The history pages show there to be any number of mystic warriors and commanders, those who took theory and tactics beyond 3 dimensional thought. I call it jumping dimensions, thinking out of the box. The last known commander from the West, IMO, who fits this bill was Patton. Had he failed as a commander and given the specific nature of some of his beliefs, he would have been labeled a Section 8 crackpot and drummed into oblivion. In some arcane quarters, General P. is regarded as a mystic - what manner of man would put anthropologists in a combat zone - but the rank and file are pretty much content to leave such matters in the hands of theologians and conventional, traditional religious explanations for our contracts with the unknown. From an anonymous Sufi poet:

All That Moves

You are the wind
that turns me into a rock
unmovable
if you bring fire
I turn to water
stop your motion
and I will turn into earth
and flowers will grow