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Culture and behaviour
Culture and behaviour
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Meaning....?Lord Jim wrote:They also need to be careful not to go over board here.
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They need to be clear where the boundaries are. Whilst working for the MoD I was a victim but I cannot say more as I had to sign a rather large legal document when I was "Retired" in order to get the right level of compensation. If the boundaries are too large it could destroy the morale and ethos of the Armed Forces, too narrow and some people will get a way with murder.downsizer wrote:Meaning....?
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What boundaries could be too large, what do you mean ? In general terms, I'm not sure what you're getting at.
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I'm not sure what you mean. Either we are investigating unsuitable behavior or we aren't?Lord Jim wrote:They need to be clear where the boundaries are. Whilst working for the MoD I was a victim but I cannot say more as I had to sign a rather large legal document when I was "Retired" in order to get the right level of compensation. If the boundaries are too large it could destroy the morale and ethos of the Armed Forces, too narrow and some people will get a way with murder.downsizer wrote:Meaning....?
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It is far more complicated that that, which is why boundaries need to be set, but getting these wrong can also be damaging to both people and the Armed Forces as a whole. The treatment of women might be the headline, but it is a far bigger issue to be dealt with.
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Jumping up a level, was just reading about the theory of strategic culture and how Russia's has been formed from (and thus can be explained/understood) the historical experience from about the time of the fall of Constantinople... and becoming the 3rd Rome.
Ever-lasting truths: Multi-year budgets/ planning by necessity have to address the painful questions; more often than not the Either-Or prevails over Both-And.
If everyone is thinking the same, then someone is not thinking (attributed to Patton)
If everyone is thinking the same, then someone is not thinking (attributed to Patton)
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Are we talking about the Russ peoples that were an amalgam for different cultures, from Scandinavia, the Steppes as well as influence form the Byzantine Empire. Russ made up the majority of the Emperor's Varangian Guard and were liked, especially through religion. At least this is what I can remember to be the case.
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Not entirely correct. The Harald we know from the Norgie invasion (before the Danes from Normandy stepped in) spent most of his adult life in that Guard and was part party to two changes of Emperor (so cosy with three), in a v short format how this relates to the situation at hand:
- slavdom gets to be an idea (more than a state)
- the Mongol reign embeds an idea into the culture that to avoid real slavery, bribing and lying is OK
- the 3rd Rome claim becomes an ideology, married to the earlier slav-dom thought. Kiev being sacked also permanently switches 'state-dom' further North
- chaos in the early 16-hundreds, i.a. the Poles occupy Moscow; rise of the Romanoffs
AND ever since, rather than living happily ever-after, in the thinking there has been the marriage of the Orthodox faith, most followers having a background in the slavic (eastern, western...)peoples and the need for a strong protector for this Slavic world (so with a fast forward, you get the USSR slogan 'mir miru'), but even more so:
ENTER Putin who remolds himself (protector of the faith, like our head of state, and so on) into that re-existing mold
... you see this in the absurd claim (that he constantly repeats) that the Russians and the Ukrainians are the same people and he is duty bound to 'SAVE' the latter
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Ever-lasting truths: Multi-year budgets/ planning by necessity have to address the painful questions; more often than not the Either-Or prevails over Both-And.
If everyone is thinking the same, then someone is not thinking (attributed to Patton)
If everyone is thinking the same, then someone is not thinking (attributed to Patton)
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By way of perspective this averages out at about £600,000 annually which likely boils down to between 6 to 12 dedicated staff depending on whether they are Service personnel or Civil Servants, out of a total strength of about 30,000.