That older patients can be successfully treated has only recently been recognized by professionals and by older persons themselves. That older persons can also be taught new skills or retaught previously existing skills constitutes even newer knowledge. By focusing on the reversibility 0/ behavioral defidts in the elderly the authors, under the leadership of Dr. Roger Patterson, have made both a scientific and a humanitarian contribution to the well-being of older persons. In this volume they have presented a theoretical basis and a practical how-to method of overcoming behavioral deficits. They have demonstrated that their modular technique of fostering improved functioning in such areas as activities of daily living and sodal skills not only has been successful but also has allowed individuals to return to less restrictive environments or to completely independent living. The approach is an interdisciplinary one, appropriately since older people often experience diffirulties in multiple areas of function ing. The authors have tried to integrate social, medical, and behav ioral approaches, with an emphasis on behavioral methodologies. Although this book deals primarily with behavioral approaches to treatment of the elderly in a single setting, the volume c1early con stitutes achallenge to other scientists and clinicians to apply the techniques described here in other settings. A medical colleague of mine, a geriatrician, recently expressed the opinion that he had never encountered an older patient for whom he could not do something to improve health."

With the publication of "Air Theory for the Twenty-first Century," Colonel John Warden ushered in a new era of wartime targeting. No longer are warfighters limited, as in years past, to an ad hoc, haphazard system of selecting wartime targets. Rather, Warden presents the warfighter with a unique tool "the five-ring system theory" that dramatically improves the warfighter's ability to systematically identify wartime targets.

On 6 February 2007, the President of the United States (POTUS) "decided to stand-up a new unified, combatant command, Africa Command (AFRICOM). The purpose of AFRICOM is "to oversee security cooperation, build] partnership capability, provide] defense support to non-military missions, and, if directed, conduct] military operations on the African continent." The current plan is to establish the command's headquarters and elements of the staff headquarters/regional integration teams (subheadquarters) around the continent. Selecting these locations will be one of the more difficult decisions ahead-the success or failure of AFRICOM hinges, in part, on its location. The purpose of this paper is to assist the POTUS and others select the optimal locations for AFRICOM headquarters and sub-headquarters. To this end, this paper develops and applies site selection criteria to assist in selecting the optimal locations. Ideally, it would have been preferable to make an independent assessment by traveling to each respective state however practical limitations of time and resources made it necessary to rely on the research and efforts of others. In this vein, the vast majority of the technical research and qualitative assessments used to support this paper's conclusions and recommendations were derived from outside sources. Having applied such research and qualitative assessments to my site selection criteria, one is firmly convinced that mission success requires locating AFRICOM's headquarters in Botswana (Southern Africa region) and the sub-headquarters in Senegal (Western Africa region), Mali (Northern Africa region), Djibouti (Eastern Africa region), and Sao Tome and Principe (Central Africa region).