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Book SynopsisThe High Ground draws on the author’s personal experiences as a combat leader to illustrate examples of successful and inspiring leadership in military organisations at all levels. Many of the essays contained in this volume focus on specific military personalities that portray effective leader behaviours in both peacetime and combat settings from the tactical to the strategic. Others describe key leadership characteristics and attributes of successful leaders, from small-unit level to the Pentagon.
Throughout the author provides specific and compelling leadership advice and suggestions to new soldiers, new lieutenants, staff officers and commanders. The author served over thirty years in the post-Vietnam Army, rising from private to colonel and serving in the invasion of Grenada and in Somalia, the US response to the Rwandan genocide, in Bosnia and Kosovo, in peace-keeping operations in the Sinai, and in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. He commanded a paratrooper company, battalion and brigade and served in the continental US, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Southwest Asia.
The High Ground describes his observations and interactions with military leaders at all levels, in battle and in garrison, to describe and portray military leader development and leader excellence in all its many and varied dimensions. Gripping and fast-paced, these leadership vignettes will carry the reader from peacetime into battle with an American Soldier.
Table of ContentsForeword Skin in the Game Bear It Up, Triumphant I Live and Am a Soldier Attention to Orders! An American Hero Dignity and Respect Above All Else The Chickamauga Rule Blue Falcons The Death of Captain Kurth Stop the Dying! Queen of Battle My Friend Herb Pass It On! On Combat Leadership On the Staff Army Strong! Semper Fi! Play the Game On Battalion Command Requiem for a Sergeant Ride to the Sound of the Guns Saving Lieutenant Neumann The Man, the Myth, the Legend The Man Who Bugled The High Ground These Colors Never Run Welcome to the Army Lieutenant! Wellspring of Courage We're in Business! Why Not Me? Be Brave Sworn Officers of the Republic A Force of Nature A Simple Code
