Wellington Leadership Summary
Wellington's Leadership Actions and Traits of Leadership
As mentioned in this topic’s preface, what previous generations of military leaders lacked in technology was compensated for with brilliant combat tact. A true maverick trait manifests itself as the ability to advance on opposition by way of surprise and deception. Arthur Wesley, the first Duke of Wellington, was a master of covert operations. His ability to think rationally and act coolly while under fire made him a dangerous adversary for any adversary. Combined, these characteristics of Wellington’s skill as a military leader helped secure victory for Britain in 1803 during the Maratha Battles (Harvey, 2008).
By utilizing economy of force, surprise, synergy, and most of all, discipline, Wellington’s modest 24,000 fleet of troops, managed to overwhelmingly trounce the main Maratha force of 200,000 men at Assaye. Contributing further to his reverence is the fact that Wellington participated alongside his soldiers; as quoted in the text, “the general was in the thick of the action the whole time and had a horse killed under him. No man could have …show more content…
Campbell. Serving as mission commander for the operation in Afghanistan, Campbell makes strategic use of defensive measures in the manner of a modern 1st Duke of Wellington. The statistics agree - according to Ahmed, & Goldstein, (2015) article in the New York Times, combined forces of the US and NATO have conducted 128 air strikes in the past 3 months targeting low-level Taliban leaders, with very few spec-ops troops having been deployed on ground. As part of his Force Protection Campaign, these aerial assaults both take the enemy by surprise and defensively avoid ground
As mentioned in this topic’s preface, what previous generations of military leaders lacked in technology was compensated for with brilliant combat tact. A true maverick trait manifests itself as the ability to advance on opposition by way of surprise and deception. Arthur Wesley, the first Duke of Wellington, was a master of covert operations. His ability to think rationally and act coolly while under fire made him a dangerous adversary for any adversary. Combined, these characteristics of Wellington’s skill as a military leader helped secure victory for Britain in 1803 during the Maratha Battles (Harvey, 2008).
By utilizing economy of force, surprise, synergy, and most of all, discipline, Wellington’s modest 24,000 fleet of troops, managed to overwhelmingly trounce the main Maratha force of 200,000 men at Assaye. Contributing further to his reverence is the fact that Wellington participated alongside his soldiers; as quoted in the text, “the general was in the thick of the action the whole time and had a horse killed under him. No man could have …show more content…
Campbell. Serving as mission commander for the operation in Afghanistan, Campbell makes strategic use of defensive measures in the manner of a modern 1st Duke of Wellington. The statistics agree - according to Ahmed, & Goldstein, (2015) article in the New York Times, combined forces of the US and NATO have conducted 128 air strikes in the past 3 months targeting low-level Taliban leaders, with very few spec-ops troops having been deployed on ground. As part of his Force Protection Campaign, these aerial assaults both take the enemy by surprise and defensively avoid ground