Russian strategy seems to center on maintaining Putin's popularity at home; building a strong military capacity in special forces, nuclear weapons, and advanced submarines; pressuring nearby nations to join various defense and customs pacts dominated by Russia; and pushing back on the U.S. wherever convenient.

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No one person, no one alliance, no one nation, no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

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Walls don't work. ... Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.

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What's the third largest nation in the world after China and India? It's the Facebook nation - 430 million people on Facebook.

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In any insurgency there will be people who are irreconcilable and who pose a clear and present threat to the U.S. and our allies.

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Wikipedia, every day, is tens of thousands of people inputting information, and every day millions of people withdrawing that information. It's a perfect image for the fundamental point that no one of us is as smart as all of us thinking together.

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Eighty-five percent cannot read when they enter the security forces of Afghanistan. Why? Because the Taliban withheld education during the period of time in which these men and women would have learned to read.

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None of the threats to the global commons will be solved by building walls.

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Some have called Afghanistan 'the graveyard of empires,' and it probably is the graveyard of empires.

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Life is not an on and off switch. You don't have to have a military that is either in hard combat or is in the barracks.

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When I get up, the first thing I do is open up Gmail and check my personal email.

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Thinklogical's systems play a key role in the delivery and visualization of mission critical data used every day by military and intelligence communities worldwide.

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I am a huge consumer of social networks, and I utilize Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I'm interested and am learning more about Tumblr and other visually dominant sites.

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The NATO treaty is crystal clear on this one: An attack on one nation shall be regarded as an attack on all of them.

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You can't kill your way to success in a counter insurgency effort. You have to protect the people, get the civil military balance right, train the locals, and practice effective strategic communications.

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After 37 years in the Navy, there were no further jobs in uniform, and it was my time to transition. But I wanted to continue to mentor and educate young people, which is, of course, a big part of being a senior officer in the military.

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Sleep is a key part of the requirements for resilience and good decision-making.

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I've never been in a 'Twitter fight,' though I've witnessed my fair share. I do enjoy vigorous and informed debate, but the benefit is lost when the exchange becomes a series of petty ad hominem attacks. I don't see much value in it.

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We are excellent at launching Tomahawk missiles; we need to get better at launching ideas.

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As cyberweapons and cyberattacks increase in scale and intensity, it will be difficult to defend against them all.

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I would not be surprised to see Syria break apart entirely.

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