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Augustine's Laws

Norm Augustine was President and CEO of Martin Marietta (now subsumed within Lockheed Martin) in the 1980's. He came up with a number of laws to describe what he'd learned in business, which were eventually published as book (available at Amazon.com etc)

Recently his 16th law was quoted in Defence Analysis. We thought readers might like to chortle over them all, so we've reproduced them below (thereby saving you the cost of the book!)

BigDog: the U S Army's Pack Mule

By Nick Cranston, B.A, Research Associate, U K Defence Forum

Here at Viewpoints, we have been following the development in unmanned vehicles with interest. Recently, the world's smallest helicopter has taken it's maiden flight, along with intriguing developments incorporating video gaming technology with Unmanned Ariel Vehicle (UAV) flight. But it's developments on the ground that caught our eye of late, with Boston Dynamics' BigDog a dynamically stable quadruped robot developed with Foster-Miller, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Harvard University Concord Field Station and funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

British defence policy since 1997

The House of Commons recently compiled two substantial policy analyses of British defence policy since 1997 and background issues. They can be found at

http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp2008/rp08-057.pdf
http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp2008/rp08-058.pdf

As Defence Viewpoints is seeking to give the main political parties in the UK a platform to explain their policies for their hoped-for next spell in government, these documents are a fundamental foundation for their jumping off points.

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Augustine's Laws

BigDog: the U S Army's Pack Mule

British defence policy since 1997

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