Hyman G. Rickover's Changing Military Culture

The disaster had more of an effect on eastern Europe’s nuclear experimentation and use but “While no-one in the West was under any illusion about the safety of early Soviet reactor designs, some lessons learned have also been applicable to Western plants” (World Nuclear Association). Since the Chernobyl disaster was majorly caused by human error and under qualified scientists, to work with nuclear reactors today you need to be insanely qualified. Since the accident, Soviet-designed reactors’ safety has improved greatly, even in smaller ways. Automatic shutdown mechanisms now work faster, and other safety mechanisms have been sped up. Even new equipment has been installed such as automated inspection equipment. Several scientist and reporters have even said an accident like Chernobyl is virtually impossible with today’s technology (World Nuclear Association).

General Tommy Franks defines well practiced leadership and superior intelligence for combat decision making. His personal values and character define how all Army leaders should lead their men. General Franks practices the Army Values religiously and sets an example for courage and commitment. His successful accomplishments will be addressed in this essay, including how the Warrior Ethos and Army values were displayed by his decisions.

In the fall of 1971, as President Nixon was attempting to convince The Soviet Union to include submarines and ballistic missiles in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), the US Navy was planning on introducing a new class of submarines called the Trident. The Trident submarines were to succeed the Polaris submarines, which was developed in the 1950s. The Trident submarines were not only physically larger than the Polaris submarines, they also possessed revolutionary propulsion components and weaponry. If the US could successfully launch the Trident program, Nixon felt it would generate progress in SALT by demonstrating the United States’ commitment to strategic submarines and missiles. However, if the Trident program was unable to

A) The title of the book is The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War and the author is Andrew Bacevich. The book was published in New York, New York by the publisher Oxford University Press in the year 2005. It is the first edition and contains 270 pages.

In the thirty-eight years of the United States Naval Submarine Service no United States submarine had ever sunk an enemy vessel. With the ignition of the Second World War the poorly equipped and poorly trained Silent Service, nicknamed for the limited access of the media to the actions and achievements of the submarines, would be thrust into the position American submariners had longed for. The attack on Pearl Harbor left the United States Navy with few options for retribution. The three remaining aircraft carriers were to be “the last line of defense.” Commander Stuart S. Murray made the precarious situation clear to his skippers, captains, upon sending them on their first war patrol. He stressed the importance of smart sailing by

Through these values Roosevelt turned the old withered navy from the early days of the civil war to a great and much needed overhaul of a now recognized future United States Navy. “He had turned an outdated navy into a world power in less than a decade.” In a remarkable amount of time, sixteen modern steel battleships were built which would sail on a soon to come world voyage. This trip was to primary display future American naval power. Theodore Roosevelt was determined to make a modern battle ship fleet. Other countries had always set out for this goal as well. Alfred Thayer Mahan had an influence on Roosevelt in his book, “The Influence of Sea Power upon History 1660-1783.” Alfred had said that in order for a successful empire, naval expansion was necessary. Another aid that had influenced Roosevelt was William S. Sims, a former naval officer. He urged the United States to pursue upgrading and developing old naval gunnery systems and capabilities. Japan as well had begun a great undertaking of modernizing its navy fleet as well. America was falling behind. Japan had defeated the Russian navy a few years before, their success had startled the United States and other western powers. Slowly did Japan start to gain Pacific territory. Roosevelt was determined to uphold territory of the pacific and due too Japanese hostility Theodore sought to demonstrate and upgrade the American Navy. The new navy had made sure it communicated strong presence and great power and that it was ready to tackle any problem that came about or help in warfare if need be. This Fleet sent out by Theodore Roosevelt told others countries of again, an increasing world power. It also helped America by sending out these fleets that we learned what worked and what did not in the development of a navy and the

Ronald Reagan was born at Tampico Illinois in February 6, 1911. Later in his childhood he lived in a serious of towns around Illinois, but finally settled in Dixon, Illinois in 1920. Mr. Reagan graduated Dixon high school in 1920. During his high schools years he was an athlete, school play performer and was student body president. On his summers he would work as a lifeguard. Next, for his athletic ability, he was enrolled in Eureka College in Illinois and got a scholarship for it. Mr. Reagan also took economics and sociology. In 1937, Mr. Reagan went into acting; he signed a seven-year contract with Warner Bothers movie studios. In the next three years he was in more than 50 films. One of his notorious films was “Kings Row”, it’s about a man whom Mr. Reagan plays a man that gets into an accident and has his leg amputated. Three years after Mr. Reagan got into acting, he got married to June Wyman, whom together had a daughter, then adopted a boy.

