It is a pool of wisdom, the officers say, that is as deep as any they have ever seen, not about killing the enemy but about evading threats and getting home safely.
For a police officer, wisdom is being able to discern when gentle compassion is called for and when fierce compassion is called for.
The conventional wisdom among military officers, diplomats and Iraqi officials is that after a new government is formed, talks will begin about a longer-term American troop presence.
Tension between Righeimer and the union intensified last month when Righeimer pulled over at a DUI checkpoint, identified himself as a planning commissioner and questioned officers' wisdom of the timing and location of the stop, which was staged during weekday rush hour and backing up traffic before a Estancia High football game.
Dr. Parneet Pal, the Chief Science Officer at Wisdom Labs, is a Harvard- and Columbia-trained physician on a mission to scale the ideas that make well-being easy and accessible to all using evidence-based medicine and innovative behavior change models.
A study last year by Meharry Medical College, a historically black medical school in Nashville, said: "The issue of differential treatment of African-American motorists by some police officers in conjunction with law enforcement has led some to question the wisdom of giving police officers more authority to stop motorists.
General Miller's observation matches common wisdom among experienced intelligence officers that women may be effective as interrogators when seen by their subjects as mothers or sisters.
Some findings reinforced the conventional wisdom, said Elissa Moses, chief analytics officer at EmSense in Westport, Conn., which works for clients like Virgin Mobile USA and Coca-Cola.
He learned from "Seven Pillars of Wisdom," by the British Army officer T. E. Lawrence Lawrencee of Arabia), and "Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice," by David Galula, both dated texts that had uncanny relevance to the Vietnam War and the post-Vietnam era.
Before the 1950s, lending depended on the wisdom and judgment of loan officers.
