Quote Originally Posted by Rob Thornton View Post
I agree with you about extending beyond leadership and culture, but I do believe its leadership that turns things around, makes positives out of negatives, mitigates risk while acknowledging it, and creates opportunities where non may have existed.
I think this was the point I was trying to make, only Rob has made it far more effectively. It must be the poet in his soul

Tom--I agree, undoubtedly the stress of the field deployment, and even more so combat, complicates matters several fold. However, the absorption and discipline problems that Norfolk was describing took place in a (Canadian) Reserve infantry battalion (if I understood), consisting of volunteers and not subject to involuntary overseas deployment (well, not without a major national crisis!)