First Place Winner of the MacArthur Military Leadership Writing Competition for the CGSC Class of 2006-002. The importance of military leadership remains constant in peacetime, war or a counterinsurgency operation. To develop better leaders for the current counterinsurgency fight, let us look back at two highly successful leaders of the past. T.E. Lawrence, always a controversial figure, lived the life of an insurgent, and in essence, became the model advisor for the Arab forces fighting the Turkish Army. General Sir Gerald Templer possessed the ideal leadership qualities necessary to defeat an insurgency and shifted the balance of power in favor of the British during the Malaya Emergency. Together, the two figures could not be more opposite. Lawrence was the eccentric misfit and Templer the essence of a proper British officer. Both, however, possessed a tireless trait our current leaders need today to win in a counterinsurgency environment, bold leadership. Let us evaluate the qualities of these two leaders using the Army framework of Be, Know, Do found in FM 22-100, Army Leadership.

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