Military Leadership

Lieutenant Colonel Robert L. Taylor (USAF Ret.) is professor of management, dean emeritus, and director of international programs at the College of Business, University of Louisville. During his twenty years in the US Air Force, he served as a combat defense operations officer, missile launch control officer, and professor and head of the Department of Management at the US Air Force Academy. He can be reached at bob.taylor@louisville.edu.

Colonel William E. Rosenbach (USAF Ret.) is the Evans professor of Eisenhower leadership studies and professor emeritus of management at Gettysburg College. Formerly professor and head of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the US Air Force Academy, he wrote or cowrote numerous articles and books on leadership topics. He is especially interested in the elements of effective followership and is the founding partner of the Gettysburg Leadership Experience. He can be reached at rosenbach@leading andfollowing.com.

Eric B. Rosenbach is the executive director of the Belfer Center for International Affairs at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He formerly served as a professional staff member on the Senate Intelligence Committee and as national security adviser for Senator Chuck Hagel. As a commander in the Army, he earned the Meritorious Service Medal. He is a former Fulbright scholar and completed his bachelor's degree at Davidson College, master's degree at Harvard University, and juris doctor at Georgetown University. His e-mail is eric_rosenbach@ksg04.harvard.edu.

PART ONE

Brigadier General Lincoln C. Andrews, a West Point graduate, was commander of the 86th Infantry Division during World War I. After retiring from the Army he served as the assistant secretary of the treasury in charge of prohibition enforcement.

General S. L. A. Marshall was chief US Army combat historian during World War II and the Korean War. He wrote some thirty books about warfare.

Daniel Goleman is founder of Emotional Intelligence Services, an affiliate of the Hay Group in Boston. A psychologist who for many years reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for the New York Times, Dr. Goleman previously was a visiting faculty member at Harvard. He attended Amherst College, where he was an Alfred P. Sloan scholar and graduated magna cum laude. His graduate education was at Harvard, where he was a Ford fellow, and he received his master's and doctoral degrees in clinical psychology and personality development.

James L. Stokesbury wrote A Short History of World War I, A Short History of World War II, A Short History of the Korean War, and A Short History of the American Revolution. Before his death in 1995, he was a professor of history at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada.

John Charles Kunich is a professor of law at Appalachian School of Law, Grundy, Virginia, where he teaches courses in property, trial advocacy, and the First Amendment. In the Air Force, he served as both a prosecutor and a defense attorney in the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps, an instructor at the JAG School, chief counsel on constitutional torts and tax for Headquarters General Litigation Division, an environmental and labor attorney with Air Force Space Command, and senior legal counsel for Falcon Air Force Base, Colorado. The author of five books and numerous law-journal articles, Professor Kunich is a graduate of Squadron Officer School, Air Command and Staff College, and Air War College.

Dr. Richard I. Lester is dean of academic affairs at Ira C. Eaker College for Professional Development, Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. He previously served as chief of social and behavioral sciences, US Armed Forces Institute; education officer with Strategic Air Command and US Air Forces in Europe; and faculty member at the University of Maryland. Dr. Lester frequently lectures at military institutions in the United States and abroad.

Earl H. Potter III is president of St. Cloud State University and former dean of the College of Business at Eastern Michigan University; Director of Organizational Development at Cornell University; and head of the Department of Management at the US Coast Guard Academy. He has a doctorate in organizational psychology from the University of Washington and over thirty-five years of experience in research and consulting on issues of leadership, team effectiveness, and organizational change. His leadership experience includes leading polar diving explorations, sailing a square-rigged ship with a crew of two hundred as executive officer, and chairing countless faculty meetings.

Lieutenant General Walter F. Ulmer Jr. is a graduate of West Point and a thirty-seven-year veteran of the US Army. For nine years he was president and CEO of the Center for Creative Leadership. His writing focuses on both the theory and practice of leadership and is grounded in his belief that there can be no true leadership without humanity.

PART TWO

Jack Uldrich is a global futurist and author. His books include Into the Unknown: Leadership Lessons from Lewis & Clark's Daring Westward Expedition.

General Wesley Clark is a graduate of West Point and was a Rhodes scholar. During his thirty-four years in the Army, his assignments included commander of Operation Allied Force in the Kosovo War during his term as supreme allied commander Europe of NATO from 1997 to 2000.

James M. Kouzes is chairman emeritus of the Tom Peters Company and an executive fellow at the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. He also cowrote The Leadership Challenge.

Sarah Sewall is director of the Carr Center and a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; she also directs the center's Program on National Security and Human Rights. During the Clinton administration, Sewall served in the Department of Defense as the first deputy assistant secretary for peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance. From 1987 to 1993, she served as senior foreign policy adviser to Senate Majority Leader George J. Mitchell, as delegate to the Senate Arms Control Observer Group, and on the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. Sewall has also worked at a variety of defense research organizations and as associate director of the Committee on International Security Studies at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She wrote the introduction to the University of Chicago edition of the US Army and Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual (2007). She was lead editor of The United States and the International Criminal Court: National Security and International Law (2000) and has written widely on US foreign policy, multilateralism, peace operations, and military intervention. Her current research focuses on the civilian in war and includes facilitating a dialogue between the military and human rights communities on the use of force.

