The size and complexity of today's Army, given no overabundance of resources, requires the use of managerial techniques. Their use is essential if we are to maintain and improve our posture. Accordingly, such training and practice are important. But the leader must know when and how to apply them, never forgetting that the purpose of an Army is to fight. And, to fight effectively, it must be led.
Managers can put the most modern and well-equipped force into the field.
They cannot, however, manage an infantry unit through training or manage it up a hill into enemy fire to seize an objective. Conversely, techniques which work well for the battlefield may prove disastrous when substituted for management. Management and leadership are coequally important-not substitutes for one another. Strong personal leadership is as necessary today as at anytime in our history. The attention we need to invest in our soldiers far exceeds that which is possible through any centralized management system.