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The first duty of the officer is to challenge whatever seems illusory.

S.L.A. Marshall

The far object of a training system is to prepare the combat officer mentally so that he can cope with the unusual and unexpected as if it were the altogether normal and give him poise in a situation where all else is in disequilibrium.

S.L.A. Marshall

The basic theme is elementary and should be beyond argument: No logistical system is sound unless its first principal is enlightened conservation of the power of the individual fighter. The second theme, in 1949 a radically new idea, as yet unsupported by incontrovertible scientific proof, is that sustained fear in the male individual is degenerative as prolonged fatigue exhausts body energy no less.

S.L.A. Marshall

S.L.A. Marshall

S.L.A. Marshall

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Born: July 18, 1900

Died: December 17, 1977 (aged 77)

Bio: S.L.A. Marshall was a chief U.S. Army combat historian during World War II and the Korean War. He authored some 30 books about warfare, including Pork Chop Hill: The American Fighting Man in Action, which was made into a film of the same name.

Known for:

Battle at Best (1963)

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