Second Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Competition for the CGSC Class of 2006-002. Most Army officers know the story of LTC Nate Sassaman all too well. Even if they do not recognize the name at first sight, they certainly...
Leaders, civilian and military, must know history. The Philippine Insurrection provided many lessons about the effects of different tactics on the ability to obtain actionable intelligence. These lessons become valuable when compared to events in...
The United State Army has been fighting the nation’s wars for over 260 years. Throughout history, the Army has been confronted with the barriers that are put in place when two cultures are thrust together through combat. Repeatedly the Army has...
The importance of learning from past counterinsurgency operations helps us prepare for the wars of today and tomorrow. While the tactics of some insurgents have changed, the basic principles of insurgency and counterinsurgency have remained. In...
The importance of learning from past counterinsurgency operations helps us prepare for the wars of today and tomorrow. While the tactics of some insurgents have changed, the basic principles of insurgency and counterinsurgency have remained. In...
Controlling the Beast Within: The Key to Success on 21st-Century Battlefields. Major Douglas A. Pryer, U.S. Army, Ethical behavior contributes more to mission success than battlefield technology, armored vehicles, gunnery, or weapons ranges....
Today’s Military leaders succeed because of their knowledge of military history and lessons learned. Unsuccessful military leaders did not take the time to study military history or were unable to incorporate the lessons learned into their...
History speaks for itself, the more you know about military history the more successful you will be in battle. Taking the time from your busy schedule to study military history it really paid off when you are in the battlefield. Don’t take for...
Military leaders at all ranks continue to fight battles with the same mind set and without regard
to counterinsurgency operations. To win battles, leaders must recognize counterinsurgency as an
important role to the U.S Military. Soldiers plan and...
Controlar a Fera Interior: A Chave do Sucesso nos Campos de Batalha do Século XXI. Major Douglas A. Pryer, Exército dos EUA; "O que eu quero que vocês façam?!", bradou, com sua voz áspera, o comandante da brigada. "Eu quero que vocês os...
United States. Army. Engineer Center and Fort Leonard Wood.
The Guidon came into being as a weekly publication in 1966 under the title Fort Leonard Wood Guidon. Between 1966 and 1987 the title was simplified to Guidon before becoming Essayons in 1988. The name reverted back to Guidon in 1999. It has been...
Lieutenant Colonel Troy Perry deployed to Operation Iraqi Freedom in April 2003 as the operations officer (S3) for 1-68 Armor Battalion, 3rd Brigade, 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized) and later became the brigade S3. In this interview, Perry...
Major James R. McKee served as the chief of military and civil law for the 1st Infantry Division in Turkey and as the command judge advocate for the 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division in the Tikrit area in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In...
During Operation IRAQI FREEDOM I (OIF I), U.S. soldiers waged a desperate war against a growing insurgency. Mounting U.S. casualties became the catalyst for a hidden "war within the war." Arrayed on one side of this secret conflict were leaders who...
Is there a gender component in toxic leadership? Existing conceptions of toxic leadership fail to account for gender. The real world significance of these conceptions is that female leaders labeled with the pejorative of being toxic leaders suffer...
From antiquity to the present there has been cultural tension over different views of what is right and what is wrong, and every culture desires to apply their values universally to the rest of the world. When a nation chooses to go to war and...
Major Pete Russo served as a detachment commander - of ODA 094 - with Charlie Company, 3rd Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group during the major combat phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. In this interview, he discusses the predeployment...
The commander of 1st Battalion, 6th Field Artillery in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004-2005, Colonel Steven Bullimore, in this interview, begins by explaining how he went about re-training his artillery soldiers to be infantrymen and...