This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batchel with Professor Lloyd Clark, Director of Research,

the Center for Army Leadership of the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, as well as professorial

research fellow in war studies, Humanities Research Institute, University of Buckingham. We're discussing

his new book about leadership, which the professor tells me is as critical today in the 21st

century when we're dealing with drones and robots as it was in the 19th century with

cavalry tactics in the 20th century inventing the tank. We go now to George Patton.

George Patton is part of an army that does not proceed to France immediately in 1914.

The bloodletting is appalling.

In 1917, it is the decision of the President, Mr. Wilson, and Congress to commit the U.S. to the war.

And therefore, Patton needs to find a way to the battle. He wants to fight. He wants to be a

general, and he believes war will make him a general. So he appeals to Pershing to take him

along in June of 17, which is a year before the U.S. really gets into the fight.

Spring of 18 is when the U.S. fights.

But he goes off as imagining himself as a hero.

And herein, Professor, is striking.

I have a note here that Patton publishes or writes up brief notes on the Army Regiment of tanks.

There, early on now, he in 1960, 1917, the tank has been invented by the British Army.

And Patton is suddenly steered into thinking about it.

Is it comfortable for him?

He is a horseman and a cavalryman by trade.

I think it is difficult for him as a cavalryman,

but not difficult for him as a professional.

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