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If leadership depends purely on seniority you are defeated before you start. You give a good leader very little and he will succeed; you give mediocrity a great deal and they will fail. —George C. Marshall, 1941, to the Truman Committee

En réalité, du point de vue de la logique, la proposition faite par Estevao Gomez est juste. Si elle avait été adoptée elle aurait sauvé la vie à Magellan et à près de deux cents de ses compagnons. Mais ce qui importe au chef ce n’est pas sa vie mortelle, mais son entreprise immortelle.

Russell was for twenty-six years either Chairman or dominant member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which oversaw the battle readiness of the nation’s far-flung legions and armadas. As senators of Rome had insisted that, regardless of the cost, the legions must be kept at full complement because the peace and stability of the known world—th

He was coauthor of a textbook, Principles of Zoology, his first American work, which went through sixteen editions

President Wilson named one of his brightest generals to lead the incursion into Mexico: John J. Pershing. In a controversial move a decade earlier, Theodore Roosevelt had promoted Black Jack Pershing, over 762 superior officers, directly from captain to brigadier general. For the Mexican operation, Pershing selected several of the Army’s most promi