A person can be personally fearless and still be a poor leader if he takes unnecessary risks, ignores information, or treats other people as expendable.

Medicine Crow’s elders did not define the title of war chief through aggression alone.

The four deeds together tested different qualities: courage in direct contact, initiative, leadership, and success under pressure.

Medicine Crow was not trying to recreate the nineteenth century in Europe.

He was applying the values behind older traditions to circumstances his ancestors could never have imagined.

And then came the horses.

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The Horses The Germans Still Needed

The popular imagination remembers World War II as a mechanized conflict.

The images are tanks, jeeps, half-tracks, bombers, submarines, and trucks moving across continents at industrial scale.