Eliot A. Cohen
Autor de Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen, and Leadership in Wartime
Sobre El Autor
Eliot A. Cohen is the Robert E. Osgood Professor of Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He is the prize-winning author of several books, and a former counselor of the Department of State.
Obras de Eliot A. Cohen
Obras relacionadas
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1991 (1991) — Author "The Might-Have-Beens of Pearl Harbor" — 18 copias
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Summer 1990 (1990) — Author "Military Misfortunes" — 15 copias
MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History — Autumn 1996 (1996) — Author "Churchill and His Generals" — 12 copias
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1956-04-03
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Educación
- Maimonides School, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
Harvard University (B.A.|Government|1977)
Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government (Ph.D.|Political Science|1982) - Ocupaciones
- military analyst
public official - Organizaciones
- Project for the New American Century
Committee for the Liberation of Iraq
George W. Bush administration (2007-2009)
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- #27,610
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- 3.6
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- 10
- ISBNs
- 39
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Think about it for a minute.
What would it mean if you and your neighbours, your home, your city, everything you know were threatened by a menace like Hitler and the German war machine?
Do you think you would be protected by the professional class of killers that is your military?
In the example of David Ben-Gurion, there was no experienced military. There was barely a war machine at all when Israel declared independence and faced the wrath of a 100 million Arabs surrounding it.
Ben-Gurion fashioned an effective leadership from men who could organize themselves, not just an impassioned group of partisans.
Among these great portraits of leadership under duress we find Lincoln taking firm hold over his generals, which would lead and which would be cast aside. We find Winston Churchill burrowing through the war plans questioning them, questioning their assumptions, documenting, reading, and revising. We find Georges Clemenceau finding the best in his generals Foch and Petain and engaging first hand in the trenches.
Cohen's point is that leadship does not wait for the professionals to take hold of the situation. Leaders get engaged, push themselves, and leave as little to chance as possible.
I can't imagine a scenario where Ulysses Grant gets the commission to lead the army under any other president. Lincoln saw someone absolutely determined to defeat the South.
Churchill's military leaders hated his meddling, fought him over everything, and yet they got the results.
Lincoln, Clemenceau, and Churchill all had their detractors. Before they took the reigns of power none of the elite in their homelands would have given them a chance of success.
All of these men were great readers. They were tireless. They were worldly. And they were tyrannical in pursuit of the good end.
Those are certainly the qualities I would want in my leader. Especially when somebody was trying to tear my country apart.
Wouldn't you?… (más)