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ciples of power in a connected age. “Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederick,” Napoleon wrote once. “Make them your models. This is the 147 | was thinking: Dan Geer, “Cybersecurity as Realpolitik”, speech delivered at BlackHat, August 6
ng-ping of rail-building and welding and industry. How natural it must have seemed to add the rat-a-tat-tat of a Maxim gun. Crown Prince Wilhelm, the Kaiser's eldest son, wrote that defensive thinking was, “utterly foreign to the German spirit.” Bismarck’s “Iron and Blood” national motto became, finally,
wiftness of trains or the new industrial sewing machines or steam-fired printing presses. It was this instinct that led German generals to assure the Kaiser in 1914 that a war begun in August would be finished by Christmas. English university students sprinted to enlistment centers in the days after the w
ve girls. At that time, Egyptians were under the influence of the Turkish taste that considered a fulsome figure a prerequisite of feminine beauty. Napoleon was more fired up by Parisian elegance and refused to sleep with any of the women because they were, in his opinion, fat and reeking of fenugreek.
ently toward its rulers. With them, Obama engaged in respectful competition; with Putin, he conveyed a lack of respect toward someone who, like the Kaiser in Roosevelt's time, craves respect for himself and for his country. Obama skipped meetings; he sent an underling—former EFTA00684183 Homeland Se
are doing), except than when Barrack Obama wants to make it work against them, somehow government can do it really well and really effectively. As Napoleon once said, "never ascribe to malice what can easily attributed to incompetence." If you watch The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, you will know one of
is a hoax The Obama Administration isn't dirty, the air is...." THIS WEEK's READINGS EFTA00691956 In my seventh grade homeroom, my teacher, Mr. Kaiser would welcome each student into his classroom with, "you better check yourself." Because whatever baggage, behavioral issue, anger, arrogance, pett
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