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Great powers reserve the right to police bad actors in their neighborhoods.
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Actors
Neighborhood
Police
Powers
Reserve
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Barack Obama inherited a bankrupt economy, a bankrupt government, and a bankrupt foreign policy.
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Barack
Foreign Policy
Barack Obama
Inherited
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Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.
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Standards
Plain
Powers
Tendency
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Transnational terrorism, in the form of the Salafi Jihadist movement, is fundamentally a function of globalization.
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Form
Function
Globalization
Movement
Terrorism
Transnational
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Historians are going to look back on rising China and say America, at least under the Bush years, did not get that wrong.
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Rising
Bush
Historians
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Frankly, the only thing China has in easy abundance is people and dirty coal. Neither is the asset they're made out to be.
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Abundance
Coal
Asset
Frankly
Neither
The Only Thing
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If you can get out in front of people with your ideas and your execution, you'll attract the people who need to be pulled in.
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Execution
Ideas
Needs
People
Your People Ideas
Attract
People Ideas Your
Pulled
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Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one.
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Democracy
Earning
Mature
Suffrage
Years
Darn
Waited
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Run with what works: Sell to the people who believe in you and are willing to take the chances and make the experience happen.
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Running
Chance
Believe
People
Chances
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Every U.S. president enters office promising stronger ties with our southern neighbors, only to thereupon largely ignore them.
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Stronger
Ties
Ignore
Largely
Neighbors
Promising
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The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and they want to kill something.
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Morning
West
Dig
Hole
Marines
Terrier
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The most important thing you need to know about the Pentagon is that it is not in charge of today's wars but rather tomorrow's wars.
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Pentagon
Tomorrow
Charge
Wars
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
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Having grown up on 'Star Trek,' I've had one great dream since childhood, and that is to see my life end somewhere other than here on Earth.
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Life Great Childhood
Grown
Star Trek
Trek
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So long as the global economy continues to recover, that remains Obama's No. 1 claim to successful leadership. Nothing else even comes close.
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Global Economy
Remains
Claim
Recover
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You cant drag people from understanding to action. A customer isnt actually at the last mile if youre the one dragging her to the finish line.
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Lines
People
Understanding
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You can't drag people from understanding to action. A customer isn't actually at the last mile if you're the one dragging her to the finish line.
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Drag
Finish Line
Customer
Finish
Mile
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Crafty politician that he is, Obama was smart enough to set low enough standards for his administration to claim 'victory' by the summer of 2011 or so.
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Administration
Crafty
Standards
Summer
Claim
Low
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I don't think, post 9/11, we're going to wait for real obvious things like Country A attacking Country B - because Country A doesn't attack Country B any more.
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Obvious
Attack
Post
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The Department of Homeland Security is a strategic feel good measure. It's going to be the Department of Agriculture for the 21st century. TSA - thousands standing around.
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Department
Feel Good
Homeland
Homeland Security
Standing
Strategic
Tsa
Good Feel Good Feel
Measure
Thousands
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If America is addicted to foreign money and foreign oil, then China is addicted to foreign supplies of just about every commodity known to man - save highly polluting coal.
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Coal
Commodity
Foreign Oil
Supplies
Polluting
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Homeland defense doesn't generate any force requirements beyond having enough National Guard to save lives in natural disasters and to baby-sit nuclear power plants on Code Red days.
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Code
Defense
Homeland
National Guard
Nuclear
Nuclear Power
Power Plants
Requirements
Disasters
Generate
Guard
Plants
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Most Americans have little idea of how far our nation's worldwide standing had fallen by the end of the Bush administration; no matter how bad you thought it had gotten, it was worse.
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Administration
Standing
Bush
Bush Administration
How Far
Worldwide
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Despite living in this post-9/11 age of transnational terrorism, the risk of death during air travel has plummeted to the point where we now measure it in the 'per billions' of passengers.
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Air Travel
Billions
Passengers
Terrorism
Per
Measure
Transnational
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In the end, for all of Obama's grand rhetoric on ridding the world of nuclear weapons, history has doomed him to preside over the emergence of two rogue nuclear regimes (North Korea and Iran).
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Doomed
Emergence
Iran
North Korea
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Regimes
Rhetoric
Weapons
Grand
In The End
North
Rogue
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Wikistrat is my ninth start-up, so I've been through this process a few times. You have to go with what works. The power of example is compelling, so model the ideas that you want someone to understand.
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Compelling
Example
Ideas
Want
Ninth
Start-Up
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During the cold war, it was easy for the Pentagon to justify its budget, as the Soviets essentially sized our forces for us. We simply counted up their stuff and either bought more of the same or upgraded our technology.
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Cold
Cold War
Justify
Pentagon
Bought
Budget
Counted
Forces
Sized
Soviets
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An economically confident America has - since becoming a world power at the start of the 20th century - tended toward global engagement. It is during times of economic stress (1930s, 1970s) that America has become more withdrawn.
