Generals And Admirals Criminals And Crooks
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Generals And Admirals Criminals And Crooks
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Author : Jeffrey J. Matthews
language : en
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Release Date : 2023-10-01
Generals And Admirals Criminals And Crooks written by Jeffrey J. Matthews and has been published by University of Notre Dame Pess this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-01 with History categories.
U.S. flag officers are intended to be exemplary defenders of duty, honor, and country—but what can we learn by exposing the bad leaders lurking within these venerable ranks? There is an ugly strain of criminal and unethical leadership in the upper ranks of the American military. Despite the exemplary service of most American military members, a persistent minority of U.S. flag officers (Navy admirals and Army, Air Force, and Marine generals) have embroiled the profession in scandal since the Revolutionary War. In Generals and Admirals, Criminals and Crooks, award-winning author Jeffrey J. Matthews examines bad leadership in American military history over the past one hundred years, beginning with war crimes in the Philippine-American War and ending with the recent Fat Leonard corruption scandal. Scrutinizing a range of leadership failures, including moral cowardice, sex crimes, insubordination, toxic leadership, and obstruction of justice, Matthews offers a fascinating analysis of the bases and motives leading to these missteps and explores what could be done to curtail future misconduct of generals and admirals. The book also includes an up-to-date examination of President Trump’s term in office that highlights the vital role honorable military leadership plays in our democracy. Confronting the dark side of criminal and unethical conduct among U.S. flag officers, this frank and historically grounded book offers valuable lessons in leadership that will stimulate further debate and critical self-assessment within the U.S. military.
The Art Of Command
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Author : Harry Laver
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2008-10-17
The Art Of Command written by Harry Laver and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-17 with History categories.
What essential leadership lessons do we learn by distilling the actions and ideas of great military commanders such as George Washington, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Colin Powell? That is the fundamental question underlying The Art of Command: Military Leadership from George Washington to Colin Powell. The book illustrates that great leaders become great through conscious effort—a commitment not only to develop vital skills but also to surmount personal shortcomings. Harry S. Laver, Jeffrey J. Matthews, and the other contributing authors identify nine core characteristics of highly effective leadership, such as integrity, determination, vision, and charisma, and nine significant figures in American military history whose careers embody those qualities. The Art of Command examines each figure’s strengths and weaknesses and how those attributes affected their leadership abilities, offering a unique perspective of military leadership in American history. Laver and Matthews have assembled a list of contributors from military, academic, and professional circles, which allows the book to encompass diverse approaches to the study of leadership.
Colin Powell
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Author : Jeffrey J. Matthews
language : en
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Release Date : 2019-03-15
Colin Powell written by Jeffrey J. Matthews and has been published by University of Notre Dame Pess this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This fascinating biography of the late Colin Powell brings to light his towering achievements and errors in judgment during a lifetime devoted to public service. Until he passed away in 2021, Colin Powell was revered as one of America’s most trusted and admired leaders. This biography demonstrates that Powell’s decades-long development as an exemplary subordinate is crucial to understanding his astonishing rise from a working-class immigrant neighborhood to the highest echelons of military and political power, including his roles as the country’s first Black national security advisor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and secretary of state. Once an aimless, ambitionless teenager who barely graduated from college, Powell became an extraordinarily effective and staunchly loyal subordinate to many powerful superiors who, in turn, helped to advance his career. By the time Powell became chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he had developed into the consummate follower—motivated, competent, composed, honorable, and independent. The quality of Powell's followership faltered at times, however, while in Vietnam, during the Iran-Contra scandal, and after he became George W. Bush's secretary of state. Powell proved a fallible patriot, and in the course of a long and distinguished career he made some grave and consequential errors in judgment. While those blunders do not erase the significance of his commendable achievements amid decades of public service, we can learn much from his good and bad leadership.
Mennonite German Soldiers
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Author : Mark Jantzen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Mennonite German Soldiers written by Mark Jantzen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with History categories.
Mark Jantzen describes the policies of the Prussian government toward the Mennonites and the legal, economic, and social pressures brought to bear on the Mennonites to conform.
