Military leadership

Ter Meer answered "After all, it was France that declared war on Germany." Von Schnitzler added that it should be understood, however, that Farben s claim was not based on military advantage "Even if there had been no war, the historical development has for some time justified Farben s Claim to Leadership. " Now... 

Once in Plymouth Colony, Billington s behavior did not improve. He refused to serve any form of military duty under the leadership of Miles Standish, a duty that was seen by the colonists as part of every man s responsibilities in the New World. He was later implicated in a plot to overthrow the entire leadership of Plymouth... 

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Conant was able to devote his full effort to Harvard for only a few years as the Nazi military threat came to dominate the world, Conant became increasingly involved with national affairs. As Chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, he provided effective scientific leadership during World War II. After the war he was appointed the first Chairman of the National Science Board, and in that role helped to initiate the policies that proved so successful in encouraging the development of science, especially in the U.S., but also abroad. 

Many interviewers, especially those who have served in the military themselves, have a great respect for applicants who have served in the military and have been honorably discharged. The military is known for teaching skills like self-discipline and leadership, which all employers look for in applicants. 

One such project was carried out under the leadership of Anders Franzen, with the support of the Swedish government, hi the seventeenth century, the Swedish king Gustavus n Adolph (ruled 1611-1632) decided to improve Sweden s military capability by building a powerful naval fleet. The pride of this fleet was the Vasa, an enormous 1,400-ton vessel that was set to depart on its first voyage from Stockholm Harbor. No sooner had it set out from port than it sank, within full view of the king. 

The battle is presented in a cinema verite style. Details of social, economic, and military organization and weaponry are combined with journalistic interviews with the combatants. The presentation is extremely realistic. The narrator, the writer-director Watkins, has clear sympathies for Scottish nationalism consequently, he editorializes about the English leadership and forces in the harshest terms. It is his view that this last battle on English soil destroyed a culture, the remnants of which were dispersed to the far comers of the Empire as a result. The tone of the narration is one of... 

The UNIVAC was not the only computer project the National Bureau of Standards was involved in, nor was it the only such project in which it was working with the military. The NBS established its National Applied Mathematics Laboratories in 1945 because the U.S. Navy wanted there to be a single national body to provide leadership in the development of new computational technology. Additionally, the National Bureau of Standards wanted to obtain a copy of the UNIVAC because the Office of the Air Comptroller of the U.S. Air Force was interested in using the machine in operations research techniques in military administration. ... 

Nowlan and Heap s report and MSG 3 have since been used as a basis for various military RCM standards and for nonaviation-derivative programs with acronyms such as FMECA, MSG3, TPM, RCA, RBI, and RCM2. Continuous reliability improvement (CRI), developed by Tompkins Associates, uses the best from RCM, TPM and the total operations approach to leadership-driven teams, as defined in Tompkins (1998). 

Arabic science declined rapidly after Avicenna. Times were unsettled in the Islamic world and grew more unsettled still as a result of the invasions and military victories of the comparatively barbaric Turks and Mongols. The palm of scientific leadership left the Arabs after three centuries, never to return. It passed to western Europe. 

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