Women in Combat—Just Doing Her Job

Published in February 18th, 2009
Posted by admin in Leadership, Motivation, Role Models
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By Guest Blogger Donna McAleer
The topic of women in combat remains controversial. Conventional wisdom and current law prevent women, no matter how able, from serving in units with direct offensive combat missions—Infantry, Armor, Artillery and Special Forces. The justifications for this exclusion include that women are not fit for combat and battlefield stress [...]

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Lincoln Bicentennial

Published in February 3rd, 2009
Posted by eruggero in Communications, Culture, Leadership, Role Models
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This month marks the bicentennial of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, perhaps the nation’s greatest President and certainly an American leader worth studying.
By the time Lincoln took the oath of office in March 1861 (Obama used the same Bible), seven states had seceded from the Union and more were debating it. Southerners had seized [...]

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