Brian Friel covered management and human resources at Government Executive for six years and is now a National Journal staff correspondent.

Craig Chappelow is senior manager of assessment and development resources at the Center of Creative Leadership, where he focuses on 360-degree feedback and feedback-intensive training and leadership development programs.

PART THREE

Major General J. F. C. Fuller was a British army officer, military historian, and strategist, notable as an early theorist of modern armored warfare.

General Montgomery C. Meigs commanded the NATO Stabilization Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina from October 1998 to October 1999, concurrent with his command of US Army Europe/7th Army. He also served as a cavalry troop commander in the Vietnam War. Meigs graduated from the US Military Academy in 1967 and earned a PhD in history from the University of Wisconsin. He is currently a visiting professor of strategy and military operations at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service.

Major Paula D. Broadwell most recently served as associate director of the Jebsen Center for Counter-Terrorism Studies at the Fletcher School, Tufts University. She is a major in the Army Reserves and has held counterterrorism assignments with the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, Defense Intelligence Agency, and US Special Operations Command. She is a graduate of West Point and has master's degrees from the University of Denver and Harvard University, and is a PhD candidate at King's College London War Studies Department. Broadwell also serves on the executive board of Women in International Security.

Lieutenant Colonel Paul Yingling is a battalion commander in the US Army. He has served two tours in the Iraq War, first as an executive officer and later as an effects coordinator.

Fred Kaplan is a journalist and contributor to Slate magazine. His "War Stories" column covers international relations, US foreign policy, and major related geopolitical issues.

Michael C. Desch is professor and Robert M. Gates chair in intelligence and national security decision-making at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University.

PART FOUR

Colonel John Tien served as the primary battalion commander for a unit of 1,100 personnel responsible for the city of Tal Afar, Iraq, from February to October 2006. He served a similar role in the northern portion of Ramadi from October 2006 to February 2007. Colonel Tien holds a bachelor's degree from the US Military Academy and a master's degree from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar. He has also been a White House fellow and a West Point political science professor, and he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Colonel Tien was a national security fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School from 2007 to 2008. He currently serves as a director on the National Security Council staff in the White House.

Brigadier General Michael Flowers is a former commander of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command.

Ambassador Lawrence P. Taylor is a retired Foreign Service officer. He served in ten countries in a thirty-year diplomatic career, and his assignments included those of director of the Foreign Service Institute and US ambassador to Estonia. Since retiring he is active on several boards of directors, including those of the Baltic American Partnership Fund, the Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania, and the Eisenhower Institute. He is a founding partner in the Gettysburg Leadership Experience and has served as senior adviser to three presidents of Gettysburg College.

Major General Robert H. Scales Jr. commanded two units in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Silver Star. He was commandant to the US Army War College before retiring from the Army. He is currently an independent consultant for defense matters.

Brigadier General Kevin Ryan served in the US Army for over twenty-nine years as an air defense and foreign area specialist. He commanded units up to the brigade level and was assigned as the US defense attaché in Moscow from 2001 to 2003. Now retired from the Army, he is a senior fellow at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Commandant Paul Whelan is an officer in the Irish Defense Forces. He has completed the Irish Military Staff Course and has earned a master's degree in leadership, management, and defense studies through the National University of Ireland.

Bernard M. Bass was director of the Center for Leadership Studies, Binghamton University New York; was principal investigator for the US Army Research Institute and served as a consultant to various Army and Navy personnel agencies. He received bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from Ohio State University. He has served in a variety of staff positions, including professor and director, Management Research Center, University of Rochester; professor, University of Pittsburgh; professor, Louisiana State University; and visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley; IESE, Barcelona, Spain; Massey University, Palmerton North, New Zealand; and University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. He has written fifteen books, including A New Paradigm of Leadership: An Inquiry into Transactional Leadership and Transformational Leadership: Industrial, Military and Educational Impact.

By good grace and fortune, we are citizens of the United States—the greatest country in the world and its sole superpower. As Americans, we are generally secure from the troubles, disease, poverty, and danger that trouble many other countries. We live in considerable comfort. For citizens living in such security, the most natural pathway would be to pursue a career free of stress and sacrifice. Some small percentage of Americans, though, are drawn to the opposite: a life that requires discipline, selfless sacrifice, restricted liberties, sometimes long separations, and low compensation. Those who voluntarily follow this path embrace its challenges and its commitment to protect others. For this, they are declared "in the service." It is an apt term. The Americans who accept this commitment do so willingly and recognize that danger, hardship, and low pay may be their due. They learn to put service before self and to subordinate their personal desires for the greater good of the organization. And make no mistake: America relies on these few citizens to a degree that is generally underappreciated.

This book is substantially different from prior editions in that we have included only six articles from previous editions. Four of the new selections are original pieces written for this book. We also discovered two very interesting books from the archives at Harvard University that provide comparative perspectives of military leadership from different eras. Contrasted with our choices for the fifth edition, we had a rich array of articles to review for this edition. We expanded our searches and uncovered nearly 160 articles written since the last edition in 2005 and selected what we believe to be the best articles to complement the important classics. Ultimately, we found that the decision of what to include came easily.