Apple's policies do not differ greatly from those of scores of other multinational operations.
In reality, most multinational operations throughout the developing world are run to much higher technical and managerial standards than their local counterparts.
And with much fanfare NATO approved a program to redress the imbalance and improve the alliance's ability to mount multinational operations, a program it calls the Defense Capabilities Initiative.
That makes sense, because those companies have more-extensive multinational operations than their smaller counterparts do and, therefore, more non-U.S.
The goal of these huge new agency companies is to own or control as many of the large, multinational operations as possible to offer the most potential services to large, multinational clients.
They said it "could inhibit the ability of the United States to use its military to meet alliance obligations and participate in multinational operations, including humanitarian interventions to save civilian lives".
But in developing countries there has usually been impunity due to ineffective enforcement of local laws, state suppression of opposition to multinational operations, and difficulties in accessing justice locally.
According to the plans announced yesterday, the German military will be restructured into "intervention forces" with 35,000 troops for "high intensity" multinational operations, "stabilization forces" with 70,000 soldiers for "low to medium intensity" peacekeeping duties, and "support forces" for remaining operations and training.
Faced with huge multinational operations like E.& J. Gallo Winery of California and Southcorp of Australia, now the world's largest, the merchants of Bordeaux are banding together, designing new labels and promoting brands alongside the heritage of growing regions, often down to the fields surrounding chateaus.
