ABSTRACT
Military leadership may be distinctive in that military leaders ask subordinates to risk their lives and, in some instances, take lives, to achieve organizational goals (Prince and Tumlin 2004). These goals are never inconsequential, as General of the Army Douglas MacArthur reminded West Point cadets some forty years ago: “All through this welter of change and development, your mission remains fixed, determined and inviolable—it is to win our wars. [Yours] is the profession of arms—the will to win, the sure knowledge that in war there is no substitute for victory: that if you lose, the nation will be destroyed” (MacArthur 1962).
