In Chomsky's political writings of that period, I remember a focus on the sanitized language that accompanied U.S. war crimes in the Vietnam conflict ("a euphemism for U.S. aggression") -- such as strategic hamlets ("concentration camps") to protect the Vietnamese from guerrillas ("whom they were largely supporting").
Many of these places enjoy enormous assets in terms of universities, strategic location, concentrations of talented workers and entrenched high-wage industries.
The mental toughness needed to control aggression boils down to the thinking brain's using strategic planning, judgment, concentration and impulse control in the service of winning.
One recalls the US military's campaign in Vietnam to drain the sea by creating strategic hamlets (translate, concentration camps), seeking to deny the Vietnamese resistance access to sympathetic villagers.
At Le Mans, the mechanics, the tire-changing crews, the drivers, team owners and engineers find themselves called upon for a full spectrum of human emotions and qualities: patience, stamina, concentration, strategic thinking, human interaction and politics, night vision, speed and teamwork — all with little sleep.
The danger is that our focus on killing the al-Qaida leadership has led to strategic myopia, over-concentration of intelligence resources, and a failure to think through second- and third-order effects within a broader constellation.
A key challenge for strategic elements is the concentration of many of the world's largest deposits and reserve bases in a small number of countries.
As a final point, examples of hostile takeovers wrangled through the Commission and the Courts can have cumulative effects on the strategic value of a concentration and the efficiency of the markets for corporate control.
The model of governance is direct, with a concentration of strategic, operational decisions and control.
As such, we identify five strategic areas of focus, namely, concentration polarization, fouling, stability, scalability and cost to help path future research directions on CNM-based membranes.
To investigate the isolated and combined effects of vacuum suctioning and strategic drape tenting on oxygen concentration in an experimental setting.
