ABSTRACT
Leadership matters. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) famously demonstrated empathy with his rank-and-file soldiery when he asserted that “an army marches on its stomach.” An army needs to have its members at the utmost state of readiness, whether physical, mental, or in terms of equipment. This is especially so when the army is set to do battle (as was often the case for the French army under the leadership of Napoleon). Soldiers whose diet is deficient are unlikely to be at peak fitness to engage in combat.
