Osama Bin Laden Case Study

In their infancy, my problem solving skills were limited to seeking out guidance and having others assist with resolving conflict. As a young sergeant, I remember allowing conflict to brew around me instead of confronting issues. This served no purpose, and caused the work environment and team morale to decline. During my three years at United States Central Command (USCENTCOM), I had multiple analytic and leadership disagreements with colleagues. I learned that through open discussion and communication a majority of conflicts could be resolved immediately. As a platoon sergeant, I handle conflict between soldiers, peers, and leadership regularly. I employ tact, patience, and understanding in order to help the involved parties to overcome their

As an officer in the United States Army, it has been imperative for me to understand every facet of leadership and why it remains important to be an effective leader. During this course, I have learned some valuable lessons about myself as a leader and how I can improve on my leadership ability in the future. The journal entries along with the understanding of available leadership theories have been an integral part of my learning during this course. For all of the journals and assessments that I completed, I feel it has given me a good understanding of my current leadership status and my future potential as a leader. All of the specific assessments looked at several areas in regards to leadership; these assessments covered several

As a professional leader, role models are an important source of inspiration and development. The ability to deliberately aim to improve as a leader is equally important. In the Army, the Leadership Requirements Model found in doctrine provides the framework necessary to make those deliberate improvements. This framework presents the opportunity to analyze our leadership role models using the Leadership Requirements Model and assess how that leader has contributed to the Army or the Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) Corps. Additionally, it is important to apply the same analysis to how that role model has influenced our own leadership. Lastly, with these considerations in mind, leaders can project into the future and determine what kind of legacy they wish to leave. The purpose of this analysis is to explore these opportunities and the relationships between doctrinal leadership, a legacy leader, and my own leadership and legacy. My father, retired Chief Warrant Officer 2 (CW2) Nelson Stydinger, had a significant influence on the profession during his own service. He also represents my most important leadership influence throughout my career and his record informs the type of legacy I would like to leave as an Army leader.

There are several leaders that I have admired in my career over the years. One in particular that stood out was a Chief Master Sergeant in the Air Force who I served under. He was a very intelligent and vibrant leader who placed importance in military customs and core values. He was one whom I emulated in the military because of his task –motivated leadership style. He focused on the goals of the organization with the emphasis on service before self. The implications of his style of leadership lead me to believe that there was little to no relationships formed with lower ranking airmen. He was always able to get the job done because of the driven culture he represented. I learned a wealth of knowledge and information from this particular leader; I was able to create a balance by embracing his style of leadership and relating it with my style, transformational leadership. I believe it was successful, because of my efforts to focus in on the mission and create a balance in inspiring, influencing, and motivating Airmen across the globe.

1. Explain in your own words the message of each speech in terms of the future.

From a western perspective, Osama Bin Laden in nothing more than an inhuman murderer, therefore no one spends time to investigate why he does what he does, and for what reasons thousands of people sacrificed their lives for his cause, however, a quick glimpse through his excerpt shows that he does have an ideology that can be very appealing to a large number of people, any person that feels targeted by the United States can potentially find his claims to be persuasive, therefore, Bin Laden is not simply an insane man, he is smart man that was successful in gathering thousands around him despite being fought in every single aspect.

Osama bin Laden’s hatred towards the United States drove him to do horrifying and unreasonable things. This is one example of why I believe mankind in inherently evil.

Contrary to popular opinion claiming it to be righteous retribution for his acts of radical Islamist terror, the assassination of Osama bin Laden by the US government was unjustified because it was illegal under international law, morally wrong, and detrimental to national security.

The Hunt for Bin laden by Robin Moore Is a book that deals with the military side of the Government. It deals with the executive and legislative branch. The Book is a detailed explanation of how the Green Beret hunted for Bin Laden and dealt with the Taliban. This book is informative to military personal and students. Robin Moore was the First and only civil ever allowed to go through gorilla training. He wrote a total of four books on Vietnam and a several other novels including the French connection. He later denounce the hunt for bin laden due to controversy of one of the people who helped him write the book giving false information to make himself seem better.

