Archive for March, 2008

RC#7 Stop Teaching Kids to Kill…

March 20, 2008, Boys & Girls Club of Camarillo Ventura County California law enforcement and education officials said Thursday they will work more closely to implement new, practical strategies to prevent student violence. Sheriff Bob Brooks (also PWH advisor), county Superintendent of Schools Charles Weis and other officials made the comments after attending a presentation […]

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RC #6 – Adaptive Leadership Symposium- Next Week

Note from PWH Advisor, Dr. Chet Richards, author of the current Director’s Article on 4GW and of several books featured on PWH, including the recently published If We Can Keep It: The ability to be an effective leader under stress is a valuable, crucial and indispensable skill for those in a position of command. Although […]

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RC #5 The Elephant is Great and Powerful, but Prefers to be Blind

“The US national security budget is nearly $700 billion a year (much more if the total costs of Iraq/Afghanistan are thrown in), more than the rest of the world combined. Unfortunately, within that entire budget there isn’t a single research organization or think tank that is seriously studying, analyzing or synthesizing the future of warfare […]

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RC#4 – John Robb, Global Guerrillas, and Resilient Communities

The Resilient Community Initiative is being addressed initially as it relates to decision making in crisis.  As noted in the previous post link, process approach to crisis analysis can reveal weaknesses that lead to crisis-fostering environments.  Those weaknesses could be in any aspect of a community. In his Blog Global Guerrillas, current PWH featured author, […]

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RC#3 Perspective on School Attacks

On War #251: War or Not War, by Bill Lind, Feb 19,2008 Between February 8 and February 14, four American schools suffered attacks by lone gunmen. The most recent, at Northern Illinois University on February 14, saw five killed (plus the gunman) and 16 wounded. Similar attacks have occurred elsewhere, including shopping malls. Is this […]

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