We were soldiers once and young

The word "leadership" comes from Norwegian and means "to make things happen.” Usually, leadership is thought as the act of giving orders. Many leaders believe that they need only to order people around to successfully lead. In the battle of IA Drag Moore demonstrates that to be a leader one must do much more than this, it requires planning, communication, and working together with your team. If you teach soldiers to do what is right, keep your composure and lead by example, troops, will behave well, despite the frustrations and temptations that are caused by battle. Moore demonstrates throughout the book the ability to communicate with a large and varied group of people, influence, maintain discipline, and participate as part of a team and necessary activities necessary for survival. Both horrifying and fascinating, this book is difficult to read at times if you aren’t used to the different military rankings and also because of the sheer amount of people(not characters) but as a tale of leadership and struggle the gruesomeness of certain details only serves to show the courage of not only Moore, but all of his men, and educates those of us who have never been to battle, who can experience it second or third hand, to remember what a bloody horror it is when not presented as a form of entertainment or even as a piece of news. It is in that first battle and all that led up to it that we see Moore excel as a leader in preparation and action but it is after that we see a leaders job is not finished even the task is completed, he must honor both those who have made it and the fallen.

When it comes to deciding who is going into battle with you, a lieutenant does not have much choice, his team is already trained and chosen for him, as they take us through the roster of those that will be fighting with him, one story stands out. And that is of Captain Ramon Nadal. Even though he was not called for duty, he greatly desired to go to war and he wanted a troop command post.