What does it take to get a job done? How do you get the men of your unit to do what you say? To follow you into battle and shoot to kill? How do you build the confidence that spurs men on to do their job, to stand by their leader and each other?

Colonel Malone answers these questions in forthright and explicit detail, with precise directives and vivid examples. He lays it on the line to the captain, the lieutenant, and the sergeant, telling them how to turn an individual into a good soldier, then how into make a good team work effectively.

This author's commonsense approach may well be the way that will lead to victory in that first battle of the next war—which may be the only battle.

Mike Malone needs little introduction to people in the field. He has had a long-term dedication to the study and teaching of military leadership. He was awarded the Army's highest peacetime decoration, the Distinguished Service Medal, for his work in leadership and is still considered, even though retired from the Army, the leading expert on practical military leadership at levels from squad leader to general.