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This 6 page paper considers the nature of military leadership, and the relationship between moral courage and military teamwork, particularly in Iraq. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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This is a tremendous responsibility and one that has no real counterpart in any other setting. This paper considers the nature of military leadership, and the relationship between moral courage
and military teamwork, particularly in Iraq. Discussion This is an overly broad and somewhat vague topic, so the paper will be far-ranging. Lets begin with a look at why Iraq
is so troubling to most people, particularly those who remember Vietnam clearly. Simply put, the situation in Iraq is such that it carries strong reminders of the Vietnam debacle, and
threatens to have much the same outcome. In the book Dereliction of Duty, H.R. McMaster, now a Colonel who has served in Iraq, wrote scathingly about Vietnam, charging that the
"U.S. military was derelict in its duty by meekly allowing duplicitous and inept civilians from the president on down to lead the nation into a war (Vietnam) that it then
fought unsuccessfully" (Cohen, 2006). This was never supposed to happen again. However, the United States soon found itself involved in the Persian Gulf War and now Iraq, where the military
has not duplicated the tactics of Vietnam, "but the tendency of the military [of the Vietnam era] to do what it was told and keep its mouth shut" (Cohen, 2006).
That tendency has led to U.S. involvement in Iraq, a war "many of its military leaders thought was unnecessary, unwise, predicated on false assumptions and incompetently managed" (Cohen, 2006). High
ranking officers are now speaking out against Bush and the Iraq invasion, and some are calling for the resignation of Donald Rumsfeld, which sources say he has "tendered more than
once" but which Bush refuses to accept (Cohen, 2006). One general, a four-star Marine named Anthony Zinni, goes further than recommending Rumsfeld leave: "He also strongly suggests that something is
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