Hal Moore on Leadership – Winning When Outgunned and Outmanned
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Hal Moore on Leadership – Winning When Outgunned and Outmanned
By: Hal Moore and Mike Guardia
Magnum Books, 2017
167 Pages
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Summary
Lt. General Harold Gregory “Hal” Moore, is best known as the commander of the 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of Ia Drang in South Vietnam in 1965 during the Vietnam War. The battle was the first major engagement between U.S. and North Vietnamese forces and was detailed in the 1992 bestseller We Were Soldiers Once… and Young, co-authored by Moore, and made into the film We Were Soldiers in 2002, starring Mel Gibson as Moore. During the war, the media sometimes referred to Moore as the Vietnam War’s George Patton.
For his heroic leadership in the battle he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the U.S. Army’s second-highest decoration for valor, and was the first soldier in his West Point graduating class of 1945 to be promoted to brigadier general, major general, and lieutenant general.
This is a simple book with a straightforward format, published several years ago but not widely known. It covers the major periods of Moore’s life and the most important leadership lessons he learned during his career – lessons which were sometimes learned in the crucible of combat when the consequences of good and bad decisions spelled life or death for his men.
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