Long story short: A-Teaming provides readers with effective ways to apply the crucial life skill that even LinkedIn fails to list. That being, Slinkynomics which simply means unleveling the playing field to permit forward progress. The bottom line being, everyone wants to raise their end while at the same time making sure to protect it.
And as most things in life are rigged, the best way to deal with the short end of the stick (or worse) is to accept the fact that unconventional warfare, business and life itself are one and the same.
Accordingly, A-Teaming is peppered with references to popular, above ground, underground and cyberculture. Suffice it to say the book is stuffed to the gills with fundamental military and peace movement maxims and life science bon mots which are juxtaposed with situations and familiar points of reference to insure the text stays grounded to the circumstances and interests of a diverse readership. Pictures and graphics? Plenty. And they're not the usual tripe associated with most business, military and self-help texts.
As for the intended audience, A-Teaming is laid out "buffet style" in order to insure a "global reach" by appealing to both sexes, domestic and foreign lands, young and old, boomers and Gen X'ers, straights, gays and cross-dressers, left wing, greens and those to the right (but short of any neo-Nazi stuff). It's for those in business, stuck in business, angry at business, going out of business and or trying to deal with any variation thereto. It's also for folks in school, not in school, those with a GED an MBA or downloads of every episode of The Apprentice. There is pro-military and anti-military, some parts are funny, other parts are sad. And a section or two might make the reader mad, inspired, smarter or just point out how to avoid dumb and dumber. If nothing else, A-Teaming is designed to entertain.
What follows are some of the many Zippo lighters that were employed to illuminate, enliven and otherwise "add value" to A-Teaming. And yes, it all ties back to Special Forces doctrine past, present and future.
ARTS and CRAFTS: Origami and adult-rated Kokigami. AWARDS: The Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award and The Adult Video News (AVN) Awards. BET'S COMIC VIEW: Bruce Bruce. DRINX: Akvavit, Veuve Clicquot, Carlsberg, Tuborg, Yuengling, Gordon Beirsch and Bud. EDUCATIONAL and RELATED OFFERINGS: Rutgers, the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, Harvard and Outward Bound. EGGS: Beluga as well as those on your face and or others. EMPIRE BUILDERS and their STAFFERS: Ghengis, Adolph, Himmler, Goebbels and Darth Vader. FILM: The Player, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, The Fighter, Jersey Boys, Teacher's Pet, Pillow Talk, A Boy and His Dog, Das Boot, Brazil, Dr. Strangelove, the Seventh Seal, The Endless Summer, Cinema Paradisio, Operation Petticoat, Rosemary's Baby, Charlie Chan in Monaco, The Stepford Wives (original and sequels), My Little Chickadee, Metropolis, Le Femme Nikita, "M," The Manchurian Candidate, Triumph of the Will, The Solid Gold Cadillac, Night of the Living Dead, Roger and Me, Kolberg, Heathers, Serial Mom, The Mouse that Roared, Pink Flamingos and more. HEROES: Denmarks' Holger Danske, O'Hare aiport's namesake (Chuck O-Hare, a real "Jedi Knight"), Germany's Hans and Sophie Scholl, Libya's Omar Mukhtar, Guam's Father Duenas, the Netherland's Anne Frank, Billy Jack, Snake Plissken and Rutgers' valedictorian and All-American Paul Robeson. IMBROGLIOS: Tammany Hall, Tailhook, Iraq, Afghanistan, Benghazi, Deflate and Server-gate, the 2016 election campaign (sic) notwithstanding. INDIAN SMARTS: Chiefs Sealth and Joseph and Iron Eyes Cody. INDIAN HUNTING: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and Soldier Blue. INDIAN GAMING: Cache Creek casino. JIGGLE: Morganna "the kissing bandit," and San Jose's finest: AJ's and the Pink Poodle. LOOKING MARVELOUS: Rolex, Brooks Brothers, Hermes, Nicole Miller, Sensi, Dr. Martens and Mephisto. MILITARY and OTHER UNITS: The Guerilla Girls, The Yes Men, The Earth Liberation Front, Special Forces, Mosby's Raiders, Spetznaz, Killer Barbie Dolls, The Band of Brothers and the New York Yankees. MONSTERS: Godzilla and Mothra. OVAL OFFICE CONTENDER: W.C. Fields (who was a candidate in 1940). PRESIDENTS: George Washington, Ike, Herbert Hoover, JFK, Bill & Hillary, Jimmy Carter and Bush I + II and who's next? PORN: The National Debt Clock (real time updates are provided at the bottom of each page of this website), The Congressional Retirement System, Behind the Green Door, Cafe Flesh, L'Ultima Orgia del III Reich (i.e. Caligula Reincarnated as Hitler) Deep Throat, The Devil in Miss Jones (and sequel), Dirty Debutantes #17, Russ Meyer, Ed Powers and Jerry Butler. PRO-WRESTLING: John Cena, The Rock, Stone Cold, Curry Man, Shark Boy, Ric Flair, Mic Foley, Joel “the Quintessential Stud Muffin” Gertner, Andy "the Inter-Gender Champion" Kaufman, Vince McMahon, William Regal, Terry Funk, The Valiant Brothers, Al Snow and Head, Bobby "the Brain" Heenan, Len Choi, WCW, WWF, ECW and Silicon Valley’s APW. ROYALS: England's King George and Princess Diana and her sons, Denmark's Queen Margrethe II, Hawaii's Kamehameha the Great and Queen Liliuokalana and Joshua Norton, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. ROCKERS: The Butthole Surfers, Donna Summer, The Village People, Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show, Guns n' Roses, Iron Butterfly, Primus, Jimmy Hendrix, Aqua, A-Ha, Shakira, Donny Osmond, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, ZZ Top, Grand Funk Railroad, Madonna, Emerson Lake and Palmer, The Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Psy, Sir Mix-A-Lot and more. SELF-DEFENSE: How (and why) to kiss ass, keeping your mouth shut and Tae Kwon Do. SING-SONG: March of the Cuckoos, Song of the Volga Boatman, Old Man River and They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha Ha. TOYS: Gumby, Slinky, X-Ray Specs, Silly Putty, Lego, Snakes and Ladders and for those over 18 Fleshlight and Real Girl. TV: HBO's Silicon Valley, Latenight (Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, David Letterman and their successors), Early Morning (Captain Kangaroo, Ding Dong School, Sesame Street and Howdy Doody) Action/Adventure (The Avengers, The Blacklist and The Prisoner), Life Improvement (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, Sex and the City and The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis), Militia (JAG, Combat, Sgt. Bilko and McHale’s Navy), Spooks: The Blacklist and Casper the Friendly Ghost. UNITED NATIONS: Mexico, North and South Korea, England, Italy, Kuwait, Bosnia, Denmark, France, The Dutchy of Grand Fenwick, Atoll K (i.e. Utopia), Iceland, Finland, Australia, Switzerland, Germany, Libya, Romania, Russia, Japan, ("the People's Republic of") Palo Alto, San Jose and Silicon Valley. 'ZINES: Asian Cult Cinema, Giant Robot, Harvard Business Review, Mad, Men Into Underwear, Surfer, Surfing, Fortune, G-Fan, Low Rider, Esquire, Ad Busters, The Inner Swine and Silicon Valley's Metro. THE WEB: YouTube, YouPorn, Wiki, WikiLeaks and all the rest.
More specifics? Sorry, I can't afford to give the book away for free
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