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151 Mil. L. Rev. 216 (1996)
Attributes of a Leader

handle is hein.journals/milrv151 and id is 224 raw text is: MILITARY LAW REVIEW THE SECOND ANNUAL HUGH J. CLAUSEN LEADERSHIP LECTURE: ATTRIBUTES OF A LEADER* LIEUTENANT GENERAL HENRY H. SHELTON** In thinking about what to talk about on leadership, I went back to the time when I came in the Army, which was the summer of 1963-probably before some of you were born, or at least while some of you were still in diapers. I looked at a speech that was given then by General Barksdale Hamlet, who was the Vice Chief of Staff for the Army. He addressed the JAG Conference and his subject was, A Command View of the Judge Advocate. In describing the type of judge advocate that he wanted on the staff, General Hamlet dis- cussed the environment that necessitated such an officer. In reading through his lecture notes for that day, I began to wonder what has changed in the last thirty-three years in our armed forces? Certainly in the thirty-three years that I have been in the ser- vice, I have noticed a host of things that are somewhat different than they were in those days. If I look specifically at the Army and what changes have taken place in our institution, I think that we all realize that in those years we have engaged and disengaged in two major conflicts in Southeast Asia and Southwest Asia. We have tran- sitioned from a draft to an all-volunteer force. We have fought, and won, the Cold War and, not surprisingly, the new world order that we thought we could achieve in that process has turned out to be a little more elusive than we originally had anticipated. As a matter of fact, we find that we live in an even more complex, volatile, and in some cases, a more unpredictable world than we did in that bipolar era. Peace keeping, peace enforcement, and military operations * This is an edited transcript of a lecture delivered by Lieutenant General Henry H. Shelton to members of the Staff and Faculty, their distinguished guests, and officers attending the 44th Judge Advocate Officer Graduate Course and the 139th Judge Advocate Officer Basic Course, at The Judge Advocate General's School, Charlottesville, Virginia, on 30 January 1996. The Clausen Lecture is named in honor of Major General Hugh J. Clausen, who served as The Judge Advocate General, United States Army, from 1981 to 1985 and served over thirty years in the United States Army before retiring in 1985. His distinguished military career included assignments as the Executive, Office of The Judge Advocate General; Staff Judge Advocate, III Corps and Fort Hood; Commander, United States Army Legal Services Agency and Chief Judge, United States Army Court of Military Review; The Assistant Judge Advocate General; and finally, The Judge Advocate General. On his retirement from active duty, General Clausen served for a number of years as the Vice President for Administration and Secretary to the Board of Visitors at Clemson University. ** Infantry, United States Army. Presently assigned as the Commander in Chief of the United States Special Operations Command, MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. B.S., 1963, North Carolina State University; M.S., 1973, Political Science, 216 [Vol. 151

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