Sublime

Rather than inspirational leadership styles, efficiency based practices would need managers who are disciplined,…

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For de Gaulle, politics was not the art of the possible but the art of the willed.

His strategy of humility was composed of four elements: accepting the consequences of defeat; regaining the confidence of the victors; building a democratic society; and creating a European federation that would transcend the historic divisions of Europe.

No One Is an Island

Kiras, James D. Special Operations and Strategy: From World War II to the War on Terrorism. London: Routledge, 2006.

Conner told his protégé: “In all military history, only one thing never changes—human nature. Terrain may change, weather may change, weapons may change … but never human nature.”

both cases, psychology proved critical. Napoleon’s delusion was to believe in military strategy and underestimate the role of morale; his generals failed to appreciate that Russian citizens battling for their lives on their home soil had far greater incentive to fight than did a poilu from Paris yearning for the Champs Elysées. The LTCM strategists

I reported to the same jumble of buildings on the same base where I’d arrived a decade earlier as an eighteen-year-old fresh from basic training, when Sayeret Matkal was still a gleam in Avraham Arnan’s eye. Now, I would be the first sayeret commander to have served in the unit as a soldier and young officer. Avraham’s initial ambitions had been mo

The well-trained soldier will surely perform better than one with no preparation at all, but what is “training,” as Clausewitz understands it? It’s being able to draw upon principles extending across time and space, so that you’ll have a sense of what’s worked before and what hasn’t. You then apply these to the situation at hand: that’s the role of