General Douglas MacArthur gave his famous speech Duty, Honor, Country. The speech was presented to the graduating cadets of West Point Military academy, during the reception for the Sylvanus Thayer award. This award is given to an outstanding citizen who represents the ideal person motto at west point “duty, honor, country.” As a former graduate of West Point Military Academy he is truly looked upon as an icon of what a good American man should be like. During his acceptance speech he utilizes…
prince as a charming ruler of a certain state that controls the body politic. Machiavelli’s work that he wrote in 1513, The Prince, disputes this theory. War should be the only thing on a prince’s mind. A prince should know how to wage war, understand military affairs, learn the land, study war, and know how to besiege territories, lead his forces, and plan battles. A prince should also be able to maintain a good reputation. Even though the prince should hold a good reputation he must know how…
could develop critical PN relationships to meet operational requirements deeply relies on their effective language communicational skills, but are current language tests properly evaluating effective language skills? LREC Language Policy states that Military Intelligence personnel assigned to 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne) (Proponent) will continue to fulfill linguistic and cultural requirements, but how are these requirements produced and set as standard. There is no disputing that…
“Loyalty and Braveness” Disagreement, greediness and the country’s rights are all of the possibility of countries going to war. But war is actually about fighting for your country and protecting those you loved. In war, people fight for what they believed was necessary to do to defend their country and their families, which ratifying what it means to be a true hero during a horrific time of War. During the War, people often fight for the love and the benefit of its country. Many people…
The main component in Wittfogel's model is irrigation. After a society achieves large scale irrigation, they then get water scheduling, irrigation planning, labor coordination, defense of waterworks, and stable productivity. These then all branch off and the society achieves more components of a state-level society. Water scheduling leads to legal power and calendrics. This leads to legal power since there has to be people in charge in order to make sure that the system is using the correct…
Readiness is the ability to meet operational demands in combat, during training, and in garrison. It is a one of the top priorities the army heads on. Readiness in the force is a key part in sustaining the fight and winning conflicts at the strategic level and unit level. To reach and maintain max readiness the army focuses on leader development, training, equipment management, and the medical/administrative status of each warfighter. My role as a leader is to ensure that each of the above…
be in the military, the other 75% are not qualified because they’re either drug users, obese, medically unfit, failed to graduate high school, or have criminal records. Although making it mandatory could help some people, it has a lot of potentially long term side effects. Military enlistment should not be mandatory because it could potentially put your life at risk, it puts your life on hold, and not everybody is fit for it. Compulsory military enlistment is when joining the military is…
up a flare with my breath." Alpha Wolf cupped a gloved hand around his face in an attempt to hide the frosty beacon. "One mistake and I’m giving him a free shot,” he muttered to himself. Andrew ‘Alpha Wolf’ Wrowbridge was on the hunt. He was a military man, working in the Navy SEALs as a Special-Operations sniper. He had short dark hair and deep brown eyes. His face gave nothing away, which made him someone who wouldn’t stick in your memory. A constant poker face; and a vital trait needed in…
Leadership is the defining aspect of every successful officer. Those who have it excel, and the opposite is true for those who don’t. In the Army, the Leadership Development Program can be modelled out by the Army Leadership Requirement Model (ALRM) which is broken down into two concepts: attributes and competencies. Within those concepts, there are six goals that leaders should strive for: character, presence, and intellect which are attributes, and leads, develops, and achieves which are…
Combat Leadership Women currently make up more than 14% of the 1.4 million active military personnel but were not allowed to serve in over 230,000 combat positions; despite that they have increasingly served at the front lines (Goudreau, 2013). In 2013, the U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta decided to allow women to serve in military combat roles, reversing a 1994 policy that excluded women from serving in combat units. This ensures that the best person is in a leadership position regardless…