Military history

The Salute Look around any common military area, such as the Navy Exchange parking lot and you will likely witness one of the oldest customs, the salute. A military custom which renders respect and trust to the U.S. President, National flag, officers and personnel wearing the Medal of Honor. The salute is a customary gesture that identifies a member of the military forces and a tradition of most services around the globe. In fact, Senior Enlisted Leaders enforce standards to connect Junior…

States, which require employment of the military as national instrument of power. The United States military supports conflicts ranging from peace to war, and varying in purpose, scale, risk, and combat intensity. The ability of the United States military to advance its national military objectives depends on it employs the force and the effectiveness of the force. In order to efficiently and successfully fulfill the national military objectives, military leaders should consider some major…

vital to all commanders to make decisions across the range of military operations. It is a discipline that utilizes information collection and analysis approaches to provide guidance when conducting operational or campaign planning. Some skeptics have described military intelligence as an oxymoron. This specialty focuses on gathering, organizing, analyzing, protecting and disseminating information which has been involved throughout history. The Holy Bible contains one of the earliest…

Primarily from 1955 to 1975, the Vietnam War not only changed the history of the army but it also changed the history of gender roles. For the longest time, woman did not have the same freedoms as men and were held back from reaching their full potential. However, after World War II, the roles of woman began to change. From historical knowledge, I know that these women increasingly began to attend college, enter new professions, and fought to have more opportunities in society. In Kara Dixon…

has had many great leaders in its extensive history, but Napoleon Bonaparte was arguably one of the best rulers France has ever had. Napoleon Bonaparte, also known as Napoleon I, was a great military genius and political revolutionary of France. He made many changes for France and made it able to function after the Revolution. But he also got a lot of his success from the French Revolution. It made it very easy for him to rise up the ranks of the military, gain supporters, and take over France.…

Too much investment on high technology can lead to failure to invest in other necessities such as military training, military police and linguists (37). Linguists are needed as a way to communicate with people of countries where a power has military presence such as the United States in Afghanistan. Hard power used in cyber information can do damage to physical targets in another country destroying the soft power that cyber…

past are also patriarchal, as a consequence of this, women are lower on the proverbial totem pole. However; an important time in history is during World War II when women, for the first time in Western history, were allowed to join the military on a large scale. Unlike during World War I, women in World…

interpretation from this quote is simply that, freedom comes at a price which the members of our military come together to courageously pay. The saying is also stated to show gratitude to the military for defending one’s personal freedoms everyday. However people interpret it, it is true, freedom is not free. There are countless examples starting before the birth of the United States of America. The military has fought and endured thousands of casualties to protect our country’s freedom.…

U.S military is a gendered organization dominated by men. In the history of the U.S Military, the public eye does not agree with women being in the military. America is not ready to see women die in combat. Gender relations in the armed forces has been in the public attention. The media have covered the sexual assault cases, women capability in the military, and women in combat. In the article by Cohn, Carol he talks about the underline negative feelings that males in the military…

Defining Core Values of Leadership The military recognizes leadership as being “the process of influencing people by providing purpose, direction, and motivation while operating to accomplish the mission and improving the organization” (FM 6-22, 2006, p. 1-2). Moreover, it defines three core attributes that a leader should exemplify, following a formula of: BE, KNOW, and DO. A soldier should be in line with the common values and ideals of both their nation and military, to help shape a leader’s…