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Article: Strength of any army dependent upon its leadership

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September 6, 2009
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An army is only as strong as its military leadership.

I can remember as a high school student when I took Latin III, "Caesar's Gallic Wars." I suffered through those battles and remember to this day the opening lines: "Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Belgae ..." This translates as, "All Gaul [France] is divided into three parts, of which one is called Belgium ..." We also studied America's military heroes: Gen. George Washington, Gen. Robert E. Lee, Gen. Ulysses Grant and Gen John Pershing of World War I fame.

Caesar taught us that war was universal and had been going on for a long time.

Of course, my background is World War II when we, as a nation, were ...

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