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Becoming
Economic
Engagement
Stress
World Power
Confident
Global
Toward
Withdrawn
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America has remained highly engaged in global affairs throughout decades of growing energy dependency, so it's hard to imagine it would disengage if its quest for energy self-sufficiency failed - especially amidst a world of heightened resource competition.
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Decades
Dependency
Engaged
Self Sufficiency
Affairs
Amidst
Failed
Quest
Remained
Resource
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To ask a country with 750 million people living on less than a dollar a day to optimize their development for the environment as opposed to getting food in the mouths of these people and giving them a decent lifestyle, that's just a little bit too much to ask.
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Decent
Lifestyle
Mouths
Food Day People
Dollar
Just A Little Bit
Million People
Optimize
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I have long argued that, if China and the United States were interested in pursuing a strategic partnership, Africa is the best place to start, as neither enters the situation with past colonial baggage, and both possess interests that are quite complementary.
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Baggage
Complementary
Partnership
Strategic
Africa
Argued
Colonial
Neither
Possess
Pursuing
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The Air Force has it far worse than the Navy in terms of existential fears, primarily due to the rapid rise and unbelievable dissemination of drones, where seemingly now every military unit has their own miniature air wing of what would have recently passed as toys.
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Air Force
Dissemination
Drones
Existential
Navy
Toys
Unbelievable
Rise
Fears
Miniature
Passed
Primarily
Rapid
Recently
Seemingly
Unit
Wing
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Is there anything about cyberspace that particularly screams Air Force? Not really. If cyber warfare is going to be as all-encompassing as it's made out to be by its vigorous proponents, then it will disseminate throughout the services even more than the drone phenomenon has.
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Air Force
Cyber
Phenomenon
Vigorous
Warfare
Disseminate
Services
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Some Western demographers have posited, due to the female shortage created by the one-child policy, that China will be forced to field a vast force - as in tens of millions strong - of wifeless men who'll gladly wage wars around the planet to burn off all those unrequited hormones.
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Hormones
Shortage
Unrequited
Western
Burn
Wars
Due
Vast
Forced
Gladly
Tens
Tens Of Millions
Wage
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Once Europe's colonial empires were sent into deep decline, thanks to World War II, America became globalization's primary replicating force, integrating Asia into its low-end production networks across the second half of the twentieth century - just like Europe had integrated the U.S. before.
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America
Asia
Decline
Empires
Force
Globalization
Half
Integrated
Thanks
Twentieth Century
World War Ii
Across
War World America
Became
Colonial
Networks
Production
Primary
Second
Sent
Twentieth
World War
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An Obama administration truly looking to break with the molds of the past would stop treating Africa as an obligation and start treating it as globalization's next great opportunity, understanding that Chinese - along with Indians and Arab sovereign wealth funds - are natural partners in this process.
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Administration
Break
Chinese
Globalization
Great Opportunity
Partners
Sovereign
Understanding
Wealth
Obama
Africa
Arab
Funds
Indians
Obama Administration
Treating
Truly
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We need to remind ourselves that our ultimate goal is not to reduce greenhouse gases or global warming per se but to improve the quality of life and the environment. We all want to leave the planet in decent shape for our kids. Radically reducing greenhouse gas emissions is not necessarily the best way to achieve that.
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Quality
Achieve
Best Way
Decent
Emissions
Environment
Gas
Global Warming
Greenhouse Gases
Quality Of Life
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
Leave
Global
Greenhouse
Per
Improve
Necessarily
Planet
Radically
Reduce
Remind
Shape
Warming
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Here's my favorite bonehead concept from the 1990s in the Pentagon: the theory of anti-access, area-denial asymmetrical strategies. Why do we call it that? Because it's got all those A's lined up I guess. This is gobbledygook for 'If the United States fights somebody, we're going to be huge. They're going to be small.'
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Pentagon
Theory
Fights
Concept
Lined
Strategies
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China's headlong rush to industrialize was pursued with the most Marxist of prejudices - bending nature to man's will. That's a desperately hard trick to pull off when one fifth of humanity, having previously subsisted on 7 percent of the world's freshwater supply, decides that it wants to instantaneously increase its caloric intake.
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Bending
Fifth
Increase
Marxist
Pursued
Desperately
Trick
Headlong
Instantaneously
Intake
Prejudices
Pull
Rush
Supply
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There is no battle space the U.S. Military cannot access. They said we couldn't do Afghanistan. We did it with ease. They said we couldn't do Iraq. We did it with 150 combat casualties in six weeks. We did it so fast we weren't prepared for their collapse. There is nobody we can't take down. The question is, what do you do with the power?
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Access
Afghanistan
Battle
Casualties
Collapse
Combat
Ease
Prepared
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What makes a terrorist? Are the drivers primarily political or economic? Princeton economist Alan Krueger has made a great study of this question...What Makes a Terrorist lacks a question mark. That's because Krueger, marshaling persuasive statistics and analysis, comes down firmly on the side of politics, noting most terrorists are middle-class and well-educated.
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Class
Political
Statistics
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