the investigative process and its legal peculiarities, and critical connections need to be established between domestic authorities and various actors abroad. Language and culture: One of the most fundamental lessons that has been learned and re-learned in counterinsurgency campaigns is the paramount importance of cultural understanding and language ability. Unfortunately, the military s existing modular structure deploys units overseas in response to a contingency with only minimal language and cultural training (usually done briefly as part of a predeployment sequence). If the military is to take counterinsurgency and irregular warfare seriously, a great deal more investment is needed to institutionalize these skills in existing combat units. The process will take years, require habitual deployment within a region, and cannot be rushed after an emergency develops. Moreover, the same institutionalized skills will be just as important in nonmilitary agencies assigned the political main effort in stability operations. Leaders, regardless of whether they wear a uniform, will commonly be required to build rapport and establish relationships across complex cultural boundaries. Media savvy: The 24-hour news cycle, the growth of new media, and the expanded access to television and internet within the developing world, are causing a seismic shift in the importance of media savvy and information operations throughout the national security community. As one panelist explained: Driving around remote areas in Iraq, you see a land still in Biblical times farmers in the fields working with a hand plow, mud huts but the other thing you notice is a satellite dish on top of every home. In this environment, even a perfectly executed tactical operation or civil affairs project can be twisted in the news by a skillful enemy. Nineteen dead insurgent fighters become a human rights atrocity or an attack on innocents in a mosque. The days of entrusting all media relations to a single point of contact in each organization are over. Leaders at all levels, especially those most junior, must learn the art of media relations and actively seek opportunities to get their message out. Media training and fluency with talking points is no longer the exclusive domain of corporate executives and administration officials. Corporate social responsibility: The ever-expanding reach and interconnectivity of the global marketplace will force our multinational corporations to become de facto informal ambassadors for the United States. For better or worse, the combination of globalization and dwindling natural resources will increasingly push multinational corporations into crisis zones or semi-permissive areas. Rarely will a company enter an area free of civil strife, irregular armed groups, or corrupt governing bodies. The way that these multinational corporations conduct themselves will have a profound impact on public diplomacy efforts and the way that the United States is perceived abroad. Ethical and socially conscious leadership at all levels within these corporations, plus collaboration with public sector counterparts, will be critical to this vision. Make no mistake: corporate social responsibility will increasingly become a national security issue violations will bear bitter fruit in the form of attacks, lost revenue, broken alliances, and international condemnation. Local citizens in a poverty stricken or unstable country make little distinction between Shell Oil, Coca-Cola, and the U.S. State Department. They all represent America, and usually the corporations will have much
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No hovering on MBTA
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority announced that effective immediately, hoverboards are prohibited on all MBTA property, including stations, buses, subways, commuter rail and commuter boats.
Cartographers rejoice
Off the drawing board, and onto the map: New York City's Second Avenue Subway.
Testing begins on Rio's Olympic metro line
Rio de Janeiro reached a milestone in its transport preparations for the 2016 Olympic Games on May 23, when the first test train traversed the new metro Line 4.
Infrastructure week unveiled
150 non-partisan organizations recognize Infrastructure Week May 16th to 23rd. Business, labor and civic organizations are uniting under the week's 2016 theme: "Infrastructure Matters."
Farley named senior associate of Gannett Fleming
David A. Farley, a vice president of Gannett Fleming Transit & Rail Systems and the company''s Southern California Transit Manager, was named a Gannett Fleming Senior Associate on May 16, 2016.
Ben Vient joins Railway Age as Managing Editor
Ben Vient has joined the editorial staff of Railway Age as Managing Editor, based at Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corp. headquarters in New York City.
