Creativity, the generation of new ideas that are both novel and appropriate is essential to understanding complex problems, and can be enhanced by both life experience diversity and cognitive diversity, as well as by delayed evaluation during...
American Soldiers continually display the highest ethical standards of any employees or members of any organization. Likewise, the United States Army develops and instills these ethics into their employees better than any other organization. We...
This study analyzes the concept of simultaneity developed by Russian military theorists, V.K. Triandafillov and M. Tukhachevskii, for application at the operational level of war with respect to non-linear full-spectrum operations. The study begins...
Just as many football players have failed to become great coaches, so too have many governmental leaders, leaders of industry and military officers failed to succeed when placed at higher levels of responsibility. Understanding how to solve...
Thesis: Throughout our nation’s history, our ethical principles have changed tremendously.
The Armed Forces, specifically the Army, has established a professional standard of ethics that we all must be. Leaders must mentor and teach our future...
Sullivan, Gordon R., 1937-; Ellis, David; Dabrowski, John R. (John Raymond); US Army Military History Institute. Oral History Branch.; Army War College (U.S.)
Publication date verified by R. Mages, Chief of MHI Oral History Branch 01/20/2009.
"This oral history transcript has been produced from a tape-recorded interview with Gen. Sullivan and was conducted by numerous interviewers, mainly...
Ethical and moral standards based on the Army core values are a driving force on what is considered appropriate personal and professional conduct within the military. This paper will define what I believe ethics to be. I will further address an...
After the terrorist acts committed on September 11, 2001 there has been a growing concern with the civilian population as to how much longer will we, the United States, tolerate the loss of human lives as we have taken the fight to our enemies...
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is becoming an important topic for military leaders as the two wars in Afghanistan and Iraq continue. The diagnosis of PTSD in Soldiers returning from the battlefields is increasing at an alarming rate. Despite...
I feel that it is my duty to obey and teach my subordinates to obey all leaders as long as the orders are not life threatening or go against humanity regardless your opinion about a particular leader.
We as leaders are entrusted with young men and women that are depending on us to instill the ethical and moral attitude needed, to carry them through their military careers and beyond. In these times of shrinking budgets, the public and the media...
To be a senior NCO in the Swiss Armed Forces means to become a fully professional Soldier (a senior NCO is also an instructor and adult teacher). In the Senior NCO academy one of the first sentences they tell us is; "To become a Senior NCO is not...
Self-synchronization is an idea that comes directly from Network-Centric Warfare but its foundations lie in complexity theory and the ideas of self-organization and emergent behavior. In order to understand self-synchronization the basics of...
This monograph examines the usefulness of defensive culmination to the operational level planner. A working definition of the theoretical concept is advanced and then examined against the backdrops of historical campaigns, current doctrine, and...
Before I started this assignment I had to make sure I understood what the military and civilian definitions were on ethics. I just don’t think you should put words on paper or open your mouth without proper knowledge of what you are trying to...
As the Jamaica Defense Force (JDF) progresses, our Senior Non-Commission officers and leaders will play significant roles in molding our future generation of Soldiers; Ethics and moral values will be an important factor in this process. As such, we...
Col. John Boyd, USAF (Ret),famous for developing the OODA (Observe-Orient-Decide-Act) loop model, spent most of his adult life trying to convince the U.S. military establishment of the merits of his theory for maneuver warfare later called the Boyd...
Global tensions and threats such as terrorist acts continue to pressure America's effort to provide peace and stability to regions around the world. Consequently, military leaders have traditionally been called to protect American interests at home...
“German General Staff Officer Education and Current Challenges” examines the institutional education of German General Staff Officers, as experienced by the author, and offers a “Conceptual Competency-Skill-Framework” for professional...