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Who's The Boss?

Next Level Blog

The RS reporter, Michael Hastings, had pretty much unfettered access to McChrystal and his top aides over the course of a month in Paris and Afghanistan. Their first one-on-one meeting took place in the Oval Office four months later, after McChrystal got the Afghanistan job, and it didn't go much better.

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The Heroes of Walter Reed

Next Level Blog

He’s a National Guardsman from South Carolina and was two months into his first tour in Afghanistan when an IED blew up the vehicle he was riding in.    Afghanistan was her third tour to the Middle East following ones in Iraq and Kuwait.    The first soldier I met was a good looking young guy named Jeremiah.

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Leadership Lesson From General McChrystal: Get Onboard or Get Out.

The Recovering Engineer

On one side, some commentators have criticized General McChrystal for harming the Army’s mission in Afghanistan. I am simply observing the outcome of a leadership act: a high level leader who reports to a higher level leader within an organization took his discontent public and he had to leave the organization as a result.