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff adds Michael Valletta to NYC office
Michael L. Valletta has been appointed director of project delivery for the New York City office of WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff. In his new position, Valletta is responsible for overseeing…
Parsons elevates Dhaliwal to SVP International
Parsons has appointed Harjinder S. "Harj" Dhaliwal as Senior Vice President, International Rail Transit & Systems, with responsibility for the business unit and its operations outside of the U.S. He…
FTA tightens safety screws on WMATA
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) on May 7, 2016 issued an "urgent safety directive" to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) just one day after the agency released a…
MBTA targeting energy costs in FY 2017
Continuing efforts begun in 2012 with the purchase of a wind turbine generator at the Kingston rail layover facility, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority projects a further reduction of energy…
Kansas City opens downtown light rail line
Kansas City, Mo., celebrated the return of light rail to its streets after a 59-year hiatus on May 6th with the opening of a 2.2-mile line from River Market via…
FAA may fly onto more tracks
The Federal Aviation Administration opened public comments on May 3, 2016 for a proposed funding change that could benefit passenger rail development around airports.
For FTA, A MOD Sandbox
The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) announced on May 3, 2016 an opportunity to apply for $8 million in federal funding for projects "that demonstrate innovative…
Prototype HART trainset unveiled
The Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART) on May 2, 2016 publicly unveiled the prototype four-car driverless trainset for the new Honolulu Metro, which is schedule to open in about…
APTA: Melaniphy quits; White named interim head
Michael P. Melaniphy has resigned as President and CEO of the American Public Transportation Association, effective April 29. APTA Vice President-Member Services Richard A. White is Acting President and CEO…
Keolis proposes system to reduce MBTA fare evasion
At the MBTA Fiscal Management and Control Board meeting, which took place on April 25, 2016, Keolis presented a new proposal for fare collection that would dramatically reduce fare evasion…
BART: Testing equipment wire caused crash, not car or operators
According to Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) officials, there was no malfunction of the train car and no operator error April 22, 2016 when a car being used for operator…
Gov. Deal signs legislation to expand MARTA system
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal on April 26, 2016 signed S.B. 369, a landmark bill that empowers the City of Atlanta to hold a fall ballot referendum asking voters to support…
Miami proposes six new urban rail lines
The Miami-Dade Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) adopted a resolution on April 21, 2016 endorsing the Strategic Miami Area Rapid Transit (SMART) plan, which envisages the construction of six new urban…
InnoTrans 2016: North American attendee discount, strong Canadian presence
InnoTrans, the semi-annual global railway industry trade exhibition and the largest event of its type, is offering discounted tickets to North American attendees. As well, this year's event will have…
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Kate Middleton's Wedding Dress Revealed
After months of speculation and rumors, Kate Middleton stepped out in a stunning Sarah Burton of Alexander McQueen wedding dress. The blushing bride was covered with a veil and was wearing a tiara as she waved to the crowds on her way to Westminster Abbey. Her long sleeve dress has a lace overlay. The bride… More »


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♥ Wondering about the Black Heart? ♥
A cute and simple shape I've adapted to over the years.
Scribbled on scrap paper. Made into clusters on note pads.
Then fated to drawings, paintings, & fabric.
My insignia.
{& might I add....♥ I think its adorable.}
Before, I just couldn't stop drawing it. Now it has become a symbol for the love of what I do and for my lovely family that help compass me to do so.
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I hope you enjoy what you see. You can also check out my blog to peek at what I'm working on. You may just find something you like there too!
I enjoy taking custom orders and sharing with you my abilities creatively…
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- Born on October 30
- Joined October 25, 2009
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- Erie, PA, United States
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This wonderful black cat is Spirit. He has a great loving personality, is full of energy, loves to play with other cats and is in good health. He does not like to be picked up, so a home with small children would not work for him. He does love to be scratched! He will talk for his food and enjoys watching the birds outside the window. The only reason I have to find another home for him is that I am downsizing and will not be able to take him with me. I love him dearly and want him to have a home filled with unconditional love. Please call with any questions or to meet this little Gentleman!
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French Grand Chef Relais & Châteaux Emmanuel Renaut is the highly acclaimed three Michelin star chef of Flocons de Sel in Megève. His cuisine is based around local and seasonal produce, highlighting it with modern techniques and surprises.
Having completed his training in Étouvelles and then in Paris, he joined the team of the Hôtel Le Lotti and then worked for Christian Constant at the Hôtel de Crillon as a first cooking assistant. He was then hired temporarily by Marc Veyrat, head chef of the Auberge de l'Eridan, and became a sous-chef for four years. He then worked with the cooking and pastry chef Yves Thuriès and later in London where he was for one year the head chef of Claridge's.
