In Mark Moyar’s, A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq, presents the attributes that leaders must possess in order to have more success during counterinsurgent campaigns. Throughout the campaigns that Moyar covers, he attempts to apply these attributes and how they affect the outcome of the campaign and the leadership or their lack of possessing these attributes. These ten leadership attributes: initiative, flexibility, creativity, judgment, empathy, charisma, sociability, dedication, integrity, and organization combined will result in an effective and successful commander combating counterinsurgency. Through the many campaigns that Moyar dissects via his in depth research, he presents why counterinsurgency is “leader-centric” and those that hold these attributes usually come out on the top. Moyar goes above and beyond delving into the leadership of both military and non-military, such as political leadership.
Governments of countries for example often had to keep their peoples under control participating in the war and having mixed feelings/ opinions of the war. As front lines are filled with trenches interactions in this case refer to several things such as gunfire, bombing, and shouting of orders. These examples fall under the first category of Battles and are either physical or verbal. Throughout the war, diplomacy was an advantage to the allies. For example when faced with heavy casualties and problems at home, Russia withdrew from the war and instead the United States entered brining much needed support and troops to help win the war.
Ronald E. Powaski, Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1991, goes in depth with origins of the Cold war and the relations between American-Soviet rivalry. Powaski challenges the reader to think of the war in new ways and provides an innovative perspective on the conflicts of the two countries. He shows that both America and Soviet were expansionist nations with developments that influenced history. He also emphasis on the new development that have added on to the countries rivalry relationship and highlights what ties them together in conflict. Powaski argues that “That the Cold War was inevitable.
Van Evera focused on how there were numerous factors, such as structural, political/environmental, and perceptual factors in which nationalism was a main cause of war. I believe that this article is the more accurate of the two articles, and this is because he is able to take the constructivist/ideological views that Suny uses, and incorporate them into his article, and rather than only explaining to the reader the political and historical ideologies that a nation may have. Van Evera also explicates his hypotheses by explaining that although there are constructivist ideologies such as: mythical beliefs, like self-glorification,
The more the movie went into depth, the more stronger the similarities and differences presented themselves. As the stories of these heroes unraveled, comparing and contrasting the psyche, the brutality ,the moral and ethical conflicts in great war movies such as the “Lone Survivor”(Berg.2014), and “Apocalypse Now”(Coppola.1979), was not as hard as imagined. The psyche of a man in war is really captured in both these movies. Of the two movies,”Apocalypse now”() really captures a stronger sense of what war can do to a soldier’s mental status, one example of a deteering mind is Colonel Kurtz. This man reputation was one of the greatest to ever represent his country, he was the 4.0 kid who never did anything wrong and was on pace to be up at the very top of the ranks the military can offer.
He understood that without the support of local sheikhs, Iraqi police and a task force from the Army with specialized vehicles would have called for higher casualty rates. LtGen Natonski’s situational understanding of the mission, led combat forces on the ground, and instituted security for polling stations in the Al Anbar Province for the first National Iraqi election in January 2005. LtGen Natonski assessed the situation constantly by communicating openly with his ground commanders, receive feedback on a proposed course of action and make decisions on the spot. Open communication was crucial for decision making and the ongoing assessment during operations as it provided clear intent that empowered commanders to exercise initiative. The mission was successfully accomplished as the city was able to resettle with an election system, a new government in place, an effective police force without the threat of
B. Technology and the Trenches Much of nineteenth-century warfare had been predicated on speed and maneuverability, but the First World War on the western front almost immediately was limited to the trenches that ran from the English Channel to the Swiss border. Machine guns, poison gas, and heavy artillery made short work of cavalry and massive frontal assaults by the infantry. As traditional methods of warfare failed, leaders turned to new technology to break the deadlock—tanks,
I think that what should be done is what Sen. McCain proposes, I have gone many times through his plan and I think that is better than Sen. Obama’s plan. Sen. McCain explains clearly that withdrawing would bring total instability to Iraq which is true because right now there is not a stable government yet. If Sen. Obama’s Plan was followed then there would be a big problem because then it would be a fact that Iraq
Her investigation is important because as it provides first hand evidence of the time which outlines the military policies of the US Army. Because of the wide range of primary sources the author uses to elaborate the No Gun Ri massacre and the US policies that allowed for the tragedy to happen, this source is valuable in interpreting how US military policies triggered the events at No Gun Ri. Unlike the Pentagon’s investigation of the No Gun Ri Massacre, which provides sources advantageous for the US to avoid blame, this article gives a well-rounded view of the incident as it presents both perspectives; that the US had no choice but to impose these military policies as a last resort that these actions, made by the ‘protector of the world’, could not be justified. The limitation of this source is that, although presenting both perspectives, it subtly conveys a sense of bias against the US military
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