What does it take to be a visionary and ethical leader? Is it merely the ability to direct the masses towards a goal? Is it leading from within well-defined boundaries? No, a visionary and ethical leader empowers and inspires others. They eliminate child dependencies on leadership to provide constant direction and promote their organizations to continuously refine and improve. The most effective leaders embody a style we define as transformational. In this particular case, General Stanley McCrystal’s leadership was impeccable due to the mutual respect and empowerment that he fostered at all levels of his organizations, in order to achieve the unachievable. General McChrystal is most widely known for his last assignment as the commander of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). However, I believe his greatest work was accomplished in the years preceding this assignment. Prior to his retirement, he matured within the Army special operations community (Rangers, Green Barets, Joint SOF). His abilities to empower an organization to foster and embody change at lightning pace were impeccable in the years following September 11 2001, where the only constant, was change itself. I had first had experience with the environment and organization General McChrystal curated, and it is probably one of my best experiences regarding leadership and mentorship in my career to date.

May 2nd, 2011. I was in the 8th grade. The school, the nation , and the world had essentially learned about the death of Osama Bin Laden the night before. As I went to my classes I could tell that a feeling of happiness and joy filled the air. I could not remember much about that day up until the last period of the school day.

Since the death of Osama Bin Laden, there has been a radical change in the operational structure of the organisation. Previously, the group had a formal top-down command structure such that orders were issued at the top and passed down to the lower levels for implementation (Atwan, 2012). Currently, however, the operations of the organisation seem to be more devolved, often including or taking the form of actions by franchise associated groups or even lone-wolf operators. It is to be acknowledged that the operations of AQ have historically involved groups and individuals not necessarily affiliated to AQ but simply consisting of people or groups with sworn allegiance to Bin Laden or those trained in any of the AQ training camps in Afghanistan

World renowned speaker and author John C. Maxwell has sold over eighteen million books that highlight the most important aspect of leadership. He is responsible for the training of over five million leaders in over one-hundred countries and developed several key leadership theories, including “the seven factors that influence” (Maxwell, 2013). What Maxwell’s factors do not include is the intent or application of this influence, be it for good or evil. The application of each seven factors is significant in the leadership traits of Osama bin Laden, the face and former leader of the Sunni Islamist militant terror group Al-Qaeda. Bin Laden’s use of character, relationships, knowledge, intuition, experience, past success and ability, not only inspired the terror group Al-Qaeda, but drastically increased the world’s fear of terrorism.

One of the world’s deadliest terrorists, Osama bin Laden, has cause havoc throughout the world by committing terror acts carried out by his Islamic extremist group, Al- Qaeda. Bin Laden has caused many problems throughout the world by his terrorism and this all came to an end on May 2, 2011. Seal Team Six was sent into his bunker and put an end to his life and his 10-year hide out after the 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center. Osama has been the leader of Al-Qaeda since 1988 and since then has committed numerous amounts of terror attacks on all parts of the world. Osama bin Laden has developed over time as a leader of Al-Qaeda, and through his beliefs of Muslim brotherhood, he developed into an extreme Islamic terrorist.

Beginning in boot camp and continuing throughout my career, I’ve seen the Coast Guard promote the leadership model to be: “You” influencing “Others” to achieve a “Goal”. With all the different ways leadership can be defined, this simplistic model which has been permanently engrained in my thinking definition still rings true for me. As such, when defining my own personal definition of leadership, I align it to this same model. More specifically, while I support the fact that leadership involves influencing others to achieve a common end I propose that is not the whole story. Leaders must not be stagnant in their vision and must lend themselves to the possibility they may have to adjust their leadership styles depending on the goal. The best leaders are the ones that understand their own personality traits as well as those traits of the people they are trying to lead.