ABSTRACT
In a not-quite-random sampling, one should consider the careers of the Marquis of Montrose, Alexander Suvorov, Robert E. Lee, and Henri Philippe Petain. These four all achieved pinnacles of leadership, but they are useful examples in that the external details of their careers had little in common. When the Scottish Presbyterians became ever more insistent on their own interpretations of salvation and politics, Montrose drifted openly into the Royalist cause, and in 1644 he came out for Charles I. Suvorov served the dynastic state in the person of Catherine the Great. British writers charge that after Petain the French army was relatively inactive, and took little offensive part in the war. The problem of war, and of leadership, is that if soldiers are brought to acknowledge the necessity of achieving their objective or dying in the effort, so are the enemy's.
