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...
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...
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...
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 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 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 CGSC Class 2010-01. The Army Leader Development Strategy (ALDS) states the Army must focus on developing leaders with confidence, versatility, adaptability and...
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...
First Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class of 2006-001. Secretary of the Army Francis Harvey challenged our CGSOC class to "continually make your units better". To be able to lead change well, the...
First Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class of 2006-002. The importance of military leadership remains constant in peacetime, war or a counterinsurgency operation. To develop better leaders for the...
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...
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...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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...