Military Essays (Examples)
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Career Path Plan
… them in a way that helps others to achieve their goals. This perception is based on my experience as a leader in the military, where I have given a great deal of my life in service to my country. For me there is no better calling than … TV. Rather, my thoughts are focused on work, and my work focuses on supporting other people in the mission and aims of the military that we all currently serve in together. It is not a job that we do alone or that we can disappear into. I … of anywhere else I would rather be. At some point, the page will turn and a I new chapter will begin—likely outside the military. But it will be a new chapter full of new people and new work duties, and it will be a new pursuit and … than one man can on……
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Retention In The National Guard
1. Introduction
The United States Congress has for many years been directly involved in ensuring that the country has a fully equipped standing military force that is capable of dealing with any external or internal threat. One of the ways it does this is to make laws … internal threat. One of the ways it does this is to make laws that influence how the different branches of the United States military recruit and retain soldiers. For example, the Congress has the power to set the maximum number of men and women a branch of … and retain soldiers. For example, the Congress has the power to set the maximum number of men and women a branch of the military can have. This will have a direct influence on the branch’s recruitment policies (Kapp, 2014; 2012). The Congress can also set compensation levels … notes any issues.
Retention is a……
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Followership In The Army A Servant Leadership
… the army? What about followership in the army? Have you been asked to write an essay about these topics? Many students in the military will be asked to write about leadership.
This article will show you how to write an essay about a specific topic of leadership … article will show you how to write an essay about a specific topic of leadership as it pertains to the army or the military more generally. For one, this article shows you how to broach the topic of servant leadership and followership in the army, which is … that focuses more on followers and their behaviors, which create all the overt features of an organization’s culture. Followership is especially salient in military organizational behavior, military leadership, and military management because of the organizational structure and culture of the army.
Also, this article will relate the concept of followership to servant leadership,……
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Citroen, L. (n.d.). What is servant leadership? military.com. Retrieved from: https://www.military.com/hiring-veterans/resources/understanding-military-servant-leadership-for-civilian-employers.html
“Followership,” (n.d.). Citadel. Retrieved from: http://www.citadel.edu/root/images/commandant/followership%20presentation%20%20recognition%20day.pdf
Jenkins, M.A. (n.d.). Compare and contrast servant leadership with followership. Retrieved from: https://get2fiu.com/compare-and-contrast-servant-leadership-and-followership-spc-jenkins/
Wesson, C. (2017). The NCO. Army University Press. Retrieved from: https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/NCO-Journal/Archives/2017/March/THE-NCO-ARMY-LEADER/
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Veteran Benefits Administration
… is paid to veterans who have been disabled by an injury or disease suffered or made worse over the course of the soldier’s military service.
Second, the VBA oversees and dispenses pensions owed to to wartime veterans and their survivors. To that end, it ensures that total … they can obtain a house at an affordable rate with no money down.
External Support the Organization Relies On
The VA is funded by the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies (MILCON-VA) appropriations bill (Panangala, 2018). The 2018 budget request was $182 billion (Panangala, 2018). In short, external support … Office of Personnel. It also collaborates with third party organizations and institutions, hospitals, universities and businesses to help veterans transition successfully from the military to civilian life. Transition Assistance Program (TAP) is one such example. TAP, like the National Association of American Veterans, offers guidance, a variety … is “important to ensure employees……
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Cohen, S. (2019). Disband the Veterans Administration. Retrieved from https://www.city-journal.org/veterans-administration-benefits
Faurer, J., Rogers-Brodersen, A., & Bailie, P. (2014). Managing the re-employment of military veterans through the Transition Assistance Program (TAP). Journal of Business & Economics Research (Online), 12(1), 55.
Hazle, M., Wilcox, S. L., & Hassan, A. M. (2012). Helping veterans and their families fight on!. Advances in Social Work, 13(1), 229-242.
