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Retired Marine Corps Gen. John Allen - former commander of the NATO International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces in Afghanistan from July 2011 to February 2013 - speaks to DCSA Industrial Security Senior Leadership Annual Meeting (IS SLAM) participants about strategic leadership in the context of George Washington's philosophy and experience as well as his own leadership, lessons and experience in combat while serving in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan.
"You live in a world that's enormously complex today," said Allen while addressing the IS SLAM at the Washington Presidential Library’s Rubenstein Leadership Hall in Mt. Vernon, Va. "It's not only a multi-domain environment within which you attempting to defend our industrial base and our security but we have the enemies out there operating against us 24 hours a day - whether it's the Russians, Chinese, Iranians or the North Koreans or any number of smaller terrorist organizations attempting to penetrate our security membrane. It's a complex organization and it's not just complex in that the enemy-threat context, it's complex in how you are organized and how you are distributed. You are hierarchically organized. You are geographically distributed. You have multiple different kinds of subordinate missions and all of that can only be pulled together by strategic leadership in a sense and an understanding that strategic leadership is vitally important. George Washington really set the conditions for that - for us to understand that."
At that point, Allen pointed to the PowerPoint slide featuring one of the most iconic paintings of the Revolutionary War showing the Continental Army's march to their winter encampment at Valley Forge on Dec. 19, 1777. "Here he is at Valley Forge," said Allen. "His troops are moving forward in the snow. I spent the first 15 years of my time in the (Marine) Corps on a cold weather mission. Well, I've been cold and look at this painting and get cold in a second watching it. There's two things that are really important here. This army is suffering from an absence of resources. It's not entirely clear it's going to survive the winter much less survive the British. There's George Washington right alongside ... leaders have to be present with their troops."
| Date Taken: | 08.29.2023 |
| Date Posted: | 12.04.2023 09:46 |
| Photo ID: | 8149591 |
| VIRIN: | 230829-D-XM313-1500 |
| Resolution: | 2630x1472 |
| Size: | 581.59 KB |
| Location: | US |
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