Become Your Own General

“A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.”

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur

Generals study all military maneuvers and tactics whether the enemy or the ally. Victory is the key to unlocking knowledge.

Why This Is Important:  MacArthur was a General of the Army, an appointment held for life. In the U.S. Army, there were only five Generals of the Army: George C. Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Henry H. Arnold and Omar Bradley. They Knew One Thing:  To Take Command of a Battle, you have to take command of yourself.

With confidence in yourself and your mission, you can attain any goal. You have Personal Power beyond your wildest dream in your will, determination and resolve. Americans persevered through harrowing, brutal circumstances to win wars against tyranny in the American Revolution, World War II and the Cold War. With intellectual resolve, scientists discovered penicillin to save lives, enriched the lives of humanity with electricity, computers and media. Human Will landed a man on the Moon.

Individual will has enormous power in the political arena when harnessed into collective energy to confront a specific threat. Writer Thomas Paine distributed his pamphlet, “Common Sense”, throughout the American colonies. It advocated independence from Britain and stoked the fires of independence. One man with a pamphlet!  The Republican party was formed to abolish slavery. Ronald Reagan created not just a national consciousness about the Soviet threat, but a National Will to support a defense posture to topple the evil enslaving empire of communist/left-wing Soviet Union.

Persia – Cyrus the Great

China – Sun Tzu

Greece – Leonidas, Pericles

Alexander the Great

Rome – Scipio Africanus, Julius Caesar

Carthage – Hannibal

Europe – Charles Martel, Charlemagne, William the Conqueror,

Japan – Oda Nobunaga, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Isoroku Yamamoto

English- King Henry V, Sir Walter Raleigh, Horatio Nelson, Sir John Cunningham, Harold Alexander,

Scotland – William Wallace, Robert Bruce

France – Joan of Arc

Spain – El Cid

Ireland – Michael Collins

Germany – Helmuth von Moltke, Crown Prince Rupreccht of Bavaria, Heinz Guderian, Erwin Rommel

Turkey – Kemal Ataturk

Poland – Jan Sobieski

Israel – Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin

Russia – Konstantin Rokossovksy, Georgy Zhukov

Vietnam – Tran Hung Dao, Vo Nguyen Giap

Africa – Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba, Shaka

Germany – Frederick II of Prussia

U.S.A.– George Washington, Winfield Scott,  David Farragut, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, George Patton, John J. Pershing, Omar Bradley, Dwight Einsenhower, Douglas MacArthur,  “Chesty” Puller, Raymond Spruance, Colin Powell, Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., Tommy Franks,  Stephen Decatur, William Halsey, Chester Nimitz, John Paul Jones, Marc Mitscher