 Ambassador Langhorne A. (Tony) Motley, an ex Anchorageite, spoke yesterday at the World Affairs luncheon. He left the Air Force in 1970 and was in real estate here and on the board of the Alaska National Bank of the North. Remember it? Then he headed the Department of Commerce and Economic Development for the State of Alaska. He became the ambassador to Brazil (grew up there) in 1981. Since 1985 he has been teaching two-week seminars for new ambassadors---their principal orientation for their ambassadorships. Such interesting people cycle through Anchorage and Alaska.
His topic was the National Security Strategy of the United States:
 This 34-page document can be downloaded here. Interesting that there is actually a strategy and that it is being followed. I printed part of the document and decided it was worth reading, particularly after reading Henry Kissinger's Does America Need a Foreign Policy.
There is a direction. (Check it out) These are certainly different times compared with the Cold War, the Post-Cold War era, and pre-9/11. What a sudden shift in power (post-cold war as we became the major power left standing), war technology, and stateless terrorists.
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Forest fires in Russia and the jet stream across Alaska