Steven L. Ossad
Military Historian & Leadership Consultant



Selected Works

Henry Ware Lawton: Flawed Giant and Hero of Four Wars, Army History, Winter 2007
Brevet Colonel, Commander of the 30th Indiana Volunteers, and recipient of the Medal of Honor - all at the age of 23 - Henry Lawton's career spanned four decades until he fell "bringing democracy to a distant land."
BG Joseph Mansfield, Military Heritage Magazine, February 2007
When Joseph K.F. Mansfield fell at the Battle of Antietam, he was the ranking casualty on either side, the oldest general and West Point graduate to die in battle.
The Terrills: "God Alone Knows Which Was Right", America's Civil War Magazine, September 2006
William and James Terrill of Virginia chose opposing sides in the Civil War, rose to general and fell in battle. Theirs is a unique story of "brother against brother".
Paperback Edition of Major General Maurice Rose: World War II's Greatest Forgotten Commander
The only American Armored Division commander to die in battle, Maurice Rose was the son and grandson of rabbis who rose from private to general to lead the premier American armored force to victory.
The Corporate Staff Ride: A Proven Military Training Tool Comes to the Boardroom, Wharton Leadership Digest, January 2006
For more than a century, the "Staff Ride" has been used to train the nation's military leaders. Now it has been adapted by APPLIED BATTLEFIELD CONCEPTS LLC for use by corporations to train top management in the principles of leadership under pressure.
Drawings of Antietam Commanders
"Commanders at Antietam" is a collection of the author's drawings related to ongoing work on the Corporate Staff Ride
Command Failures: Lessons Learned from Lloyd R. Fredendall, Army Magazine, March 2003
Winner, 2003 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award
The Fighting McCooks, Military History Magazine, October 2005
Sixteen of the McCook Family served in the Union Army or Navy during the Civil War. Seven became generals. Four gave the last full measure.
Russian General Ivan D. Chernyakhovsky, WWII History Magazine, May 2004
Russia's General Ivan Chernyakhovsky achieved a combat record that is virtually unknown in the West.
Fighting Admiral of Guadalcanal, World War II Magazine, May 2004
Daniel Judson Callaghan's heroic sacrifice off Guadalcanal saved the embattled defenders of Henderson Field.
In the Front Ranks of Gallant Men, World War II Magazine, November 2003
Brigadier General Frederick W. Castle's leadership in and out of the cockpit made him one of the most admired men in the Eighth Air Force
The Frustrations of Leonard Wood, Army Magazine, September 2003
The only physician ever to rise to Army Chief of Staff, Leonard Wood's path to success produced as many enemies as admirers.
The Last Battle of Gen. William Orlando Darby, Army Magazine, January 2003
Creator of the modern American Rangers, Darby led his men to great victories and a catastrophic defeat, but was always in the thick of the action.
Martin Blumenson (1918-2005)
Martin Blumenson spent his life writing the history of an institution he respected greatly and knew intimately, the United States Army. He inspired generations of his students and successors to the highest standard of excellence.


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Sketches of Great Philosophers


Socrates (470-399 BC), Greek

Xenophon (430-350 BC), Greek

Plato (428-347 BC), Greek

Aristotle (384 -322 BC), Greek

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), English

René Descartes (1596-1650), French

John Locke (1632-1704), English

Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677), Dutch

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), German

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831), German

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), German

Sören Kierkegaard (1813-1855), Dane

Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), American

Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), German

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Austrian-English

Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), German

Leo Strauss (1899-1973), German-American

Updated February 18, 2008


Sources


Socrates - Ted Honderich, editor, Oxford Companion to Philosophy, (Oxford, 1995), pg. 716, after a Roman sculpture, Bildarchiv Preussicher Kulturbesitz, Berlin

Xenophon - World Wide Web, Roman, after a Greek Sculpture, Royal Museum of Berlin

Plato - Oxford, 33, after a Roman sculpture, Archivo Alinari

Aristotle, Brian Magee, The Story of Philosophy (New York, 2001), 32, 4th Century BC alabaster copy of Greek bronze, E.T. Archive, Museo Nazionale, Rome

Bacon - Oxford, 233, Oil on canvas, Paul van Somer, National Portrait Gallery, London

Hobbes - Oxford, 227, Oil on canvas, John Michael Wright, 1669-1670, National Portrait Gallery, London

Descartes - Oxford, 742, after an oil painting by Franz Hals, Archiv fur Kunst und Geschichte, Berlin

Locke - Magee, 104, 19th century illust. based on Kneller painting

Spinoza - Oxford, 742, Archiv fur Kunst und Geschichte, Berlin

Kant - Oxford, 742, based on Gottlieb Doebler painting, 1791, Hulton-Deutsch

Hegel - Magee, 158, 19th century Jacob Schlesinger painting

Schopenhauer - Magee, 138, Angilbert Göbel, 1859, Staatliche Kunstlg. Neuegalerie, Kassel

Kierkegaard - Magee, 208, 1840 Danish drawing

Peirce - Magee, 186, Photo from Collected Papers of C.S. Peirce, 19th century

Husserl - Magee, 211, Early 20th Century photograph

Wittgenstein - Oxford, 116, photograph, Trinity College, Cambridge University

Heidegger - Magee, 209, Photograph, 1950

Strauss - World Wide Web, Numerous Photographs, 2008

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