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Tom Shoop

Former editor in chief

Tom Shoop
Tom Shoop is the former executive vice president and editor in chief at Government Executive Media Group, where he oversaw editorial operations at Government Executive, Nextgov, Defense One and Route Fifty. He started as associate editor of Government Executive magazine in 1989; launched the company’s flagship website, GovExec.com, in 1996; and served as editor in chief from 2007 to 2021.
Ideas

The Day Private Willie Mays Threw Out My Dad

Two lives intersect in a story of baseball, military service, and American society in the Korean War era.

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Ideas

The Day Private Willie Mays Threw Out My Dad

Two lives intersect in a story of baseball, military service, and American society in the Korean War era.

  • Tom Shoop
Ideas

Whatever Happens in the Election, Get Ready for a Rocky Transition

Trump says if he loses, he won’t help hand over power, and if he wins, he'll root out government employees he deems disloyal to him.

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Threats

The YouTube Effect: Intelligence Operations Move Out of the Shadows

The U.S. military’s intel chief describes a shift from “secret wars” to “low-visibility wars.”

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Business

DoD's HR Overhaul: From Yugo to Maserati in a Year and a Half

Pentagon officials say they’re committed to overhauling the personnel system by the end of the Obama administration.

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Business

What We Talk About When We Talk About the VA

We should be very careful about generalizing from a genuine problem with veterans care to a broad conclusion that VA is failing veterans across the board. By Tom Shoop

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Business

Gates’ Love-Hate Relationship with Bureaucracy

“Up close, Congress is truly ugly,” former Defense Secretary Bob Gates writes in his new memoir. By Tom Shoop

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Ideas

Fanning: Air Force Having Trouble Keeping Pilots, and Pay Isn’t the Problem

Pilots don’t just want bonuses, they want to be able to fly, says acting Secretary Eric Fanning. By Tom Shoop

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Business

Do Not Call a Navy Captain Fat

The Washington Post apologizes for characterizing an officer as “thickset.” By Tom Shoop

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Business

Obama Wants to Give Troops, Civilians a 1 Percent Pay Raise in 2014

President Obama issued an alternative federal pay plan late Friday that gives troops a 1 percent pay increase in 2014. By Tom Shoop

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Business

Former Air Force Secretary To Reduce Hagel's Staff by 20 Percent

Retired Air Force Secretary Mike Donley will lead a panel that's been directed to reduce the Office of the Secretary of Defense's budget by 20 percent. By Tom Shoop

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Featured eBooks
The Future of the Air Force
Special Operations Technology 2020
C4ISR
Business

The Soldier Who Pawned His iPhone, or Why Management Matters

All the strategy and planning in the world doesn’t matter if you can’t get things like payroll processing right. By Tom Shoop

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