all good combat leaders have always labored under the same five imperatives vis-à-vis the men they lead. They are the imperatives of kinship (taking care never to leave any doubt in the minds of your troops that you and they are, in the last analysis, comrades in arms), prescription (having a personal, authoritative style of laying down rules and direction), sanction (being perceived as a person who has, and follows, some cogent theory of reward and punishment), action (being able to show your men that you do know how to fight), and example (showing by your every move and whole being that you
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