ABSTRACT
Since prehistory, the building blocks of armies has been the squad, an eight-to twelve-man unit that eats, sleeps, and fights together. Forging this small group into an effective force has always been the most basic task of military training. Only after World War II, with the explosion of growth in behavioral science research, did this long-standing forging of effectiveness get a name: organization development. However, as this case shows, Hollywood, in its war movies, was way ahead of the behavioral scientists in illustrating just how this process works.
