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Instructions
Reflective Journal Assignment
External influences affect organizational readiness, moral, performance, and proficiency. These influences can be either positive or negative. As a Sergeants Major, you will have to aid your commander in preemptively identifying potential external influences and ways in which to mitigate negative outcomes. Likewise, Sergeants Majors must be able to think critically, and creatively, in order to exploit, and multiply potential positive external influences on their organizations.
Assignment Instructions:
Throughout this module, you have examined external influences of an organization. Write a 500 – 700-word substantive journal entry identifying and addressing external influencers on the organization. Elaborate on a Sergeants Major’s role in:
1. Civil-military relations,
2. the influences of irregular warfare,
3. leader engagement aids in developing resilient organizations, and
4. exploiting either positive or negative external influences on an organization.
Proper APA sourcing and citing is required for referenced information that you obtain and events you were not personally party to. Do not write in first person. Adhere to APA standards, 6th edition.
Sources A (click link or google):
· American Civil-Military Relations: The Soldier and the State in a New Era, Chapter 11 (25 pages)
https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1519&context=nwc-review
· Extracts from U.S. Constitution (see below)
Reflection Questions to Consider While Reading Sources A:
What are some of the major issues with the civil-military political activities occurring in our democracy?
What is the linkage between military professionalism and civilian control in civil military relations?
What is the Role of the senior noncommissioned officer in the civil-military relationship?
Sources B (click link or google):
· ATP 6-22.5, A Leader's Guide to Soldier Health and Fitness_2016: Read chapters 2, 7, & 8.
https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/atp6_22x5.pdf
· ADP 6-22, Army Leadership_2019: Read para 8-36 to para 8-44
https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN20039_ADP%206-22%20C1%20FINAL%20WEB.pdf
Reflection Questions to Consider While Reading Sources B:
1. How do you know when there is too much (or too little) stress in your organization?
2. What affect does a leader’s behavior have on unit resiliency?
3. How do leaders, training, and equipment help in reducing stress during an operation?
4. How do leaders influence the stress level or the group performance?
Sources C (click link or google):
· ADP 6-0, 2019, Mission Command_2019: Chapter 1
https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN19189_ADP_6-0_FINAL_WEB_v2.pdf
· TC 7-22.7, The Noncommissioned Officer Guide_2020: Read pages 2-4 to 2-7, and chapter 5
https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/pdf/web/ARN20340_TC%207-22x7%20FINAL%20WEB.pdf
Reflection Questions to Consider While Reading Sources C:
1. What is mission command? What does it encompass? What are the guiding principles?
2. What is the relationship of commander tasks with staff tasks?
3. What are some of the mission command systems?
4. What are some of the responsibilities of a Sergeants Major?
Sources D (click link or google):
· Leadership in Irregular Warfare. The Accidental Statesman: General Petraeus and the city of Mosul, Iraq (see attached-LIIW)
· Irregular Warfare (IW) Joint Operating Concept-2007
https://www.jcs.mil/Portals/36/Documents/Doctrine/concepts/joc_iw_v1.pdf?ver=2017-12-28-162020-260
· Doctrine for the Armed Forces of the United States JP 1
https://www.jcs.mil/Portals/36/Documents/Doctrine/pubs/jp1_ch1.pdf
· A Different Kind of Threat
Some Thoughts on Irregular Warfare
Videos for this assignment:
(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1ZM3CfWh1I
This YouTube video is a speech by Gen (R) Mattis sponsored by the Center for Strategic International Studies. It provides an excellent perspective on irregular warfare and adds depth to the reading. (1hr1min)
(2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMXCfUAy41g
This YouTube video has comments from an ex-green beret, David Duffy, which adds breadth and depth to understanding irregular warfare. (5 mins)
Reflection Questions to Consider While Reading Sources D:
1. What is irregular warfare?
2. What impacts do Sergeants Majors have on irregular warfare?
3. What has history taught us about irregular warfare?
Extracts from the United States Constitution Military related extracts from the United States Constitution
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence [sic], promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Article. I. [legislative powers] Section. 1.
All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.
Section. 7.
All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills. . .
Section. 8.
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence [sic] and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; . . . To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
Section. 9
…..…The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it. . . .
Section. 10.
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
Article. II. [executive powers] Section. 2.
The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment. He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments. . . .
Article III. [judicial powers] Section. 1.
The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.
Section. 3.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood, or Forfeiture except during the Life of the Person attainted.
Article. IV.
Section. 4.
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence.
Amendment II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Amendment III
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Note: The first ten amendments to the Constitution were ratified December 15, 1791, and form what is known as the "Bill of Rights."
