"The Brief" back in 2002, before Esquire article, before the book, before everything
Friday, December 23, 2011 at 12:02AM Gave this brief to the student body of the Naval War College at the request of the president, Admiral Rod Rempt, who introduces me. This is the basic brief I developed for Art Cebrowski while working as his Assistant for Strategic Futures in the Office of Force Transformation in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 2001-2003.
Spot the comments I make WRT mentor and good friend/colleague Bradd Hayes. Why? I had just given an interview to a local paper (Newport Daily News) following my selection as Esquire's Best and Brightest. The writer did a job on me, quoting all the self-congratulatory stuff and skipping all the paired self-deprecating comments. Lesson for me: If you give a reporter the rope, he or she will hang you.
Not that I've ever done that as a journalist . . ..
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