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Leadership
InterAgency Journal 11-1
Inside this issue:
Features
The Productive Organization: Survival of the Fittest
Ted Thomas, Kevin Gentzler, and Billy Miller
Mission Command: Small Teams in the U.S. Border Patrol
Robert W. Edwards
A Solution to WMD Proliferation
Michael W. Parrott
A Nation Unprepared: Bioterrorism and Pandemic Response
John B. Foley
Missed Operational… Read More
Featured Article: Bureaucracy in Service of a Madman
Featured article:
Bureaucracy in Service of a Madman
by Matthew Tompkins
When President Nixon attempted his “Madman Theory” gambit to pressure the North
Vietnamese into peace talks, he is said to have instructed Henry Kissinger to “slip word
to them that ‘For God’s sake, you know Nixon is obsessed about… Read More
Featured Article: Organizational Ethics Gone Wrong
Featured article:
Organizational Ethics Gone Wrong
by Jonathan Bailey and Ted Thomas
“Fat” Leonard Francis, owner of Glenn Defense Marine Asia and a good friend to the Navy leadership for over a decade, defrauded the U.S. Navy for $35 million dollars. The investigation that followed implicated scores of Navy personnel,… Read More
InterAgency Journal 10-4
Inside this issue:
Features
The Economics of Trade and National Security
David A. Anderson
Enabling Tax Payments: A Novel Approach to Reducing
Violence and Poverty in El Salvador
Ann Low
Very Small Satellites: A Mechanism for
the Early Detection of Mass Atrocities
Dani Redmon
Understanding the Challenges and Stakeholders
in… Read More
Faculty present on ethics in leadership
The eighth presentation of the InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture Series for academic year 2019 featured Dr. Ted Thomas, director of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College’s (CGSC) Department of Command and Leadership. Thomas was joined by Chaplain (Maj.) Jonathan Bailey, CGSC ethics instructor. The two presented on the topic… Read More
Featured Article: Women and Leadership
Featured article:
Women and Leadership
by Kevin P. Shea
The defense of our nation is a shared responsibility. Women have served in the defense of this land for years before our United States was born. They have contributed their talents, skills and courage to this endeavor for more than two… Read More
InterAgency Journal 9-2
Inside this issue:
Features
Interagency Cooperation: An Ambassador’s Perspective
by Thomas J. Miller
The Pursuit of Justice: Assistance Needed to Tackle the
International Criminal Court’s Prevention Component
by Jason Elbert
The Business of War: Private Military and
Security Companies in Armed Conflict
by Kenneth A. Segelhorst
“Sovereignty-in-Being”: A Dangerous New… Read More
Featured Article: Evolving Band-Aids to Global Crisis
Featured article:
Evolving Band-Aids to Global Crisis: For Want of U.S. Leadership
by Mark Sweberg and Allan Childers
Change is in the wind for the U.S. Army. Indeed, it is in the wind for all the Services as the strategic focus of the U.S. shifts from Europe to the Pacific… Read More
InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture – June 6
The tenth and final presentation for academic year 2018 of the InterAgency Brown-Bag Lecture Series, co-hosted by the U.S. Army Command and General Staff School and the Simons Center for Interagency Cooperation, will be conducted at 12:30 p.m. on June 6 in the Arnold Conference Room of the Lewis and… Read More