{"product_id":"connected-soldiers-john-spencer-9781640125124","title":"Connected Soldiers: Life, Leadership, and Social Connections in Modern War","description":"2023 Gold Medal in Biography\/Memoir from the Military Writers Society of America \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e John Spencer was a new second lieutenant in 2003 when he parachuted into Iraq leading a platoon of infantry soldiers into battle. During that combat tour he learned how important unit cohesion was to surviving a war, both physically and mentally. He observed that this cohesion developed as the soldiers experienced the horrors of combat as a group, spending their downtime together and processing their shared experiences. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When Spencer returned to Iraq five years later to take command of a troubled company, he found that his lessons on how to build unit cohesion were no longer as applicable. Rather than bonding and processing trauma as a group, soldiers now spent their downtime separately, on computers communicating with family back home. Spencer came to see the internet as a threat to unit cohesion, but when he returned home and his wife was deployed, the internet connected him and his children to his wife on a daily basis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eConnected Soldiers \u003c\/i\u003eSpencer delivers lessons learned about effective methods for building teams in a way that overcomes the distractions of home and the outside world, without reducing the benefits gained from connections to family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Spencer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1640125124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781640125124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Potomac Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.56d","brand":"John Spencer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43996547252479,"sku":"9781640125124","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4851f846-bb5b-4ce5-9fb6-70807b4b5ead.jpg?v=1683342316","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/connected-soldiers-john-spencer-9781640125124","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}