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An oldie but a goodie
War is a social activity, and there are bad times to be
reminded of this. In Normandy, for example, junior officers had the unfortunate
experience of trying to assemble groups of paratroopers who had lost their own
lieutenants and captains to enemy fire. An army analyst, conducting after-action
interviews, detailed the result: "The men invariably stalled... If the leader
got them to follow until they came in contact with the enemy, at that point they
were more likely to fall away from him than to support him. They would assemble
readily enough under a stranger and they would usually march under him, but they
would not fight for him. There were very few exceptions to this
rule."
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