Speed of Response
I am a major Indian military buff. And although I believe that all wars are futile, I think the maintenance of an army by every country is vital. I have always loved the Republic Day parades and used to watch them every Jan 26th without fail - I missed the ones in 2003 and 2004, but caught it this year when I was in India.
A girl who used to work for my dad married Flight Lieutenant in the Air Force. He is stationed somewhere near Bombay now.
I was talking to him some time back and he was telling me that if it was determined that India was under attack, the Air Force could have entire squadrons in the air within 3 minutes. This was for the Western seaboard. It was 10 minutes for the Eastern seaboard.
I think thats amazing, and I am sure that all companies can learn and benefit from techniques used by the armed forces.
And of course, the armed forces can learn from industry - One incident that always comes to my mind is how the US Army dispatched huge amounts of supplies to Kuwait during the First Gulf War - All of the containers were lined up in a 2 mile stretch, and although all the necessary supplies were there, nobody knew which container contained what !
A girl who used to work for my dad married Flight Lieutenant in the Air Force. He is stationed somewhere near Bombay now.
I was talking to him some time back and he was telling me that if it was determined that India was under attack, the Air Force could have entire squadrons in the air within 3 minutes. This was for the Western seaboard. It was 10 minutes for the Eastern seaboard.
I think thats amazing, and I am sure that all companies can learn and benefit from techniques used by the armed forces.
And of course, the armed forces can learn from industry - One incident that always comes to my mind is how the US Army dispatched huge amounts of supplies to Kuwait during the First Gulf War - All of the containers were lined up in a 2 mile stretch, and although all the necessary supplies were there, nobody knew which container contained what !
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