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...
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...
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...
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 2007-001. Leader transitions are critical times. In the military, leaders conduct extensive planning and preparations for operational transitions such as...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 the...
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...
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...
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...
Second Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Competition for the CGSC Class of 2006-002. Most Army officers know the story of LTC Nate Sassaman all too well. Even if they do not recognize the name at first sight, they certainly...
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...