Word: lehre
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...dens. Somali fishermen, whose industry was always small-scale, lacked the advanced boats and technologies of their interloping competitors, and also complained of being shot at by foreign fishermen with water cannons and firearms. "The first pirate gangs emerged in the '90s to protect against foreign trawlers," says Peter Lehr, lecturer in terrorism studies at Scotland's University of St. Andrews and editor of Violence at Sea: Piracy in the Age of Global Terrorism. The names of existing pirate fleets, such as the National Volunteer Coastguard of Somalia or Somali Marines, are testament to the pirates' initial motivations...
...VINOThe group sipped the last of the Malbec to applause and—from at least one student—slight snores. But for most, the effects of the wine were more apparent. “People do get really loud and really drunk,” Amy K. Lehr says. But “I like wine, and I like my friends, and I like to combine them.” Asked what she thinks about inebriation on a Wednesday night, Lehr says it’s “very healthy—what every student needs...
...renewal of the act, which bans imports from Burma in order to discourage forced labor under the military junta. “It’s an honor to have someone who’s shown such dedication to democracy and freedom,” said Amy K. Lehr, a student at the Law School who worked for an NGO in Burma. “I found it encouraging that he thinks there’s a lot of opportunities for change in Burma in the current generation.” Speaking fluent English, Bo Kyi said he learned...
...German strategist Helmut von Moltke once observed, "No plan survives contact with the enemy." For the 101st Airborne Division that dictum struck with a vengeance. But, according to LTC Lehr this was a good thing. "In the past, the Army has had a tendency to try and fight according to plan, not according to what the enemy or situation dictated," he said. "This time we adopted our plans to what the enemy was doing." Moltke would have understood. His second dictum states, "War is a matter of expedients...
...offices that read, "The reason the American Army does so well in war is because war is chaos and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis." Planning of course is supposed to eliminate the chaos of the battlefield, but every soldier knows that's impossible. According to Lehr, "Planning is a point of departure. It is all about flexibility...