Paper Instructions: Write a minimum of 4 full pages about one of the following topics (choose only one): These following topics regard actual military service members. These questions regard actual military service members. Individuals who served as President of the United States may only be discussed regarding their period of service in the military, not during their time as Commander-in-Chief. You may find it helpful to refer to the List of Selected Leaders throughout U.S. Military HistoryPreview the document. Your choices, however, are not limited to either of these lists. CHOOSE AND WRITE ABOUT ONLY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: 1. Select a military leader in U.S. history and write an essay explaining either: why he is considered an outstanding military leader, or why he is considered a failure as military leader. 2. Compare and contrast the leadership styles of two military leaders from the same conflict and branch of service. For example: Grant and Lee, MacArthur and Eisenhower, Sheridan and Forrest, Nimitz and Spruance, Casey (George) and Petraeus, McKiernan and McChrystal. You choose. 3. If you had to select only one soldier, sailor, or airman as the greatest military leader in . history, whom would you select? Why is this leader greater than all of the others? Substantiate and, as always, cite your sources. 4. Discuss the leadership exhibited by certain Americans being held as prisoners of war in Vietnam. Describe the constraints they worked under and how they were able to overcome them. Which officers exhibited the greatest leadership and why? What lessons may we learn from them today? 5. Discuss the evolution of female leadership in the . Armed Forces. What obstacles did women officers encounter and have to overcome in order to reach the upper echelons of their respective services? What milestones were achieved along the way? Who have been the most notable female leaders and why? What does their leadership and the leadership of women to follow bring to the United States of America? This paper must be at least 4 full pages of text in length. (Times New Roman, 12 point, 1 inch margins, double spaced.) A title page does not count and a reference page does not count. A partial page at the end does not count – the 4th page must be full. There is no maximum limit. This is a research paper and not an opinion paper. Use good sources and paraphrase properly. You must thoroughly cite your work in APA style and thoroughly normally means at least one citation per paragraph, and frequently more. Direct quotations may be used in this paper on a limited basis – no more than two on a paper of this length. All quotations must be properly cited in APA style, to include a page number. Never write citations and references by memory – check every one of them against the PACS APA Style Guide. Submit this paper to the CA 6 dropbox on a single MS Word document. Do not use PDF or any other format.
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