Saving Private Ryan Leadership Analysis

Captain Miller and his squad of eight World War II soldiers are assigned the seemingly impossible combat mission to locate and return one American soldier, Private James Francis Ryan, all of whose brothers have already been killed in action. He is trapped somewhere behind enemy lines. In order the save the family name and relieve an already grieving mother, Captain

The first move reviewed, Saving Private Ryan told the story about 8 members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion in the aftermath of the D-Day invasion while they searched for a paratrooper who landed in the French countryside. After the opening scene, the movie informed its viewers that two of the four brothers had died during the D-Day invasion while a third had died in an earlier battle in the Pacific. These deaths resulted in the fact that the Army would have to present their mother, Mrs. Ryan, with three death telegrams on the same day. However, as luck would have it a fourth brother, Private Rayan, was potentially still be alive, which resulted in Army Chief of Staff George Marshall ordering the 8-man team into the French countryside with the mission to save Private Rayan and return him home to alleviate some his mother’s grief. Overall there are many extraordinary leadership skills displayed in this movie and for these reasons, Saving Private Rayan was an excellent choice as one of the movies used in this comparison.

The major ethical debate started in the United States Chief of Staff’s office following the discovery that a mother would receive three telegrams on the same day informing her that three of her four sons had died in combat. In the office the group weighs the decision to pull out her only surviving son from behind enemy lines and send him home safely. Private Ryan was in the 101 airborne division and missed there drop deep behind enemy lines and there exact whereabouts are unknown. The group is split between risking men’s lives to save one man, presuming he is alive, and a sense of responsibility to the mother of the boys to bring her one son back safely. The decision is made to save Private Ryan after the Chief of Staff reads a letter by Abraham Lincoln.

Following the Normandy Landings operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II, a group of U.S. soldiers go behind enemy lines to retrieve a paratrooper whose brothers have been killed in action. 2nd Ranger Battalion under Captain Miller (Tom Hanks) fight ashore to secure the beachhead on Omaha Beach. During the fighting two soldiers are killed in action on the beachhead and are later found to be brothers of a soldier Private Ryan along with another brother fighting the war in New Guinea who is found to be killed in action as well. The mother of these three soldiers receives the Army’s grave telegrams for all three soldiers within the same day.

A patrol team from the 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division is responsible for searching suspected insurgent hideouts, capturing enemy combatants and bringing them in for questioning. On July 28th, 2011 the patrol team was in the city of Bagdad, Iraq when a roadside bomb takes out the first two vehicles in the convoy killing four soldiers. They immediately pull to the side of the road and take cover as the rest of the convoy comes under small arms fire. A long fight pursues, but the patrol team is able to disarm the insurgents and take them captive. The next day, back at camp, the platoon leader puts several soldiers from the patrol team in charge of interrogating one of the suspects. He explains the technique he wants used to obtain this

This tragedy happened on a day that supposedly was going to be the most memorable for his wife and him, they were celebrating their anniversary. But something happened, his unit received an emergency call, told them they needed to go as soon as possible and take all their equipment, they were told

This promise to leave no one behind can mean several things. Literally it translates to the US military, both as an institution and as an organization of people, will not voluntarily disregard the life of a soldier, regardless of context. Moreover, the implications of this commitment even extend to those closest to soldiers: their families. The reason why the military implements lofty life insurance plans and facilitates on post resources for family members is because the soldier and his family are rooted as one. In the film, the General ultimately considers PFC Ryan’s mother in the final decision to send him home. His reasoning considered the fact that she already sacrificed three sons to the war. Ryan’s mother completed her civic duty through her son’s service and no longer owed the country any more of her children. To allow last of his name PFC Ryan to continue the fight meant that General Marshall accepted that PFC Ryan’s mother’s vote was not important. Indeed, this would be leaving her behind. Thus, the choice to bring PFC Ryan back to his mother was made in the light of the Army’s most consecrated promise and with all military families, past, present or future, in mind.

Ten of these men had never seen action with the Rangers. These men were simply attached to the 2nd Ranger Company because they were black regardless of MOS. The Rangers that weren’t on patrols took it upon themselves to train these men as close as possible to the Ranger standards. The enemy’s seizure of Hill 581 was the point of the CCF’s deepest penetration so far during the CCF Spring Offensive. Rangers Lead) This knowledge gave 1LT Queen belief that he would have an advantage even though they were under strength. He was willing to take the hill with a personnel shortage, because he believed they would be facing tired and poorly supplied troops defending the hill. Another advantage 1LT Queen and his men had was a familiarity with the terrain of Hill 581, because this was the same hill that they had executed a night withdrawal from two weeks

There are varieties of leadership styles. Niccolo Machiavelli and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, are opposites in their characterization of what makes a good leader. One justifies that the “end justifies the means” while the other directs us that “it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends” (King). I agree with the latter of the two believing that the first one burns bridges, while the latter builds them. However, both leadership styles exist today.

They are always learning new tactics to share with the soldiers to improve themselves in order to serve our country better. If they were not able to be a well organized culture they could not properly protect the United States like they do.

Ryan’s boss LORD CHARLIE HUNTER (40’s) instructs Ryan to cover-up premature deaths at South Hampton Hospital. When he arrives, he meets SERAPHINE JONES (20’s), whose father goes into cardiac arrest. Ryan realizes there’s no nursing staff to help, and he’s forced to perform CPR, but the

The large fire had “reached the coconut palms on the beach and swallowed them noisily” (Golding 200). Thus, Jack unintentionally attracts the attention of a military cruiser from the sea at the cost of the whole island.

Certain leaders deal with challenges and solve them in the end. When confronted with a conflict people like Sir Winston churchill will solve and deal with their difficult situations. In the quote “I say it is to wage war by land, sea, and air. War with all of our might and with all the strength God has given us…” is proving that he deals with his situations very seriously. As a result of Churchill’s ability to resolve conflict, he will most likely be able to complete his tasks about his problems. People like Sir Winston Churchill will find conflict straightforward to deal with.

to one another, style leadership theory differs quite drastically. Instead of focusing on who the

The process of evaluating historical aspects of leadership involved critically analyzing the commonalities and disparities among a group of influential leaders, such as Thomas Carlyle, Mohandas Gandhi, Niccolo Machiavelli and W.E.B Du Bois. Carlyle (1795-1881), a Scottish historian emphasized the importance of heroism that required men to be subordinated to the commander of men (Wren, 1995 p.53). Further analysis of the evaluation revealed theories of Gandhi and Machiavelli which produced evidence of conflicting viewpoints on the topic of violence among historical leaders throughout the ages. Gandhi‘s leadership