Connected Soldiers : Life, Leadership, and Social Connections in Modern War
Autor: | John Spencer |
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Unit cohesion (Military science)--Case studies, Command of troops--Case studies, Iraq War, 2003-2011--Campaigns--Iraq--Baghdad, Iraq War, 2003-2011--Personal narratives, American, Social media--Government policy--United States, Soldiers--Family relationships--United States--History--21st century, Soldiers--United States--Social life and customs--21st century
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Popis: | 2023 Gold Medal in Biography/Memoir from the Military Writers Society of America John Spencer was a new second lieutenant in 2003 when he parachuted into Iraq leading a platoon of infantry soldiers into battle. During that combat tour he learned how important unit cohesion was to surviving a war, both physically and mentally. He observed that this cohesion developed as the soldiers experienced the horrors of combat as a group, spending their downtime together and processing their shared experiences. When Spencer returned to Iraq five years later to take command of a troubled company, he found that his lessons on how to build unit cohesion were no longer as applicable. Rather than bonding and processing trauma as a group, soldiers now spent their downtime separately, on computers communicating with family back home. Spencer came to see the internet as a threat to unit cohesion, but when he returned home and his wife was deployed, the internet connected him and his children to his wife on a daily basis. In Connected Soldiers Spencer delivers lessons learned about effective methods for building teams in a way that overcomes the distractions of home and the outside world, without reducing the benefits gained from connections to family. |
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