ABSTRACT
A sense of the dramatic values, coupled with the intelligence to play upon them skillfully, is an invaluable quality in any military leader. In several of the most celebrated commentaries written by higher commanders on the nature of generalship, the statement is made rather carelessly that to be capable of great military leadership a man must be something of an actor. Within the military profession, this is as unwise as to let the muscles go soft or to spare the mind the strain of original thinking. Great humor has always been in the military tradition. Concerning leadership within the terms, the final thought is that there is a radical difference between training and combat conditions. General W. T. Sherman, who commanded the Army for almost fifteen years, was considered by many of his close friends to be a fit subject for confinement as a mental case just before the Civil War.
