NATO is a deterrence-based alliance, whose collective defensive posture is by design intended to thwart aggression targeting its members.
… On his U.S. News blog, Michael Barone mounts a half-hearted defense ("I'm not sure if I agree with it or not") of Congressional pork … Historian Lewis Gould, in the Washington Post, begs the nation to abolish the "yearly exercise in posturing and collective delusion" that is the State of the Union address.
The death of a French president is a moment for tidying up collective memory--the moment when "posture" becomes "stature," and a politician becomes a statesman... His genius was to turn his own survival into an affair of state, to persuade people that his most cynical, shameless manipulations...were manifestations of the idea of France..
Their strength is collective.
The U.S. would be "postured to act independently when collective action cannot be orchestrated".
But the writing on the collective black flag, for all our reckless posturing, may have been best articulated as: "Ow, I'm hypersensitive.
The United States would be "postured to act independently when collective action cannot be orchestrated," and the guidance was accompanied by scenarios for hypothetical wars, including one against an Iraq in which Saddam Hussein rebounded from his defeat in the Persian Gulf war.
He acts slowly, giving room to others, encourages collective responses and shows none of the macho posturing that Prof Rose believes got us into this Brexit mess.
The framework can be used to develop prototypes representing different levels of environmental enlightenment, and as such, can provide general guidance for moving collectives and organizations toward a more environmentally responsible posture.
Guns, testosterone, an aggressive posture toward the world and a chip on the collective shoulder.
