Seeking to revitalize leadership in America's armed forces, Christopher Kolenda, a US Army Lieutenant Colonel, has assembled a tremendous array of the military's very brightest practitioners and minds in a book destined to shape how the armed forces thinks about and practices leadership in the 21st century. Composed of world-class historians and active and retired officers from the ranks of Major through full General, Kolenda and his colleagues analyze leadership in theory, history, and contemporary insight. The result is a remarkable synthesis, guiding the reader from Plato and Alexander, through Frederick and Clausewitz, to World War Two, Vietnam, Bosnia and the future.