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“So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, ‘With our own feathers, not by others’ hands, Are we now smitten.’” —AESCHYLUS
eagle thinks it has been taken down by its own kind or perhaps that only an eagle can kill an eagle?
Sam Damon, has become the iconic symbol of the qualities a great leader should possess. He leads by example and represents the core values of what we strive for in our leaders.
The true testament to the success of a book like Once an Eagle is its resilience.
or its perpetuation from leader to leader on reading lists. I've never really trusted reading lists for the sole fact that so many leaders I've met are so poorly read and even more poorly written that iI have a hard time believing that most read even one of the books on the list. they just recycle the lists of other generals who themselves may not have read the book
a state of great turmoil, at the core of which was an angry awareness of war as the most vicious and fraudulent self-deception man had ever devised.”
brings the question of whether war is ever "necessary" should America have accepted without reproach Japan's attacks or Germany's increasing threat to our allies in Europe? I would be curious to know Myrer's personal Casus Belli. What would justify the"vicious and fraudulent self-deception"
anti-war book.
A charismatic personality, while very useful, is not at all a necessary attribute.
I would argue that some level of charisma is necessary. we are a civilian-run institution, human institutions. without charisma we run the risk of engendering resistance to our ideas based solely on coarse nature or indifference to the feelings of others.