Analysis of the United States Army

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Analysis of the United States Army

Abstract

The United States Army has a long and storied history. This history is marked by amazing accomplishments that have been a product not just of the brave men and women who have served in uniform over the years, but also on the way the Army is organized. The integration of Morgan’s metaphors has played an important role in the dynamic relationship and represented other aspects of the Army’s organizational life. This analysis will examine the organizational structures of the United States Army and look at how these metaphors have influenced the Army’s performance both in the actions it has taken to help maintain America’s freedom and the freedom of citizens around the world.

Analysis of the United States Army

The United States Army, the land-based component of the American Armed Services, traces its origins back to the Continental Army that was founded by George Washington in the years before America won its freedom from the British. After fighting as a group in the War of 1812, the Army spent many decades helping to open up the West for American settlers and fighting skirmishes with Native American Indians. The biggest crisis in the history of the Army was probably the American Civil War which saw brother turn against brother and huge losses on both the Confederate and Union side. Many of the best generals in the Army, like Robert E. Lee fought on the Confederate side, and after the war, there was much work required to repair the rift within the Army between the North and South. The Army had big successes, fighting valiantly, in the first and second world wars, and becoming the most powerful Army in the world following this second conflict. It was able to fight victorious wars on two fronts.

With the invention of the atomic bomb, American military forces were second to none and the Army was more and more powerful. During the Cold War the Army deployed on...