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If I were asked to define leadership, I should say it is the projection of personality. It is the most intensely personal thing in the world because it is just plain you.

The qualities that distinguish a leader from other men are courage, will power, initiative, and knowledge. If you have not got those qualities you will not make a leader; if you have them, you will.

- Field Marshal Sir William Slim from an address at West Point, circa 1950:

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Military Word Of The Day
BTDT
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Been There, Done That. The person that has "been there, done that" in real time. Not someone from a school or course that has only learned the basics, in a class or by theory, but has lived the experience for real.


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Today in Military History

October 12



1883:

The British Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own)


1917:

Sir Robert Borden forms Coalition Government


1917:

The first battle of PASSCHENDAELE




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