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moniss

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4. Very appropriate reference and

Reply to SomewhereInTheMiddle (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 5, 2024, 06:37 AM

Dec 5

interesting to note that this is from 1999 and the writer who was so sure of what he wrote was also proclaiming that by 2020 85% of the world's population would have shifted to living in coastal cities. It may yet come to that and but somehow I'm not as sure about the Strategic Corporal as the writer was.

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Sounds like a great background to run a $185Bn budget agency. SomewhereInTheMiddle Dec 5 #1

First Louie moniss Dec 5 #2

And I thought the Strategic Corporal was a Marine concept. SomewhereInTheMiddle Dec 5 #3

Very appropriate reference and moniss Dec 5 #4

Wait long enough and the coast will come to you! N/t SomewhereInTheMiddle Dec 5 #5

Yes indeed!! Also moniss Dec 5 #6

I remember reading about the "zero defects mentality" years ago Redleg Dec 5 #8

Hell, I was an Army captain and I wouldn't want to be the Army Secretary... Redleg Dec 5 #7