Second Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class 2010-01. In a recent letter to the editor of Stars and Stripes, an Army Lieutenant General called on service members, veterans and civilians who...
Third Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class 2009-01. By developing an understanding and recognition of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its symptoms, leaders in every military branch and...
First Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the 2010 CGSC Class. Lessons learned from manually tracking friendly and enemy forces during Operations Desert Storm (ODS) in Iraq and Restore Hope in Somalia, resulted...
Third Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the 2010 CGSC Class. Much has been written on the topic of the Army as a learning organization. The focus has primarily been on the Army as a whole organization. The...
Second Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the 2006 CGSC Class. Since 2004, the Chief of Staff of the Army, General Peter Schoomaker, has made frequent reference to the concept of the "pentathlete...
Third Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the 2006 CGSC Class. Leader transitions are critical times. In the military, leaders conduct extensive planning and preparations for operational transitions such as...
Second Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the 2010 CGSC Class. In a period of consistent conflict, military leaders must have the ability to extend their influence beyond the military rank and file structure...
First Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class 2011-01. The ethical behavior of Soldiers on the battlefield is paramount, especially in counterinsurgency and stability operations where the support of...
Third Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class 2011-01. Defining NATO's culture by the three categories of institutional, the status quo, and the future provides a framework for considering a strategy...
Second Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class 2011-01. Writing is on the decline in the Army officer corps. Thoughtful, precise writing in staff papers has been replaced by hastily composed emails...
First Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class 2010-01. The Army Leader Development Strategy (ALDS) states the Army must focus on developing leaders with confidence, versatility, adaptability and...
Third Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class 2010-01. In the nine years since the U.S. military defeated the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Army has examined and questioned almost every aspect of its...
Second Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class 2009-01. As U.S. Army forces are asked to accomplish increasingly diverse and complicated missions as part of full spectrum operations, leaders are...
First Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class 2009 -- 01. In this essay, the hypothesis that the essential ethical position assumed by leaders is the most important determinant of, one, the level of...
First Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the 2006 CGSC Class. The army's current model for identifying and developing its strategic leaders occurs far too late in an officer's career progression, thus limiting...
Fourth Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class 2009 -- 01. Disobedience is the antithesis of the military establishment, an extremely intolerable behaviour in an institution that stresses the values...
Second Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class 2009-02. Clausewitz, a renowned theorist of war, describes war as "the realm of chance, (which) makes everything more uncertain and interferes with...
Third Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class 2009-02. Policy gives the Army its skeleton. Its components change to adapt to both stress and inactivity. Flimsy policy weakens Army foundation and...
First Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class 2009-02. True leaders create meaning out of difficult events or relationships, while others may be devastated or even defeated by them. Leaders come out...