Photo, above: Participants at the Festival Ergav celebration in Chukotka, Russia.   See: Hour 1, Block C: . Adm Gary Roughead, World Affairs Council of Northern California, in re: The Opening Arctic - Challenges and Opportunities

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW

Hour One

Friday  14 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block A: Sebastian Gorka, FDD, in re: In Syria, a messy road ahead for Obama  The decision to arm Syrian rebels was a difficult one; the road ahead may be even more so.

Friday  14 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block B: Matthew Phillips, Bloomberg Businessweek, in re: America’s energy boom has left the middle of the country awash in cheap oil. But as pipeline companies scram- ble to spend billions of dollars to build new pipes to tap these hot new fields, they’re discovering that railroads have beaten them to the punch. By laying a few extra miles of track and building new loading facilities, oil and gas opera- tors are quickly connecting remote areas of oil production with the existing net- works of big railroads such as Union Pacific and BNSF Railway. On the other end, they’re running tracks directly
into refining complexes as far away as Philadelphia and Puget Sound. These rail projects can often be finished in a matter of months at a cost that’s usually in the millions, not billions.  The rail industry is now hauling more crude than at any time since the days of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil.

Friday  14 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block C: . Adm Gary Roughead, World Affairs Council of Northern California, in re: The Opening Arctic - Challenges and Opportunities  (1 of 2)

Friday  14 June 2013 / Hour 1, Block D: Adm Gary Roughead, World Affairs Council of Northern California, in re: The Opening Arctic - Challenges and Opportunities  (2 of 2)

Hour Two

Friday  14 June 2013 / Hour 2, Block A:  Stephen Greenhouse, NYT, in re:  Judge Rules That Movie Studio Should Have Been Paying Interns  The case could upend a long-held practice in the film industry and other businesses that rely heavily on unpaid internships.

Friday  14 June 2013 / Hour 2, Block B:  Henry I Miller, M.D., Hoover & Forbes.com, in re:  Is There Rogue Genetically Engineered Wheat in Oregon? Who Knows? Who Cares?  Forbes.com

Friday  14 June 2013 / Hour 2, Block C: Paul Beckett, WSJ, in re: Wall Street Journal and HarperCollins Co-Publish 'Crimes Against ...   Written by Wall Street Journal Asia Editor Paul Beckett (@PaulWSJ) ... Against Women: Three Tragedies and the Call for Reform in India,'  (1 of 2)

Friday  14 June 2013 / Hour 2, Block D: Paul Beckett, WSJ, in re: Wall Street Journal and HarperCollins Co-Publish 'Crimes Against ...   Written by Wall Street Journal Asia Editor Paul Beckett (@PaulWSJ) ... Against Women: Three Tragedies and the Call for Reform in India,'  (2 of 2)

Hour Three

Friday  14 June 2013 / Hour 3, Block A:  Michael Vlahos, Naval War College, in re:

Paris Peace Conference - 1919 - and T.E. Lawrence   Lawrence, serving under the British army, was assigned as Feisal's personal advisor ... symbolic of British support for an independent Syria to thwart French colonial ... Yet Lawrence called enough attention to himself in Versailles as he walked ...

Friday  14 June 2013 / Hour 3, Block B:  Michael Vlahos, Naval War College, in re: Obama moves to arm Syrian rebels as Assad gains upper hand   Administration's caution to date has angered some Republicans and human rights activists.

Friday  14 June 2013 / Hour 3, Block C:  Michael Riley, Bloomberg, in re:  U.S. Agencies Said to Swap Data with Thousands of Firms    Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence, four people familiar with the process said. These programs, whose participants are known as trusted partners, extend far beyond what was revealed by Edward Snowden, a computer technician who did work for the National Security Agency. The role of private companies has come under intense scrutiny since his disclosure this month that the NSA is collecting millions of U.S. residents’ telephone records and the computer communications of foreigners from Google Inc (GOOG). and other Internet companies under court order.

Friday  14 June 2013 / Hour 3, Block D:  Matt Flegenheimer, nyt, in re:  Bike-Share Effort Draws Riders and Hits Snags  More than 170,000 trips have been taken with the program, but it has been troubled by more growing pains than the Bloomberg administration cares to quantify.

Hour Four

Friday  14 June 2013 / Hour 4, Block A: The Swamp Fox: Lessons in Leadership from the Partisan Campaigns of Francis Marion by Scott D. Aiken

As one of the Patriot leaders in the Carolinas, the partisan campaign conducted by Brigadier General Francis Marion and his irregular force during the American Revolution prevented South Carolina from completely succumbing to British control during the period between the capture of Charleston in May 1780 and the start of Major General Nathanael Greene’s campaign to recover the Southern Colonies in December 1780. During substantial segments of this period he alone held eastern South Carolina from the British and became known as “The Swamp Fox” for his exploits and elusiveness in harassing the British with his guerilla tactics.  Upon the arrival of Greene’s Continental Army of the Southern Department, Marion’s forces then . . .

Friday  14 June 2013 / Hour 4, Block B: The Swamp Fox: Lessons in Leadership from the Partisan Campaigns of Francis Marion by Scott D. Aiken

. . . Upon the arrival of Greene’s Continental Army of the Southern Department, Marion’s forces then reverted in part to an important supporting role in South Carolina for the duration of the war. He later assisted in the establishment of the authority of the State of South Carolina and contributed to its post-conflict termination. If General Marion had not taken action during the American Revolution, there is a good possibility that eastern South Carolina would have succumbed to British intent. That, coupled with the British occupation of Charleston, may have provided the British with the requisite momentum needed to conquer the South. Thankfully, General Marion’s call to action both militarily and politically prevented such momentum from existing.  . . .

Friday  14 June 2013 / Hour 4, Block C: The Swamp Fox: Lessons in Leadership from the Partisan Campaigns of Francis Marion by Scott D. Aiken

. . . The multifaceted aspect of the American Revolution serves as an excellent case study for the conflicts of the Twenty-first Century: joint and combined operations, civil war, insurgency/counterinsurgency, global superpowers, civil-military relations, this conflict’s got it all! Many of Marion’s partisan actions were forerunners of today’s tactics, showing his great innovativeness and foresight as a military leader. His incessant activities diverted British and Loyalist forces, inflicted British and Loyalist casualties, supported operations of the Continental Army during its Southern Campaign, and sustained the American Revolution in South Carolina. . . .

Friday  14 June 2013 / Hour 4, Block D: The Swamp Fox: Lessons in Leadership from the Partisan Campaigns of Francis Marion by Scott D. Aiken

. . .  and sustained the American Revolution in South Carolina. He was extremely effective across the range of military operations, from guerilla warfare to storming forts. He was equally inept in what today would be considered information operations and even participating in the linear tactics of the day in pitched battles. Such similarity makes Marion’s partisan campaign worth study by current military and political leaders. Aiken’s portrayal of Brigadier General Marion’s partisan actions describes the forerunners of tactics common of today’s global security environment, tactics used by, and against, United States forces.

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