Gary W. Elliott
Gary graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy with a B.S. in International Affairs, emphasis on western Europe, and earned an M.A. in International Relations from New Mexico State University. He served 20 years as an officer, mostly as a fighter pilot. During this period he was stationed in the Philippines for over three years, and deployed three times to South Korea. Later he lived outside of Naples, Italy for 3-1/2 years while assigned at a NATO Southern Region headquarters, and traveled to Austria, Germany, Greece, Turkey, Portugal, and Spain.
He was Professor of Aerospace Studies at Central Washington University for 2 years, and during this period spent two weeks in Russia with a group invited by the Ministry of Education, training high school teachers to use a curriculum called "Christian Morality and Ethics - A Foundation for Society." Seven years later he was back at CWU as a lecturer in the Flight Technology program for a year.
After retiring from military service, Gary and his wife Stacie trained with New Tribes Mission, a church-planting ministry in remote areas, and then moved to the Philippines for 8 years where Gary served as a bush pilot. Since returning from the Philippines he has been serving as a flight instructor, helping train pilots aspiring to enter various aviation ministries.
Gary has written a lot of curriculum development material, but is new to freelance writing. He hopes his studies in international relations and years of living overseas will provide a good starting point.
Latest Articles
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Philippine Rebellion Buffoonery
Detention, prosecution, and punishment of rebels in Philippine coup attempts, including the last one, appear to be a joke, but implications are too serious to be funny.
Mar 4, 2008
- Gary W. Elliott
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Antidote for Philippine Corruption
The long-term remedy for corruption in the Philippines is individual character development, but existing institutions must be aggressively used in the short-term fight.
Mar 3, 2008
- Gary W. Elliott
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The Philippines Fights Corruption
The Philippine Constitution of 1987 and subsequent laws created anti-corruption agencies that, with other government and non-government initiatives, battle corruption.
Feb 28, 2008
- Gary W. Elliott
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Philippine Culture Permits Graft
Cultural assumptions about rightness or wrongness of individual behavior, a point of religious doctrine, and Spanish colonial experience may influence Philippine graft.
Feb 24, 2008
- Gary W. Elliott
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Philippine Institutions of Graft
Two major institutions in the Philippine government foster graft and corruption at the national level through allocation of funds and contract irregularities.
Feb 22, 2008
- Gary W. Elliott
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Philippine Graft and Corruption
The misuse of public money for private gain poses a very grave challenge to national development in the Philippines, and the magnitude of the problem is staggering.
Feb 9, 2008
- Gary W. Elliott
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Philippine National Development
A growing GNP, relative political stability, and commitment of resources to social development are yielding progress toward the UN's eight Millennium Development Goals.
Feb 6, 2008
- Gary W. Elliott
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Erratic Philippine Economic Growth
This nation has the ingredients for growth, but progress is unsteady. With exceptions such as the Asian Financial Crisis, domestic issues are causing the stunted growth.
Dec 21, 2007
- Gary W. Elliott
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Officer-Mutineer-Senator Trillanes
In custody for leading a 2003 mutiny, Trillanes was elected to the Senate last May, then led the Nov 29th coup attempt. His escapades have precedents in the Philippines.
Dec 8, 2007
- Gary W. Elliott
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Another "Military Mutiny?"
Renegade military officers walked out of a court hearing on their 2003 Oakwood Hotel mutiny, took over the Peninsula Hotel, and demanded President Arroyo's resignation.
Dec 6, 2007
- Gary W. Elliott
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