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JANUARY 2, 2021

Halong Bay, Vietnam The world has changed. For years, she has been pulling dollars from the sky with a phone and email address. I witnessed them close million-dollar deals remotely over phone/email and manage massive books of business with clients they visit in person once, maybe twice, each year. Take it off email (and Slack!)

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APRIL 6, 2009

had been engaged in the Vietnam War, and had agreed to parity in nuclear weapons, Soviet forces in Europe had built a 3 to 1 advantage in tanks, artillery, armored personnel carriers, and soldiers, all under Détente. Yet while the U.S. Ah, ‘thems’ were the days. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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AUGUST 7, 2009

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APRIL 29, 2009

This book may be the Iraq war equivalent of “ Dispatches &# which defined Vietnam for my generation. Both reminded me why National Service would be a very good idea.) Campbell describes how he tried to instill in his troops the proper combat mentality. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

I began to realize a few things: First, everything we had done in electronic warfare in the Vietnam War was just a slightly more modern version of what we had done over occupied Europe in World War II. (And And 30 years later I was teaching in a building named after him and never knew a thing about him. Play spooky music here. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2009

The Vietnam war was winding down. Even though the bombers we lost over North Vietnam were older versions, called B-52 D-models, many of the systems were the same. And just to make the problem harder, the North Vietnamese had shot down B-52s in December 1972 and given the Soviets the captured electronic countermeasures equipment.

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MAY 13, 2009

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