Dateline: Holiday Inn, Alexandria VA, 12 October 2004
In DC for the day to teach another Office of Force Transformation mid-career course on network-centric operations. I am the stage-setting first brief on the strategic environment, so I get the audience as fresh as possible. Brief goes reasonably well given the layoff of several days since the last one, and the questions are good.
Now, as I catch the Red Sox battling the Evil Empire, I manage to finish off the rest of the Amazon reviews from late summer. Following that is the catch going back to Saturday.
■Reviewing the Reviews (the last—for now—of the Amazons: early August through mid-September)
■Kerry versus Bush: if substance is the same, then I'll take the promise of better style
■Keeping score on the Big Bang strategy
■Global FDI outlook is bright for New Core pillars
■Judging the Nobel Peace Prize within the context of everything else
■The ritualistic backtracking by Taiwan: play it again, Chen
■The Afghan election is looking awfully good
■A glimpse of the coming Latinization of America



