Small Wars Journal

The Perfect Officer

Thu, 09/15/2011 - 11:24am

The Perfect Officer: Military Brass Throughout History by Henrik Bering, Hoover Institution.

“The perfect officer” - as William Pitt once referred to John Moore - is clearly the elusive ideal every military organization strives for and wishes to produce: How have various armies set about the task, what are the obstacles, and how come there aren’t more of him around?”