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In July 1971 as a newly commissioned officer, I was assigned by the Navy (in its wisdom!) to the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, to teach international relations and national security to officers who were older and senior in rank to me. My principal qualification is that I had just completed a nine-month master’s degree. I was justifiably terrified when I went to my first class where I presented a paper I had written in graduate school that I thought would fill two or three classes. In fact, I presented the paper in twenty minutes—probably because I was speaking so fast. I asked if there were any questions; there were none, so I dismissed the class thirty minutes early, and ran to my office to start preparing for the next day’s classes. This was not an auspicious beginning.
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Caldwell, D. (2019). Introduction. In: Caldwell, D. (eds) Alexander L. George: A Pioneer in Political and Social Sciences. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 15. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90772-7_1
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