Sunday, September 7, 2008

There are a lot of "thoughts for consideration" about how a new general takes over a service in these PowerPoint slides. Here, Gen. Norton A. Schwartz, who last month became the Air Force chief of staff and has been briefing senior leaders on how to address recent failings, tries to pull the Air Force out of its recent public relations and political nosedive:

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