Afterword
During World War II I was suddenly pulled out of my training division in Arkansas and flown to Honolulu to join a brand-new military history project. Under the leadership of General Marshall, a military history program was being developed that put emphasis on combat history at the very lowest level—platoon engagements from day to day and even hour to hour. To collect information, officers and enlisted men would be interviewed in groups or singly before a planned operation, during lulls in the actual operation, and in lengthy and numerous sessions after the operation.
The essence of this whole effort was to discover leadership strategies—leadership from the top, from the bottom, and from every level in between. I was especially interested ...
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