Before you touch that keyboard, ask yourself whether your reader is sympathetic or hostile to your message. And then apply this simple persuasive strategy: When writing to a sympathetic reader, take a ...

Editor’s Note: This article is adapted from David H. Ucko’s article in Small Wars & Insurgencies, “Counterinsurgency in El Salvador: the lessons and limits of the indirect approach.” The ...

One book that has influenced my industrial hygiene (IH) practice that you will not find in an IH catalog is Basil Liddell Hart's military analysis of operational strategy. Hart's studies led him to ...

[imgbelt img=curve.jpg]By focusing only on spending and short term results, Congress will have a harder time getting that wild cow, the deficit, out to pasture. Richard Oswald explains how the ...

Conflict occurs when two or people have contradictory opinions. Conflict often arises during periods of change when people feel threatened or uncertain about the future. Inevitably, conflict happens ...

There are four main ways to break into the international market or enter at least one foreign market. These are the direct, indirect, hybrid and business acquisition approaches. My experience with my ...

“Taking the Temperature of Health Care Valuations” (JofA, Oct.01, page 79) indicates the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) was used to derive the discount rate, which resulted in an “enterprise value ...

When the deadline to appeal the court decision that blocked the Food and Drug Administration’s final rule regulating laboratory developed tests as medical devices slipped by in May without a word from ...

Almost six years after the worst attack ever on U.S. soil, special operations commanders believe that simply killing terrorists will not win a war against an ideologically motivated enemy. That view ...