Steve Blank

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

Over the last twenty years, however, China has developed the ability to precisely target fixed infrastructure in Japan, Guam and elsewhere with thousands of ballistic and cruise missiles. Forward-Deployed Forces : The U.S. has long relied on military assets pre-positioned in the Asia Pacific to serve as a deterrent and first line of response.

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China – The Sleeper Awakens (Part 1 of 5)

Steve Blank

bases in Guam and Okinawa. Its Second Artillery Corps not only controls China’s ICBMs, but also its short range missiles pointed at Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines, and U.S. And its new terminally guided ICBMs have put U.S. aircraft carriers in harms way in any regional confrontation.

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China – The Sleeper Awakens (Part 1 of 5)

Steve Blank

bases in Guam and Okinawa. Its Second Artillery Corps not only controls China’s ICBMs, but also its short range missiles pointed at Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines, and U.S. And its new terminally guided ICBMs have put U.S. aircraft carriers in harms way in any regional confrontation.

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If I Told You I'd Have to Kill You: The Story Behind “The Secret.

Steve Blank

But I was always a sponge for new data and curious about where it came from, and what the history was, and what we were trying to do.

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The Story Behind the Secret History Part II. Getting B-52s through.

Steve Blank

That info was so burned into my 23 year old brain I could NEVER forget it as much as I tried… a shame I had a T prefix stuck on everything service related & could’nt escape ATC regardless of volunteering for SEA or Guam, the old needs of the USAF story.

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Entrepreneurship is hard but you can’t die

Steve Blank

Most of the fighter planes used to support the war were based in Thailand , or from aircraft carriers (or for some B-52 bombers, in Guam.) In the early 1970’s the U.S. was fully engaged in the war in Vietnam. I was 19, in the middle of a hot war learning how to repair electronics as fast as I could.

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