Stanley A. McChrystal

models were no longer relevant. Lessons learned on the battle field with the hybrid threat, changed the current progressive model to an adaptive model. It became obvious once the correlation was made. A threat that is technologically overmatched has no chance of survival if it maintains itself as a peer and tries to stand toe to toe. However, if you take the same threat and introduce the ability to adjust and evolve to the challenges that it faces, if it can evolve fast enough then its longevity is greatly enhanced. "In reality, we had the advantage with only three of those; via the Internet and today's cell phones, we found our enemies could leverage communication better than we could," McChrystal noted (Kilcarr, 2015). If there was only one lesson that could be gleaned from the insight of McChrystal, it would be: that the restructuring of a functional team to allow for autonomy, is essential to allow them to speed up their adaptation to the unforeseen. In industry, just in war adaptation is the key to survival. Despite whether it is for the sake of attrition of the competition or to counter a technological advantage. Therefore, Virtual agility is the technological infrastructure management and usage ability that is used to enhance its own ability to remodel at a comparable rate. The need to Re-streamline into a real time virtual network to enhance sustainability is an undeniable…

I enjoyed the clip of Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal regarding how he would personally advise his “twenty year old self.” I believe that as a leader, as you gain knowledge and perspective, your core beliefs will remain intact along with your new vision. For example, General McChrystal still states that “There are a set of standards that you know are right” and that you shouldn’t deviate from those standards. This was his belief at twenty years of age and he still holds onto to that belief…

Stanley McChrystal suggests in his essay, Lincoln’s Call to Service – and Ours, that a program be created called, Universal National Service. This program will create millions of jobs for individuals between the ages of 18 to 28. McChrystal believes that this program “will change the current cultural expectation that service is only the duty of those in uniform” (564). I agree with the need for such a program and feel that it would greatly benefit our country. If this program is created it will…

Whether it’s a grandmother or teacher, politician or security, preacher or scientist; we all have the tendency to listen to those who have more power than us. Or at least think that we do. If a man in an officers uniform tells you to do something, you are more likely to act then if a man in tattered old robes and reeks of trash tells you to do the same task. You wouldn’t even think twice. Lauren Slater, in her book “Opening Skinner’s Box,” explains the experiment done by Stanley Milgram. He had…

Honor or Murder How far would someone would go to make another person happy? Even if it meant hurting them mentally and physically? Obeying authority can only go so far before it becomes a very unhealthy action.Sadly that is exactly what Lance Cpl. Dawson and Pfc. Downey do in the movie A Few Good Men. Also this idea is what Stanley Milgram concludes in his famous shock experiment. In these two pieces, the actions of obeying authority and taking an oath, result in “death”. Therefore, the…

The psychoanalytical lens is a way of understanding the human mind and the characters within a story. Many different theories have contributed to psychology, but “most psychological criticism of the last century lands at the doorstep of Sigmund Freud” (Gillespie 1). Freud was the father of a psychoanalysis, helped explain human behavior, and came up with a way to treat mental illnesses. Freud focused much of his ideas on psychic forces having an influence on human behavior (Gillespie 2). He had…

players on the team. A perfect example of this is the Flyers Dave ‘The Hammer’ Schultz. In the early 1970s, the flyers had a star hockey player by the name of Bobby Clarke. Clarke is arguably one of the best players to play the game, and the Flyers could not afford to let their star player get injured. The management, led by Ed Snider, decided to bring in a player that could protect their prized possession. “Hammer made a lot of people nervous the night before they came to Philadelphia. They had…

fight Cambodia, Sambo naturally took Arn and his musical troop along with them. When Arn twelve was given a gun and told to fight, and so he did. He fought for the cause that destroyed his world. Eventually Arn escaped into the jungle, where he lived for months on his own, until he got to the safe haven of Thailand. He was in the hospital for months because he was weak, sick and orphaned. Luckily an American Reverend took a liking to him and gave him some of the medicine he needed to survive,…

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Introduction In 1964, Stanley Kubrick released Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb to both critical and commercial praise. The historical context surrounding the film’s release was at the height of the Cold War, just over a year after the Cuban Missile Crisis as the Vietnam War was beginning to escalate. While based on a more serious book, Red Alert by Peter George, it was soon transformed into a black comedy that parodied the absurdity of global nuclear…