Battle Exhortation: The Rhetoric of Combat Leadership

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In some endeavors fidelity is the expectation. To stand faithfully beside another may be difficult, but it is one’s obligation, one’s duty. This project by contrast has taught me more about generosity. To give generously of one’s resources when there is neither obligation nor personal advantage is beyond expectation . Only as the beneficiary of such generosity have I been able to produce this book. While many have contributed in important ways, I am particularly grateful to extended family Harry Nave and Marc Stern; professors Nicholas Tavuchis and Donovan Ochs; Marines Thomas Draude and Darin Morris; Benjamin Abramowitz, U.S. Army Infantry; and Linda Fogle and Karen Rood at the University of South Carolina Press. For her understanding I am especially indebted to my wife, Kristal. ...