Alanson B Houghton
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Author : Jeffrey J. Matthews
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2004-08-13
Alanson B Houghton written by Jeffrey J. Matthews and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-13 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Alanson B. Houghton—American industrialist, politician, and diplomat—was the world's most influential diplomat during the "New Era" of the 1920s. Houghton, who served as ambassador to both Germany (1922–1925) and Great Britain (1925–1929), offers a unique window into the formation and implementation of American foreign policy. This fascinating new text by Jeffrey J. Matthews provides a clear and concise account of Houghton's diplomatic experience and consequently a fresh assessment of U.S. foreign policy during a pivotal decade in world history. As the leading ambassador in Europe, Houghton played a key role in the major diplomatic achievements of the era, including the Dawes Plan for reparations, the Locarno security treaties, and the Kellogg-Briand peace pact. While Hougton's significant contributions to these international accords is fully explored, the major theme of this book is his emergence as chief critic of U.S. foreign policy within the Harding and Coolidge administrations. Alanson B. Houhgton: Ambassador of the New Era offers students a concise historical narrative and a substantive reevaluation of 1920s American foreign policy. This text will help students understand why the United States failed to establish a stable world order during the New Era and additionally sheds light on the key historiographical themes of isolationism, new-imperialism, and corporations. For students taking courses on the Gilded Age, the interwar years, and U.S. foreign policy, this new volume will be an invaluable resource.
Blacksheep Leadership
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Author : Jeffrey J. Matthews
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Blacksheep Leadership written by Jeffrey J. Matthews and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Business & Economics categories.
Matthews argues that transformational leadership, while relatively rare in practice, is the best way to inspire extraordinary performance in groups of ordinary people. The text includes a fictionalized account of a business leadership competition, an exploration of the principles of transformational leadership, and detailed case studies of two transformational leaders: Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton and high school teacher Erin Gruwell.
Ruling Women
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Author : Stacy S. Klein
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022-09-30
Ruling Women written by Stacy S. Klein and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-30 with categories.
Klein explores how queens functioned as imaginative figures in Anglo-Saxon texts as mediatory figures for negotiating sustained tensions and antagonisms among different peoples, institutions, and systems of belief.
The Game
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Author : Robert D. Shadley
language : en
Publisher: Beavers Pond Press
Release Date : 2013-04-01
The Game written by Robert D. Shadley and has been published by Beavers Pond Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-01 with Business & Economics categories.
Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, 1996: The U.S. Army's most extensively reported sexual abuse scandal on record is uncovered by Major General Robert Shadley. Known as GAM, or "Game ala Military," an entire network of senior male instructors is in competition to sexually assault and exploit the young female trainees in their charge. Immersed in a battle unlike anything he'd been trained to fight, Shadley must unravel the game, bring the players to justice, and get help for a record number of victims. Now retired, Major General Shadley continues to advocate for the estimated 19,000 military service members who are sexually assaulted each year. In this gripping story, he sheds light on a problem that's still sadly far from being solved, and provides lessons in real leadership through crisis.
Being Catholic Being American 1934 1952
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Author : Robert E. Burns
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Being Catholic Being American 1934 1952 written by Robert E. Burns and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with categories.
Why Paramilitary Operations Fail
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Author : Armin Krishnan
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-04-25
Why Paramilitary Operations Fail written by Armin Krishnan and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-25 with Political Science categories.
This book analyzes U.S. pro-insurgency paramilitary operations (PMOs) or U.S. proxy warfare from the beginning of the Cold War to the present and explains why many of these operations either failed entirely to achieve their objective, or why they produced negative consequences that greatly diminished their benefits. The chapters cover important aspects of what PMOs are, the history of U.S. PMOs, how they function, the dilemmas of secrecy and accountability, the issues of control, criminal conduct, and disposal of proxies, as well as newer developments that may change PMOs in the future. The author argues that the general approach of conducting PMOs as covert operations is inherently flawed since it tends to undermine many possibilities for control over proxies in a situation where the interests of sponsors and proxies necessarily diverge on key issues.