Stanley McChrystal served in the military for over 34 years with multiple leadership assignments from Platoon Leader, up to the commander of US Forces in Afghanistan, cementing a legacy of efficiency. His most renowned achievement was revolutionizing the targeting process within the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). This built a network of interagency cooperation and streamlined the Find, Fix, Finish, Exploit, Analyze (F3EA) targeting cycle in order to eliminate high value targets (HVTs) in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). McChrystal accomplished this by building a network, to defeat a network. This philosophy was realized by building a coalition of intelligence and operations professionals to counter
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Battle of Kamdesh and provide an alternate outcome based on the utilization of intelligence and intelligence assets. Many battles could have had a different outcome if they would trust intelligence reports without needing to validate the intelligence with another source or simply have other intelligence assets available. The Battle of Kamdesh was certainly one of those battles. The battle started just before 0600 on October 3, 2009 on Combat Outpost (COP) Keating and nearby Observation Post (OP) Fritsche in the Kamdesh district of Nuristan Province, Afghanistan. About 70 Soldiers of Bravo Troop, 3rd Squadron, 61st Cavalry Regiment, along with 30 Afghan National Army Soldiers (ANA), fought an enemy force of about 300 Anti-Afghan Forces (AAF) fighters. (Nordland, 2010) The battle took place in the Consolidation II portion of the Operation Enduring Freedom Campaign in Afghanistan. The AAF likely
The mission command philosophy helps commanders counter the uncertainty of operations by reducing the amount of certainty needed to act. Commanders can build teams and achieve their final goals through adapting the six principles of mission command to warfighting situation. I analyzed and compared the performance of General Sherman and General Hampton in four of six mission command principles.
As the incoming brigade commander, LTC (P) Owens, I see the critical leadership problem facing the 4th Armored Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) is the inability or unwillingness of Colonel Cutler to lead and manage change effectively. In initial talks with Col Cutler and in reviewing the brigade’s historical unit status reports, the 4th ABCT performed as well as can be expected in Afghanistan, but as the onion was peeled back there are numerous organizational issues that were brought to the surface while I walked around and listened to the soldiers of the 4th ABCT, in addition to reviewing the Center for Army Lessons Learned (CALL) report. One of the most formidable tasks of a leader is to improve the organization while simultaneously accomplishing
INTRODUCTION The book aims at introducing political philosophy. To achieve this, the author Stephen Nathanson has focused on a particular issue that is relevant to everyone. He discusses the problem of developing a personal outlook toward government and political life. Instead of attempting to survey the entire field of political philosophy, or discussing in brief a large number of classical or contemporary authors, the writer focuses on one question, what’s our thought or feeling about government institutions?
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Through out the course of history there have been several events that have been a pivotal point which has molded the behaviors and thoughts of this century. A lot of notable activist and authors wrote stories and speeches about how they believed that this day and time would be like. A lot of these views were very accurate surprisingly. In the novel 1984 author George Orwell gives his vision on how he believed that the countries would be like if they kept going the way they were.This report will give you a brief rundown of the characters, theories and principles of this novel along with some of my personal insight of the novel.
Despite serving the same God and reading the same Bible and sharing the same moral values, Christians routinely disagree over how to respond to public policy issues. Why is this so?
What is doublethink? Orwell describes doublethink as “the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.'; In 1984, doublethink is the normal way of thought, and as a result everyone understands it and practices it. Doublethink is different from changing ones mind, lying, and self-deception in many ways. Doublethink involves believing in the two contradictory ideas at the same time. This is different from lying because lying is saying something that is wrong and knowing that it is wrong but still saying it anyway. For example lets say you broke a vase. When your mother asks you who broke the vase and you say the dog did it that would be lying. The reason it is not doublethink is that you do not believe in two different beliefs at one time. You don’t believe you broke the vase and the dog broke the vase, you absolutely know you broke the vase and are trying to put the blame on the dog as to avoid trouble. Changing ones mind is also different from doublethink. Changing ones mind is accepting or believing one thing, then deciding to accept or believe something else different then what you thought before. An example of changing ones mind would believe the earth is flat and then after seeing sufficient evidence that it is not flat but actually round. Due to the new evidence you would change your mind and now believe the earth is round as you previously thought it was flat.
Google lists one antonym for the word “introverted”: extroverted. Extroverted is defined as “outgoing and socially confident”. Therefore, the Myers-Briggs personality test determined that I am an oxymoron. Not only that, but I’m a rare oxymoron. In fact, I am the rarest personality oxymoron in the world. What makes me a rare oxymoron? I am an outgoing introvert, and only 1.5% of other humans are as well.
The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara. Dir. Errol
Simon Wiesenthal life and legends were extraordinary, he has expired people in many ways and was an iconic figure in modern Jewish history. Szyman Wiesenthal (was his real named and later named Simon) was born on December 31 in Buczacz, Galicia (which is now a part of Ukraine) in 1908. When Wiesenthal's father was killed in World War I, Mrs. Wiesenthal took her family to Vienna for a brief period, returning to Buczacz when she remarried. The young Wiesenthal graduated from the Humanistic Gymnasium (a high school) in 1928 and applied for admission to the Polytechnic Institute in Lvov. Turned away because of quota restrictions on Jewish students, he went instead to the Technical University
For outstanding meritorious achievement while serving as Lead Network Warfare Operator, 701 Combat Mission Team, Marine Corps Cyberspace Warfare Group, U. S. Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command from June 2013 to January 2018. Throughout this period, Staff Sergeant Montano made significant and long-lasting contributions to the Marine Corps, United States Cyber Command, and the Department of Defense. Staff Sergeant Montano was the key leader and intelligence professional who guaranteed success in the fight against an extremist target set and made the Marine Corps first to fight in the cyberspace domain. Staff Sergeant Montano's exceptional efforts directly led to historic Department of Defense-level successes and national level policy development.
Research supports that senior leadership did not envision an occupying force as minimal planning efforts went into the rebuilding of Iraq post-conflict. This mindset shows that military leaders did not understand the operational environment in Iraq and did not adequately frame the problem. “The Iraq War would be like a thunderstorm: a short, violent episode that swept away the enemy but would not entail the burdensome, long-term commitment,” Cobra II authors opined. The prolonged period of occupation and stabilization was beyond the scope of a limited force that could transform the region and depart in short
Political Philosophy is typically a study of a wide range of topics such as, justice, liberty, equality, rights, law, politics and the application of a codified law. Depending on what the philosophy is, it usually tends to be a very sensitive and a personal ideology that an individual holds within the reality of their existence. Several of the fundamental topics of political philosophy shape up the society that we live in as these specific topics and their implementation by the state ensures a legitimate government. In Political Philosophy, the aforesaid concepts or topics are evaluated and analyzed with tremendous depth in context to their history and intent. Furthermore, in a rather colloquial sense, political philosophy is generally a point of view which after some deep thinking asks questions such as, what are the government’s duties? Is it legitimate? What makes it legitimate? What are the duties of its citizens? What are their rights? Are they protected? So on and so forth. In the following paper, I will canvass my political philosophy and elaborate on my reasoning behind it.