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Page 11 - Defense Science Board Task Force, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology, Aug 96, 7A. 15. Ibid. 16. "Improving the Combat Edge Through Outsourcing," Defense Viewpoint, Vol 11, No 30 [Online] Available: http://www.defenselink.mil/speeches/1996/sl9960301report.html, 21 Feb 99.
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Page 11 - Rephrasing the adage that war is too important to be left to the generals, I would assert that drought considerations are too important to be left only to the meteorologists.
Page 42 - Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
Page 9 - I am profoundly apprehensive of the pipesmoking, tree-full-of-owls type of so-called professional defense intellectuals who have been brought into this nation's capital. I don't believe a lot of these often over-confident, sometimes arrogant young professors, mathematicians, and other theorists have sufficient worldliness or motivation to stand up to the kind of enemy we face.
Page 8 - Running any large organization is the same, whether it is the Ford Motor Company, the Catholic Church, or the Department of Defense. Once you get to a certain scale, they're all the same.
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Page 36 - provided the ideal cadence of operations with the control equipment available at the time." He explained, "At three-minute intervals, this meant 480 landings at, say, Tempelhof, in a twenty-four-hour period. The planes that came in had to go out again, of course, and with the take-off interval also set at three minutes, this meant that a plane either landed or took off every 90 seconds." ln an understatement, he noted, "There was little time wasted sitting at the ends of the runways.