United States Secretary of Defense

Cong) and South Vietnam (and their ally the United States of America). In the film “The Fog of War”, former United States Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara explains the lessons America learned from the changes made during and after the war. In 1965, the United States entered the Vietnam War which greatly impacted and altered the United States’ foreign policies, government, and society. Several changes made during this period impacted the United States for the better, such as the right to…

Lyndon B. Johnson (commonly referred to as LBJ) became President of the United States when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Along with the presidency, LBJ also inherited the task of dealing with the situation in Vietnam, although he resisted action as it could have threatened his election. After serving out Kennedy’s presidency, LBJ was elected in a landslide victory, winning 61% of the vote, and 44 states. President LBJ now had the daunting duty to make a decision in Vietnam. The…

These proposed changes would affect all segments of the active duty military, their reserve components, anyexisting and future weapons systems, the civilian DOD workforce andall logistic and administration components of the Department of Defense. The next set of changes would be on the level of second order change, would transform the organization and basically alter the nature of the organization. With second order change, the need for major organizational change found eight commonly…

The events of September 11th, 2001 changed the duties and beliefs of the national government forever. After the largest breach on national security of the 21st century, the national government responded strongly and swiftly. Under President Bush, the Patriot Act was easily passed through both houses of Congress, and has since then been reauthorized multiple other times (NSA Surveillance). The powers and responsibilities of the National Security Agency were also drastically altered to fit the…

Introduction According to Seligman & Fowler (2011), the response of psychology to the needs of the US military intensified during the First and the Second World Wars (p. 82). This followed the increasing levels of anxiety, suicide, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression, and the need for highly resilient army officers who would undertake the unforeseen future warfare. During the world wars, many psychological problems evolved among the soldiers. For example, there were high cases of…

The last Quadrennial Defense Review shifted the basis of the defense planning from "threat-based" to “capabilities-based". The Force Development process relies on that base and consists of five phases; Develop Capabilities, Design Organization, Develop Organization, Determine Organizational Models, Determine Organizational Authorizations and Document Organizational Authorizations, to have structured and resourced force. The main consists of this process and it is obvious in the Winter Symposium…

In the past months, rising tension between North Korea and the United States have raised some eyebrows and caused some to have growing concerns in terms of how the issue may pan out. The tension between the United States and North Korea will most likely not escalate enough to a nuclear war, according to former defense secretary, William J. Perry, who states that “North Korea is incredibly unlikely to launch an unprovoked nuclear attack.” This may ease some fears on the growing concerns of war…

McCarthyism was to minimize the communist threat to America by accusing and detaining suspected communists by claiming that they were a national security threat or disloyal to the United States. McCarthyism stirred a communist witch-hunt in American that no one was safe from, Senator McCarthy accused everyone from congressmen and State Department officials to regular Americans. McCarthy instilled a fear into the American people that had them looking at their neighbors and friends and thinking…

effect for decades. Citizens of the United States would be encouraged by brokers to utilise subprime loans even though the citizens were less than informed about the possible risks which the loans bring. When these citizens who bought the loans defaulted, the companies who loaned the money as well as numerous hedge funds lost substantial amounts of money. The entire economy of the country then went into a recession as a cause of this. Henry Paulson, the U.S Secretary of The Treasury during the…

armed conflict that found its beginnings on March 20th, 2003, spurred by an invasion carried out by a United States-led coalition with the aims of overthrowing the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict consisted of two phases: a brief, conventionally fought war that had taken place throughout the duration of March 2003 to April 2003, as well as the far longer second phase in which United States forces took it upon themselves to lead an occupation of Iraq, opposed by an insurgency and…