Five years after the invasion of Iraq, the history concludes, "the government as a whole has never developed a legislatively sanctioned doctrine or framework for planning, preparing and executing contingency operations in which diplomacy, development and military action all figure".
More than 800,000 federal workers were to spend Tuesday, the first day of the new fiscal year, on unpaid furloughs as agency managers executed contingency plans for the costly process of closing down operations indefinitely.
"We are going to start to execute those contingency plans", he told CNBC.
This time, however, we decided to execute our contingency plan, which entails taking a 35% position in six-month Treasury bills in the Model Portfolio.
The number who have a contingency plan is only about half, and most of those CIOs don't believe they're going to have to execute those contingency plans.
In an article published in Atlantic Monthly, he accused America of becoming militaristic and aggressive, and was a country ready to "execute military contingency plans and to seek military solutions to problems of political disorder and potential Communist threats in areas of our interest".
But Mr Gnodde told CNBC that Goldman Sachs would not wait until the end of the Brexit talks to "execute on its contingency plans".
"This expanded office space will allow us to grow our operations in Germany to continue serving our clients, as well as provide us with the space to execute on our Brexit contingency plan as needed," Goldman Sachs said.
Launched in clusters, some staying in orbit just a year or two, the satellites would provide coverage necessary to execute a new military contingency plan called "Kill Chain". It is the first step in a new strategy to use satellite imagery to identify North Korean launch sites, nuclear facilities and manufacturing capability and destroy them pre-emptively if a conflict seems imminent.
Pending — An offer has been accepted, a contract has been executed and the contingencies have been met.