In 1998, Emmanuel Renaut established himself in Mégève in Haute-Savoie and founded his own restaurant Flocons de sel. He received his first Michelin star in 2003, the second one in 2006, and his third in 2012. In 2007, he published La Montagne et le cuisinier with Isabelle Hintzy and Catherine de Montalembert.
What was your most moving culinary experience?
At the restaurant of Alex Atala, in Sao Paulo, which offers local cuisine with a whole new take on gastronomy.
The most amusing kitchen incident you ever witnessed?
I was to serve a dinner at the home of one of my clients. The dessert was an enormous pièce montée which had taken half a day to make. As I didn't know my way, I followed my client who had set off at a cracking pace along a series of hairpin bends. Unfortunately the pièce montée did not survive the journey: I had to dismantle it piece by piece and serve the choux balls directly on the plate.
Your best piece of advice for amateur chefs?
Respect tradition, don't turn up your nose at family dishes, enjoy a good leg of lamb, a beautifully golden, free-range roast chicken or a fillet of beef en croûte - never a bad choice.
- 2 Michelin stars
- Best Worker of France 2004
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Imperial Extra Heavy Bouillon Spoon - 12 ct per case
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Hibiscus-Tangerine Iced Tea
To cut back on sugar, F&W's Kay Chun mixes sweet tangerine juice with tart hibiscus tea. The result is a very refreshing, fruity drink.
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- Servings: 4
- 12 hibiscus tea bags
- 4 cups boiling water
- 2 cups fresh tangerine juice, plus 1 thinly sliced tangerine
- Ice
How to make this recipe
In a heatproof bowl, cover the tea bags with the boiling water. Let steep for 20 minutes. Strain the tea through a fine sieve into another heatproof bowl. Let cool to room temperature, then stir in the tangerine juice.
Divide the tea and all but 4 tangerine slices among 4 ice-filled glasses. Garnish with the reserved tangerine slices.
Make Ahead
The tea can be refrigerated for 2 days.
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GERM-024 The Germanic Christian Hero (taught in English)
Fall for 2017-2018
The twin purpose of this course is to study the long historical relationship between Germanic and Christian values and imaginations as constitutive both of the dynamic fantasy of German story and of the notion of a hero, as well as to encourage good writing about those stories based on the students' and the authors' personal realizations – as derived from engagement in detail with the text. Each work will be studied in the context of its historical and cultural environment. The underlying theme, which is the title of the course, will be examined in the many transformations which it undergoes with the passage of time, the changing of poetic style, and the differing personal realizations of the poets – and readers. Main works: the Heliand, Parzival and the Holy Grail, the Grimms' Fairy Tales.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: None
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Remand prisoner found dead in cell
A 39-year-old prisoner held on remand was found dead in his cell in a Brisbane jail last night.
The Queensland Corrective Services Department says the man's body was found in his cell at the Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre at Wacol on Brisbane's westside about 10pm (AEST).
Staff tried unsuccessfully to resuscitate him.
The man has been in custody since December 2007 awaiting a trial for murder.
He had been held at the Arthur Gorrie Correctional Centre since May 2008.
The department says the coroner will investigate the man's death, as well as the chief Inspector of prisons.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, brisbane-4000, qld
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Guests of this hotel can enjoy an exclusive atmosphere of cosiness, comfort, true hospitality and personalised service. This air-conditioned eco hotel comprises a total of 97 rooms. Guests are welcomed in the lobby, which offers a 24-hour reception and a 24-hour check-out service, as well as a hotel safe and lift access to the upper floors. Facilities on offer to guests include a hairdressing salon. Guests can enjoy a drink at the café and bar, and dine in the restaurant. Conference facilities are available to business travellers. Guests can enjoy the convenience of Internet access. They can also take advantage of the room and laundry services. Those arriving by car may leave their vehicles in the hotel car park or garage. It is also possible to hire bicycles on the premises.
