I used to fly helicopters for the Navy. Now I work at U.S. embassies to build our mutual security cooperation/defense relationships. I'm also reading a novel from every country in Africa (33 so far). I'm in the process of moving these over to a dedicated website: www.beyondachebe.com.
Most of my non-africa book reviews are now over at www.kruzoo.blogspot.com
"But being right, even morally right, isn't everything. It is also important to be competent, to be consistent, and to be knowledgeable. It's important for your soldiers and diplomats to speak the language of the people you want to influence. It's important to understand the ethnic and tribal divisions of the place you hope to assist." -Anne Applebaum
Monday, June 21, 2010
Diplomat's Dictionary Daily Quotables
Diplomat's Dictionary Daily Quotables
Ideas: "Bad strategy sinks good ideas." -Anatoly Dobrynn (1995)
Anatoly was a Cold War-era Soviet Diplomat/Statesman
Illusion: "Belief in his own magic is the downfall of the magician." -Italian proverb
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