Combatant commander

President Bush changed his leadership team. Admiral Fallen replaced General Abizaid as US Central Commander. Gen Petraeus replaced Gen Casey as the Commander of Security Forces In Iraq. Secretary Gates replaced Secretary Rumsfeld. One of the last key positional changes was Ambassador Ryan Crocker replacing Zalmay Khalizad. Unlike the previous two Ambassadors Paul Bremer and John…

help these autonomous drones distinguish combatants from non-combatants and civilians. Actually these drones should end up doing less collateral damage than a missile or even a human since they are wired and programmed to follow ROE to the most specific detail and leaves no room for human error. Where a human may accidentally engage a person whom he thinks has a weapon an autonomous drone, through the use of its optics and programming will not engage this same target. Many people have…

There have been many historic battles over the years. Many of these battles have resulted in Golden Ages in the land of the victor. One of these battles was the Battle of Salamis. In the previous battles – Marathon and Thermopylae – Greece had been fighting to keep the Persians out of their land. They were highly outnumbered and should not have even made it past the first battle. However their luck held and thanks to Greek strategy, they were able to turn the tables on the mighty Persian empire.…

All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilized in one of the largest wars in history. Over nine million combatants and seven million civilians died as a result of the war (including the victims of a number of genocides), a casualty rate made worse by the belligerents' technological and industrial sophistication, and the tactical stalemate caused by grueling…

States of America should stop drone strikes abroad because it kills large numbers of civilians and traumatizes local populations, it is secretive, lacks sufficient legal oversight, and it targets individuals who may not even be terrorists or enemy combatants. Unmanned aerial vehicles, otherwise…

British sector of the Normandy campaign, and he has an important reason for this; General Bernard Montgomery. The detailed planning of Operation Overlord was spearheaded by military commanders of Allied nations. Although, the post D-day plan of the campaign was dictated to the ground-commander of Normandy, British commander, General Bernard Montgomery. Montgomery, “Monty” as his nickname was, is followed closely by D’Este’s work. There is a chief criticism that surrounds Montgomery’s D-day+…

Protocol III is an amendment protocol to the Geneva Conventions relating to the adoption of an Additional Distinctive Emblem which was enacted in 2005. Under this new protocol, the protective sign of the Red Crystal can be displayed by medical and religious personnel during times of conflict and war. This means that it can be used in the place of the traditional Red Cross, or Red Crescent symbols. Persons who choose to display this symbol are performing humanitarian duties and therefore must be…

4 Fighting for the Youth All around the world there has been violent fighting. Now, commanders have gone to a new type of soldier, child soldiers. The issue of child soldiers being given amnesty goes all the way back to World War 1, “Nearly every country involved in these wars made use of child soldiers” (Child soldiers in History). Now child soldiers are being used all around the world, mostly in Africa. These child soldiers should be given amnesty because they were abducted, drugged, and…

Introduction to Where I Work I am currently employed in The Canadian Armed Forces which is the unified armed force of Canada. This unified group consists of air, land and sea forces referred to as the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), Canadian Army, and Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), I am in the Canadian Army. Personnel may belong to either the Regular Force or the Reserve Force, I am a regular forces member, simply meaning I serve full time. Some reserve members may serve full time as well.…

In this paper, I will cover my leadership philosophy and a challenge of a squadron leader who I interviewed. My leadership philosophy is derived from my experiences over the years, namely from observing the failures and shortcomings of leaders. As for the interview section of the paper, a lieutenant colonel in my chain-of-command related his experience of dismissing a master sergeant some years ago from duty due to substandard performance. With nearly twenty-years of work experience in three…