Panangala, S. (2018). Department of Veterans Affairs FY2018 Appropriations. Retrieved from https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45047.pdf
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. (2014). Retrieved from https://www.benefits.va.gov/BENEFITS/about.asp
VBA. (2019). Retrieved from https://www.benefits.va.gov/benefits/
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Law Of War
… adopt control measures that guarantee security to the protected persons. Likewise, article 28 outlines that areas with protected person don’t imply immunity from military operations. Further, article 32 cautions the use of excessive measures to inflict physical suffering to the protected persons a guideline that the commander … Breaches
The Geneva Convention defines acts as grave breaches if they are perpetrated against property of protected persons. GC defines acts unjustified by military necessity such as inhumane treatment, torture, forced biological, willful killing, experiment, extensive property destruction, and willfully inflicting injury and suffering to the body ……
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Howard, L. (1956). The Law of Land Welfare FM 27-10. Washington DC: Department of the Army.
US Marine Corps. (2005). War Crimes MCTP 11-10A (Formerly MCRP 4-11.8B). Washington DC: Department of the Navy.
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FBI Drugs And WMDs
… and American interests was “based on a counterproliferation strategy developed in response to the threat of nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) weapons to military forces in the 1990s.”[footnoteRef:3] Yet, it was 9/11 that truly introduced the intensely broadened scope, especially with regards to homeland security.[footnoteRef:4] The origins … execute operational responses to the threat or use of weapons of mass destruction, whether diplomatic initiative, foreign assistance, security assurances, covert action, or military retaliation.”[footnoteRef:9] The emphasis on covert action is particularly of importance insofar as the FBI is concerned. The infiltration of organizations and enemy groups ……
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Bibliography
Arnold, Aaron and Daniel Salisbury, “The Long Arm,” Belfer Center, 2019. https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/long-arm
Carter, Ashton B. "Overhauling counterproliferation." Technology in Society 26, no. 2-3 (2004): 257-269.
The Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction. “Combating Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction,” Washington, D.C., 1999.
FBI. “COINTELPRO.” https://vault.fbi.gov/cointel-pro
FBI Counterproliferation Center. “About.” https://www.fbi.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/national-security-branch/fbi-counterproliferation-center
Fischer, Rowena Rege. “Guide to the Study of Intelligence: Counterproliferation,” Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies 21, no. 1 (Winter 2014-15), 78-82.
Liow, Joseph Chinyong. "The Mahathir administration's war against Islamic militancy: operational and ideological challenges." Australian Journal of International Affairs 58, no. 2 (2004): 241-256.
Manchikanti, Laxmaiah, Jaya Sanapati, Ramsin M. Benyamin, Sairam Atluri, Alan D. Kaye, and Joshua A. Hirsch. "Reframing the prevention strategies of the opioid crisis: focusing on prescription opioids, fentanyl, and heroin epidemic." Pain physician 21, no. 4 (2018): 309-326.
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Struggle To Achieve Political Objectives In United States
Despite possessing overwhelming military power, the United States has sometimes struggled to achieve political objectives for a variety of reasons: first, the U.S. changes its administration every … it difficult for a consistent international policy to take hold. Second, if “strategy is a concept for relating means to ends,”[footnoteRef:2] the means (military power) may stay the same but the ends are changing every time power changes hands, which means strategy is always undergoing redevelopment. Thus, … East.[footnoteRef:3] For these reasons, the U.S. has sometimes struggled to achieve its political objectives. [2: Carl H. Builder, “The Masks of War: American Military Styles in Strategy and Analysis,” 2.] [3: Mary Habeck, “Why They Did It,” Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror, … because there are so many different moving parts to the problem of establishing and pursuing political objectives. There is the State Department, the military, the intelligence……
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Builder, Carl H. “The Masks of War: American Military Styles in Strategy and Analysis.”
Gray, Colin S. “Why Strategy is Difficult,” JFQ.
Habeck, Mary. “Why They Did It,” Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror.”
Walt, Stephen. “Why Alliances Endure or Collapse,” Survival, vol. 39, no. 1 (Spring 1997), 156-179.
