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The first staff exposure I had when I was an Ensign, I looked around and realized if the enemy could put a powerpoint virus into our scheme it woulc cripple HQ. We might actually fight better then though. :)
B: The Armed Forces Staff College, twenty plus years ago, had a staff of graphic arts specialists, civil servants preparing the "transparencies" shown on the "overhead projector" or the "Slide carosel". What you have here was cribbed from one of those "slides" and probably dates from the seventies, or even earlier.
Still have a copy of this in one of those file folders. Paused to give it a look the last time I was trying to find the print out of the Hank Caruso-style cartoon mockups of the different F/A-18 models Naval Aviation was sure to see (tanker, ASW, AEW, EW, etc.). Haven't been able to locate it online, or in the files, but they were plentiful in ready-rooms and wing staffs during 89-92 as the debates raged and the F-14D finally died.
No congress always makes sense. People make the mistake of thinking congressmen are stupid. They aren't being stupid they are being loyal. They will destroy the entire nation because they are loyal to themselves. This loyalty means they will do whatever they can to get reelected. Neither You Nor I elect people from other districs we are not residents in.
So as long as they make the assholes who voted them into office happy they win.
The great irony is that though congress always has a low score sometimes even single didgits.....individual congressmen always score alot higher among the people who they represent.
Back during the war in the FRY in the mid-90's someone came back from a det with the multi-national staff. Swore that a Russian (former Soviet) looking over his shoulder while he prepared a brief told him... "You know, while you are making Powerpoint slides, I would be killing you."
Doctrine, as with the Pirate Code, should be treated as broad guidelines rather thatn strict law... Oh, and imagine the sheer mindfsck KGB had trying to understand a system where press doesnt print what authorities want, authorities are divided into independent branches, and legislative one is almost always divided in its opinions - and quite unpredictable when voting. And then they had the unenviable task of saying to the Kremlin "what Americans will do". :)
From the old Squad Lead boardgames....a quote supposedly from Rommel - "The US Army knew nothing on its first battle, but had learned so much by the second battle..."
The first staff exposure I had when I was an Ensign, I looked around and realized if the enemy could put a powerpoint virus into our scheme it woulc cripple HQ. We might actually fight better then though. :)
ReplyDeleteB: The Armed Forces Staff College, twenty plus years ago, had a staff of graphic arts specialists, civil servants preparing the "transparencies" shown on the "overhead projector" or the "Slide carosel". What you have here was cribbed from one of those "slides" and probably dates from the seventies, or even earlier.
ReplyDeleteStill true. Still funny.
I remember seeinga sign in CIC when I was an ensign: Doctrine is guidance to be followed int the absence of all other human intelligence.
ReplyDeleteOne of the unfortunate side effects of Goldwater-Nichol is the infection of the Navy with the Army's almost slavish devotion to doctrine.
We used to have this posted in my Pub locker when I was a young Airman.
ReplyDeleteI have often thought about these quotes when forced to pour over mindless Opords and Optasks when I was standing watch....
The CAINE MUTINY, which won the Pulitzer Prize for best novel many years ago, had a famous line:
ReplyDeleteWhen in danger, or in doubt,
Run in circles, scream and shout.
(motto of US Congress this past decade ??)
Fort Leavenworth, the linear thinker's nirvana, center for doctrine and greatest impediment to army creativity.
ReplyDeleteStill have a copy of this in one of those file folders. Paused to give it a look the last time I was trying to find the print out of the Hank Caruso-style cartoon mockups of the different F/A-18 models Naval Aviation was sure to see (tanker, ASW, AEW, EW, etc.). Haven't been able to locate it online, or in the files, but they were plentiful in ready-rooms and wing staffs during 89-92 as the debates raged and the F-14D finally died.
ReplyDeleteNo congress always makes sense. People make the mistake of thinking congressmen are stupid. They aren't being stupid they are being loyal. They will destroy the entire nation because they are loyal to themselves. This loyalty means they will do whatever they can to get reelected. Neither You Nor I elect people from other districs we are not residents in.
ReplyDeleteSo as long as they make the assholes who voted them into office happy they win.
The great irony is that though congress always has a low score sometimes even single didgits.....individual congressmen always score alot higher among the people who they represent.
America- land of the Free, Home of the Brave, And homeland of the term Organized Chaos.
ReplyDeleteIn other words one big WAAGH.
Greetings:
ReplyDeleteAnd here I thought that the difference between the Boy Scouts and the military was that the Boy Scouts had adult supervision was the key.
Sal, WTF, OPSEC. You've just given away the whole plan!
ReplyDeleteBack during the war in the FRY in the mid-90's someone came back from a det with the multi-national staff. Swore that a Russian (former Soviet) looking over his shoulder while he prepared a brief told him... "You know, while you are making Powerpoint slides, I would be killing you."
ReplyDeleteDoctrine, as with the Pirate Code, should be treated as broad guidelines rather thatn strict law...
ReplyDeleteOh, and imagine the sheer mindfsck KGB had trying to understand a system where press doesnt print what authorities want, authorities are divided into independent branches, and legislative one is almost always divided in its opinions - and quite unpredictable when voting. And then they had the unenviable task of saying to the Kremlin "what Americans will do". :)
Welll thank the good lord we have countered their violent response to our powerpoint strategy with the ever defensive NKO sensitivity training move.
ReplyDeleteFrom the old Squad Lead boardgames....a quote supposedly from Rommel - "The US Army knew nothing on its first battle, but had learned so much by the second battle..."
ReplyDeleteI think it is used solely to justify budgets. No one actually reads that rubbish.
ReplyDelete<span> No one actually reads that rubbish. </span>
ReplyDeleteSilence, infidel, or I will smack you down with an well-worn^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H unread copy of JP3-0!
Heck, it used to be a point of pride that we didn't read that FOD.
ReplyDeleteThis slide was posted in several OPNAV offices during my first DC tour in the early '80s.
ReplyDeleteIt was still there in the late '90s.
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