Ideas were made realities as the country discovered more efficient tactics of warfare. On the water, the idea of being completely submerged and attacking from below came from Southerner H.L. Hunley. Hunley was “involved in the construction of several submarines, including one named after him” (Bruce). Hunley was not the first to think of the idea of a submarine but was the first to create a working model. His model consisted of “a crew of nine, eight of whom turned hand cranks along a single screw shaft that served to propel the craft” (Bruce). His invention was not flawless but was the first completely underwater machine that was ultimately deadly to the Union ships. It was the first submarine which allowed for future generations to reflect upon this first invention and improve upon it for a more effective machine. This first inkling of a thought would help achieve much greater machines decades in the future. The newly built machine was fallible and many sailors died while operating the ship. On February 17, 1864, “the Hunley sank shortly the Union screw sloop Housatonic. Although the Hunley sank shortly thereafter, it was the first submarine to claim an enemy vessel” (Bruce). The first kill from a submarine was monumental because it proved that the submarine could be a useful and feared machine lurking in the water. It had proved itself to be valuable in the time that it served and convinced the army to continue to improve upon it after the war. Following the war, the “navy continued experiments but it was not until the end of the 19th century that inventors developed a truly effective submarine” (Bruce). The military realized that the submarine had much potential that could be derived with more intensive research and analysis. Still effective today, the invention thought of centuries ago proved to be an effective killing machine. Improvements on land warfare

Rick Riordan was born June 5, 1964 in San Antonio, Texas (Biography). He was born into a very talented household. His mother was a musician and could play multiple instruments. His father was a sculptor and did many works with clay. Riordan learned to read at a young age, reading mostly stories of mythical animals and gods and goddesses. Riordan began writing poems and short stories in middle school. He sent his first short story in for publication when he was just thirteen. Unfortunately the book was not published, but soon after he had two short stories published in UTSA literary magazine (Riordan). He attended Alamo Heights High School in San Antonio where he lived in a small house nearby with his parents as an only child. He soon was voted as an editor for the

Admiral Hyman Rickover was instrumental in modernizing the United States Navy through innovative thought and creative leadership.

The cool thick air whips and slaps against helicopter rotor blades, slicing the quite morning calm into a clamorous chorus of engine wine and rotor clap. In December of 1968, American soldiers were “not” in the jungles of Cambodia (Fluty, 2011). Or so was the collective understanding of American’s. However, for 60 elite American Army soldiers, Cambodia was a breeding ground for North Vietnamese objectives throughout the region (Fluty, 2011). On one such occasion, members of the small and secret MACV-SOG (Military Assistance Command Vietnam Studies and Observation Group [Green Berets]) set out on their warhorses to rendezvous with their Vietnamese counter parts on a mission to rescue an American prisoner of war (Fluty, 2011). Their story

Published in 1918, German Submarine Warfare; a Study of Its Methods and Spirit serves as an analysis of how the German Warfare affected the War and it explains the relationships between Germany and the United States. While the perspective of this book is from an American Author, Wesley Frost, who served as a coordinator for relief operations for the survivors of the Lusitania attack this book tackles not only the feelings of Allied countries but also of how Germany felt and what were their motives. Both a strength and limitation of this source is that it is written from one author’s perspective. Due to the fact that it is written with only the perspective of one person

In the book Turn the Ship Around, Captain L. David Marquet describes how he took the submarine, the USS Santa Fe, from “worst to first” in the United States fleet by transforming the leadership structure from “leader-follower” to “leader-leader.”

David Marquet is an expert on leadership and innovation. His passion for leadership began as a teenager when he discovered a series of books by Samuel Eliot Morison – History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II. The 15-volume series assisted Marquet in realizing he wanted to become a Captain of a Navy vessel in which all members could serve and function to the best of their ability. Marquet graduated at the top of his class from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1981 and subsequently joined the submarine force. He served as an engineer aboard the USS Will Rogers (Our story). Marquet was chosen to take command of the USS Santa Fe and took control of the ship January 8, 1999. He was responsible for 135 men and the $2 billion nuclear powered submarine. The USS Santa

The military revolution was a direct outcome of changes in the virtuosity of war between 1560 and 1660. The changes crucially influenced campaigning and combat in Europe during the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The most influential alterations included transformation in weapons, growth in the army size, change in tactics and organization, and centralization of the states’ bureaucracies. There were many battles in the late 17th and early 18th centuries that were highly influenced by the implications of the military revolution, for example, the Battles of Hogue, Danube, and Blenheim. These altercations started a development for military superiority and increased proficiency that enabled Europe to dominate the world long after the Wars of the Spanish Succession. However, I would like to emphasize that those victories mentioned above were heavily influenced by the skills of the commanding individuals and their roles in the military organizational system rather than a full internalization of the revolution’s implications overall. The Duke of Marlborough is a great example of an individual overweighting the flaws of the late 17th century logistical systems to his advantage. By comparison, France’s failure to understand and implement the alterations eventually enabled the rise of Britain’s at the French expense.