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Drone Technology
… 2017) and has a concept plan that resembles a beehive, with drones emerging from it to deliver packages to customers (Yurieff, 2017). The military has drone technology too, except it is not delivering consumer goods but conducting surveillance and dropping bombs on targets (Military, 2019). What all this shows is that drone technology has come a long way from being a concept to a reality, and they ……
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Military. (2019). Drones. Retrieved from https://www.military.com/equipment/drones
Oswald, E. (2017). Here’s everything you need to know about Amazon’s drone delivery project, Prime Air. Retrieved from https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/amazon-prime-air-delivery-drones-history-progress/
Yurieff, K. (2017). Amazon patent reveals drone delivery \\\\\\'beehives\\\\\\'. Retrieved from https://money.cnn.com/2017/06/23/technology/amazon-drone-beehives/index.html
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Counterintelligence Issues Within The United States
… adversaries” (4). Yet, this point is not supported by all researchers, including Cohen (2016), who argues that there are no moral limits on military deception. Mattox (2002) makes the better argument for numerous reasons: first, he supports his argument with a moral framework that is justifiable based ……
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2020-2022 National Counterintelligence Strategy of the United States. 2020. Washington, DC: National Counterintelligence and Security Center
Bailey, Christopher and Susan M. Galich. 2012. “Codes of Ethics: The Intelligence Community.” International Journal of Intelligence Ethics 35 (2): 77-99.
Bernardi, Beatrice. 2013. "The Role of Intelligence in the Fight Against International Terrorism: Legal Profiles." Bachelor's thesis, Università Ca'Foscari Venezia.
Carson, Thomas L. 2010. Lying and Deception: Theory and Practice. Oxford University Press.
Cohen, Shlomo. 2016. "Are There Moral Limits to Military Deception?." Philosophia 44 (4): 1305-1318.
Coyne, John, Peter Bell, and Shannon Merrington. 2013. "Exploring ethics in intelligence and the role of leadership." Interntional Journal of Business and Commerce 2 (10): 27-37.
Erskine, Toni. 2004. "'As Rays of Light to the Human Soul'? Moral Agents and Intelligence Gathering." Intelligence & National Security 19 (2): 359-381.
Godson, Roy, and James J. Wirtz. 2000. "Strategic denial and deception." International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence 13 (4): 424-437.
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The Rise Of The Opium Trade In Afghanistan Following The US Invasion
… supported them or aligned themselves against the US forces and their allies in Afghanistan.
Initial victory was not far off: the strategy combined military action with the application of law enforcement, the seizure and freezing of financial assets, and calls for international support (Pavlova, 2004). The US ……
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Almukhtar, S. & Nordland, R. (2019). What Did the U.S. Get for $2 Trillion in Afghanistan? Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/09/world/middleeast/afghanistan-war-cost.html
Barno, D. (2007). The Other War: Counterinsurgency Strategy in Afghanistan 2003– 20. Military Review, 87(5), 32–44.
Barton, G. (2016). Out of the ashes of Afghanistan and Iraq: the rise and rise of Islamic State. Retrieved from https://theconversation.com/out-of-the-ashes-of-afghanistan-and-iraq-the-rise-and-rise-of-islamic-state-55437
Felbab-Brown, V. (2017). Afghanistan’s opium production is through the roof—why Washington shouldn’t overreact. Retrieved from https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2017/11/21/afghanistans-opium-production-is-through-the-roof-why-washington-shouldnt-overreact/
FM 3-24. (2014). Retrieved from https://fas.org/irp/doddir/army/fm3-24.pdf
Hitz, F. P. (1999). Obscuring Propriety: The CIA and Drugs. International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, 12(4), 448-462.
IrishTimes. (2001). Britain freezes £61m of suspected Taliban assets. Retrieved from https://www.irishtimes.com/news/britain-freezes-61m-of-suspected-taliban-assets-1.398565
Kiras, J. D. (2002). Terrorism and Irregular Warfare, in John Baylis, James Wirtz, Eliot Cohen and Colin Gray eds., Strategy in the Contemporary World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 208–232.
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