The documented benefits of the wargames and associated planning conducted by all the US armed services between 1920 and 1940 demonstrate that such activities are much more than expensive peacetime intellectual exercises. For information on managing and reviewing assumption-based planning, see pp. Morale . . . Several articles in the issue refer directly or indirectly to morale as a significant leadership challenge. Yet one must ask whether advocates of conflict at a distance understand the importance of the morale of those who serve in the active and reserve components of the US armed services.
Men are nothing without morale.
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