Army Leadership History

In this monograph you will be educated on the history of the United States Army from when and why the branch was originally formed to its present-day eminence. As the greater part of the Unites States Army’s global interactions is war time situations. I also highlighted on in global history is the humanitarian missions in the United States Army has conducted that usually go unnoticed. I also expound on some of the key leaders that stood out in our nation’s wars that had a great influence in why we have never lost a war. This paper will highlight on the concepts of the United States Army and how this branch has brought the concept of change to the world and how its concepts of leadership has allowed it evolve into most dominant force in the

The Revolutionary War was the first act of global change for the newly found United States of America. With America winning the war, it allowed other societies to revolt against their home nations because of this act new colonies and nations started to emerge from locations like France, Ireland, Poland, Haiti, throughout the Spanish empire, and the Netherlands (Lutz, 2003). The United States of America and its founding fathers would invent and form the three branches of government, which are judicial, executive and legislative, the constitution and the bill of rights to allow power to distribute equally amongst the people and government. These acts of leadership that were displayed with our founding fathers is the concept of shared leadership. They demonstrated shared leadership by using Pearce and Conger’s definition of shared leadership which is the following “interactive influence process among individuals in groups in which the objective is to lead one another to the achievement of group or organizational goals or both” (Hickman, 2010 p.

One of the most memorable wars of all time The Vietnam War that was initiated in 1960 with the United States Army deploying over 180,000 soldiers in 1965 and up to 500,000 by 1969. The Vietnam War was one of our most gruesome wars with the United States Army having over 200,000 United States Army soldiers wounded or killed in action. The Vietnam War finally ended in 1975 after a decade of fighting (PBS.org, 20140. The United States also was involved in a conflict with Russia. Also during this time the United States helped rebuild Asia, Japan and Europe. The war between Russia and the United States was called the Cold War and had effect on a global scale. As no actual combat actually happened and was deemed more of a containment then a war this war lasted from 1945-1990 and was the creation of nuclear bombs that could destroy the world and mankind as we know it. During this time there was an extreme military buildup, the nuclear bombs invented, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) constructed also came the Berlin Wall built by the Soviets shutting off East Berlin in 1961. Before the wall Russian Soviets tried to block roads but the United States Military including the United States Army airlifted goods into the country in order to take care of the people. In 1989 The Berlin wall was