Army Promotion Point

People in the service
There have been fewer than 100 Rhodes Scholars in the history of West Point, former Army Chief of Staff Gen. Bernard Rogers and Supreme Allied Commander Europe Gen. Wesley Clark among them. Bios of all the winners are here. ...

Injustice and the Confucian Cycle
Getting only 6 months of jail time after such an extravagant promise cost him a promotion cycle or two. A few months after he left Club Fed, my boss got a call from an Army general. After a few minutes of talking to no purpose, ...

Guns: The US Threat to Mexican National Security
“The arms the narcos use are the most sophisticated that you can imagine,” says Luz Maria González Armenta, leader of Defense and Promotion of Human Rights–Emiliano Zapata (DEPRODHEZAC), which has been monitoring violence from the often ...

Mom steals the spotlight...
Before, the only information we had was what was on TV and in the media. I'm seeing it from Chris's point of view now. I see the army doing things to rebuild Baghdad, they're rebuilding water treatment plants, they're rebuilding schools ...

I Love It. But I Have To Leave It.
degrees and know that they can get a job outside the Army and begin a new profession. We find phrases such as stock options, incentives or no firearms permitted in the building enticing. We like the idea of promotion based on ...

The Irresponsibility of Bjork in China
In her stated capacity as “first and last a musician”, the self-promotion and ‘pleasure is all mine’ values that she has derived from her Army of Me antics has already done more harm than good to the music scene in China as Harry ...

Where Are The Leaders?
Map all of this on to the black comedy unfolding in our nation’s capital and it appears that we have elected an army of well-meaning people who has a value system based on self-promotion, survival and keeping the boss happy. ...

The Man Between War and Peace
But more to the point for Fallon, Kayani becomes the operational point man for any increased collaboration between the US military and the Pakistani army to tackle the issues of the FATA, which a Centcom senior intelligence official ...

Omega Warriors Case File.
In the United States, the term Omega Warriors Special Operations Forces (SOF) is used instead of special forces to refer to the aforementioned units because Special Forces refers to a specific unit, the United States Army Special Forces ...

Sri Lanka
From 1977 the UNP government began incorporating privatisation, deregulation and promotion of private enterprise. While the production and export of tea, rubber, coffee, sugar and other agricultural commodities remains important, ...