Oft Forgotten Leadership Fundamentals

A vital function of the military leader is to influence the behavior of his subordinates in ways that will impel them to successfully complete the mission. Through experience, the effective leader acquires the necessary skills to fashion a unit into a cohesive organization intent on fulfilling the stated goals

Terrorism Is?

When one speaks of terrorism it is nor always dear just what one has in mind. The term has no precise and completely accepted definition. Some countries label those who engage in violent acts against them as \u27\u27terrorists.·• Freedom fighters rarely label them• selves in such a way, but they often claim they are subjected to governmental terror. In short, the definition of terrorism seems to depend on point of view-it is what the \u27bad guys\u27 do.\u27\u27

Responding to Terrorism: What, Why and When

When one speaks of terrorism it is not always clear just what one has in mind. The man in the street has a sense of what it means, and like pornography, one knows it when one sees it. It is a phenomenon that is much easier to describe than define. In some respects, we may be better served by doing just that, rather than by trying to force the attributes into an arbitrary grammatical construct which will satisfy lawyers. This conclusion is not reached without some effort and justification

Bureaucracy Is Not a Four-Letter Word

Very few of us thought about becoming a bureaucrat when we grew up. A pilot, teacher, minister or even President, perhaps; but a bureaucrat? Never

Toward precision Fermi liquid theory in flatland

The ultra-cold and weakly-coupled Fermi gas in two spatial dimensions is studied in an effective field theory framework. Universal corrections to the energy density are computed to three orders in the interaction strength with special consideration given to the scale ambiguity associated with the non-trivial renormalization of the singular contact interactions. The isotropic superfluid gap is obtained to next-to-leading order, and nonuniversal contributions to the energy density due to effective range effects, p-wave interactions and three-body forces are computed. Results are compared with precise Monte Carlo simulations of the energy density and the contact in the weakly-coupled attractive and repulsive Fermi liquid regimes. In addition, the known all-orders sum of ladder and ring diagrams is compared with Monte Carlo simulations at weak coupling and beyond.Comment: 34 pages, 17 figure