They agree that threats to America have become less predictable, that the next war is likely to be very different from Vietnam or the gulf war and that the proper response entails incorporating new technology -- vivid information-gathering sensors, fast computers, precision guidance, robotics -- and new fighting dogma to make our forces more aware and more agile.
In their place are dozens of scrolls, vertical and horizontal, covered with handwritten words, that collectively suggest a gathering of vivid personalities and radiate the equivalent of cocktail party conversational buzz.
Childhood memories of his wife fill the air there and where they now share vivid memories of family gatherings.
Vivid words create more vivid pictures.
Amis replied on 17 December 1982: "Jolly vivid a/c of the Mrs T gathering.
Stoppard gallantly pressed on, and I have a vivid memory of him, desperate in the gathering dusk, frantically shuffling his precious pages and brandishing his cards, like a panicky magician whose tricks are blowing up in his face.
The memory of rowing out onto the bay to catch a few straggling snapper blues or watch the ducks gathering for the flight south remains vivid today.
Yet both groups described their surroundings in vivid detail, capturing much of the dark energy that seemed to be gathering in L.A. at the time.
Newly named instrumentalist of the year by Musical America, which publishes the Musical America International Directory of the Performing Arts and maintains the Web site musicalamerica.com, Ms. Wu offered vivid evidence for her renown in a handful of performances scattered throughout the gathering.
The scenes were particularly vivid in the northern refugee camp of Jabaliya, where Hamas police officers tried to prevent Fatah supporters from gathering to pray outside.
But she is equally vivid in capturing Ugwu's teenage lust, his comic rivalry with other servants or the tenor of late-night academic gatherings.