The hotel is located 1.2 km away from the Krasnaya Polyana ski resort and 4 km from the Estosadok ski resort. Restaurants, bars and a nightclub can be found around 1.8 km away. The Museum of Local History and the Greek Church of the Holy Harlampy are also located about 1.8 km away, while the Nature Museum at Krasnopolyanskaya forest is around 1 km away. The hotel is set in a unique resort area with the fascinating past and a great future. A natural combination of mountains, glaciers and lakes makes this Russian resort a place of exceptional beauty during all seasons. Sochi National Park lies 29 km away and Sochi Airport is 34 km away from the hotel.
All rooms come with an en suite bathroom. Rooms in the first hotel block are equipped with a shower cabin, while rooms of the second block have a classic bathtub. Guests can enjoy a good night's rest on their double or king-size bed. Rooms also come equipped with a direct dial telephone, safe and minibar. Standard in-room amenities include satellite/cable TV and Internet access. The rooms also offer kitchenettes, which come complete with a fridge, cooker and microwave. A washing machine is also provided. Furthermore, tea and coffee making facilities, an ironing set, individually regulated air conditioning and individually regulated heating are provided in all accommodation as standard. Some rooms are enlarged by a summer terrace. For the convenience of guests, all rooms and villas come stocked with bathrobes, slippers and famous Bulgari cosmetics.
Guests can enjoy a refreshing dip in the hotel's 4 indoor and outdoor swimming pools, and relax on the sun terrace with sun loungers and parasols. Fitness enthusiasts may wish to participate in aerobics, or enjoy a workout in the gym. Guests can relax in the hot tub, sauna and steam room. Guests can also pamper themselves with a spa or massage treatment. The hotel additionally invites guests to take an exciting trip onboard a comfortable yacht. It also offers diving and rafting tours, as well as canoeing and fishing. Guests can also participate in jeep and hiking tours, horse riding tours and biking. There is an entertainment programme on offer for adults and children. Guests can also enjoy a guided tour, accompanied by an experienced guide.
Breakfast is served each morning at the hotel. Lunch and dinner can be enjoyed ŕ la carte. The hotel's Italian restaurant, La Grotta Osteria, offers exquisite cuisine based on traditional Tuscan recipes. The Crystal Hall offers a menu featuring international cuisine. It also offers guests an extensive wine selection, with all of the featured wines available by the glass, as well as a range of homemade desserts, which are certain to appeal to every palate. The hotel can also provide an open-air fish or meat barbecue at a picturesque meadow with the professional services of a cook and waiter.
MasterCard and VISA are accepted at this hotel.
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text: WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.—President-elect Donald Trump ditched his press pool once again, travelling to play golf at one of his clubs without a pool of journalists on hand to ensure the public has knowledge of his whereabouts.Before he went golfing Saturday, Trump tweeted an unusual New Year's message to friends and foes: "Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do. Love!"The president-elect planned to spend New Year's Eve at his private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach. He was throwing a private party expected to draw hundreds of guests, including action star Sylvester Stallone.A member of Trump's golf club in Jupiter, Florida, posted a photo on Twitter of Trump on the greens Saturday morning and said about 25 U.S. Secret Service agents accompanied the president-elect. Reporters had not been advised of the visit to the club.Transition aide Stephanie Grisham confirmed that Trump had made a "last-minute trip" to Trump National Golf Club Jupiter, which is about a half-hour drive from his Mar-a-Lago estate, where Trump has been spending the holidays. He returned to the estate at midafternoon.Article Continued BelowGrisham said that she and other aides weren't aware of the trip and "appreciate everyone's understanding.""We are in the home stretch of this transition period and don't anticipate any additional situations like this between now and inauguration," she said in a statement. "We hope this one incident doesn't negate all the progress we have made and look forward to continuing the great relationships we have built."Trump, both as a candidate and during the transition, has often scoffed at tradition, such as allowing a group of reporters to follow him at all times to ensure the public knows where he is. Not long after his election, Trump went out to dinner with his family in Manhattan without informing the pool of his whereabouts.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx