41 |
Global Skills: Vital Components of Global Engagement
|
|
|
|
In: DTIC (1998)
|
|
Abstract:
The United States still lacks adequate foreign-language capabilities despite the best intentions (and many dollars) of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 and the similar National Security Education Act of 1991. The 1979 "wake-up call" from the Presidential Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies, which called this situation "scandalous," went unheard. According to former congressman Leon Panetta, "the situation is no longer scandalous, as it was described; our current national situation with regard to international skills and understanding is merely appalling." Consistent with national trends, the foreign-language and area expertise capabilities of the Department of Defense (DoD) are equally appalling: "In every war in its history, the US Army has turned to native speakers of one kind or another to meet its language needs. Each time, it was a last-minute expedient. Desert Storm was no different." DoD, Air Force, and other governmental agency studies, audits, inspections, and reports have consistently criticized the dearth of foreign-language and foreign-area skills in the military services. These well-documented deficiencies during more predictable challenges bode poorly for the less predictable and far more diverse challenges of a new engagement-and-enlargement strategy. The Air Force's Global Engagement vision, which implements air power and space power in support of that strategy, makes a discussion of global skills relevant, timely, and necessary. For purposes of this article, we define global skills as language proficiency within a cultural and regional context. ; Published in Airpower Journal, v12 n2 p64-70, Summer 1998.
|
|
Keyword:
*AIR FORCE PERSONNEL; *AIR FORCE TRAINING; *CROSS CULTURE(SOCIOLOGY); *DEFICIENCIES; *FOREIGN LANGUAGES; *FOREIGN-AREA SKILLS; *FOREIGN-LANGUAGE SKILLS; *PERSONNEL DEVELOPMENT; *SKILLS; AIR FORCE; CROSS-CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING; DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE; FOREIGN LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY CULTURAL AWARENESS; GLOBAL ENGAGEMENT; IDENTIFICATION; INCENTIVES; Linguistics; Military Forces and Organizations; MISSIONS; NATIONAL SECURITY; Personnel Management and Labor Relations; PROFICIENCY; REPRINTS; Sociology and Law; TRACKING
|
|
URL: http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA529521 http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA529521
|
|
BASE
|
|
Hide details
|
|
42 |
Representations, Approximations, and Algorithms for Mathematical Speech Processing
|
|
|
|
In: DTIC AND NTIS (1998)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
43 |
Air Force Writers' Tacit Knowledge of the Use of Topic Sentences, the Active and the Passive Voice, and Nominalization.
|
|
|
|
In: DTIC AND NTIS (1997)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
44 |
TMSS Parsing Test, MIL-M-9977J, Appendix G, Loading Procedures Checklists.
|
|
In: DTIC AND NTIS (1994)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
45 |
MIL-M-9977J, Appendix E, Integrated Combat Turnaround Procedures, Document Type Definition, MAXIMA Corporation.
|
|
|
|
In: DTIC AND NTIS (1994)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
46 |
TMSS Parsing Test. MIL-M-5096E Work Card Document Type Definition, MAXIMA Corporation. DISA Contract DCA100-93-D-0065 Quick Short Test Report.
|
|
In: DTIC AND NTIS (1994)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
47 |
TMSS Parsing Test, MIL-M-9977J, Appendix J, NATO Stage B Cross-Servicing Checklist (CL2), Document Type Definition.
|
|
In: DTIC AND NTIS (1994)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
48 |
TMSS Parsing Test Equipment Organizational Maintenance Manual Set, MIL-M-83495A Schematic Diagram DTD, Maxima Corporation Quick Short Test Report.
|
|
In: DTIC AND NTIS (1994)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
49 |
TMSS Parsing Test: MIL-M-5096E Inspection and Maintenance DTD, Amendment One, Document Type Definition. Maxima Corporation. DISA Contract DCA100-93-D-0065 Quick Short Test Report.
|
|
In: DTIC AND NTIS (1994)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
50 |
TMSS Parsing Test, MIL-M-9977J, Appendix F. Nonnuclear Munitions Loading Standard Data Packages, Document Type Definition.
|
|
In: DTIC AND NTIS (1994)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
51 |
TMSS Parsing Test MIL-M-83495A, Appendix C, Job Guide Document Type Definition MAXIMA Corporation DISA Contract No. DCA100-93-D-0065 Quick Short Test Report.
|
|
|
|
In: DTIC AND NTIS (1994)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
52 |
TMSS Parsing Test, MIL-M-9977J. Appendix C. Nonnuclear Munitions Basic Information. Document Type Definition.
|
|
In: DTIC AND NTIS (1994)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
53 |
TMSS Parsing Test MIL-M-38784C, Appendix B, Template for Technical Manuals, Amendment Three. Document Type Definition MAXIMA Corporation DISA Contract No. DCA100-93-D-0065 Quick Short Test Report.
|
|
|
|
In: DTIC AND NTIS (1994)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
54 |
TMSS Parsing Test, MIL-M-77OOE, Flight Manual Document Type Definition.
|
|
In: DTIC AND NTIS (1994)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
55 |
MIL-M-83495A, Appendix B. General System, Amendment One. Document Type Definition.
|
|
In: DTIC AND NTIS (1994)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
56 |
TMSS Parsing Test MIL-M-9977J, Appendix D, Nonnuclear Munitions Loading Procedures.
|
|
In: DTIC AND NTIS (1994)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
57 |
TMSS Parsing Test MIL-M-83495A Fault Reporting Document Type Definition MAXIMA Corporation DISA Contract No. DCA100-93-D-0065 Quick Short Test Report.
|
|
|
|
In: DTIC AND NTIS (1994)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
58 |
TMSS Parsing Test MIL-T-388O4B, Appendix A; Time Compliance Technical Orders; Document Type Definition; MAXIMA Corporation; DISA Contract Number DCAA100-93-D-0065 Quick Short Test Report.
|
|
In: DTIC AND NTIS (1994)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
59 |
TMSS Parsing Test. MIL-M-5096E Functional Check Flight, Document Type Definition, MAXIMA Corporation. DISA Contract DCA100-93-D-0065 Quick Short Test Report.
|
|
In: DTIC AND NTIS (1994)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
60 |
TMSS Parsing Test MIL-M-5O96E Flow/Sequence Chart Document Type Definition MAXIMA Corporation Quick Short Test Report.
|
|
In: DTIC AND NTIS (1994)
|
|
BASE
|
|
Show details
|
|
|
|