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...
This paper demonstrates how a better understanding of culture can lend itself to a better understanding of meaning in discourse between two cultures who operate across a linguistic barrier. The paper falls under the tradition of cultural...
The Military is always in a state of transformation, especially when it concerns the Army. The Army itself continues to evolve on an imaginable daily basis and pace. This necessity for change has many factors to include mission demands, political...
Capítulo 7 do manual de campanha 3-24: liderança e ética na contra-insurgência. Departamento de Defesa dos EUA; Existem imperativos éticos e de liderança que são proeminentes e, em alguns casos, indispensáveis na contra-insurgência (COIN)....
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Manual de campaña (FM) 3-24 contrainsurgencia: capítulo 7. Departamento de Defensa, EE.UU.; Existen imperativos tanto directamente pertinentes al liderazgo como éticos predominantes y en algunos casos, únicos en la lucha de contrainsurgencia....
"Ask a doughboy or an officer about 'over there' these days, and nine times out of ten his answer will be, 'Oh, what's the use of talking about it? Folks are tired of hearing about the war."
Sergeant Abraham was instrumental in the battle of Bataan and the Hero of the soldiers who survived the Death March during World War II. On December 8, 1941 Sergeant Abie Abraham and his fellow comrades sat nervously in the trenches awaiting the...
NCOs must not only be technically and tactically proficient to fight and win America’s wars, they must possess a knowledge and understanding of the history of past conflicts and battles. A Spanish philosopher in the 19th century named Santayana...
The United States Army was at its lowest state of readiness at the conclusion of the Vietnam Conflict. Senior Leaders felt we needed to put Vietnam behind us, move forward and prepare to fight and win our next war versus our greatest threat, the...
The United States has had limited success battling insurgency over the last thirty years because the Army’s training and doctrine was based on a Cold War scenario. Since the conclusion of the Vietnam War, the United States Army’s training and...
I served my country for 20 years when I got notice to deploy and speculated if the training I had received had prepared me for what I was about to endure. Things did not start well; the unit’s task organization did not include the retention staff...
The following account for my participation and experiences during the three campaigns of the Gulf War while assigned with VII Corps, Personnel Service Group. It includes the notification of deployment, travel to Saudi Arabia, duties during the war...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Essayons, originally published as the Fort Leonard Wood Guidon in 1966 then as the Guidon from 1966 to 1987. Became Essayons in 1988 and remained that way until 1999 when it reverted back to Guidon. It has been and continues to be a record of...
In this interview, MAJ Ted Kaiser, US Army, Armor, discusses his deployments to Iraq as a HHC Commander in 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF). MAJ Kaiser describes an incident with being involved with indirect fire and some difficult...
The purpose of this monograph is to evaluate training balance in the United States Army at the brigade combat team level in order to determine if our current training strategy is properly balanced. The work began by examining the National Security...
Planning is an important part of a comprehensive approach to national preparedness. After the September 11 attack on America, President George W. Bush directed the creation of a standardized federal approach to preparedness planning. Congress...
TRANSCRIPT: General Petraeus on the way ahead in Iraq. General David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army; "Hard but not hopeless": The new commander of Multi-National Forces-Iraq assesses the war and previews the way ahead.
MAJ Robert Green served as general's aide to the Multi-National Corps - Iraq (MNC-I) deputy commanding general (DCG) at Al Faw Palace in Baghdad, Iraq during 2004 and 2005, as the assistant battalion operations officer (S3) at Abu Ghraib, Iraq...