Second Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class of 2006-001. It is difficult for a person to accept negative feedback. As humans we share a common tendency to overestimate our strengths, 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...
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...
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...
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...
Third Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class 2006-02. So what is this thing called 'luck,' where in one instant what appears to be bad luck suddenly becomes good luck in one fell swoop. Is luck just...
Repose is one of those words that seems to accumulate meanings. At one level of meaning, repose has to do with how a leader feels about himself. But it is also somehow the aggregate of the leader's self-image, his motivation for accepting the...
The winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class 1989. This paper will focus on Gorshkov's application of his vision of seapower using the model contained in FM 22-103. In developing the concept of vision, FM...
Third place winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC class of 2006-001. This paper explores the ramifications of insurgency waged via strategic information warfare, especially focusing on its implications for...
The Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class of 1987. Airland Battle Doctrine will only be successful if leaders place emphasis on establishing unit cohesion and developing quality soldiers. Indeed, FM...
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 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...
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...
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...
3rd Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class of 1988. The purpose of this essay is not to propose yet another theory of leadership. Rather, in keeping with my own humble credentials, I will offer some...
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 leader". He...
1st Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class of 1988. Essential to his success and the success of all military leaders In combat are those qualities of intellect and temperament which determine the...
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...
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 2006 CGSC Class. Leader transitions are critical times. In the military, leaders conduct extensive planning and preparations for operational transitions such as...